Holy Shamoly. I haven't updated in forever. So. I let you all on a cliffhanger. Boo me. Anyway... Apollo has a sure defeat. But sadly there will probably be a sequel because this will end on a sad note. This is the last chapter becuase I owe it to you guys, because I am a pathetic slacker. There are spoilers on Akito so if you have not read the fourteenth book, I am dearly sorry, but it is necessary.
Kiari: Are you going to kill someone?
Maybe.
Serafine: I don't want to die so young!
Whatever.
Chapter 10 (There may be an update after this. Wink wink.)
"Yes, I'm here my daughters." he smiled wickedly.
Kiari, Maron and Ren surrounded Tohru, taking defensive action, and blocked her from Apollo's view. Samanthastood next to the frantic brunette to calm her. Emilie held her hatchet in a offensive stance , Constanza and Grace at her sides. Serafnie stood in the front, glaring at the fallen god with her hazel eyes.
"My, my. Why are you acting so defensive already?" Apollo grinned with crooked teeth. "I'm not going to bite." he chuckled and Serafine clenched her fists, straining the soft metal of her lyre. Apollo's eye's flickered to the Sohmas. "Are these the people whom you betrayed secrecy with?" he asked the girls, never removing his gaze.
"You must be Apollo. I'm Shigure Sohma, a novelist, and I must say that yo-" the writer was interupted in his brave act by Apollo's fist thrusted into his jaw. The black haired man flew back and landed hard on the floor, instantly rubbing his sore jaw.
"I must say girls, you chose quite a pathetic bunch to tell your secret to." Apollo rubbed his knuckles, his expression becoming cocky.
"Why you!" Kyo sharged the god with a fist raised, attempting to incapcitate him. Apollo grinned quickly at the girls before grabbing the boys wrist and forearm, flinging the boy over his head, onto a table covered in fragile china, and down to the floor with said broken glass embedded in his back. Tohru reacted involuntarily by crying out to him.
"Oh, does this bother you?" Apollo, the sadist he was, kept ahold of Kyo's arm and stepped over to boy, placing a foot under his shoulder blade and pulling the limb at a sharp angle, popping the bone back and forth. Kyo wriggled and screamed.
"Apollo stop that!" Serafine yelled at him. Apollo glared at her and flickered his gaze to Kiari at Tohru's side. The girl's eyes went wide as she fell to the floor, her hand to her chest, her mouth letting small whimpers excape.
"Do you realize what position you girls are in? The worker ants. And I'm the one who comands you. Do you see what I can do without touching you? he laughed menacefully and dropped Kyo's arm. "You dies, I live on. I can do this forever. I've got oodles of time." He stepped up in front of Serafine. "You know, tragedy dies first. When she's gone, the other sisters know what real pain is. she acts as a sponge for bad things. She takes everything in. Pain, misery, tragedy in itself." Kiari cried out in pain as more pain was inflicted on her. Tohru was kneeling beside her to help, eventhough it was useless.
"You will stop this know, Apollo." a more chime-like voice filled the room. A faint glow filled the small chamber and out stepped a woman with strikingly similar features to Apollo.
"Well well. Artemis. Fancy seeing you here. I thought I warned you to stay out of this. They're mine now." he stepped up to the women. Tohru looked up hopefully at her. He face was covered in bruises, no doubt from Apollo.
"You cannot order me brother, for the rest of the gods agree, you will stop this now, our I will." she glared at him.
"Oh ho ho. So Zeus and the snotty rotty group decided to take over. After all these years of me just killing these useless bitches off?" he motioned to the girls who grited their teeth.
"They - we all- were unaware of this. You have been comanded to stop this at once. Or else."
"Well. Never thought my own sister would take it in her own hands to take me out of power." he growled. Looking over at the girls and huffed. "Fine. Take em. They aren't that great anyway." he disappeared in a red haze. Kiari sighed relief as the pain was released from her chest.
"I am so sorry, I never would have let him get this far." Artemis walked over to the girl. "Are you okay my dear?" she asked the muse of tragedy.
"Broken, shattered, and blackened. What else is there to know?" she moaned and a whimper escaped her lips again as Artemis pressed a hand on her shoulder.
"It'll all be over soon." she assured her.
This is where I shall introduce month jumps. Since the end would have been months from this, I've decided to make this as simple as can be. there are some funny moments here. And to assure you. It'll say 'Month Jump' when there is one. Thank you.
A month later...
"I can't believe you did that!" Kiari screamed, her lungs doing much better. She was held back by Kakeru who just had happened to show up at the right time.
"Bitch. I did it because you always commented on my role." Yuki was held back by Tohru who was having quite a hay day doing so. Yuki had volunteered Kiari to be Vice president in Student council, even though the redhead never even liked the organization anyway. When the aforementioned person heard, she screamed, threw something sharp, and proceeded to hunt down the student council president: Yun-Yun. The two were almost onto the stage were they stopped yelling and went to each other's throats, but Kyo walked into the room, the bulky cast on his arm clearly irritating him. He grabbed Kiari by the collar when she darted past him and stopped her from ripping out Yuki;s throat.
