Chapter 11

Kill The Loyalty!

He lunged straight for its chest and thrust Futherlor into the dragon. It turned into three blades and made sure the pain was unbearable. The dragon swung its head in uncontrollable agony. It finally gave in and lowered its head to Tatsumi. That is how you tame a danger beast. Rub its snout to make it official. Tatsumi rubbed the dragon's snout and released Futherlor from the dragon's chest, making the dragon sigh with relief before offering Tatsumi a ride. "You are one peculiar thing you are. I think you will be named Night." Tatsumi said, climbing on. Night took off and began flying. Lean to the side to direct it and lower your body to make Night take a descent. To land, just point at the ground. Thanks Deterno. He leaned toward the empire capital. Here I come Sayo. Then I am going to bring this corrupted empire to the ground. I won't betray my promise to Sayo however, even if it means I should end up dead. A new day has dawned.

Tatsumi felt as he did when he was within the village he called home, happy and courageous. That feeling had left him for the long period of time that he had been gone and only now felt it again. "I'm coming Sayo!" Tatsumi said. People looked up in both fear and awe, seeing the dragon fly over the city. Tatsumi had finally reached the city again and pointed down to make it land next to where Seryu's house was sitting. Night obeyed, landing in the clearing that was next to the house. Tatsumi got off of Night and was preparing to look for Sayo. Luck was with him as Sayo and Seryu came running. Sayo saw Tatsumi. "Sayo, I need to speak with you about what I did yesterday." Tatsumi said, knowing that he would end up crying again soon. "What is there to talk about? You made yourself quite clear yesterday!" Sayo yelled. "That's just it, I couldn't control myself… I had lost my patience and trust with everything and ended up creating a split personality. The one you saw yesterday was the result of that, the one I won't ever bring back again." Tatsumi said, looking down. He couldn't bear it any longer and began crying. "I didn't mean to hurt you!" Tatsumi said ever so softly. Sayo knew that he wasn't lying, nor was he in control of himself anymore. "I know you didn't, that's why I'm saying that it's ok. I could tell you weren't yourself after we heard you yell and then saw you run out of the city." Sayo said, sitting next to Tatsumi who had sat down and buried his head in his hands. "Sayo, if I ever do something like that, you can end our relationship and I won't get hurt. It was something that I let slip." Tatsumi said, unable to bring himself to look up. "I'll keep that in mind Tatsumi, for now, I'd rather be getting you in a better mood." Sayo said, giving him a hug. "I'm sorry Tatsumi… I called you a monster without thinking it through." Seryu said. "No, thank you. That's what snapped me out of my split personality." Tatsumi said, able to look up. "Gee, I can't see it like that… Before I begin to become overly emotional, I'm going to leave." Seryu said, running back to the city with Koro. "Sayo, I have one more thing to tell you." Tatsumi said. "Go on, I'm listening." Sayo said. "Yesterday, after I was snapped out of my split personality, I saw some things and felt something that was wrong. I saw the guards below our rank mugging people, raping them, and even killing them for no reason. The I felt as if what I had done was caused because of something that I ended up realizing was corrupt. The empire itself is corrupt, I've noticed that even the higher ranks do things against the law and get away with it." Tatsumi explained. "I couldn't agree more Tatsumi, the empire has a twisted feeling to it and I despise it. I'd rather try to redo the capital than to enact its laws." Sayo said, lifting her head. "I can arrange that Sayo. Have you heard of Night Raid?" Tatsumi asked. "I have, what about them?" Sayo asked. "Well, while I was taking time away from the city, two of them visited me and offered me a position with them. They are trying to do the same thing we both want to do. They also would offer you a position. I found out they've been watching us since we go here." Tatsumi said. Sayo looked at him with determination. "Let's go meet them." Sayo said. "Alright, I hope you won't mind taking Night to the location we are meeting at." Tatsumi said, lowering Night's head. "I won't mind as long as you know what you are doing." Sayo said, climbing onto Night's back and holding onto Tatsumi. "Night, let's go!" Tatsumi said, making Night take off. They headed back to where Tatsumi had spent the night. When they landed, things seemed more eerie. Something had changed. There was a sense of danger filling the air. It was midday and they would be waiting for a while before Najenda and Akame returned. Until then, they had to deal with something that Tatsumi had though he killed, the Lurker. "Tatsumi, is that the Lurker?" Sayo asked with fear. Tatsumi turned to see the Lurker. "It is… It was dead!" Tatsumi said. The Lurker was brought back from the dead and it looked gruesome with the flesh that hanged off of the body and the broken bones that lined its body. It still is dead! Someone raised it back from the dead though, but how?! That's a good question that I will get to the bottom of later, for now I think defending Sayo is in order! "Futherlor!" Tatsumi yelled, summoning a spear of darkness. His armor came to life as well. It did something different however, creating three copies of itself and surrounding Sayo. The armor will protect Sayo, now kill it! Tatsumi kept his eyes on the Lurker, knowing it's speed and combat maneuvers. He lunged at it, thrusting his spear forward and into the Lurker's right knee. It was unphased and now swept at Tatsumi, scratching him multiple times and drawing blood from his face. It had scratched one of Tatsumi's eyes and that made him infuriated. "YOU FUCKING UNDEAD BEAST! DIE AND NEVER COME BACK FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL!" Tatsumi roared thrusting his left hand out, unleashing the spikes that turned what was