Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy people. Well, I've taken a brake from revising stories to start a new chapter. As you've noticed, I'm sure, I've changed the title. That's because I despised the last title. It's as simple as that.
Oh yea, later in the chapter, it may sound a bit yaoi, but, believe me, it's not supposed to be.
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Chapter 7: Gone and Back Again
"Honestly, Krad, did you think you could take her like that and no one would notice?" Dark yelled, dodging Krad's attack. "Practically everyone I town knows her!"
"I know that, moron." Krad said calmly, floating around Dark. They had been fighting for awhile and took the fight to the sky. "I wasn't going to hurt her or anything… I'm just not giving her back to you."
"You bastard!" Dark shouted. He was going to say something else, but Krad cut him off.
"I lost my first love because of you, I'm not losing her!"
Dark froze. He hadn't thought of that for awhile. He had forgotten Krad had loved Kisa, too and now he loved Saki. Nevertheless, Dark had to get her back, no matter what Krad felt. "I don't care if you like her. The only thing that bothers me, is that you're going to take her hostage when she doesn't even like you!"
"Doesn't like me?" Krad's cool had returned and he laughed, "Oh, Dark…did you not hear her? She begged Satoshi to let her meet me, she must have some interest in me."
"Having interest in someone is different from liking them."
"Not by much." Krad said as he flew to the entrance of the cave. In the dim moonlight, he saw Saki's unconscious body, and whispered, "Just like her grandmother…"
Dark landed behind him, and just watched his other self.
"She has been gone a long time." Dark said to Daisuke.
'Is that a bad thing?'
"Well…it's not horrible…Listen, Daisuke, I can't tell you exactly where she is, but I can tell you she's learning to control the powers that just so happened to appear in the last…um…like two hours."
'Powers? Like yours?'
"Yea, sort of…she's been there a lot longer than she should be…"
'So, what are we going to do?'
Dark paused and looked over to see Krad still watching over Saki like he was frozen in his spot. Dark figured if he was going to do anything, now would be the time to do it. "I'm going to go get her. Daisuke, stay here and get Satoshi back in control."
Dark pulled out one of his black feathers while Daisuke screamed 'What? You want me to fight Krad all by myself?'
"Yep. Have fun."
A flash of blue light blasted from the feather and Dark was gone. The blue flash had gotten Krad out of his trance. He turned and face Daisuke and laughed, "So… Dark left the Niwa boy, eh?"
Daisuke stood his ground, "Give Satoshi back control."
"Why would I do that?" he pulled out one of his own white feathers and threw it. Luckily, because of all his training, Daisuke could dodge it.
"Come on, Satoshi! You can overcome him! You're strong enough to do it!"
"Don't listen, Satoshi-sama," he pulled out another feather and was going to throw it, but his arm suddenly froze.
'No! Leave him alone, Krad!'
The feather started to disappear as Satoshi gained more control.
"Satoshi-sama? What are you doing?"
'No! Daisuke is Saki's friend. If you hurt him, then you'll hurt Saki, too!'
Krad's eyes widened, "W-what?"
'If you hurt him, Saki'll never forgive you!'
Krad looked down and whispered so soft Satoshi could barely hear him. "I…I don't…want…to do that…"
The feather disappear completely now and Krad's sun yellow hair started to turn icy blue. Daisuke walked up to him as the transformation completed. Satoshi turned towards the cave.
"So…what do we do now?" Daisuke asked.
"Just…wait. Until Dark comes back with Saki, at least I assume that's where he went, we can't do anything." Satoshi said as he walked into the cave with Daisuke following.
"Oh,…right…"
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"Chibi!" Saki cried as she blocked another attack from another zombie, only this one had a sword. "Are you sure you can't help me at all?"
"I'm sorry, Saki-chan! All I can do is lead you in the right direction on what to do!"
"Will these things ever go away? Every time I destroy one, five more appear!"
"Okay, um, well, let me think…"
Saki punched another man and he fell to pieces. Then, three more smaller zombie jump on her, knocking her to the ground, "Think faster!"
"Ohhhhh…"
"I can't do this much longer!"
"Saki-chan, just come back in here!"
She blasted the monsters off of her and sprinted to the library and closed the door behind her and laid on the floor. "I can't just put them off, Chibi. When I open the door again, they're still going to be there."
"I know that! You're making this harder for me!"
"Sorry…but what am I supposed to do! I have no idea how to defeat them all. I mean, if I could blast them all at once…"
"That's it!" Chibi squealed.
"Huh?"
