Title: That Dark

Genre: Angst

Author: Kenocka

Pairing: None

Rating: K

Summary: The past will come back to get you, no matter how well you hide it.

Warnings: There is mention of a maleXmale paring that happened in the past. There is nothing graphic said about it, it's just something that happened.

Author's Notes: This is a multi-fandom crossover. How the characters met, and anything else specific is currently not worked out in my head. I have original characters in this story, you'll be able to tell who they are in a heartbeat. There are also known characters and they may not be in character but that's strictly because time has passed and allowed for character development. Do not distribute this fic, link to it all you want, but do not distribute.

Disclaimer: I own the original characters.


It must have been the way Lévànce's Aura had shown in Lu-Ren's eyes.

"I see now where you get your comfort from the night," Lu-Ren said solemnly, a touch of sadness leaking into her telepathic voice. She looked from Lévànce to the tall blond man that stood a distance away, paying attention to nothing but the horizon, one foot raised and planted against the tree he leaned against looking for all the world as if he were nothing more than a mortal man pondering the dark. To those who could see well in the moonlight his folded arms and shoulders had tensed at Lu-Ren's words even though they were meant for Lévànce's mind only. The connection was still there, four centuries of sharing blood weren't erased in only four years. "Your Aura and his are connected, I have always seen this but never understood it. Now I do."

Lévànce looked at her pupil with horror at her discovered shame.

Lu-Ren turned and walked away. The girl didn't hate her master for what had been done in the past. She knew the elf to be a good person, if sometimes a bit misguided by the intense emotions her piece of the goddesses gave her, by her desire to see the good in people and to help those who needed it, even if they didn't truly deserve it. No, Lu-Ren walked away because her master had known what her former lover had done to humans and hadn't stopped him.

For four hundred years.

If Lévànce expected Lu-Ren to think that that relationship had been entirely willing then the elf had really gone off her rocker. Her master had allowed that creature of darkness to destroy human lives and in all but name, enslaved herself - at the time, himself - to that confusing and mad creature. Something having to do with the mind and it's intricacies, something one of the psychics she knew could understand and explain in layman's terms, had happened to make Lévànce, a Champion of Life, let such unnecessary murder go unpunished. Death was inevitable, especially in wars and times of plague and famine, and even vampires had to drink some time. It was the scale of death that caused nausea to turn Lu-Ren's stomach, to make bile rise in her throat, that made tears silently fall. The innocents that had fallen under such a cruel being's fangs made the Aura user want to enact divine justice upon him and the one person, who with a few gestures and words, could have stopped the evil, could have given the life leech sustenance by sacrificing her own blood and restoring it in the same way she could have stopped the evil from occurring in the first place.

A voice came into Lu-Ren's head after she'd gotten to the top of the gently rolling hill she'd been crossing to get back to camp. It made her stop in her tracks at it's unearthly clarity.

"Death is a part of life. It has no pity on age, sex, or health. I am just one of the things that causes it. You say I am evil and it's true, my creation was caused by evil but would you call a huntsman killing a doe and her fawn evil? No, he is doing what he has to to survive. The same as I." Lu-Ren turned and stared down the rise at the man leaning against the tree, his eyes a smoldering red even in the dim moonlight.

"Aye," she agreed, "but the man who gluttons himself on five plates when one will do is no better than you."



End Notes: This only works because of the Super Smash Brothers series and Link's profile in Soul Calibur II. Another fanfic that I will one day write down will explain things. Now I just have to write it.

Series Involved: Soul Calibur, Legends of Zelda (Post OOT and MM, pre TP and WW), Pokémon

Cannon Characters: Raphael de Sorel

Fan Characters: Lévànce (lay - VAHNse), Lu - Ren (LOO - Rin)

End Notes: This only works because of the Super Smash Brothers series and Link's profile in Soul Calibur II. I will explain things in spurts and as they come to me. Sorry.

To the readers: I don't know what to classify this series as other than a crossover. I thought about putting it in the Smash Bros. section but I wasn't sure. Should I change the second category? And sorry about the double emails! I screwed up when I tried to upload this. It's been a while since I last used this site.