Here is chapter four. Sorry for the wait :D
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"You won't fool me twice! You probably don't know yourself where he is!"
"Oh, really? Shiki! Hiryu! "
Two young children, a little boy dressed childishly and a girl wearing a traditional yukata, appeared out of nowhere. They both bowed at the same time in front of
Homurabi.
"What do you wish, Homurabi-sama?" asked the two of them at unisson.
"I want you to bring me Shirogane here, right now."
"Yes, Sir."
The two children left the room as quickly as they arrived, leaving the three of them alone.
One second later, they reappeared, and, at Akira's surprise, they were holding a small glass box, in which was floating a shiny dark orb of pure shadow, as dim as the
light of a saddening black candle. No doubt about it, the aura that the box emitted couldn't be mistaken; it was a profound, strong aura that could only belong to one
person…
"SHIROGANE!!!"
The dark orb, at the sound of Akira's voice suddenly busted, filling the glass box with dark aura and seeming to wish to come out of the cage that was detaining it.
"What did you do to him?" cried Akira, trying to reach the box with his stupefied arms.
"Oh, nothing in particular… I found him recently in this state, that's all. And also- he took Shirogane's cane from Sawaki – this thing he always had with him.
Fortunately, I will take it back, because it must belong to only the true King himself."
At the same time as he pronounced those words, the cane transformed into a royal, black sceptre. The King, fascinated, turned his back to the two men and looked
ecstatically at the treasure that was emitting a sinister glow in his pale white hands.
"Yes... This must be it. Tis' much better. Shirogane has so weird tastes… Pointless. "
Suddenly, Homurabi felt a strong aura burning behind his back. At his surprise, he saw that the Rei wasn't on his knees anymore;
he was standing up and his raven hair was furiously whipping his face, and a light aura was coming out from his body,
dissolving the amount of darkness that was surrounding him.
Sawaki, alarmed, jumped a step back and took a fight position, ready to attack the boy.
"How did he free himself?" thought the Shin.
A sudden light busted in the palm of the Rei: a giant sickle appeared in his hand, as pure as white snow.
"…Stop trying to make fun of me…"
The Dark King raised an eyebrow, surprised that the boy had still that much energy left.
"Well well... It is becoming interesting. It makes me want even more to rip you apart..."
"What on earth… do you want?"
Sawaki began slowly to absorb the darkness that was around him in order to attack the boy, whose power was increasing by the second.
When he was going to jump towards the Rei, Homurabi shouted :
"Don't, Sawaki! Let me deal with him. He doesn't know that he cannot do anything in this side of world…"
As the tyrant raised his hand, Akira felt the same pressure he resented before, but in ten times much stronger.
"How can he be so strong… I feel overwhelmed…"
The box containing Shirogane's essence shaked vigorously : Sawaki had to use half of his powers to contain it.
"If only I could regain my original power…!"
The adolescent tried to fight back, but it was hard for him even to breathe in this maze. Finally, he abandoned, releasing his power, which was nearly out; he suddenly
felt all the amount of darkness Homurabi used and then, exhausted, fell hardly on the floor once again.
The red-haired Shin grabbed the glass cube, put himself right in front of Akira's nose and shacked it dangerously in front of the boy, wry.
"Cut it off…" said the young Rei, desperate. "If you want to kill me, then go ahead, but promise me to release him…"
"Kill you? Dear, no. If I wanted to kill you, I would've done it ages ago…"
"Then why did you bring me here? To try to humiliate your worst enemy while he doesn't even have half of his powers out? What the hell do you want?"
"No… That's not the reason."
"Then what is it?"
Homurabi turned his back to the boy still lying on the floor, and sat majestically on the sculpted royal throne, which seemed for an instant to suit him better than
anyone else.
He glanced at the Rei on the floor with a tender, almost ironic expression, then replied softly, with the hushing voice of a snake:
"I want you… To replace Nanaya. You probably don't know but, Nanaya was like a precious child to me. So strong he was…
However, the Law of the Shadow world stipulates that if one of the Five Children is killed by another Shin, then this Shin shall become the new son of the King of
Darkness. Personally, I usually don't apply this rule, but you, you are fascinating, boy.
Neither human, nor Shin, nor totally Rei… The reincarnation of Ryuuko, the one I put so much effort to kill.
You see? Things are the best this way: I don't kill you, nor anyone else, you become my Child, also you will probably have the right to rule the World
of Darkness after me, since you have royal blood in your veins; and finally, I will give back to Shirogane his previous body and free him from being an exile."
Akira couldn't answer immediately. Did he just call Nanaya his precious child? After a moment of stupefaction, he replied:
"Are you taking me for a fool? How can Nanaya be your "precious child"? You didn't even seem to care what was going to happen to him. Also, is that really all? It
seems you aren't asking anything in return of Shirogane's life… What do you really want, bastard?"
The tyrant grinned scarily, and then said:
"You are smarter than you look."
He paused, and then began to talk with a totally different voice, cruel and sarcastic:
"Okay, if my lies won't work with you, then I'll use the harsh method, worm. I want to conquer the World of Light and the World of Humans.
As you know, I would have won if you hadn't interfered at this time. That's why you and Shirogane are pathetic worms to me.
However, look now! The pitiful ex-King is in a box, and you lying on the floor, begging to save his life! You cannot understand how good I feel.
However, I'll never enter into the World of Light without the accord of a Rei...
That's why I will wait until you've regained all the knowledge you had back then, because you are the only one who can do it now. I would gladly have forced Shisui,
but he would have killed himself before that.
Now, the conditions are clear: you make a contract with me, you become my Child, and then I'll free Shirogane. How is that?"
The King smiled with an evident satisfaction on his face; the young Rei clenched his fists, powerless and holding the cold glare that the King of Darkness was sending
him.
"How could all of this happen? Shirogane... Help me... What should I do?"
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Ok, exams are almost finished now. Now I will have the time to write more. By the way, fanfiction sucks! I can't even do line breaks correctly! Anyway... Thanks for watching! :)