"Now don't you dare defeat the rat when it's MY goal." he told her. She grunted and glared. "You need to meet someone." he dragged her. Kakeru followed to see where this oranged haired boy was taking his girlfriend. Tohru followed cause it was Kyo (1) and Yuki followed because of curiousity.
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"Well look who it is. Anger management and flamehead." Hiro commmented and Kakeru quickly stopped Kiari from ripping the kid apart. Kisa hid behind him, took another peek out and ran to Tohru. Kyo had dragged the group to the dojo belonging to Kazuma Sohma, and the owner happened to walk in the room at the time they arrived.
"My, who's this?" he notioned to Kiari who blew a puff of air that dislodged her bangs.
"Kiari Phantom." Kyo introduced her for the readhead and patted her head. She glared at him.
"Well. Kiari. Why are you here?" he asked her.
"Asked the baka neko." she said defiantly. Kyo glared and Kazuma sighed.
"Anger management issues?" he asked. Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, and Kakeru nodded. "Well than. I think we'll start on basics." he pulled Kiari away from Hiro and the chance that she'd kill him. He gave her instructions to be at the dojo everytime Kyo came so that they could work her anger issues out. She agreed on the terms that she didn't have to wear a pathetic uniform.
Spring festival
"No, that goes over there." Kimi pointed and Serafine reluctantly moved over to pin a banner up. "No over the other way." Serafine gritted her teeth and did so. "Nah, move it back." Serafine bit her tongue. "No wait, move it to the left." Serafine glared dropped the fabric and left her to hang it herself. "No wait. Kimi needs your help!"
the day of the festival.
"Get away from us!" Kiari and Maron blinked as the triplets Costaza, Grace and Samatha ran by, a group of people woth cameras trying to get a picture of the amazing trio.
"Poor, poor girls." Kiari muttered.
When meeting Akito(female)...
Akito almost growled when meeting the girls that would be there when Apollo attacked.
"These are the girls? They looked pathetic." she shook her head. " I mean the dumb women is one of them." Grace took a scroll and hit ehr.
"That's impolite. Be nice." she told the women. Akito growled and took her defense reluctantly.
Some time after, but before...
Kiari was walking down the hallway when she heard Kakeru call out to her.
"Kiari!" he caught her by the arm. "What do you mean by this note?" he held the piece of paper with disgust.
"I'm sorry, it would be better if weren't involved with me. " she blinked slowly and turned away to walk away from the shocked boy. Kiari didn't look back. She was cutting the ties. Tears were running down her pale cheeks.
Ren sat crossed legged on her makeshift bed. Kiari walked into her room.
"Hey Ren, can you help me?" she sat on the floor next to the cot.
"Yeah sure." she said almost instantly.
"I'm trying to get Yuki and this girl Machi together, but they're too stuborn, can you help? she asked quickly.
"Wait wait. I thought you loathed Yuki. Why are you trying to get him on a date?" she asked confused.
"Cause as much as I hate him, I can see Machi likes him." Kiari explained.
"Go talk to Grace. She is the love poetry muse." she told her.
"Okay, that sounds more logical." Ren watched as her sister dashed from the room and sighed. Her sister was unpredictable.
It was the the one day of the week that Kiari had to come to the dojo, and unlucky her, Yuki decided to come along to bug her. She growled everytime the teacher wasn't looking at her. As soon as Kazuma had left the yelling began. It led from comparison of their patheticness, then their curse; luckily Kakeru had stopped coming to the dojo a long time ago; and then it got Yo Momma jokes. Then came threats.
"I swear to Zeus, the next time I get a chance I'm ripping out your bloody throat!" Kiari screamed. Yuki was prepared.
"I swear that I'll cut off every one of your fingers and toes!" he yelled back.(2)
"What is going on here?" Kazuma came back into the room and blinked rapidly with an open jaw. Kiari and Yuki looked away in shame. "I really don't want to know." he shook his head and left again. Yuki and Kiari refrained from speaking.
On an unfortunate little visit that everyone on the property of Shigure Sohma had to endure: Ayami Sohma was coming to the house.
Yuki's response: "I just remembered that I had something to do today." rushing quickly out of the home before Shigure could catch him.
Kyo's response: "Wait, I'm not staying here!" he tried to make a speedy get away but was caught by Kiari who had been forced to stay.
Phantom sister response: "Who the heck are we talking about?"
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"Ah girls! Pretty, beautiful girls!" the white haired Sohma dropped to his knees.
"Yes, they are girls." Kyo mumbled.
"They are beautiful rose buds. Just buds. They will be splendifully beautiful after they blossom!" he was almost in tears. And tatters. Kiari was on the verge of tearing him apart and no one was stopping her. That's when Yuki entered the room.
"You!" she yelled. She stomped over to him. "You leave us here with that?! And how in the world are you brothers?" she screamed, pointing viciously at Aya.
