OK Here's chapter two! Man I had so much fun writing this chapter, I loved every word of it! I've always wanted to write a scene like this. Anyway I'll shut up now and let you get on with reading, enjoy! XD
Warnings; contains blood and violence. Oh and some bad language.
Disclaimer; I own nothing...'scept Tru, he's mine!
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Reappearing in another part of town. Riku stood, then found himself raising a bloody hand to shield his eyes against the unusually bright light of a near by street light.
"What the...Where am I?" he thought aloud. One minute he had just got up to leave in search for the two men who had attacked him, the next he'd been practically blinded, by a street light.
Hearing loud music blaring out of the building to his left, he looked up to read the name above the entrance. "Sanctuary?"
"Whoa! You OK kid?!" Came the voice of the man at the door of the club.
"What? Oh, yeah. I think so." Replied Riku. How was he supposed to answer that? Just a few minutes ago he'd been dead.
With that thought came an image of the man who had killed him, but instead of simply seeing him as a face in front of his own with a sadistic smile crossing his features, he saw Kadaj, sitting at a bar, drinking and alone.
Setting his gaze on the entrance, Riku started forward toward the club, only to be stopped by the bouncer.
"You got any I.D kid?"
Dammit! he thought. His I.D was in his wallet, which he'd left in his coat pocket after Amanda, Kyrian and Talon had insisted he didn't need it.
"No." he said.
"Can't let you in then. Besides, you look like you need the hospital way more than beer right now."
Riku looked questioningly at the man before looking down at himself. His clothes and skin were covered and sticky with blood. He then noticed as his silver hair fell into his vision, that it too was becoming matted due to the blood it had soaked up. Suddenly an idea came to him as he thought he might be able to play on this.
"Please? I have to find my brother. He said he'd be here. Some guys attacked me and said if I don't take my brother to them soon they'd find me and kill me. They said he owes them money." Said Riku weakly, The teen then fell to his knees, faking perfectly a weakness he didn't feel.
Suddenly feeling sorry for the teen, the bouncer walked over to him and, leaning down a little, offered to help him up. The silverlet took the mans hand and he put his arm round his shoulder, supporting him as he stood and took Riku inside to find his "brother".
It didn't seem to matter that the place was crouded, as after seeing the two of them most people stood to one side.
As soon as they neared the bar, Riku saw him. Kadaj was sitting on a bar stool, happily chatting to the woman sitting beside him as he drank.
Riku sneered inwardly as he continued his charade until he got close enough to touch the older, silver haired fucking murderer!
"Is this him?" The bouncer asked, speaking into Riku's ear so that he could hear him over the music. The guy had silver hair just like this kid so he was a logical choice. How was he to know that Riku was actually an only child.
Riku nodded, and looked up at the man so he could read his lips, if he shouted now he'd figure that he was lying about something. "Yeah. thanks. It's OK. I think I can stand by myself now."
The bouncer then let go of Riku and let him stand without support.
Riku then smirked as he shouted."Hey Kadaj!"
Kadaj turned and almost fell out of his seat at the sight before him. "What the fuck?! But, you're dead! I just fuckin' killed you!"
"And you thought you'd celebrate?!" Riku snarled, throwing off his facade of weakness as he reached out and grabbed him by his coat with both hands, pulling him off the bar stool he was sitting on, then, not caring about what the strangers surrounding them thought, brought him up close to his face.
The moment they made full eye contact, Riku's vision was assaulted with images. Images of Sora, alone and cornered. Of Sora fighting in vain as the two captured and tortured him. Of Sora, lying on the ground, bloody, beaten, dead.
Riku screamed and broke away from the vision, then, still holding Kadaj, Riku conjured an image of Tru in his mind, causing him to flash to where-ever the man was, taking Kadaj with him.
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When Riku opened his eyes, he found that he was in a large room, it was plain; black wallpaper, dark red curtains and a carpet of the same colour.
He could hear the same music coming from the floor below and wondered if he was still in the same building.
Turning around, he saw a simple single bed in a corner of the room, someone was obviously under the covers, by the moans he heard he figured they were in the middle of having sex.
"Tru!" Riku almost jumped out of his skin when Kadaj shouted that name and lost his grip on the man.
"Dammit! Exclaimed Riku as the silver haired man ran for the door.
