Don't you think that Len and his group had forgotten something?


Kaito's p.o.v

The forest is not high on my list of where I would want to go and walk, especially when you have a wounded kid, a cursing woman, a very heavy bag on you and a tired purple haired guy who is about to drop dead. Man, he's weak.

All the time, Len look worried, sometimes he didn't even notice about the fact he's wounded. I know he's worried about his sister, but isn't he overreacting?

"Hey, Len," I called out. He looked up at me. "We're going to save your sister, don't worry, okay?" I asked.

He smiled and nodded. And then suddenly he turned very serious.

"Erm…Len?" Gakupo asked, "why with the…"

"Shh" Len called out. He looked around, "something's here."

"So? What is it?" I asked.

And then I heard something moving behind me.

"Stay together, I think we're surrounded," Meiko said.

"Surrounded?" Gakupo asked.

Len nodded. And then a mob of soldiers appeared out at once, getting near to us on each second, they were wearing armor I've seen before; these are going to be hard to break. And the swords, they deflected the sunlight and they looked pretty sharp. These were the best soldiers of the castle, and mostly they come out for one reason.

To kill or destroy.


Len's p.o.v

They really need to go on a vacation.

I don't have time for this; I need to get to my sister as fast as I could. I've swear to myself if I fail, I'll attack the castle and burn it down and kill Luka, although Kaito said that I have an evil mind for a boy since I've already listed the ways to kill her.

Anyway, these soldiers looked stronger, not the kind of weak ones we've fought before. I looked around; there were more than thirty, less than fifty. But still, I felt that something's missing here.

One of the soldiers, the only one who was using a spear, probably the leader shouted, "Attack!" then he charged at Kaito. But Kaito quickly step back just in time to dodge the weapon.

Kaito chanted something and immediately something like fireballs appeared on his hands and flew towards the leader. The impact had made him stumbled back and fall down, but after a few seconds, he stood up again.

"What? That was enough to kill an elephant!" Kaito shouted.

From somewhere, blood flew out and turned my clothes into the color of red. I looked at Gakupo who was attacking a soldier, his katana in the soldier's throat, so much blood it was disgusting to see. Then Gakupo shouted, "aim for their throat!"

I sighed, and just two seconds ago, I was talking about how disgusting it looked.

Kaito chanted the same spell again and aimed the fireballs at the leader's throat. In five seconds, the leader was on the ground.

Meiko heard what Gakupo said and higher her sword, she slashed everywhere and blood spilled out from every direction. The ground around her turned red.

Even though I don't want to, I started aiming for their throat. Blood covered my face and slowly even my hair was the color of red. I stared at the soldiers who died because of my attacks, what was I doing? I came here to save my sister, not to kill, I don't want to hurt anymore people, people were dying and most importantly, Luka had sent them here to kill us. She sent them to their deaths. Why did Luka have to do this? All we want to do is to stop the dragon divas from dying, yet she sent so many people to death just to stop us. What was she doing? What were we doing?

I closed my eyes, still slashing at the soldiers.

How many time had passed, I don't know, but I could feel my face getting wet, I didn't knew if it was blood or tears, it doesn't matter, all I know is that I want to save my sister and get out of here, no more killing, no more blood.

"LEN!"

I opened my eyes to see Ruko in front of me.

"Well, well," she said, smirking, "you're the one Luka would love to kill, right? Well, I wonder what will happen if I kill you."

She strikes her scythe but I deflected it with my sword.

"Go back home, this isn't a place for kids." She said.

I attacked her, only to make a little scar on her face. Then she said, "Look behind you, how many people have you killed?"

I did as what she said, and when I did, I stared at the bodies.

About two dozen of bodies.

What have I done?

"You see, Len? Go back home and you don't have to see this kind of tragedy anymore, or maybe if you die, you might see your sister in heaven a few days later." Ruko said.

Yeah, maybe I could see my sister after I…

"Len!" Meiko shouted, "Don't listen to her; she's just toying with you!"

I looked back just in time to deflect Ruko's attack.

Then Meiko jumped in and helped me. I looked at her direction and found a lot of dead soldiers behind her. Meiko charged at her again and again, but Ruko managed to dodge every of her attacks.

"You know?" Ruko asked, "Maybe if you aren't so weak back then, or maybe if you agree to become the dragon diva, Teto wouldn't have died."