"Dang. It's still here." he growled and was showered with Ayami's brother speech and everyone else left.
"But Yuki, my brother, all these girls are so beautiful. How can you not be charmed?"
"Trust me, I can." he sighed and tried to shove his brother out the door.
"Bring at least one of them to my shop!" he pleaded and the door was slammed shut and locked. Yuki sighed and left the front of the house. Kiari attacked him around the next corner.
"How could you! That man is god awful." She kicked him in the shin hard. then she rammed a fist into his stomach. "I swear to Zeus, you leave me in a room with that idiot ever again and I'm going to make sure you don't have children." she threatened. "Oh, and you have to go to this fancy resturant tonight, there'll be someone waiting for you there." she threw a card at him and left. Yuki just glared and mumbled under his breath.
"FinallyThat's over." Ren 'hmphed' in agreement and folded her arms. Maron was sitting laid back in her class chair, fininshing the final tests before break. "What do you think we should do tonight?" Maron asked her. Ren shrugged. "C'mon, there has to be something you want to do." Ren just shrugged. "You know what's tomorrow, right?" Ren nodded. "Okay, just making sure."
Kiari paced impatiently in the classroom. Machi came in for the student council meeting. Kiari pounced.
"How did it go? Was he nice. He never is nice to me, so I don't what that's like. Did you enjoy your meal?" Machi kept just nodding to every one of Kiari's question's. She grinned. "Well good. That bozo is never polite when I'm around, but he seems to like you." on this note Kiari left and yuki entered the room to find a blushing Machi.
"Oh, dear." Shigure found all of the girls about to leave, all in their muse oufits. Tohru was sleepily beside them. "Where do you think you're going?" they grimaced and made a run for it. They ran down streets until they reached their destination. The Sohma estate.
"Well, that was fun." Kiari was panting right beside her sisters who all broke into laughter. They heard footsteps around a corner, and there stood Yuki and Kyo, both of them unhappy that they had to come there together.
"Well, look who it is." Serafine grinned.
"Where do you think you're going?" Kyo growled.
"Artemis called us. Apollo is attacking tonight." Emilie explained.
"So this is it?" Yuki asked them. Kiari grinned.
"Yeah, but just because this is the end, don't ever give up!" she smiled and ran into the estate to the yard outside Akito's room. The girls stopped. The door was open and Apollo had his hand on the hilt of a long sword, taking steps towards an unconcious Akito. Kiari growled and ran in front of him.
"Well, well. You did come." he smiled, dropping his hand from the hilt.
"Apollo. Stop this." Maron told the god, who sneered. '
"You don't have the right to stop me." he told her, and let his guard down. Kiari took the chance and drew her small sword and jumped. He didn't see her soming so he felt on the impact on his ribs when a hundred pound girl hit with a sword at a threatening angle pointed towards where his heart should have been. He grabbed her wrists and flipped her. She dropped her sword. She landed on both feet, but Apollo had regained stance and had drawn his sword pointing it at her. She stared him down, and he moved to cut her down. Emilie's hatchet came out and parried his blow and the rest of the muses stepped into the fight, Tohru healing Kiari. Serafine glided around Apollo's attacks and Grace was reading a spell. emilie was parrying all of his attacks with Constanza tring to make distraction. Ren blew notes on her flute to lure his attention. They were all failing. Maron joined Grace to help her read the spell, but all of them were almost helpless against the god. smantha joined the spell, and then the others did. Emilie stillb locked his sword.
"Dumb muses, you won't beat me that way." he grinned and laughed heartlessly. Kiari blinked and realized what she had to do. She stood, using the mask of tragedy to blend with the shadows and reappeared behind Apollo. He sensed her and turned quickly, runnning his sword through her. He was carelss not to realize the spell she was casting. She opened her eyes, revealing a purple of a black shade. Apollo gasped as her body radiated a painful aura. Serafine looked upto see what she was doing.
"Kiari! No!" The muses, all but Tohru, ran to their sister and the god, only to be engulfed in a flash of light that followed the words "No more tragedy."
Tohru walked around the estate for the thousandth time that day. She was almost in tears by the time that Kyo and Yuki caught her.
"What's going on?" they asked her impatiently.
"They're gone. They didn't make it." she cried and leaned into Kyo's shoulder.
"What?" Yuki gasped.
"They died." she told him.
"No, they went somewhere better." The godess Artemis stood at the street, her radiance still overflowing.
"What? Where are they, bitch?" Kyo demanded.
"In Olympia, for the trial of Apollo. They will stay to assis the gods. I assure they will be well off there. Just like how you will be here, my dear." she said looking at Tohru. "Take care of our daughter." she told the boys, and she was gone, there was no trace of the gods or the muses. They had disappeared.
Okay, that's the end. I'll put a epilogue or something to tell you what's coming up. Sorry that it took so long and that it ended on such a sad note. But I'll be back. You'll see. Please review for imput and message me if you have ideas for a sequel. I will consider all options. Thank you.
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