the legendary Lurker into mince meat. Tatsumi was angered beyond belief as his eye was scratched, making him blind in that eye. "Fucking Lurker! Soon I'm going to find out who raised that stupid thing from the dead and have him join the pile of flesh behind me!" Tatsumi said, angered. The armor stood forth and ran behind Tatsumi. It hadn't died yet and reformed itself. Sayo got her bow out and prepared to shoot the undead lurker what had fully reformed. She shot it three times, causing each place that she hit to burst into flame. "Turn around Tatsumi!" Sayo yelled, preparing another arrow. The flames of Sayo's arrows had an effect on the Lurker as with each part that had caught fire turned to ash and blew away, no longer able to reform again. Tatsumi turned around. "Oh Fucking brilliant! You want to keep going! I see that you want a more gruesome death then. So be it!" Tatsumi said, running back over and making sure to make the Lurker turn back into mince meat. "Night! Make this pile of flesh ash." Tatsumi said, causing Night to incinerate the Lurker's remains. "Come back from that you bastard Lurker!" Tatsumi said, retreating to Sayo's side. The Lurker couldn't come back as the ash was blown away and spread to unknown places. "Sayo, I'm sorry about that. I had killed that fucking Lurker and then it came back. It managed to make me blind in one eye when it scratched it!" Tatsumi said, his hand leaving the eye that had been scratched. "Not to alarm you Tatsumi, but your eye looks silver…" Sayo said, noticing that the scratch mark was gone and in it's place there was a silver looking corona. "My eye is silver?!" Tatsumi asked, noticing he could see out of it again. Again, you can change it's appearance! Oh yeah right… Tatsumi thought of an eye with the same color pupil as his own, forcing the silver to turn back into the color emerald green. "Does that look better Sayo?" Tatsumi asked. "What? How did you? Is that even?" Sayo asked, being interrupted by Akame and Najenda. "You're early." Tatsumi said. "We caught word that you were already here. Now, I know that you can be on our team after killing that undead creature. With that though, a problem is now present. Someone can raise the dead which poses a great problem." Najenda said, looking to the dragon Tatsumi had tamed. "I agree, that kind of power is something that would cause panic and could end the world if used correctly." Tatsumi said. "I see we think alike. Now, I believe that you wanted to join Night Raid correct?" Najenda asked. "Yes we did." Tatsumi said. "Well, you are going to be coming with us back to our base. There is when I will make your being part of Night Raid official. Anyway, when did you tame this?" Najenda asked, circling Night. "This morning after I decided to make my way back to the city." Tatsumi said. Najenda noticed the wound that was left on Night's chest and arm. "Interesting… Mind if we took this back to the base instead of walking?" Nakenda asked. "If you can navigate for me, sure." Tatsumi said, bringing Sayo over to Night and having it lower it's head. They all got on and gave Tatsumi the right away to take off. "Let's go Night!" Tatsumi said, causing Night to take off once more. Najenda gave Tatsumi directions and they eventually made it to Night Raid's base. When they landed was when the other Night Raid members came to see what the great commotion was. The only one who looked noticeably angered was the purple haired girl, Sheele. "You! You killed Mine!" She said angrily. "Oh it's you…" Tatsumi said. "We were defending a captain that we now see as an enemy. We apologize for what happened then. Can we possibly move on as it was in the past and we are here now?" Sayo asked, convincing both sides. "Fine, but don't think I won't forget about it that easily." Sheele said, going back into the base. "Anyway! Welcome our two new members, Tatsumi and Sayo." Najenda said, causing Sheele to stop dead in her tracks. "Did you just say new members?" Sheele asked. "Yes I did. I won't be taking any complaints from any of you about their joining as they have shown that they can handle our line of work quite well." Najenda said, getting off of Night. Sheele looked angered beyond limitation. She stormed back inside. "I see you already know her, so I won't bother introducing her. Anyway, this is Lubbock." Najenda said pointing to a teen looking man with green hair. "Bulat." Najenda said, now pointing to the bulkier man with black hair and peculiar looking black hair. "Nice to meet you Tatsumi and Sayo." Bulat said, shaking their hands. "Leone." Najenda said, pointing to the woman with yellow hair and barely anything for a shirt. "Nice to meet ya! I tried talking with you but you kinda hurried off and ignored me." Leone said. "Sorry then…" Tatsumi said, scratching his head. "And that was everyone! All I can say now is that you should try to talk with Sheele and see about trying to make her see some sense." Najenda said, leading them inside. "As for now however, I am going to have Akame show you to your rooms." Najenda said. "Room." Tatsumi said. "I see now. I guess room then." Najenda said. Sayo herself look at him with curiosity. "Alright then follow me." Akame said, leading them down a hallway to their room. "Here you are." Akame said, pointing to their room's door. "Thanks, I guess we will join you when we are all ready and set up." Tatsumi said. "Yes you will." Akame said, leaving to rejoin the others. "Well, here we are Sayo…" Tatsumi said, opening the door. "Tatsumi, are you really ok with being in the same room again?" Sayo asked. "Yes, I don't see why not. After all, we have slept together Sayo." Tatsumi said. "I can't argue with that." Sayo said, following Tatsumi into the room. "You noticed their teigus right Sayo?" Tatsumi asked. "They had teigus?" Sayo asked. "Yes, each and every one of them." Tatsumi said, smiling at Sayo. "Now if you will excuse me, summoning the armors took all of my stamina, good night." Tatsumi said, then passing out and falling onto the bed. "Well, atleast he explained before passing out." Sayo said, laughing.

