| Chapter 02: The Light of Destruction |
Following their meeting of pure chance, Kyo and Alice walked amongst the remains of the town they found each other in. Although it was probably late in the day, it was impossible to camp right now. Not when there was a threat of being attacked by either deranged survivors or any beasts in the area.
"There's still no sign of any survivors…aside from us that is." Kyo thought aloud as he and Alice kept on move.
"Perhaps everyone is simply dead…" Alice cryptically commented. Kyo glanced at her with a frown, as if not wanting to think of that possibility. "I would hope that's not the case…"
The pair continued to move onward, eventually Alice simply stopped walking and she stared at Kyo in a somewhat stoic manner. "What's wrong Alice?" Kyo suddenly asked, Alice's eyes narrowed.
"Why do you care for so many people you don't know of..?" Alice asked, Kyo seemed a bit taken back by this question. "Why not? It's only right to show kindness to all around you, even if they have wronged you before. It's the type of thing where you forgive and forget y'know?"
"…No…I wouldn't know…" Alice looked at her feet. Kyo looked at her and walked up to her some, he felt there was a lot he really didn't know about her, which was kind of obvious after all they had only met a few hours ago.
"Alice I—" Kyo opened his mouth to speak when suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He looked over his shoulder and saw a kunai lodged deep into him, he gasped out in pain as he fell on a knee grasping his shoulder firmly. He closed his eyes tightly as he tore the Kunai off but blood trickled down his armor.
"Kyo..!" Alice's eyes widened as she looked up and saw a tall man in white armor standing before them. He had long white hair that blew in the soft breeze, and a very unique visor that had four red gems that acted as eye holes.
"I've found you…Witch."
Alice gasped out as she stepped back, hugging the book in her arms. She felt her heart race increase as a sharp pain in her head brought forth a rush of memories proceeding the incident that resulted in the current state of the town. "Y-you're the man who—"
Kyo looked up at Alice and then over his shoulder to the man who had harmed him moments ago. His expression was sharp as he glared forth towards the man, he staggered onto his feet, almost forgetting of the injuries he had awoken with before he met Alice, just what he needed, an additional injury.
"Who are you, and why the hell did you do that..!" Kyo demanded, he reached for his long sword and he unsheathed it. His sword made a scraping noise against his sheath as he pointed his blade at the white armored man.
"…I have no name to give to a man whom I am to erase from this world, along with that Witch hiding behind you." The man harshly responded with. He had his arms folded firmly across his chest as his expression remained the same as always, stoic.
Kyo's eye twitched, "What was that!"
"Now you wish me to repeat myself..? My my, are you quite the dumb one. It matters not though, dead men will tell no tales." He chuckled darkly as he vanished.
Kyo's eyes widened as he opened his mouth to yell, the white armored man appeared infront of him moving his leg and delivering a swift kick into Kyo's side. The spot he hit was the location of one of Kyo's injuries, this catching him off guard and throwing him to the side. Kyo yelled out in pain as his sword flew from his hands and stabbed into wooden rubble not far from where he had landed upon the blood stained ground.
Alice looked at where Kyo landed and her eyes widened in a great panic, "K-kyo! Are you—" She never finished as she was grasped by the throat and the man had lifted her off the ground firmly.
"When we last encountered each other in these lands, your power surge cost the lives of a great number of my men. You are nothing but a Witch whom brings destruction to where she travels, as you have to this town. This town alone is a good proof of your terrible existence..!" The man berated Alice as she struggled to hold in tears.
Between the berating she received and the concern she felt for her only friend and ally, Kyo, it was overwhelming her. Her book had fallen onto the ground when the man had pulled her up by the throat, and it was now dirtied by the ground. Kyo slowly staggered to get up from where he landed and he noticed the book on the ground, he then looked to where his sword landed and tore it out.
Alice is in danger, and so is the Takara Nikki..!
Kyo got up and he let out a yell, the man perked as he noticed Kyo and he released Alice. She landed on her hands and knees and gasped out for air. "Alice grab the book and get away! I'll take care of this guy..!"
"Such a fool, do you really fail to realize the destruction this woman creates? She is the Destroy Witch, and to each world she goes too the end up ruined..! Such as this one!"
"I don't know what the hell your talking about, but Alice is not the type of girl who seemed like she could be held responsible for this carnage! It's just not her person!" Kyo argued.
"Saying such things, even though you've only met her a few hours ago?" The man questioned, he smirked and unfolded his arms slowly.
"SHUT UP!" Kyo ran at him yelling, Alice looked up at this and her heart began to race again. She hugged her book to her tightly and began to back away from the scene, she wanted to put trust into her newfound ally yet her concern for him was becoming too great.
"I will end this in one swift move…" The man laughed and he vanished again. He appeared before Kyo and the two men quickly entered a lock, this white clad man revealing his weapon of choice to be a pair of twin katanas.
"So, are you willing to give me that name now?" Kyo smirked, he remained confident even though his body was battered with injuries new and old.
"If you insist I will tell it to you…I am Yoshimitsu; The Leader of the Manji Clan!"
"Yoshimitsu eh? Well sorry I've never heard of you. I on the other hand am Kyosha Nobegane; The Leader of the Seven Swords Mercenary Company!"
The man known as Yoshimitsu chuckled softly, amused by this. "I can't say I have heard of you either, Kyosha."
The two men yelled and they went skidding along the ground from each other. Kyo panted deeply as he grasped his blade with both hands, knees shaking weakly as his body was not handling all this struggling so well. Whilst Yoshimitsu seemed completely fine, save for a fw pants.
Alice watched this duel with wide eyes. She hugged her book tightly as she sat on her knees, she was practically in the middle of these two as they glared each other down.
