p style="color: #737373; font-family: consolas; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11px; text-align: justify;""How…could you?"br /br /The look upon her face would've broken her heart if it wasn't already shattered, the gold of her hues having mixed with shinigami green as she looked down to the battered and broken body of the boy she had come to see as a son and friend. Demitru Octavius, he was…no he is a brilliant boy, and he knew the price that had to be paid in order for this to work..but Yoki wouldn't /br /He had done it for her, everything was for her /br /"I'm…sorry."/p
p style="color: #737373; font-family: consolas; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"And she truly was, if there was any other way to do this she would've done it long before but..nothing had come up to their favor. They were stuck here in this acid trip limbo until only one survived, what else was there to do other than follow by these demons rules? Scythes were out of the question, as there were none near by, not even Yoki's Death Scroll was at /br /Hecate could feel the rage seething off of the human woman, a righteous anger she deserved to be the victim of. So there was no surprise, nor defense, to the kick that landed to her head, the power behind it actually kicking the reaper back several feet away. Glasses broken and thrown off of her face, she stared blindly up to the ceiling, it wasn't until the gentle sobs reached her ears that she looked up to just barely see a black shadow consuming Yoki's body. Panic ensued, causing the reaper to get up and attempt to save the one girl she was trying so hard to keep from /br /"Yoki!"br /br /Her scream hit deaf ears, as the shadow absorbed into the fragile human body. Stopping short, her stomach twisted violently as those sad violet eyes turned as red as blood. "No.." Was she to late? How could she pull the demon out? A violent twitch was given, she knew better, demons always played /br /"span style="color: #999999; padding: 0px 3px; background-color: #282828;"Hnhn..now isn't this interestin-…!?/span"br /br /Eyes widening, the demon was forced to its' knees by some unknown force as Yoki's hands wrapped around her own neck, as if trying to pry her throat open for air. Pale skin tone turned pink, then purple before she collapsed and withered on the ground. Frozen, Hecate could do nothing but watch on in horror as breathing became normal, her poor mind turning violently to try and find out what in Death's name /br /Then she stood back up, head lowered as she clasped her head, a large sigh escaping. Looking back up, Hecate having put on her glasses again, she noted that Yoki seemed..for a lack of a better word, completely normal despite the demonic /br /"This is..my body…you're not…taking advantage of it." A glare was given to Hecate, a dark scowl presented that didn't fit at all. "And you..will pay…" Wait, did Yoki intentionally call upon a demon to possess her? Feeling bile rise to the back of her throat, Hecate took a step back in order to gain some amount of balance. "You took him away from me, you tore him away from me! You'll pay for this!"br /br /Lunging with speed inhuman, Hecate had to put both arms up to block the punch aimed directly at her heart. "Yoki! Stop! We don't know what that demons' capable of!" Did she not realiz-? "This demon is mine now, traitor." As if to prove her words true, fire ignited from her contacted fist to throw Hecate into the opposing wall fifteen feet back. The reaper coughed up blood, collapsing to the ground in a heap while twitching, it wasn't anything to kill her..but it didn't curb the /br /Looking up, another violent twitch was given, why was this happening…did she not know the consequences? She wasn't strong enough..br /br /Then..feathers? Blinking away the spots of color, she finally realized it was coming from the very same human girl, black feathers unleashed and extended from her back. The entire stadium had gone silent, tension thick in the air as they wondered what were to happen /br /The only thing she saw next was fire, the brilliant flames burning away everything about her, then.. /br /Yoki stared at the pile of ash arranged in the form of Hecate's collapsed body, the power coursing through her veins acting like a drug on her mind. She knew that keeping a demon in her for this long was a chance, but she had to..for her own sanity's sake. Lowering her head as she closed her eyes, Yoki went within herself and to a spiritual realm of her own mind to see the demon choking on the strands of her own soul strangling the demon. "As for you.."br /br /That battle was much more fierce, and cost more than Yoki did initially intended, but she still won..just barely. Collapsing to her hands and knees, black slime was thrown up across the ground, smoke pouring from her nose and blinding her completely. She felt so much weaker, parts of her soul torn away to never be seen again, it was only a few minutes later did she realize that instead of cold hard ground..she was on wooden /br /"..Yoki?"br /br /Looking up to see Crystal, then Undertaker, the hollowness of her own gaze caused a vast amount of worry to enter the air. "Yoki, where is Octavius and Hecate?" Knowing that Demitru would prefer to jump around the girl with questions indirect, Crystal took the lead and was grateful for Undertaker to simply watch. Though…Yoki's answer concerned her /br /"Octavius..is dead…the traitor is as well..I..-" As if her soul had simple..extinguished like a flame on a candle, the girl collapsed without so much as a breath of goodbye. Crystal jumped to catch her, only to fall short and land next to her, after a small panic attack the older woman realized the inevitable happened. Staring at the corpse with as straight of a face that she could muster, horror raveled her brain and twisted her heart and stomach. What did this?/p
