Sakuya
Sakuya's Room
Thursday
Killed two fairies today. Less than usual but its still taking the life of someone. These fairies were happy individuals who weren't hurting anybody but because my mistress was hungry, I had to kill them. 'They were worth more dead than alive,' Lady Remilia would tell me. I'm not used to killing people for another person's gain. It makes me feel like an assassin, and I don't like that feeling. These fairies deserved to live the rest of their short lives in happiness with their other fairy friends. That's wh-
BAM!
Sakuya heard a loud banging on the foyer door and got up from her desk.
BAM! BAM!
She ran out of her room and heard that the banging was getting faster. She ran back into her room and placed numerous knives side by side in the belt on her leg. Running down the stairs, she saw wood chunks flying from the door. Whoever was banging on the door was trying to break in.
"HEAVE!" BAM! "HO! HEAVE!" BAM!
"Oh no." Sakuya whispered to herself. "They're after Remi..."
"What's that noise?" Patchouli came up from the stairs. "Are they trying to break in?"
"It seems that way. Patchouli go and get Remilia and keep her safe."
"Are we being attacked?" Patchouli asked.
"I don't know! Just go!" Sakuya snapped. Patchouli sighed and walked up the stairs as if there was nothing to rush her.
CRASH!
The door gave way to a makeshift battering ram comprised of a large piece of a tree tied to wheels. Whoever was at the head of this was rather ingenuitive. Sakuya saw a horde of fairies and humans run into the mansion from behind the battering ram. There was too much for one person to handle.
One person...
Meiling.
A female fairy walked in front of the battering ram and clapped her hands twice. Two muscular humans brought Meiling forward from the back of the battering ram with a potato sack over her head. Her hands were tied behind her back. She was thrown onto the floor, air escaping her lungs as she hit the cold marble floor hard.
"Before you get excited and start throwing knives, I just want you to know that this place is surrounded." The female fairy spoke loud, the acoustics in the foyer made her sound louder. "My name is Mayu. Nice to meet you."
'Nice to meet you. How dare she?' Sakuya thought.
"We're not here to hurt anyone." The fairy paused. "Actually, I'm wrong. We're here to hurt only one person: the vampire that is said to live here. Just hand her over to us and we'll leave the rest of you including Red over here."
Sakuya looked at the massive crowd of humans and fairies and deduced that she didn't have enough knives to kill even a fraction of them. She couldn't do anything.
"Well? What's it gonna be?" Mayu asked.
"No! Don't do it, Sakuya!" Meiling shouted from behind the sack covering her face.
Mayu kicked Meiling's head with such force that Sakuya swore she heard a crack. Meiling started to cry. "Please... What did we do?"
"Ah, thanks for the reminder, Red. I forgot to tell you why, exactly, we want her. We have reason to believe that the vampire of this house is the cause of death of our fairy friends as well as the disaster that hit Gensokyo recently."
What?
"I mean, the last time people went crazy and started killing each other was when that vampire caused Red Moon Incident. We're just putting two and two together, you know? Now that we've explained, hand her over."
"Sakuya, don't you do it!" Meiling yelled again.
"Hey, get me a knife if we've got one." Sakuya could barely hear Mayu say to a human. "You really don't understand the seriousness of whats going on. You're harboring a criminal to mankind. She could be the end to Gensokyo as we know it."
The human came back with a large carving knife and handed it to Mayu.
"No..." Sakuya saw Mayu press the blade against Meiling's throat.
"How about if I say 'please'? Would you please hand her over?" Mayu pressed the blade harder against Meiling.
"W-why? What proof do you have that the vampire is the cause of all this. You said you have reason to believe. What's the reason?" Sakuya tried to stall. Maybe Remilia would come down and lay waste to these... people.
"Why? We just told you why. The last time people went crazy was when she was at the center of it." Mayu took the knife away from Meiling's throat.
"Please. I can assure you that my mistress is not at the center of it. Just please let her go."
"You can assure us?" Mayu started to giggle. "You hear that guys? She can assure us."
"Please just go away." Sakuya's voice started to crack. For the first time in a long time, she was scared. Terrified was a better word for what she was feeling right now.
"What, we're just supposed to take your word for it? After we just came all this way to find her? Fat chance!" Mayu started laughing hysterically.
Sakuya looked at the humans and fairies. "Please, you know this isn't right. Don't do this. Don't kill someone based on an assumption. Please."
"Don't look to them for pity, big boobs! I'm the one talking to you!" Mayu started to scream at her.
'She's crazy... She's absolutely crazy...' Sakuya thought.
"So, is that a no? Is that what it is?" Mayu gripped the knife tighter. "IS THAT IT?!"
"N-No! I-" There was no chance of Remilia or Patchouli or anyone come to her rescue.
"Yeah! I'll take that as a no! It's okay, you only just condemned someone to death!" Mayu grinned a sickening grin.
"No!" For once, without Sakuya's intervention, time stopped. The knife snapped slowly toward Meiling's throat, until a noise rang out. She couldn't describe the exact sound of it, but it resembled that of a sigh. Each splat lasted for what felt like hours. A sickening hiss came from Meiling's throat and blood gushed from the small gash that the knife made. Mayu stopped stabbing her throat and let Meiling crash to the floor. She twitched and wiggled on the floor, arms going crazy trying to hold her throat... but she couldn't.
"No..."
Meiling made a noise. She inched her way toward the sound of Sakuya's voice
"Sssss... kuya..."
Time resumed and Sakuya ran toward Meiling's dying body. She removed the sack from her head and saw that the skin on her face was turning pale from the lack of blood. She also noticed that Meiling's eyes were turning blood red. Sakuya hugged her tight.
"No. Don't die. I stab you all the time, you can't die from this. You're the fighting dragon. Dragons don't die." Sakuya threw reassuring sentences out at Meiling, but she knew nothing could save her now. Meiling reached up and grabbed her collar.
"Safe... Keep... Remi safe..." Meiling let go of her collar and her body eased from tensing.
It was only now that Sakuya could hear Mayu's frantic laughing. Sakuya had been holding her breath, and gritting her teeth. She was holding in a scream that was coming from deep within.
"Oh, what a shame. Maybe we'll come back later and see if you're ready to give her up then. Sound good?" Mayu twirled the knife in her hand.
"I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you." Sakuya repeated to her over and over.
"Nah, you won't kill me." Mayu chuckled. "Take her. I think we can use her."
The two muscular humans came to her and took her by the arms. They kicked the back of her knees and she fell down. They tied her hands down with rope and hoisted her back up. One slapped her in the back of the head. "Walk."
"This side," Mayu pointed to her left side. "Split up and check upstairs. This side, check this floor."
The last thing Sakuya heard before being escorted from her home was the maniacal laughter of Mayu.
She wondered why she didn't fight back. If they were going to force their way in and take Remilia by force, she may as well have taken a few of them before they overpowered her. This Mayu girl...
This Mayu girl...
Sakuya said she hated feeling like an assassin, but she felt she had a new person on her hit list.
And she would make it her life's goal to carry out that hit.
Teatime and wait...
