A/N: Don't own these characters! and sorry it took forever...
(edit) Oh my gracious earth... I just went through this again and... so many spelling errors. This Linux crap makes me feel stupid lol. But I realized that if I had a problem with reading it like that, then others must have a hell of a time trying to make out what I was trying to say. That's what I get for posting before re-reading. ANYWAY... enjoy this more correctly spelled version of the eighth chapter.
Kyo
"Well," Uotani huffed "in the immortal words of Queen, who wants to live forever... no offense to the non mortals amongst us." I actually felt myself crack a smile despite our dire situation.
"Unless you hope to make them laugh themselves to death, quit cracking jokes." Rin's unamused voice rang out softly, making my smile only widen. Impending death must be disorienting me...
"Now now girlies, play nice." Ayame's voice crackled through our headsets. I practically felt both women frown.
"I have a feeling you're going to regret that sentence after this is over." I growl, pulling out my standard 8-inch bowie. I glance back at my comrades, each wielding a weapon that seemed to be the embodiment of their personality. Rin, a long silver sword, almost as tall as her with an intricately engraved wolf's head at the hilt. Uotani, a long barreled black six shooter.
I let out a long breath and raised my knife to my face as our voices raise as one to the ever advancing line.
I carry my blade with Pride
I will march into battle
Be the odds fair or foul
With my heart and soul
I will defend the weak
Who believe they are strong
With my body and blood
I will defeat the evil
That walks amongst us
I will use my blade with Pride
I will create a better world
For humans with innocent
And tainted hearts alike
I will die with my blade held high
And Honor in my heart
There was silence all around us, even the creatures of the night had fallen silent to the Hunter's Oath. Something many demons never hear twice. And now they understood. We would rather die than let them pass. I swallowed once and nodded. "Here we go." I mumbled and we shot off in our different directions, towards our certain death.
Hatori
'That moronic son of a bitch!'
My Haru...
On the FRONT line.
A roar erupted through me, the lifeless body of the Lamia shaking with its force.
This time I will kill him... and be rid of him forever.
Haru
"He'll be fine." Yuki whispered to me. I don't trust my voice, I can only nod. "He does this for a living. He was trained for this for years."
"Yeah sunshine, relax. I mean I'm sure he's an excellent Hunter... Well, when he almost lost to me the other day, I'm sure that was a fluke. And when he got infected with the wolves virus, it's possible it was a fluke too... Man, your man has been havin' alota flukes lat-"
I heard the satisfying snap of Shigure's shoulder blade beneath my fist. "Bastard." I growled almost inaudibly as he dropped to the ground at my feet, clutching his wounded arm.
Kyo
The adlet, wolf-human hybrid, let out one last whine as I snapped it's neck, hopping of its giant shoulders as it fell to the ground; adding to the countless fallen creatures around my feet. Just as my feet connected with the grass, I was swept into the air. The flesh on my arms and neck flared instantly, blisters quickly forming, as the Candieja, fiery demon, held me ten feet above the ground. "God damn it!" I gasped, spitting in her eyes. She screeched loudly, dropping me in favor of scratching furiously at her face.
I landed hard on my side, rolling with it to try and keep from her reach. Pulling blessed water from the river Styx, I blindly threw it above me. He deafening screech of fury and pain told me I was right on the mark.
Ashes rained down on me as something sickeningly slick smashed into my side. "Fucking bitch..." I gasped feeling one of my ribs snap. An allu, my hands slid across it's featureless face. Finding nothing to grab onto, I pulled my knife from it's sheath and jammed it easily through it's papery thin skin. The stench of it's foul black blood filling the night air.
Pain seared through my body as teeth sank into my shoulder. Instinctively my scream stopped in my throat and my hands flew to the pain. My fingers sunk into soft flesh. My body curled, knees almost buckling under the lamia's weight, and pulled it over my shoulders, almost biting off my tounge as I felt it take a nice chunk of my flesh down with it. It grinned up at me, grey teeth covered in my blood. "Stupid fuck." I spat driving my heel down through it's smiling face with a deeply satisfying crunch.