"Come with me. And this time you better follow me." Chibi said sternly. Saki forced herself to stand and walked be hind Chibi through the huge selves of books. The went into one row marked Combat. "Ahh, here we are. Now it should be right…here! Saki, get that book."
She picked up a humongous book that looked a million years old. The blood-red cover was falling off the spine and it looked as if half of the pages were missing. "Chibi, how the hell is this going to help me? It's crap."
"You know the saying don't judge a book by it's cover, right? Well, with people, you shouldn't use that kind of saying. But with an actual book, it's true. You really shouldn't judge it."
Saki just stared at her, "You're telling me this, why?"
Chibi sighed, "Go to page…286. If I recall, it shows you kind of how to get rid of them all at once."
"Whatever." Saki said and sat on the floor and turned through the pages. When she finally got to page 286, it looked like whoever read it last, was bleeding pretty badly. "Dude, is that really blood?"
Chibi shrugged her small arms, "Those zombie things can be pretty ruthless. Now, when you think you found what can help you, read it to me."
"Okay." She searched the page and found all kinds of things, like how to cure major magical injuries and how to curse an object and counter it. All of it on one page! That's just how big that book was. Finally, at the bottom of the page, there was a small sentence that kind of look like an author's note. "Okay, I think I found it."
"Well, read it!"
"Okay, okay. Here it goes:
Surrounded by the dead?
Aye, I promise you'll be full of dread.
Touch the home from which they all came,
then it will be the end of the game."
"Yes! That's it!"
"What? How can that be it? It was a freakin' poem! It doesn't help me at all!" Saki threw the book against the shelf next to them.
"Saki-chan! Why did you do that? That's what's going to help you!"
"How?" she whined. She leaned her head against the self and closed her eyes. "How is a poem suppose to help me, Chibi?"
"Simple. You just have to find the meaning to it."
"Meaning?" Saki asked. She opened her eyes and thought. "Meaning…"
"Mm-hm. Just think of what was happening out there when you were fighting."
Saki lowered her head. Okay, what was happening…I was getting attacked by those dead things. She looked up. "Wait,… they attacked me from all sides! They were surrounding me!
"Great! We have the first line down!"
"Right…Well, I was pretty pissed that they kept attacking me."
"I promise you'll be full of dread! Saki-chan, you got it!"
"Okay, but the next line is a little more complicated."
Chibi nodded and started to float around. "Yea, you're right. Touch the home from which they all came, then it will be the end of the game. What does that mean? The people in that graveyard were all real and they all came form different parts of the world. How are we supposed to 'touch every home'?"
"I don't know. Man, I wish Satoshi was here to help me."
"Well, we have to figure this out now! Otherwise, you won't see this Satoshi kid anymore!"
"I know, I know!" Suddenly, Saki thought of something, "Wait a minute…Chibi, how long have you been helping girls like me learn their powers?"
"Well, ever since Dark-san and Krad-san were created. Why?"
"Okay, that's a pretty long time. How many people have you had to show this poem to?"
"Most. Why?"
"Then wouldn't you know them meaning of it by now?" Saki asked, agitation edging in her voice.
"Well, it's not my fault I have a bad memory! It's always like 20 years in between girls who come here! I don't need that stupid poem in my head the whole time!"
"Okay, okay. Chill. Now let me think…there has to be some kind of connection between where all these people come from. So, just what is the connection."
"Well, they could have all came from the same neighborhood."
"I doubt it. Wait, neighborhood? I think you're on to something there, Chibi."
"I am? Really?"
"Okay. You've been to a funeral, right?"
"Yea, every time someone gets buried here."
"Well, I haven't. So what do people normally say when they bury people?"
"Ummm, that the person is in a better place."
"No, that's no what I mean. I heard from someone that sometimes people say that the grave the person is buried in is their new home."
"Really? I've never heard that. It must be just your family."
"I don't think so. I think whoever wrote this poem had heard that saying and when they say home, they mean grave."
"Well, it makes sense, but how are you going to touch them all?"
"I don't have to. All I have to do, I think, is put all of my power into one tombstone and it will effect all the tombstones, therefore effecting the zombies!"
"Huh. No one's ever figured it out that fast."
Saki smiled and ran back through the rows to the door. She opened it and ran out. Instead of looking to see where the zombies would be coming from, she looked to find the biggest tombstone. Suddenly, she saw a giant Cross sitting in the middle of all the other stones. It had a name engraved on it. So Saki figured it was a grave for a very important person.
"Found it." She was about to take off running, when Chibi started screaming.
"Saki-chan, Saki-chan!"
"What?" She asked, wondering why Chibi was freaking out when she was just calm two seconds ago.
