Dark Renewal

Chapter 1: Night of Twisted Fates

The Otherworld, a short while after Shinzo's confession...

"What have I done?"

Hisana Takanashi sat straight up on her bed, tightly clutching the sheets to her naked body as she trembled with fear. The vampiress turned to her side, where her elder sister lay sleeping soundly, a peaceful smile adorning her face that contrasted with her nightmarish features. Some time earlier, Shinzo had worn the same expression, except in a more devious and seductive manner, just before forcing Hisana to make the choice that would change everything. The vampiress shivered as she recounted the events leading up to her current position. She had come to this place, a ruined castle, seeking shelter and rest during her search for her mother, along with her friends and lover, Roxas, Evelyn Koutari, and Axel. The four of them had only been here for about an hour when suddenly Shinzo appeared at her side, though her older sibling looked far different than she remembered. Shinzo was now at least 4 inches taller than her younger sister, and had pale skin, waist length snow white hair, four black horns resembling a crown atop her head, eyes that were a mixture of red and amber, and a long and scaly black tail. The demoness explained that the reason for her sudden change in appearance was a result of her wish to sever her blood ties to the Takanashi family, instead choosing to become a child of the Koutari line, thus rendering her a demon in place of a vampire. When Hisana asked her sister why she had done such a thing, Shinzo had told her something she had held secret for nearly their entire lives. The elder sister was deeply in love with the vampiress, in a way that siblings were not supposed to be. Despite the enormous amount of desperation and devotion Hisana could see in the demoness' eyes, she could not answer her feelings, having already given her love to Axel. The vampiress knew that she was deeply hurting her sister by rejecting her, but was completely unprepared for the demoness' reaction. Enraged and brokenhearted after having years of devotion and affection shattered before her very eyes, Shinzo began to force herself onto her younger sister. As the vampiress pleaded for her sister to stop, Axel had tried to intervene. But by the time the fiery redhead had managed to enter the room, he found he was too late. Hisana lay on her bed, clothes torn from her body and blood staining the sheets between her legs. Shinzo sat behind her, resting the vampiress' head in her lap and gently petting her hair. Seeing Axel standing stunned in disbelief, the demoness smiled with wicked satisfaction.

"Hisana, my dear sister, it's time for you to choose." she said in a voice laced with lust and corruption. "Who do you love most of all? Me, your loving sister who treasures you above all else? Or him, an empty, heartless shell of a man who was never meant to exist?"

Hisana closed her eyes and hung her head in shame as she repeated her choice.

"The one I love...is nee-chan."

She looked over at her sleeping sister once again. Why did I do it? Why did I choose her? And why didn't I- she paused as tears of regret began to form in her eyes. Why didn't I do anything when she murdered Axel, right in front of me? Why did I just let him die? she wrapped her arms around herself, guilt mounting with each question. Why didn't I try to stop her from taking my virginity? Why did I let her let it out inside me? Oh god, why? What the fuck is wrong with me? As the vampiress regressed further into the depths of her mind, searching for an answer for her immoral actions, Shinzo began to stir. The demoness opened her eyes to find her younger sister curled up in a ball, shaking anxiously with eyes wide open in horror. Realizing what the reasons behind her lover's current state were, she frowned and sat up to embrace her from behind. Hisana tensed at the contact, but made no move to look at her older sister, afraid that she might once again be bewitched into performing more horrible misdeeds. The demoness noticed the reluctance from her lover, so instead of turning their head around to face her she rested her head on their shoulder.

"Are you...alright?" the older sister asked.

Hisana hesitated for a moment, then lightly shook her head.

"How can I be, when you did something so awful to me?"

Shinzo felt a pang of guilt, but pushed it aside. She had already come too far to abandon her feelings now.

"I don't expect you to simply accept this all at once. Even if you've accepted me, I am well aware that my actions have made it...difficult, to not feel regretful. But know this, dear sister..." the demoness leaned in closer, pressing her bare body flush against the vampiress' back. "I meant everything I said. I love you more than anything else, and I will never leave your side again. My only wish is that you love me back. When you chose me over him, I couldn't feel any happier. Only you make me feel that way, only you have my undying love. Besides, I already know the truth."

Now Shinzo tilted Hisana's head so that they staring into each other's eyes. The demoness gazed down at her sister with deep longing and sorrow.