Shrieks of excitement rose from the crowd of beasts around me. My flowing blood, not quite tainted with the blood of wolves, flew to them.
"Good goin' orangy!" Uotani's voice broke through my headset followed by Rin's bored agreement.
"Couldn't have been more careful could you?"
"Lay off! God damn it! It was bound to happen!" I yelled at them, quickly pulling out my ring knives as the ravenous entities surrounded me with a new and more powerful hunger. I growled feeling more inconvenienced than scared. "Oh fuck me..."
Haru
They fall easily. Like cutting down reeds. "Kyo was right. We do have the advantage... It's like they're possessed or something." I mutter ripping another creature in half and throwing it aside. I briefly note I really have no idea the species of demons I've been tearing through.
But then again I really don't care.
Suddenly they stopped. All turning from us to the north. My comrades used their distraction to continue to rip through their numbers devastatingly fast, but I couldn't move. Floating on the air. A blood song I could never forget made its way down the field and suddenly I couldn't breathe.
"Kyo."
Yuki and Shigure came to a complete halt as the blood song finally came to them.
Abruptly He was before me. I had made no conscious effort to move, but my heart had made my body move. Blood flowed freely from a deep wound on his shoulder, but other than that he was fine. Still standing, still fighting, still alive.
"What are you doing?" He gasped as he caught sight of me while effectively beheading a tall insect looking creature with a humans face.
"Checking on you!" I breathed, anger setting in. "I heard your blood song and thought... Geez." I saw him smile as he lifted me from the ground and swung around, sending his foot clear through the creatures head behind me.
"Don't worry about me," he whispered licking my ear as he set me down. "just pay attention to what's really going on."
If I could've, I'm sure I would have blushed.
Kyo
I felt myself blush at my bold behavior but brushed it off as another lamia jumped at me. I dodged and swung my arm around. It's scream immediately cut off by a sicking gurgle. The incentive of having Haru a few feet behind me was showing.
A giggle above me made me stop short. A giggle I've been dying to forget.
Everything moved in slow motion as my head tilted upward.
Kisa.
My sister hovered above me, looking as if she never left, her wings of white and gold pumping so softly they shouldn't have been keeping her up. My heart shuddered. "Kyo." She whispered, extending her hand to me.
I couldn't speak. So she had become an angel. I felt my weapons drop and lifted a hand to her. "Come with me Kyo. It's so lonely without you."
I felt my head move in consent and briefly heard my name called from far away.
"Just us again big brother."
There it was again. My name. I know the voice, but for some reason I can't place it. I reach for her with more desperation. We both smile as our fingertips brush.
Suddenly her face rips apart, her blood splattering my face, burning my skin. "Kyo!" the voice calls desperately again.
And the illusion is broken. "Haru." I gasp as the ekek with my sisters stolen face twitches lifelessly at my feet. I fall to my knees desperately trying to pull her into my arms before she disappears. The tears forming in my eyes vanish in anger. They stole her soul. They killed her horribly then stole her soul...
"Haru," I look up at him in time to see a Bukavac, six legged monster, pull back its head to strike him.
"Haru!" I screamed and then he was gone.
The bukavac looked just a surprised as I did. My eyes scanned the crowd quickly when something hit my stomach sending me flying through the air. I landed hard on an adlet, feeling it's spine snap at the force. I got to my feet quickly, pulling another knife from the sheath on my ankle, still searching the crowd for Haru.
A tall black haired vampire caught my eyes, Haru unconscious in his arms. I didn't recognize the beautiful vampire who held him, but I instantly knew him from the gentle way he held Haru.
Hatori.
"Put him down." I growled, concentrating on keeping my breathing even, my arms shaking from the force of it.
He sneered at me, quickly disabling the creatures around us with his glare and powerfully angry aura. Those closest to us disintegrating with painful screams and howls. "Just what exactly were you thinking? What could have possessed you to think you should put the life of my most precious Haru in such danger?" His voice like acid as he pulled my gun from Haru and crushed it and the tracer beneath his foot.