"You have wings like Dark-san, right?"
"Yea, why?"
"Oh, I must've forgotten to mention, you can use those."
"Thanks for the advise. At least you told me now before I started running."
The wings soared out of her back, but something was diffrent. Her wings weren't just black anymore. Now, one was black and the other was white. She stared at them for a second or two then shrugged and flew to the cross as Chibi stayed behind at the library. She landed on one of the arms of the cross and thrust her hands onto the main pole. She deeply exhaled, "Here goes nothing!"
Her hands started to glow a deep, bright red. Then, the whole cross glowed the same color. Suddenly, the other stones started shaking like they had done earlier.
"Saki-chan, I think it's working!"
Just at that moment, Dark landed on top of the small building. He looked and saw all the stones shaking and now, one by one, were also starting to glow red. "Whoa…Saki must be doing this, but where is she?" He saw her on the cross and smiled. Then, he just stood and watched her.
"Chibi! The zombies aren't going away! Did we do something wrong?" Saki shouted over the rumble of the tombstones.
"No! Look, Saki-chan!" she did and saw the red glow the stones had were now becoming long, red ropes. Those ropes each went to a different person and would wrap itself around their bodies and drag them back to their own graves and cover them with dirt.
After everyone was back in the ground, Saki let go of the cross and just stood there, smiling weakly, "Are they all gone?"
"Yep! They all went back into the ground. You did it Saki-chan, You defeated them all!" Chibi cried as she started floating in circles.
"That's good…" Saki said quietly as she started to sway. She suddenly felt very tired. She grabbed the cross for support, but it didn't work. She started to fall. Dark noticed this and flew off of the roof and to his maiden's aid.
"Saki!" he yelled as he flew towards her.
"Dark?" Saki whispered as she looked up right before her hand left the cross. She saw him and smiled right before she closed her eyes.
"Saki!" Dark called again. He saw that she let go of the cross. Because the cross was so big, she could probably die if he didn't catch her. He flew faster and saw Saki was gaining speed as she fell. He thought he wouldn't make it to her in time. No! he thought I have to catch her! She can't die! Not now! Somehow, that gave him the speed to keep going. Right before Saki hit the ground, Dark caught her. He kneeled on the ground holding her close to him.
"Dark-san! What on earth are you doing here?" Chibi cried as she flew over to his shoulder.
"I thought she'd been in here an awful long time. So, I came here to get her." Dark sighed. He looked to see Saki had passed out, " It looks like I came in the nick of time, too."
"Yea," Chibi said as she sat down right beside Saki's hand. "Hey, Dark…I have a question."
"Hmm?"
"Well, can I come home with you this time? I'm tired of being in this stupid graveyard."
"I'm sorry, Chibi, but you can't. You have to stay here and teach whoever comes after her."
"But what if no one comes after her? Then I'll be stuck here forever!"
"No. If there is no one after her, then, well, we'll figure something out."
"Dark, that's not fair! I always help you! Why can't you help me?"
Dark was about to answer but heard something behind him and thought there might have been something else there to attack Saki. He turned and saw that it was branch that had fallen off the tree. He turned to talk to Chibi again, but when he looked down, Chibi was no longer there.
"Huh. Guess she went back into the library." He stood up with Saki still in his arms and pulled out a feather and the two of them disappeared.
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"Satoshi, I'm worried. What if something happened to them?" Daisuke asked. He and Satoshi were sitting against the cave wall and talking about random things.
"Nothing happened. Dark can find his way out of anything, you and I both know that." Satoshi said, leaning his head against the wall. Suddenly, Daisuke felt a hot pain in his chest. Suddenly, he knew Dark was back.
"Dark!" he cried, "Is everything okay? How's Saki?"
'Just transform into me.'
"What? Why?"
'Daisuke, you're not strong enough to carry her. I'm going to carry her back to our house so she can rest for a few days.'
He transformed without arguing. Dark stood and walked over to Saki and picked her up.
"She going to be okay?" Satoshi asked as he turned and walked towards the entrance.
"She'll be fine if that bastard stays away." Dark scowled as he walked out with Saki.
"Did her wings change?"
"Yea, I'm sure she didn't care at the moment she saw them, she was way too busy. I'll tell her tomorrow."
Saki suddenly opened her eyes. She looked around and saw Dark was carrying her. Dark and Satoshi noticed and just smiled at her. She leaned her head against Dark's chest and closed her eyes again.
"Like I said, I'll tell her about it tomorrow."
Okay, YAY! I finally got this chapter up! Took me awhile but all well. Hope you liked and please please please review! I'm beggin you to review!
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