"I know that even if you tell me it was all a mistake, that you were merely caught up in the throes of passion, even if you don't believe a single word I say, I know that you are the same. Your heart and mine are one, we were meant to be together as lovers. You know that I speak the truth."

Hisana shuddered as the demoness' words sank in.

"No, I...you're wrong...I just...you...I...I didn't..." she stammered in protest. "If that's true, then why did you have to force me to have sex with you? That was my first time...even Axel hadn't gotten that far...you even came inside me..."

Still undeterred, Shinzo leaned forward and placed her lips against the vampiress' ear.

"Tell me, who was it that lowered themselves onto me so they could ride me, all on their own? Who was it that screamed my name and begged me for more? Who was it that pleaded with me to pour all of my seed into their womb? Over, and over, and over again, until it was overflowing?"

Hisana froze at her sister's words, then squealed in surprise as she felt a long and slender finger brush against her entrance. Shinzo brought up her hand to show a finger slick with fluid.

"Even now, your body yearns for mine. Knowing this, do you still refuse to believe that you love me?"

The vampiress could feel the weight of the demoness' words upon her, and despite her best efforts to convince it otherwise, her heart began to turn against her mind. She could deny it all she wanted, but she knew how she really felt. And that was what scared her. However, just as she was about to attempt another vain protest, Hisana noticed something began to protrude from the shadows of the room. Upon hearing a distinctive mechanical click, she realized it was some sort of high caliber handgun. Before Shinzo could ask what had caught her sister's attention, the vampiress tackled to the bed. Upon seeing the trail of a bullet pass over where her head had previously been, and catching a whiff of where the shot had come from, the demoness grit her teeth in anger and disbelief. Quickly shoving her sister behind her, Shinzo sat up and summoned a pair of her swords in time to deflect a second and third shot. Having expended their ammunition for the moment, the attacker stepped forward from the shadows to reveal themselves. The demoness growled hatefully as an all too familiar tall man dressed in blood red glared down at her.

"Alucard." she hissed.

The no-life king let loose a growl of his own, but also grinned in mild satisfaction.

"You didn't think you could get rid of me that easily, did you?"

"What the hell are you doing here?! I thought I took care of you when I rammed Soul Edge through your black heart? I even lit you on fire!"

Alucard nodded.

"That you did, and it hurt like a bitch too. However, I just happened to be lucky enough for a mysterious man in a black cloak to happen upon me while I was burning. It seems that he was invulnerable to your flames, and that he wanted to get his hands on that damnable sword. He took Soul Edge out of me, just before it could devour the last soul in my body: mine."

The ancient vampire then reloaded his weapon and took aim at the demoness.

"Whether I live or die is no longer of consequence, so long as I destroy you and that hellspawn you've created with your forbidden desires!"

Shinzo's eyes widened a fraction, but Hisana sat straight up in alarm, terror written all over her face.

"W-What did you just say?!" she stammered fearfully.

Alucard grinned menacingly at her as he let out a low chuckle.

"You mean you haven't realized it? Even if it was your first time, you should have known what the consequences of allowing Shinzo to release her seed inside of you would be."

Realization dawning on her, the vampiress put her hands on either side of her head as she looked down at her midriff.

"No...no that can't be true! I-I can't be...not just like that!"

"It is and you are. Hisana Takanashi, you now carry within you a child born out of incestuous infatuation. In a mere four months time, you will give birth to the one who will bring all life to an end, Ryunoko! The child of destruction!"

As Hisana struggled to keep from fainting out of pure shock, Shinzo charged toward the no-life king with blades outstretched. Alucard just barely managed to stop the attack mere inches from his throat, and was currently using all of his strength to keep her back. As she struggled to push past his hand, the demoness glared with all the hatred in her being at the no-life king.

"Bastard! I've had enough of you! Even if what you say is true, and I am to be the father of the destroyer of worlds, do you think I will just stand idly by and let our lives be ruled by fate? Never!" she proclaimed.

Alucard glared with mixed confusion and anger as he felt Shinzo's blades edge closer to their destination. Determination joining the hatred in her eyes, the demoness continued her advance.