Reaching out, Riku grabbed Kadaj's arm and yanked on it, pulling as hard as he could, then smiled when he heard the mans shoulder pop out of socket before he fell and landed on his back.
hmmm so that's how I got here. I just picture someone in my mind and I'm standing near them in the time it takes me to blink. Interesting. Thought Riku as he pulled Kadaj up by his newly injured shoulder and pinned him against the wall.
"What the fuck?!" Came Tru's voice from the bed as the woman with him screamed in fright before gathering her things and running out the door.
Ignoring the woman, Riku turned his head to look at Tru. "You'll get your turn." he said before returning his attention to Kadaj.
"Tru! Do something!" Shouted Kadaj as he saw the murderous look in the teens eyes.
Tru couldn't do anything however. Some unknown force was keeping him paralysed in a semi sitting position as he'd been in the middle of sitting up in the bed when suddenly he found he couldn't move. He couldn't even speak.
Riku looked at Kadaj and a sadistic grin crossed his bloodied features. Right now, to Kadaj, Riku looked like death itself. His face was half covered in drying blood from the wound he'd given him-which had mysteriously disappeared-and from lying in his own blood, the skin Kadaj could see was as pale as the moonlight outside. His silver hair was streaked crimson by his own blood some of it was pure crimson-again from lying in it-and his eyes were black, he hadn't noticed the eye colour before but the fact that they swirled creeped him out. To top it off his clothes were dark red and black.
"Oh shit." Gasped Kadaj, thinking that not only had this kid come back from the dead, he'd also completely lost it. "Now now, calm down I'm sure we can work something out."
Riku's smile turned to a snarl as those words made him want to gut the man with a jagged dagger. His eyes suddenly glazed over as he pictured what the blade would look like; silver, jagged to make it more painful, with sapphires encrusted in the hilt.
Suddenly a clinking sound snapped him out of the vision. Riku looked around searching for the source of the sound and smiled when he caught sight of something on the ground. A silver dagger with a jagged blade and a sappire encrusted handle.
Letting go of Kadaj Riku bent down to pick up the weapon and studied it for a moment, twisting it in his hands. "If I'd known imagining it would bring it to existence I'd of made it much more intricate.
The whole time Riku wasn't pinning Kadaj to the wall he still felt as though the teens hands were still holding him still and his eyes went wide when he saw that the kid now had a weapon.
Giving his attention back to Kadaj Riku suddenly realised that the man hadn't moved an inch.
"What? No trying to escape this time?" He said, not realising that it was he himself that was pinning the two men, simply by not wanting them to move.
Kadaj tried to say something but found that he could no longer use his vocal cords.
"Would you mind if I killed you?" Riku asked casually as he pressed himself against the older man, leaned his head to one side on his shoulder and looked up at him to see the expression on his face "Am I scaring you? Don't be afraid, this was bound to happen sooner or later." Closing his eyes Riku caressed his neck lightly and playfully with the tip of the blade in his left hand and laughed quietly when he felt the mans body shake with fear.
Riku pressed the blade a little harder into Kadaj's pale skin as he made a thin trail of blood from the crook of his neck up to his chin before gripping the hilt tightly and plunging the blade into the mans right eye, aiming downwards so he wouldn't pierce his brain and kill him. The blade went in like it was cutting through butter.
Kadaj broke through whatever Riku's hold on him and screamed in pain as the silverlet pulled the blade out of his eye socket before bringing it down and plunging it into the mans stomach, the jagged edges making the pain more excruciating as Riku twisted it, the whole time a grim smile on his bloodied, angelic face.
Kadaj, suddenly completely free of the force keeping him still, collapsed onto the teen who smiled and wrapped one arm around the mans back as he dug the dagger deeper into his stomach and sighed when he felt the warmth of Kadaj's blood cover his hand. "Hmmmm...Suddenly I understand why you did what you did. It feels good to make someone bleed doesn't it." he said quietly into Kadaj's ear.
Removing the dagger, Riku forced Kadaj back against the wall again and Kadaj watched with his uninjured eye as the dagger the teen was holding grew to the length of a sword.