That stopped Meiko from attacking.

"Meiko!" Gakupo shouted. "Snap out of it!" He had finished off the soldiers, and so did Kaito.

"Oh, shut up, Gakupo," Ruko smiled, "You couldn't even stop your mom from suicide!"

Gakupo stared at her.

But Ruko didn't know what to tell Kaito, she didn't know him. Kaito chanted a spell and immediately shards of ice shot out and hit Ruko everywhere. Blood came out of Ruko's mouth and she just stared angrily at the mage. "Is no use, I won't die like this, I'll never die…"

And then Meiko slashed her sword.

I closed my eyes and the last thing I saw was a sphere rolling down from where Ruko's head should be. When I opened my eyes again, the only thing I saw was ashes of Ruko.


Meiko's p.o.v

Teto….

I'm sorry, Teto, why haven't I save you earlier? I was scared back then, I didn't like dragons, and the idea of singing for a dragon was too horrible. But you weren't scared, you helped me and comfort me, in the end, you were the dragon diva instead of me, you pleaded Luka to exchange places with me.

And what have I done back then?

Kaito landed his hand on my shoulder, "It's not your fault. Think, if you were the dragon diva, how is Len going to save his sister? You're the best sword user, you've helped a lot, I'm sure Teto would be glad about what you did."

I smiled and nodded.

He walked towards Len and said, "We're going to save your sister wherever that like it or not, okay?"

Len nodded and smiled.

Then Kaito walked to Gakupo who is still stunned by what Ruko said. "Hey, you were a kid, what did Ruko expect you to do? You're the cleverest guy in history, you're helping the dragon diva, you're a big help. If you didn't help us, I think the next dragon diva would probably go for suicide too."

That made Gakupo smiled.

"Although I still want to kill you." Kaito giggled.

"Oh, shut up," Gakupo said playfully.

"Kaito's very good at making people around him better, eh?" Len asked me.

"Yeah, he is." I answered.

While Kaito was sharing his jokes and talking to us, we continued our journey.


At the castle…

"That useless Ruko!" Luka cursed.

She had just got the news about Ruko's death, her head was cut off, and that means there was no way to revive her again. Luka cursed under her breath again. That damn Len, he is going to pay.

Well, Luka thought, you can't send amateurs to do a head priest's job, can you?

She packed a few things before going out of the castle doors.


Gakupo's p.o.v

It took us two hours to get to the next village, but it only took us two minutes to run away from there.

The problem is, when we got there, every villagers were holding weapons and looking at us with very scary and angry eyes.

"What is with these people?" Kaito asked, "And I thought I have anger issues."

"They probably believed in what Luka said about us trying to save the dragon diva and ruining the world. I can't believe they're stupid enough to believe this." I explained.

I looked at a kid holding his little sister in his hand, he shouted, "Get away from her!"

Do we really look like bad guys? I mean, a kid who is covered in blood and had killed a lot of people, so I admit Len looked pretty suspicious, a woman who also looked pretty suspicious, a happy looking blue haired man but his scarf was cover in blood and his hands too and a purple haired man who looked the most suspicious since he haven't keep his sword away and the sword was covered in blood, wait, isn't that me?

Okay, so we do look suspicious, but, hey, we were attacked! What did they expect us to do? Wait there and say "come and kill me!" and let them stab us? No way.

And then someone shouted, "Kill them!"

I really wanted to rest. And Len had insisted that we do not hurt them, so we ran away from the village. But when I looked again, Meiko's missing.

"Meiko!" Kaito shouted.

Then a few seconds later, we saw Meiko running towards us, "sorry, just trying to get some information, I was asking a storekeeper something."

We looked at her suspiciously.

"Okay, so I threaten him with my sword and told him that if he doesn't tell me where the dragon cave is I would kill him and I also took some supplies from his store."

We sighed at her while she laughed ridiculously. Then she said, "It's a two hour walk from her, you ready?"

"No." I said.

"Yes," Kaito and Len said in unison.

"Then let's go." Meiko shouted.


The next chapter is going to be the last chapter, and probably going to be the longest one too. *sigh* Please review! And if you want to, try and guess what Len and the others had forgotten about. And there's a poll in my profile, I want to start the next fanfic about Vocaloid, I hope all of you could go there and see which story you prefer.