"I was told that the only path for me was sadness and rejection, but that is no longer my fate! I took what I wanted, and although she may not see it now, Hisana has answered my feelings! Your pathetic prophecy means nothing! If my child is to be a murderous monster, then I shall make her into an agent of peace! That is the destiny I have made for myself, not fate's! Now begone from my sight!"

With one final push, Shinzo's swords sliced through the no-life king's hand and sailed past his neck, coming to a halt at the demoness' sides. Alucard's eyes went wide with disbelief as he found himself suddenly unable to speak, followed shortly by the splattering of a fatal amount of his blood on the floor. Clutching his cut open throat, the ancient vampire fell to his knees, gargling out his last cries of anger. Shinzo gave him one final glare before severing his head from his shoulders in a single blow. Headless, Alucard collapsed to the floor, his centuries old body turning to dust as he was finally slain forever, leaving only his coat behind. The pair of immoral siblings remained in silence for a few moments, feeling the weight of the no-life king's final words, and the revelation that could potentially determine their future. After some time, Shinzo released a deep sigh. Hisana looked over at her sister as she picked up Alucard's coat and paused.

"...I didn't intend for it to happen." she said, voice now returned to normal. "I became so lost in my joy, so absorbed in the feeling of us becoming lovers, that I never even considered the consequences. I didn't want you to get pregnant...at least, not right away. I just wanted the two of us to be happy together, I wanted us to have a love that is honest and pure, and then perhaps we could have our own family. But, instead it happened now, the very first time we've become one. It's all my fault. And yet, somehow..."

The demoness turned around, eyes downcast and a sad smile on her face.

"Despite all this, I can't help but feel...happy. I'm going to be a father...it just seems too good to be true. I know that you must hate me even more than you already do for what I've done, but I promise, I will do everything in my power to keep you and our child safe. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I love you, and that's all that matters."

While waiting for a response, she threw the much too big coat over Hisana's shoulders. After it settled, the vampiress drew the garment closer to herself. Shinzo remained behind her, picking up her armor from where she had discarded it earlier and redressing. Just as she finished, the demoness suddenly felt herself being embraced from behind by her sister. Surprised at such a warm response, Shinzo glanced down at the vampiress. Hisana had her head pressed against her shoulder, hiding all but her half lidded violet eyes from view.

"I...don't know how to feel about all this...you did something awful, but you did it out of your feelings for me. You even went so far as show me concern, even after what happened. I'm not sure if I should cry, yell at you, run away, or kiss you..." she glanced up at her sister, eyes full of uncertainty. "What should I do, nee-chan?"

Shinzo paused for a moment, then turned her body around so that they were face to face and gently wrapped her arms around Hisana. The demoness bent down so that their foreheads were touching, then stared straight into her sister's gaze.

"Trust in me. Let me prove to you that our love is not something evil, that we can be together and still be happy."

Hesitating momentarily, Hisana nodded.

"I guess...that I can live with that, for now."

Shinzo smiled warmly and nodded. She pressed their lips together one more time, then walked away from the castle with her lover beside her, hand in hand.

Some distance away...

Alone amidst the overwhelming darkness of the Otherworld sat the remains of a once great fortress. Years had passed since its fall at the hands of several of the multiverse's greatest heroes, yet still the shimmering white crystals that comprised its structure remained. Through the ruined halls of the fortress, a trail of small burns could be seen leading to one of the few rooms that remained untouched by destruction, the bed chambers of a young woman born into a life of hatred, discrimination, loneliness, and now, jealousy. Evelyn Koutari sat curled up in a fetal position upon her bed, glowing tears of flame dropping from her bright amber eyes that made steam rise up from where they fell. Only a few hours ago, the tan demoness had attempted to confess her true feelings to the girl she had loved for nearly her entire life, only to be cruelly tossed aside before she could be given a chance to reveal her secret. Though there was no longer a mark, she could still feel the sting of Shinzo's hand on her cheek, along with the stabbing pain her words left in Evelyn's heart.

"How could you..." she whispered through her tears. "Why did you have to choose her? Your own sister? Why her, and not me? Not the one who knows you best, who truly loves you, who never betrayed you? Why? WHY?!"

The tan demoness unleashed an inhuman cry of anguish before rolling over onto her side, hiding her face in her hands.