A-at this rate, Kyo will become seriously injured all because of me…Please, Takara Nikki you have to…you have to stop this!
Alice closed her eyes tightly; tears ran down her cheeks as she buried her mouth into the head of the book. She whimpered slightly as her emotions began to peak, and as this occurred her book began to faintly illuminate with a bright white light.
Kyo and Yoshimitsu had been back in a sword lock when this was occurring, Kyo and Yoshimitsu knocking each other away yet again. That is when the two men noticed Alice. Yoshimitsu seemed to be familiar with this type of occurrence, whilst Kyo, amazed by the light could only connect this to one thing.
This light, it's the same as the one that I saw before..!
Yoshimitsu gritted his teeth as he assumed stance. He looked ready to charge Alice, displaying a sense of blood lust for Alice. "I will not let another disaster occur again! You, Destroy Witch, will not do any further harm to this world! Allow me to send you before the Gates of Hell to await proper judgment..!"
"No! Don't..!" Kyo yelled, He threw his sword aside and before Yoshimitsu could charge Alice, to cut her down, Kyo had acted and tackled Yoshimitsu with his entire body. Both men let out loud grunts as they landed onto the ground. Yoshimitsu glared towards Kyo with pure anger, but Kyo only responded by delivering a fierce hook to his face, knocking him back down.
"You son of a..!" Yoshimitsu cursed, he grabbed Kyo's incoming right hook with his hand, squeezing his fist tightly. "I will break your entire damned hand..!"
"Just try..!" Kyo barked.
"Please stop…just stop…Its not worth it, nothing is…not for me. Not for my life…" Alice mumbled repediatly as she hugged her book, she began to glow white and finally she gasped out.
The book in her arms fell onto the ground as it began to open slowly on its own. It flipped through a variety of pages until it stopped on a blank page which began to glow even brighter then the book itself. What did this all mean?
Before any of the three individuals could figure out what it could mean, there was a soft humming noise that grew gradually louder. Then suddenly, the white light became bright enough that all three were blinded and the entire area was swallowed up.
Earlier on, while Yoshimitsu had just appeared before Kyo and Alice, a group of individuals had reached a Cliffside overlooking the ruined town below. The group consisted of three individuals, all men, as well as a fourth who resembled that of a strange rabbit like creature.
"Woaaah! Look at that! Look at that!" The creature, on the head of one of the three men, pointed out as in the distance the town had begun to become slowly swallowed by the large white light.
"Now what could that be..?" One of the men, the one having the creature upon his head, smiled as his medium length blonde hair blew softly in the wind. He grasped onto the creature on his head and let him down onto the ground. The creature only hopped up and down, flailing its arms and legs in direction of the town.
"Whatever it is, it's getting larger…" A gruff voice commented, this came from another of the three men, a tall man garbed in black colored armors.
"…" The last of the three men, and the leader of this group, was silent as he stared upon the town. The man to his left was right; the strange explosion of white light was getting larger, although slowly, it was sure to be consuming them as well.
"Hey! Hey! Syaoran! Syaoran! What do we do..? Do we investigate..?" The white creature continued to hop up and down. It was speaking towards the leader of this trio of men, the one whom had displayed silence.
Syaoran only continued to stare at the white light. He opened his mouth to say something but then the black armored man stepped ahead of him some. "Standing around and staring is going to get us nowhere. If we're going to investigate that light, let's do it now!" The man barked towards Syaoran and his other comrades.
"Easy Kuro..~" The blonde haired man and last of the trio of men said teasefully, "You of all should know nothing is to be gained from acting recklessly." He wagged a finger to further antagonize his comrade.
"Bite me, Mage..!" He yelled, he looked away annoyed. Syaoran only closed his eyes, ignoring his two comrades, the Ninja Kurogane, and the Magician Fai D. Flowright. Whilst the white rabbit like creature, the dimension travelling creature, Mokona Modoki, only continued to hop up and down out of being interested greatly by the strange light.
Watching them from the shadows was a figure cloaked in the shadows of the forest behind the group. He emitted a faint chuckle as he watched them interact one another.
To think these were the ones who brought forth the death of Fei Wang-Reed. I am not that impressed in all honest, however I can tell they will provide some interesting amusement…
Since Kurogane and Fai were occupied with one another, and Syaoran was lost in his own thoughts, it was impossible for any of them or Mokona to detect the stranger watching them. The figure slowly opened their left hand and thus forth gathered a concentrated ball of wind. "This ought to give you all a push forward…"
Although he spoke faint, the attention of the men had been gained. All three turned behind themselves to glare at the direction of the hidden figure, even Mokona grew aware and glared alongside its companions.
"Who's there! Answer me!" Syaoran demanded, but the only thing he was responded with was yet another twisted chuckle.
"All things in good times, Tsubasa."
Syaoran was taken back by this comment, but before him or his companions could act they felt a strong wind. All three, and Mokona, let out yells as a fierce wind tore along the ground. It broke apart the cliff they stood on and forced them through the air, all of them screaming as they were knocked away from where they once stood.
The figure broke out into a hysteric laughter as he saw the group fall through the sky, but as they went out farther and farther they began trapped in the field of the still growing white light. All of their eyes widened In surprise and soon enough, because of the simple attack of the mysterious stranger, they too were sucked into the white light as Kyo, Alice, and Yoshimitsu had been earlier.
And so it begins…
Note: The man whom Syaoran and his group encounter prior to their sending into the white light; is a character who shall be brought to light and become quite important in coming chapters. As of now he shall remain a complete enigma to you readers, but I think he will come out to be a very "out-there" type of character.