And again I thought of my own pain for having him involved in this fight.
"And if he had died, did you think you could go on living?"
My anger, though it seemed impossible, swelled. "No, I would have killed myself the moment he ceased to be."
His face lost all composure as anger swept through it. "You presume to think-"
"I know more than you think I do Altair." A hint of surprise showed in his violet eyes. "You stole his humanity from him. You stole him from me many times. And I intend to pay you back for every life I lost by your hands and every ounce of sadness you have caused him." His anger broke, his face bewildered. "The Gods are on our side if you hadn't noticed."
He bared his fangs at me and growled. "You forget that I am a God!"
And then he was gone. Only his scent, vanishing on the air, was left. I heard myself scream and I didn't falter as it transformed into a long howl. The pain from the wound in my shoulder vanished instantly. The creatures around me suddenly fell back, their ghastly faces distorted with a terror as they tried to turn from me. Let them run, I thought, my anger redirecting itself to the things closest to me. I tore through their numbers quickly, the foul blood filling my jaws and clinging to my claws. Everyone. Everyone would pay for this.
"Keep your anger in check."
I stopped as a voice filled my head, swinging my head around to try and drive it out.
"Don't lose control. He wouldn't wish for it."
I growled. How would they know what he wanted?
"He loves you and you will find him. I will help you."
And instantly calm flooded my body. The array of colors and scents became normal as I felt the Earth shift and the bare skin of my hands grasped the grass. "Much better don't you agree?" I looked up at the owner of the voice.
"Who are you?" I gasped, trying to breathe around the blood in my mouth, much more potent in my human mouth.
He smiled down at me with a small smile that looked a bit uncomfortable, his black hair and black eyes so familiar, but I knew with absolute certainty I had never met him before. "I am called Megumi. I believe you know my 'sister'."
"Sister?" I gasp, keeping a wary eye on the hoards of frozen creatures around us.
"Saki. Or she announced herself as Hanajima. I am one other part to our trio. The Muse of the present." Great. Just what I need. Another fucking Muse. "Saki's interest with you and the immortal Haru is hard not to become absorbed into. Much like a day time drama."
I growl at my distaste for being compared to a soap-opera. "Why are you here?"
"To help you. This battle will be ending shortly." He extends his hand, a card held nonchalantly towards me. "Sing to me and I will come."
And then he was gone. The shrieks of the creatures around me told me time had once again continued. "Kyo!!" A voice suddenly screamed into my ear.
"Ah! What the hell Ayame?" I shouted standing.
There was silence on the other end and then a quick release of air from several people. "Scared the hell outta us Orangy." Uotani murmured, the sounds of her gun almost drowning out her voice.
"You went into a rage and broke through your final bits of human bonds." Rin's came next a sickening slice accompanying her voice.
"Much quicker than I've ever seen. You shouldn't have fully changed until the next full moon." Came Hiro's. "A very strong and powerful rage."
"We thought you would be lost to it." Rin said again. I tried to pay attention while still fighting, but just went with ignoring them until Ayame's voice tentively filled my ear.
"Haru's trace is gone... Completely destroyed."
A hollow feeling ripped through me, followed quickly by pain and anger. "I know. I saw it."
Silence filled the airwaves. Only the sounds of fighting filled the air. "Kyo." Several voices started, but stopped and let Tohru continue. "I'm so sorry."
"Everyone just shut up and let me concentrate." I growled, my voice hard and a single tear falling from my eye.
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The fight continued, despite what Megumi had said, for an hour after his departure. "God, is there no end to them?" I heard Uotani gasp, her voice lined with a fatigue I should have felt.
"Concentrate Uo-chan, their numbers have gone from a thousand to little over a hundred. We're lucky no one has been-" Her voice cut off. But my mind finished the line for her. No one has been lost.