"It's just like before...no matter how hard I try, no matter how much I forgive, no matter how long I wait, it's still the same! Everyone, including you...everyone abandons me! Everyone calls me a monster, but I never did anything wrong! Everyone leaves! I'm always alone, always hated! Always denied a chance to live in happiness!"

While Evelyn continued to lament, a pair of figures entered the room. One of them was Yuu Koutari, the tan demoness' father and the one who had cared for her the longest before being killed on the day the fortress fell. She along with the woman next to her, named White Rock Shooter, had been resurrected as a side effect of Hisana Takanashi's wish to return her mother, the heroic warrior Ebony, to life. Since Yuu and White were a part of Ebony's soul at the time the wish was made, they had come back along with her. The older of the two women rushed to her daughter's side the moment she found her in her miserable state.

"Evelyn!" she cried in concern.

Slowly, the tan demoness suppressed her tears to address the one speaking to her. As soon as she laid eyes on the amber eyed woman kneeling beside her, a faint light of hope began to glimmer in her sorrowful gaze.

"Father? Is that really you?"

"Yes, yes my little girl it's me. I've finally come back to you."

Evelyn's eyes filled with joy as she flung her arms around the elder demoness.

"Father!"

Yuu returned the embrace and smiled lovingly for a moment, then pulled back to look at her daughter once more.

"Evelyn, what's wrong? Why are you crying?"

The tan demoness's joyful expression vanished in an instant.

"I tried to tell her...I tried to tell Shinzo that I love her...but she wouldn't listen to me! She tossed me aside like I was trash, and went to go be with her sister instead! She left me, just like everyone else!"

She seemed on the verge of another breakdown, but then she smiled back up at her father.

"But its okay now, because you're here. You and mother are the only ones who really care for me. I know you'll never abandon me or hurt me." she looked around for the parent she had met only once before, but knew loved her as much as her father. "Speaking of which, where is my mother? And who is that over there?"

Nervous at her daughter's clearly unstable mental condition, Yuu stood up and gestured for the pale woman to come closer. Seeing the anxiety in the elder demoness's eyes, White nodded in understanding before smiling and looking at Evelyn.

"Hello, Evelyn. My name is White Rock Shooter. Your father and I are...very good friends." she said in a sweet voice.

The tan demoness eyed her in mild suspicion, but pushed it aside when she could find nothing wrong with the pale woman, except perhaps her luminescent red eyes.

"It's nice to meet you too. Have you seen my mother? I'd really like to see her again, I barely got a chance during that trial I went through. If father came back, then she must have come back too. She did come back with you...didn't she?"

Yuu went into guilt induced silence as she averted her gaze. The spark of joy in Evelyn's expression began to fade as she came to the realization that she would not be seeing her mother again as she had hoped.

"No...no please...don't tell me you-"

The elder demoness turned to face her daughter, face full of guilt.

"I'm sorry Evelyn. Rider wasn't part of the deal, there wasn't anything I could do."

The tan demoness returned to her trembling state, and fell back onto her bed. She tried to work up the strength to demand what her father meant by her words, but stopped when she noticed White kneeling down beside Yuu with her hand on the elder demoness's shoulder. However, it was not the action that made her pause, it was the look of compassion and love that the pale woman gave her father, who returned the gaze as soon as she turned around. Evelyn then slowly grit her teeth and tightly gripped her bedsheets as anger coursed through her.

"So...that's why." she growled.

Yuu and White turned toward in her surprise at hearing her suddenly venomous tone.

"You're in love with her...aren't you?"

"Evelyn, please let me explain-" her father tried.

"AREN'T YOU?"

Yuu backed away somewhat in shock, then stepped back forward and stared straight at her daughter.

"...yes."

White watched with uncertainty for the tan demoness's reaction. Evelyn remained very still, hands clenched into fists and her long hair obscuring her eyes.

"And my mother? Did you love her?"

As much as the elder demoness wanted to tell her daughter what she wanted to hear so that she'd feel better, she also knew that it was pointless trying to lie to her. Reluctantly, Yuu averted her gaze.

"No. But Evelyn, you need to understand-"

"Understand what? Understand that I am just the result of your affair with my mother? That I am just some...some lovechild?!"

"No, it's not like that! Evelyn, your father loves you very much! But her circumstances at the time-"White tried.

"Shut the hell up! I wasn't talking to you, you whore!"

