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Hey guys! I bet you thought you seen the last of me huh? No I'm back for 2016! And before anyone says anything, yes I'm still working on my other stories. They are just on hold at the currently moment since to me, I feel like I have to force myself to write them and I hate that feeling. That means there is a greater chance that it will turn straight out crap to me and to the rest of you. But there is some good news too! Starting today, for my new years resolution, I'm going to make sure that I have something posted on here each Saturday! Whether it's a new chapter to something, a new story, or just a one shot, there will always be something to see every Saturday!
Now with that out of the way, onto this story! If this is your first time seeing my work then hello and welcome to the Dark Side! I'm Darky and this is my madness! XD But seriously, I just really wanted to write something for the Yuu Counterparts and be supernatural based and this is how this simple jewel was created. If this first chapter doesn't make any sense, all I'm just going to say is that that this fic follows a non-linear sequence of events told from the Yuus different POVs.
So with that, I hope you guys enjoy!
Sakaki Yuya glanced down at the piece of paper he held between his fingers then back up at the small metal sign that hung over the door frame.
13 Mystical Ghoul.
"Huh, guess this is the place." Yuya mused to himself before the young teen approached the door and turned the handle to let himself in.
Stepping inside, Yuya was met with roll after roll of bookshelves, indicating that he was in a library. Smiling at this, Yuya then made his way over to the front desk where the librarian, a middle age woman with long orange hair that was tied back into a ponytail and green glasses, was currently checking in books.
"Excuse me," Yuya spoke, catching the librarian's attention, since she didn't notice him coming in. "Sorry to bother you while you're working but I was wondering if you could help me with something?"
"Oh of course, dear," the librarian replied with a kind smile, pausing in her work to turn to the crimson eyed boy, "and what can I help you with on this fine day?"
"I was wondering if you had any books that were categorized under these traits?" Yuya handed her the piece of paper that he used to find this place.
The librarian blinked at that before turning the paper over and noticed what was written on the back. "Huh? 'Eats human flesh', 'might be undead', 'a loud inhuman shriek'. My, this is oddly...picky, isn't it?"
"We just want to be accurate."
"We?"
"My brothers and me. We like to study the Supernatural."
"Well you come to the right place, dear." The librarian smiled, standing up from her chair before making her way around the desk to him. "Here at 13 Mystical Ghoul Library, we specialized in all things Supernatural but I have to say I'm quite surprise. Normally, children of your current generation wouldn't be the types to come around here with all the new technology that's floating around."
"Like I said, we want to be accurate and not everything on the internet is accurate nowadays." Yuya responded with a shrug. "Besides, there are only some things that you can only find in books."
"How true," the librarian agreed before gesturing Yuya to follow her as she made her way through the library.
The teenager followed suit, glancing around the place while doing so. "I like the skylight." Yuya noted at seeing the giant window on top of the ceiling, showing that the sky was turning dusk outside.
"I do too," the librarian replied, smiling. "It really lighten up the place, you know? Anyway, as for what you're looking for, I think I know something that matches your list. Though I have to be honest, I'm quite happy you're not just another person who's just looking for Kyuketsuki."
Yuya smiled slightly at that. "No, that's my brothers." He half joked.
The librarian giggled at that. "Your brothers sound like interesting characters."
"Oh you have no idea."
"Well here we are." The librarian stopped in front of one of the many bookshelves and started taking out a few books and placing them into a pile. "These should be close enough to what you are looking for but if you want to check some of them out, you have to do it soon. The library just about to close up for the night."
Yuya nodded to that and, with a bow that meant a thank you, the librarian returned to the front desk.
"Okay, let's get down to business." Yuya rubbed his hands together before he started going through the books, looking for the Supernatural that best matches with the details he had listed.
"We have no idea what we're up against, Yuya. This thing has already killed a number of mundanes with it leaving what used to be a body behind. Yuri, Yugo, and I will continue to search the city to find this thing but in the meantime, we need you to find out what this thing is."
That was when Yuto handed him the list of what they knew/guessed about the creature they were dealing with and the address to this library they found out about.
"I know Yuto entrusted me with an important task but he and the others could have at least have founded out just a little bit more detail about this thing." Yuya mumbled to himself at seeing how many books he had to go through just to find one creature.
Though much to his annoyance, Yuya went through the books, reading through every second last detail about the creatures within them. At first, Yuya guessed they were dealing with a Nikusui, a Japanese monster that appears as a young woman and sucks all of the flesh off of its victim's body. It would explain why no one has really payed attention before the attacks happen but the difference here was that the bodies they found were pretty much devoured in everything, besides just flesh.
There has to be something that we are missing here. Yuya thought, closing the second to last book before he set it aside with the rest. Some small bit of information that can narrow down the search even more.
"To be able to tear through a mundane body like this so quickly, this Supernatural has to have a number of large and sharp teeth and to do so right in the open without any fear of the outcome of its choices, it has to have no humanity left in it."
"No humanity left, huh?" Yuya mused to himself as he started going through the last book. "Maybe you're onto something there, Yugo."
"This thing seems to have a craving just for humans. It won't attack other Supernaturals unless threaten otherwise. It might just be doing this out of uncontrollable hunger like the rest of us."
"Uncontrollable hunger that's taken out it's humanity. It feasts on humans and not other Supernaturals. It has an inhuman shriek and may or may not be undead." Yuya listed out the facts that he come to understand until finally, he found something in the book that closely matched what he was looking for.