"Stop!" A voice boomed through the air making the wary creatures stop fighting and turn towards it's source. I continued to cut them down and heard Uotani and Rin do the same. "You would continue to fight though they are defenseless?" The voice sneered. "I guess it's to be expected from humans. Such vile and underhanded creatures."
"These monsters do the same to those who don't even know a fight is coming." I called back, finally stopping and waited for the person to appear.
"My subjects would never do such a thing unless the humans made it impossible for them to live otherwise." A tall thin woman made her way into our view. Eyes blacker than anything I'd ever seen before with hair to match, an elegantly draped dress covering her figure.
Yuki and Shigure were at my side in a second, carrying Rin and Uotani easily.
"Akito." Yuki spit.
"When did you become a woman?" Shigure whistled and was silenced by Yuki's glare.
"Your silly little vampire lords hold onto their legends so tightly they see exactly what they are told by them. It's much easier to slip in and become undetected of anything if you are a male, since all the undoing of man is a womans fault. And all of their silly little subjects believe what ever they are told without even realize they are being told anything. I could not have gotten anywhere if I looked like a woman. I learned that the first time I tried to take back my throne. As a man, everything was laid before me, everything I needed to get to my rightful place."
I saw Yuki's face go pale. "What do you know?" I whispered to him.
"Deneb, destroyed in the last war for the Children of Night and Shadows. Or thought to be destroyed..."
"You vampires can't do anything right can you?"
"The founder of your organization is the one who supposedly destroyed her."
She laughed like she had a bad taste in her mouth. "Oh yes. Abraham Van Helsing... Never faltering. Gallant. Handsome in his younger years. Too bad he had a weak spot for me. Well, bad for you anyway."
"What is your purpose in this?" Yuki asked, wary.
"To take what is rightfully mine!" She screeched. "There were not seven! There were eight! I was the eighth, driven from my throne because I had no misconceptions when it came to humans. They are inferior. They are food. And they should know their place in this world."
Yuki frowned as if the idea hurt him... or hit home. "And do you still have the scar Anubus gave you for your ideas?"
Akito frowned. "Anubus always was soft." She whispered. At that moment her eyes swept across what was left of her army. My eyes followed. Every creature was bowed to her. Her expression suddenly turned fierce. "We concede this battle, but you will not be so luck next time." And with that she vanished, her army with her.
Haru
I awoke in an enormous room decorated in gold and blood red. The dark wood coffin big enough for three people with elbow room. I sat up groggily and tried to shake the feeling of emptiness from it. Suddenly I was at a loss for words. Kyo. Kyo was about to be destroyed... what happened after that? Was he okay? Panic flooded the room as I didn't even try to keep it in check.
I got up carefully and paused. The scent of this room stopped me. It was human, not even tainted human.
"Your awake."
I turned to the voice. "H-Hatori..."
"Are you alright? I'm lucky that Hunter didn't get you killed." His words hung there. He'd been to the battle field then.
"Where's Kyo?" I asked, surprised my voice was able to sound nonchalantly.
"Dead."
I fell to my knees. "What?" Numbness swept over me. Dead. Dead and gone forever. And then rage pushed it aside. "What did you do to him!" I screamed, my aura flooded the room and knocked things from their place. "You killed him didn't you? You killed him again!!"
"I did nothing to him." Hatori whispered, arms wrapping around me, pulling me to his broad chest. "The ekek claimed him as her own."
My tears fell onto his shoulder, staining his white shirt, my arms hanging limply. He began to kiss my tears away and finally made his way to my mouth. Our clothes made their way to the floor and his body pressed against me. But I couldn't feel it. I couldn't feel anything. My entire body was numb. My mind numb. I didn't want to be touched. But nothing mattered anymore.
Kyo was dead.
Finally. It took forever to figure out how I wanted this to go. I know that was a very unclimactic meeting with Akito... And fight scene left much to be desired. Thanks for those that voted on the poll, thank you for all the lovely comments, and thanks for reading my story! You guys are awesome! Leave me more comments?