Yuu immediately placed herself between her daughter and the pale woman.

"She is not a whore! White had no one before she met me. We were trapped with only each other for several years, it was only natural that we developed feelings for each other-"

"I don't believe this...out of everyone...why did you have to do this to me as well?" the tan demoness growled, her voice becoming distorted with her rising anger. "I thought that you would never leave me if you came back...but I understand now. You don't want me anymore, you've given in to all of the lies and hate...you think I'm a monster too!"

The elder demoness slowly began to push her lover behind her as a violent aura of blue hellfire began to rage around her daughter. Evelyn now stood up, radiating immense fury and pain as fiery tears fell from her tightly wound closed eyes.

"I should have known you'd betray me! Sooner or later, everyone turns their back on me! I see now that you are no different from the ones who mocked me and called me an evil child, who cursed me for being alive, who ostracized me just because I'm your daughter! You all say the same thing...you all think I'm a monster, an evil demon just like you once were! It seems that no matter what happens, everyone is resolved to that mindset. And if that is the case..."

The tan demoness then opened her eyes, which were now glowing as brightly as the hellfire raging around her. She then held out her hand, forming a large sphere of flame in it and holding it out towards her father and White. Pure hatred filled her gaze as a wicked smirk spread across her lips.

"Then I shall fulfill that request, and become the monster you all believe me to be! I guess you were right after all, father. We really are the same! As you were named Fury after the anger in your heart, I shall be known as Agony for the torment that shattered mine! I'm going to burn everything...I'm going to make them all pay for what they've done to me...and then I'll keep burning! I won't stop until there's nothing left for me to destroy! And it will all start with the two of you!"

Just as she was about to launch the fireball, her hand snapped shut and put it out. The tan demoness knit her brows in annoyed frustration as she tried to form another one, only to uncontrollably latch onto her outstretched arm with her free hand. Yuu and White watched in confusion and fear as 'Agony' seemed to struggle to simply move her body.

"Didymo...why are you...stopping me?! Why...why are you betraying me? You're...supposed to help me...why...Didymo?!" she growled to herself as she struggled.

"Who the hell is Didymo?"White asked as she and Yuu took cover under a barrier of hellfire.

"I don't know, I've never heard that name before." the elder demoness answered, equally confused.

Agony seemed to be regaining control of herself, as her hand slowly began to creep towards her chest.

"I can't...trust anyone...not even...MYSELF!"

With an inhuman cry of fury, the tan demoness plunged her hand inside her chest. Yuu and White were forced to avert their eyes as a tremendous and bright light erupted from around Agony. When at last it subsided, they found that they were no longer inside the ruined fortress. The explosion had blasted them to a far corner of the Otherworld. In the distance, they could see an enormous pillar of amber colored light reaching high into the sky, most likely the result of Agony's transformation. Just as Yuu began to regret her actions, something else caught her attention. Laying on the ground a few feet in front of her, seemingly unconscious, was a tall tan skinned woman who looked almost exactly the same as her daughter. There were a few differences, such as a second set of horns on her head and black hair instead of lavender. But the most noticeable difference of all was her eyes. They were a luminescent sapphire blue, with small rings around the irises, the tell tale sign of a person's other-self. The strange look alike sat up and immediately turned toward the light in the distance. A terrible beast like cry of anguish reached their ears, followed by a second and third that grew in animalistic ferocity each time. Knowing her once pure hearted counterpart was now replaced by the source of the cries, Didymo hung her head in shame.

"Once again...I failed to save you from your pain. And now...everyone will pay the price for my failure..."

A/N: That's right! The saga has returned! For those of you who are new and have no idea what the hell is going on, I recommend reading my story 'A Game of Sorrows', before continuing this, as this story is based largely off of an alternate ending to one of that one's most important scenes. As you may have noticed, this version is going to be much darker (in some ways) than the original, so if you're not a fan of dark and sad stories (that still have happy endings!) then I suggest you stop reading now. There will be several themes in this such as yuri (girlxgirl) and futanari (girlxgirl with male genitalia), as well as lots of blood and gore. For those of you who are returning viewers, I hope you enjoy the first chapter to what I hope will be an amazing rewrite of one of my favorite works. Please continue to read, and don't forget to review! Till next time! Sir A. out. (that'll take getting used to)