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Vermillion
Chapter 8
Into
The Abyss
By Kazuma20
Arc one: Soulless Knights
A Few Hours Ago . . .
Meldars had stabbed that told them who the others where his name was Kyoshiro. He and his group went on to kill the ninja's not loyal to Misanagi.
Kyoshiro was able to pull himself to his feet. He then made his way to the roof and headed for the ledge. He stopped and looked over.
Lentz came from behind him on the roof. He was holding his halberd. It had fresh blood on the blade and his cloths were stained with a little blood.
"So I see that you're still alive." commented Lentz.
Kyoshiro held his right arm with his left hand. He replied, "Yes, I'm not that easy to kill."
"Well you should have died!" screamed Lentz and thrust out his halberd at him.
Kyoshiro leaned back and the halberd passed him. He soon fell into darkness of the night in the cliff area.
Spencer came to Lentz and stopped as he sheathed his sword. He asked, "So did you get him?"
"No he jumped off the roof to his death." replied Lentz.
"Well come on, Lentz. The boss wants to see us." stated Spencer.
They walked from the ledge and off the roof and headed for the office of Miss Misanagi. When they arrived there, they were all waiting for Spencer and Lentz.
"Sirs, where are we heading next?" asked Spencer.
"We are heading down. Miss Misanagi will show us the path to the Divine Elixir." replied Meldars.
"That's good, sir." commented Schneider.
"Yes, it is now, shall we go?" asked Meldars.
"Let's go then." replied Misanagi.
She walked passed them and out the door. The other four fallowed her out the door.
Now
Meldars stood with the other four as they jumped down. Meldars started to walk, the other four were ahead of him.
The stone slab door opened up. Too each side of the wall. They stood there in front of the door.
"You of know use to us anymore." muttered Meldars.
He unsheathed his sword and slashed at Misanagi's before she could do anything and on the ground. She was bleeding out her back, and just laid out on the ground on her stomach.
"Sir, what did you do she was helping us!" screamed Spencer.
"She served her purpose, and we don't need her anymore." replied Meldars.
"But, sir."
"Quit Spencer!"
"Yes, sir."
Ranma and the others hit the hard stone ground. It was dark around the area. A strange odor was in the air that Ranma smelled. In the area.
"Guys whatever you do don't light a lighter or match." replied Ranma.
"Why?" asked Seishiro.
"Don't any of you smell that?" asked Ranma.
"Yeah, so what of it." replied Kakyo.
"It's natural gas!" screamed Yuto.
"Bingo," replied Ranma. "I also means we can't unsheathe our swords."
"Because metal scraping against metal creates friction." stated Seishiro.
"Correct. By the way does anyone have a flashlight on them?" asked Ranma.
"I do," replied Yuto and dug throw his bag and pulled one out and flipped it on. "And god said, Let there be light."
"Genesis." replied Ranma
"What?" asked Kakyo.
"What Yuto said comes from a western book called the Bible in Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 14." replied Ranma.
"How do you know that?" asked Kakyo.
"Because I traveled the world and seen my fair share of other cultures," replied Ranma. "We need to find a way out."
They started to knock on the walls. Each starting at a different side of the circular room.
Seishiro stopped when he tapped his hand and a hollow sound came out. He hit it again and it made the same sound.
"Guy's I think I found something." screamed Seishiro.
Seishiro hit it again so they could hear it. They heard the sound coming from the wall.
Ranma gestured to the others and replied, "Back away."
They back away from Ranma. He did something unexpected and punched the wall.
He punched it once and then again and again. The wall started to creaks around his punched, water started to creak on small shoots. As Ranma kept punching, more water shot into the area.
"I hope you hurry Ranma. I really don't want to drown here." replied Kakyo.
"I still have thing to do." replied Yuto.
"Yeah. I would like to go see Paris before I die." stated Seishiro.
"Paris?" asked the other two.
"Yeah, I hear it is beautiful there." replied Seishiro.
Ranma punched it one more time and it crumbled down and waters shot into the room a lot faster then before. He backed away.
Yuto grabbed Ranma by the neck and started to scream, "I know I was going to die soon! I never had a girlfriend! I never should have come!"
Ranma pushed Yuto's hand away. He replied, "Calm down. Please."
The room started to fill up fast soon the water reached up to their waist. And still kept on coming in.
"Okay now we can worry." replied Seishiro.
The hole started to crumble from the pressure of the water. It kept coming in and faster then before. Soon the water reached the top of the cavern. They had to hold their breath and started to swim to the hole. They squeezed out of the hole and got swept by the current.
The current pulled them throw the water. Yuto was the first to fall from the waterfall into a pond. Then Kakyo fell into the pond, fallowed by Seishiro, and Ranma.
Ranma's head was the first to come up. He started to cough and hacked a couple of times trying to catch his breath. He replied, "What a rush!"
Kakyo whipped his face of the water. He then took a deep breath of air.
Seishiro came up and slicked back his black hair. He just looks at the other, two. He was wondering what happened to Yuto.
Yuto was still under water. He was being stood on by the other three.
They started to exit the pond dripping wet. They finally stood on dry land again. The moon was full and in the air.
Yuto was still in the water and grumbled, "A little help here?"
Yuto finally got out of the water. He then found the other three sitting by a fire, trying to get their clothes and them dry.
"Yo where were you?" asked Seishiro.
"You three were standing on me." replied Yuto.
"Sorry for that." replied Kakyo.
Yuto sat down and let his cloths start to dry. The man know as Kyoshiro came out of the wooded area. It looks like he had lost a lot of blood. His face was pale in color.