p style="color: #737373; font-family: consolas; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"And she truly was, if there was any other way to do this she would've done it long before but..nothing had come up to their favor. They were stuck here in this acid trip limbo until only one survived, what else was there to do other than follow by these demons rules? Scythes were out of the question, as there were none near by, not even Yoki's Death Scroll was at /br /Hecate could feel the rage seething off of the human woman, a righteous anger she deserved to be the victim of. So there was no surprise, nor defense, to the kick that landed to her head, the power behind it actually kicking the reaper back several feet away. Glasses broken and thrown off of her face, she stared blindly up to the ceiling, it wasn't until the gentle sobs reached her ears that she looked up to just barely see a black shadow consuming Yoki's body. Panic ensued, causing the reaper to get up and attempt to save the one girl she was trying so hard to keep from /br /"Yoki!"br /br /Her scream hit deaf ears, as the shadow absorbed into the fragile human body. Stopping short, her stomach twisted violently as those sad violet eyes turned as red as blood. "No.." Was she to late? How could she pull the demon out? A violent twitch was given, she knew better, demons always played /br /"span style="color: #999999; padding: 0px 3px; background-color: #282828;"Hnhn..now isn't this interestin-…!?/span"br /br /Eyes widening, the demon was forced to its' knees by some unknown force as Yoki's hands wrapped around her own neck, as if trying to pry her throat open for air. Pale skin tone turned pink, then purple before she collapsed and withered on the ground. Frozen, Hecate could do nothing but watch on in horror as breathing became normal, her poor mind turning violently to try and find out what in Death's name /br /Then she stood back up, head lowered as she clasped her head, a large sigh escaping. Looking back up, Hecate having put on her glasses again, she noted that Yoki seemed..for a lack of a better word, completely normal despite the demonic /br /"This is..my body…you're not…taking advantage of it." A glare was given to Hecate, a dark scowl presented that didn't fit at all. "And you..will pay…" Wait, did Yoki intentionally call upon a demon to possess her? Feeling bile rise to the back of her throat, Hecate took a step back in order to gain some amount of balance. "You took him away from me, you tore him away from me! You'll pay for this!"br /br /Lunging with speed inhuman, Hecate had to put both arms up to block the punch aimed directly at her heart. "Yoki! Stop! We don't know what that demons' capable of!" Did she not realiz-? "This demon is mine now, traitor." As if to prove her words true, fire ignited from her contacted fist to throw Hecate into the opposing wall fifteen feet back. The reaper coughed up blood, collapsing to the ground in a heap while twitching, it wasn't anything to kill her..but it didn't curb the /br /Looking up, another violent twitch was given, why was this happening…did she not know the consequences? She wasn't strong enough..br /br /Then..feathers? Blinking away the spots of color, she finally realized it was coming from the very same human girl, black feathers unleashed and extended from her back. The entire stadium had gone silent, tension thick in the air as they wondered what were to happen /br /The only thing she saw next was fire, the brilliant flames burning away everything about her, then.. /br /Yoki stared at the pile of ash arranged in the form of Hecate's collapsed body, the power coursing through her veins acting like a drug on her mind. She knew that keeping a demon in her for this long was a chance, but she had to..for her own sanity's sake. Lowering her head as she closed her eyes, Yoki went within herself and to a spiritual realm of her own mind to see the demon choking on the strands of her own soul strangling the demon. "As for you.."br /br /That battle was much more fierce, and cost more than Yoki did initially intended, but she still won..just barely. Collapsing to her hands and knees, black slime was thrown up across the ground, smoke pouring from her nose and blinding her completely. She felt so much weaker, parts of her soul torn away to never be seen again, it was only a few minutes later did she realize that instead of cold hard ground..she was on wooden /br /"..Yoki?"br /br /Looking up to see Crystal, then Undertaker, the hollowness of her own gaze caused a vast amount of worry to enter the air. "Yoki, where is Octavius and Hecate?" Knowing that Demitru would prefer to jump around the girl with questions indirect, Crystal took the lead and was grateful for Undertaker to simply watch. Though…Yoki's answer concerned her /br /"Octavius..is dead…the traitor is as well..I..-" As if her soul had simple..extinguished like a flame on a candle, the girl collapsed without so much as a breath of goodbye. Crystal jumped to catch her, only to fall short and land next to her, after a small panic attack the older woman realized the inevitable happened. Staring at the corpse with as straight of a face that she could muster, horror raveled her brain and twisted her heart and stomach. What did this?/p