This Supernatural Creature used to be human until it fell to cannibalism. They hunt their prey alone, rather than in packs and have great predatory skills. They can only see movement so they use screeching to scare their prey into moving, leading to their deaths. They are hideous in appearance with their skin taut against their bodies and have spinal disfiguration, appearing almost like skeletons. They have pure white eyes and no hair at all but skin that is as hard as armor that cannot be cut, stabbed, or pierced by bullets. Their only known weakness is fire which can be used to kill them. They have a never ending craving for humans but not for other Supernaturals (reason unknown). Throughout history, these creatures have been known as-
"Wendigos." Yuya finished wide-eyed at what he just found. "We're dealing with a Wendigo."
The smashing of glass and a loud screech out of nowhere caused Yuya to flinch and fall onto his back from surprise. The young teen covered his ears from the deafening noise though it didn't help much with his ears being so sensitive to sound. Finally, when the noise did stop, Yuya let out a groan as he got back onto his feet, holding his head in pain.
"Oh please tell me that wasn't what I think it was." Yuya mumbled to himself, using the bookshelves to help keep his balance as he made his way through the library.
His suspicions were confirmed as soon as he saw it. The skylight that had let the moonlight shine through it's glass window was shattered into hundreds of pieces on the ground.
And I hate it when I'm right. Yuya thought before his hand, out of a reflex, reached for his pendant that hanged around his neck. Wendigos can only see movement but that's my only advantage against this thing. It can only be killed by fire which means I can't call Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri in for help against this one at the risk of them getting burned alive...or undead or whatever it is with them. I guess I'm on my own for this one.
Yuya ripped his pendant off it's string.
"Pendulum Saber."
At the code phase, the pendant started to glow brightly in Yuya's palm before, much to its amazement, it started to transform until what was now gripped tightly in Yuya's hand was a glowing, light blue saber sword.
"Hopeful this can at least burn it a bit until I can come up with something." Yuya muttered to himself, though he was wishing at least Yugo was here. His third eldest brother might have zero to no social skills whatsoever but Yuya had got to hand it to Yugo, he was a master strategist in the field of battle. Hell, Yuya wished anyone of his brothers were here. Yuto was a battle hardened warrior when he need to be, even though he hated pointless fights and Yuri was a cold blooded hunter that their kind were feared for.
Yuya shook his head. No, I can't get them involved in this knowing that this thing weakness is their weakness as well...okay it might also be my weakness too but at least I can survive being set on fire for a short time unlike them.
Not like Yuya planned on setting himself on fire just to kill this thing. If he did that, he could already hear Yuzu yelling at him like he was insane, Yuto and Yugo looking at him for being insane, and Yuri laughing at him because he was insane. Yeah, his second oldest brother was kind of a sadist...okay a lot but he would never say that to Yuri's face.
A blood stopping cold scream snapped Yuya out of his thoughts and he froze.
"Oh no, the librarian!" Yuya gasped in horror. He had been so focused on trying to figure out a way to kill this thing that he totally forgotten that he wasn't the only one here and in danger of being torn apart by this beast.
The young teen took off towards where he heard the scream at almost inhuman speed. He rushed passed the front desk and to his own surprise ended up in the back storage room.
"Oh I'm liking this less and less." Yuya mumbled to himself.
And that was when he smelled it. The legendary crimson liquid of life…
Yuya's pupils narrowed into slits before he quickly covered his nose to block out the smell. He gulped slightly, trying to keep his bloodlust in control, as he walked around the corner to where he knew the smell was coming from only to find exactly what he didn't want to find.
Seeing the librarian's corpse on the ground didn't surprise him. He seen enough death in his life time for it to not faze him as badly as it used to. It was the fact that the wendigo was still there, devouring the once lively woman of her flesh and bones, was the thing that made Yuya almost sick.
Though the thing that made him even more sick was the fact that he was staring at the librarian and not out of horror but out of hungry. A low predator growl escaped him, catching the wendigo's attention. The cannibalism creature turned sharply at him and before Yuya could do anything, the supernatural let out a deafening shriek at him.
Yuya flinched back and grabbed his ears in pain. Of course, that was his first mistake. At remembering that wendigos could only see moment, it was already too late. The wendigo had charged at him as soon as it realized he was there and tackled him to the ground. The impact caused Yuya to drop his Pendulum Saber and before he could reach out and grab it, the wendigo had already sunk its teeth into his arm.
Yuya cried out in pain as the wendigo's teeth dug into his flesh and bones. He struggled, trying to get this thing off him or to reach his weapon but every time he would move, the wendigo's teeth would only sink deeper into his arm.
The wendigo then, to Yuya's surprise, lifted the boy up by his arm in its mouth and started to shake him like Yuya was a chew toy and the wendigo was a dog before releasing and throwing him across the room.
Yuya flew back into the wall with a bang and a not so pleasurable impacted. Yuya didn't even have a chance to let out a groan from the hit before the wendigo was right back to attacking him. This time around using him as its personal scratching post as its claws dug right into his chest and slashing downwards.
And that's when he snapped.
Blood red crimson eyes of a predator shot open before Yuya let out an inhuman growl. In the next second, the wendigo, if it had any humanity left to tell, was being pulled away from the boy's body before being lifted up into the air by inhuman strength that a boy of Yuya's age shouldn't possess.
Then, just like it was a simple pencil, Yuya snapped the wendigo's body in half before throwing the two halves across different sides of the room.
Falling to his knees afterwards, Yuya was gasping for breath as his body was pouring out blood by the second from the large cuts down his chest and the deep bite the wendigo took out of his arm.
"Damn….it…." Yuya cursed before coughing up some more blood. "Should've just done...that in the...first place…" He coughed up some more blood. "And now…"
His eyes trailed over to the dead corpse of the librarian with the smell of her blood still fresh in his mind. Yuya licked his lips just as his eyes widen in horror.
"Oh...god…" He swallowed as his eyes got even more narrowed.
The hunger, the pure desire hit him like a bullet.
Yuya crawled over to her, his animal instincts more in control of his body than his mind and before he fully realized what he was doing, he pounced at her.