"Are you from around here?" asked Ranma.
"Yes."
"Do you know of a way to get bac into the cave?" he the asked.
"Yes, there's a passage carved into the wall next to the pond."
"Thanks."
Kyoshiro just fell to his knees and then hit the ground. Ranma got up and ran to him and put his hand on the pulse. Kyoshiro died right on the spot.
"Dead." stated Ranma. "Let's go. We have to stop those four."
His cloths were semi-dry. They fallowed him and left their packs there. They stopped by the side of the pond they had exited only moments ago.
Ranma moved some of the brush and found a door. He turned to the others and smiled then replied, "Seems the man was right."
He entered with the flashlight in hand. The others fallowed him in. He started to run down the tunnel. The others had to run to keep up with him.
The reached the end of the tunnel and stopped above the room that they fell from. They saw a woman on the ground blood coming out of her back.
They jumped down on the ground, and walked to her. Seishiro was the one who kneeled down next to her, and he checked the wound on her back.
"It's nothing that bad, she'll still live. Maybe a scar at least." replied Seishiro.
"She's lucky she isn't dead." commented Yuto.
"Come on we need to stop them." stated Ranma.
He walked pass them and head for the opening in the wall. He walked through with Kakyo fallowing him.
Seishiro got up and started to fallow them with Yuto behind him.
Ranma walked through the entrance and entered another tunnel. That was all seven steps before he entered a cavern. He looked left and right and then saw a huge obelisk off to the side.
Kakyo stopped next to Ranma. Seishiro and Yuto stopped behind them, as they looked at the area too.
"Wow! Now this is gorgeous!" commented Kakyo.
"Yes, it is," stated Spencer. "Man can build the most beautiful things."
Spencer walked out from behind the obelisk with his sword in hand.
"And we can destroy each other in the most grotesque way. That is what some wars are a way for men to kill each other in the name of god. That was what the Crusades were." he continued.
"What do you mean?" asked Kakyo.
"Nothing, nothing." commented Spencer. "Which one of you will be my opponent?"
"I will be your opponent. So, go on you three let me take care of this guy. And Ranma it will show you that I'm loyal and earn your trust." replied Kakyo.
"Sure." stated Ranma then ran with the other two behind him.
Kakyo pulled out his sword from his jacket and put his hands on both ends of the sword. One was on the hilt and the other was on the end of the sheath and drew them both out.
The sheath fell to the ground at his feet. He held both kodachi's in each hand. Spencer held his sword in his right hand and was ready to attack.
They ran behind Ranma up some more stairs after they left Kakyo to deal with Spencer. They stopped after running half a mile and their sat Lentz and he stood straight up with his halberd in his hands.
"It seems you have separated each other to fight. I guess one of you'll is fighting Spencer. So which one of you will fight me?" he asked getting into a stance with his halberd.
"I will take you on." replied Yuto from the left of Ranma.
"You sure about this? Anyone of us can take him on?" asked Seishiro pointing to Ranma and himself.
"Let him do it. He must have something to prove. Am I right, Yuto?" asked Ranma.
"Yes, I want to get him back for the fight we had when Dr. Schwartz was stabbed." replied Yuto.
"Then do well. And don't let us down." stated Ranma.
With that said he took off up the stairs. He passed Lentz in the process going up.
"I hope you win the fight, Yuto." replied Seishiro before running after Ranma.
They watched him go. Then they turned to each other. Yuto dropped his cloth and pulled out the sword and sheath. He stuck the sheath into the belt of his hakama and unsheathed his sword. He then got into a stance that was most associated with kendo.
"Now it seems we are alone." stated Lentz.
"Well shall we begin, then?" asked Yuto.
Lentz's answer was a thrust of his halberd at Yuto who blocked the attack.
Yuto did realize something. It was that the only way to get close to him was and maybe draw him into close quarter's combat. And first he needs to get rid of that halberd he carried.
Ranma and Seishiro ran after they left Yuto to deal with Lentz. They stopped when they saw Schneider sitting on the stairs.
"So you finally came both of you. The other two will deal with your friends. I'll deal with one of you so choose." he replied.
Ranma and Seishiro talked it over with each other. Ranma asked, "You want this creep? Because I'll take Meldars myself, okay, Saito."
"Sure, I'll take this creep. I hope it's worth the fun, boss." replied Seishiro.
"Then do it man. I'll catch you later." stated Ranma.
He ran pass Schneider and up the stairs then out of view.
Schneider chuckled as Ranma passed him he turned to Seishiro and smiled at him. Before standing up.
"So, it seems you're my opponent in this fight." replied Schneider and with the draw of his sword from it's sheath on the left side.
Seishiro withdrew his katana with his left hand. He got into stance legs spread apart, and crouched down right foot in lead position, firmly on the ground. His left was in the back and standing on the balls of his feet.
His right arm was extended above the blade, and his left was bent with his hand holding the hilt. The blade was in a flat position.
Schneider thrust his sword at Seishiro's head.
Seishiro moved and pushed off the balls of his left feet and thrust his sword.
Schneider saw the thrust coming his way and brought his sword up to block.
To Be Continued . . . in Chapter 9: The Divine Elixir
Author's Note: Well it's another Chapter done. The battle has just begun. I hope you like how it started. Read and Review. This is just to add more information and asked my readers to vote to see what the next Arc. I have four written down; the names anyway.
B: Kyoto Revenge Arc
C: Demon Children Arc
D: Anarchy Arc
E: The Emperor Arc
Tell me which ons should I use next just email me with your answer at my email address. Kazuma20 signing out.