"Shall I sing you to sleep?" Riku snarled, "Don't worry, Tru will join you soon." At those words Riku raised the sword he was now holding and ran it right through Kadaj's heart. As Riku yanked the blade free, a look of complete disbelief crossed Kadaj's features as he slumped to the ground and, just after Riku turned his attention to Tru, turned to a golden dust.
Riku walked over to the bed and pulled back the covers, laughed at what he saw.
"Hahahahaha! Oh now I understand why you were content to just watch," he said as he slowly, seductively, crawled onto the bed and straddled Tru's hips. "It turns you on to see people tortured doesn't it." Tru didn't move or say anything, he couldn't, but as Riku ran a blood covered finger along his slightly open lips, forcing him to taste his partners blood, he wanted to scream.
Riku smiled at the expression on Tru's face as he made him taste Kadaj's blood, then moved to lay beside the man, his eyes never leaving his face as he idly teased Tru's erection with the tip of his sword.
Tru, phisically unable to do anything else, looked into the teens eyes, saw the swirling darkness within them and gasped, thinking. So that's why he's alive. The kid called out to Artemis. He's a dark-hunter!
He couldn't of known that Riku had only called out wanting to live. He hadn't called on anyone inparticular, Artemis just happened to be the one who had answered him.
Riku suddenly stopped and looking deep into Tru's eyes, saw the same thing he had in Kadaj's; death, but this time not just Sora's, others too.
Screaming in anger and despair, he raised his sword and plunged it straight through Tru's heart, through what he thought was a strange and pointless black tattoo.
The man immediatly turned to gold dust.
It was at that moment that someone flashed into the room. Riku didn't look up to see who it was , he remained still, both hands still gripping the sword which was embedded in the mattress.
He sensed that whoever it was held emense power though and, gasping for breath, whispered.
"Kill me? please?"
"Why?" Came a deep melodic voice that Riku found strangely soothing.
"Because, I wanted to save Sora, but I was too late. I saw his death in their eyes." Riku whispered, meaning the men he'd just killed, "I don't want to live without him. I can't."
"I'm sorry. You're a Dark-Hunter now, you traded your soul to Artemis. If you die without a soul you'll become a shade, your essence doomed to roam the earth for eternity, alone, forever feeling the pain of hunger and thirst and only able to communicate with oracles."
Riku listened intently as the man spoke, thinking, I don't remember giving that woman my soul. "Am I dreaming?" he said aloud, his quiet voice dead. "Is this some crazy nightmare?"
The man watched as Riku let go of the sword and looked at the blood in his hands.
Feeling hot tears running down his cheeks, Riku wiped them away, not caring about the blood. "Why am I crying when I feel so cold inside." he said.
Riku then turned to see the man who had come into the room, unfazed by the fact that he'd just killed two people.
He must of been at least six foot eight inches tall with long black hair that he wore loose and flowing around his shoulders. It framed his face perfectly, a face that was eerily pretty without being feminine, black opaque sunglasses covered his eyes.
He wore all black and Riku couldn't help but notice the black biker boots he wore that had nine metal vampire bat buckles running up the length of them.
The man had a dangerous and powerful aura about him.
"Who are you?" Riku asked.
"My name is Acheron Parthenopaeus. I'm here to train you in the use of your new powers so that you'll become a strong enough warrior to fight on your own and defend the innocent against daimons like those you just killed."
"Now I know I'm dreaming."
Looking into the unusual swirling darkness of the teens eyes, Acheron saw anger, despair, hopelessness. If he didn't do something the silverlet would quickly become suicidal or go rogue and would have to be killed to be stopped.
Riku watched as Acheron walked over to him and was surprised when he embraced him, moments later Riku felt so tired that he couldn't keep his eyes open. He didn't care though he liked the idea of sleep right now, preferably eternal sleep, but even temporary was better than nothing.
Acheron ran fingers through the teens silver hair, using his powers to slowly and completely suppress all his memories at the same time helping the exhausted, traumatised Riku to sleep.
"Poor thing." He whispered before picking the now unconscious Riku up and standing before he flashed them both to his home, Katoteros, the Atlantean heaven realm, where Riku's training as a Dark-Hunter would begin.
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Oooooo that was sooo much FUN! Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I told you this chapter would be longer didn't I? This took forever to type up my fingers are killing me! Anyway I'd love to know what you thought so review please and thank you XD