A few hours later…

Wake up Tatsumi! WAKE UP!

Tatsumi shot up in the bed and was greeted by Sayo and Akame. "I said get set up, not sleep." Akame said. "I couldn't help it! It was either that or pass out on my way to the room we would be meeting in." Tatsumi said, his face bright red. "Sure, now let's get going before you wear the bosses patience out." Akame said, leaving the room. Tatsumi got up after Sayo left the room and caught up with them. "Akame, I know you were watching us! I summoned three sets of shadow armor which took just about all of my stamina and then we came back here, talked for a little bit, and then you led us to our room. That finished the last bit of stamina that I had off!" Tatsumi said, flustered about what had happened. "I believe you, and that also means that you need a lot of training." Akame said. "Oh great…" Tatsumi said. They entered the room in which everyone was gathered in. "Now that we are all here, let's begin shall we? Although you two just joined not even a day ago, we already have a mission to set out on. It is the one we failed last time along with another officer. Captain Ogre and Seryu Ubiquitous. Tatsumi, Akame you will be taking on Ogre. Leone, Sayo you will be taking on Seryu." Najenda said. She thought of this as the perfect test for them. "Basically, we are killing the two that we were associated most with?" Tatsumi asked. "Yes, but only because someone gave us this mission. The last time it was only Ogre and that's when you ended up killing Mine." Najenda said. Sheele was cursing under her breath. "Alright then, that seems fair." Tatsumi said. "Alright then. I expect to hear that the mission went successful." Najenda said, allowing them to head out. The sun was now hanging low as they had been briefed on the mission they were tasked with carrying out. They were to attack the two late at night and make sure that Ogre payed. Seryu was guilty by association and Sayo hoped to make her see the corrupt ways of the empire and how its justice is wrong. Sayo had reasoned with Najenda that she could do it and explained why, so Najenda gave her a shot at turning Seryu over to the rebellion's side. If she failed, they would end her. "We should be getting into position, I know exactly where Ogre will be." Akame said, making her pace quicker. "Ok, just show me the way Akame and I can handle it from that point on my side." Tatsumi said. Leone and Sayo had already discussed their plan of attack. "The plan is that you and I will be waiting on the roof of some buildings on Ogre's path home. He will be alone and isolated from public by then. That is when we will strike." Akame said, keeping her focus on moving. Tatsumi nodded and kept behind Akame. When they reached the city, they made extra caution to stick with the shadows as if they didn't, Akame would be caught and all hell would break loose. Leone and Sayo were able to go around freely, her rank was still seen by all guards and citizens and she retained respect from the lower ranked guards. Tatsumi and Akame took to their positions upon the roofs of some houses of an isolated street which no one but Ogre now used. Night fell. Ogre had decided to head home and was approaching the street that he would use. When he turned the corner, he kept moving until Tatsumi and Akame jumped from their spots. "YOU! YOU TRAITOR! TATSUMI I EVEN GOT YOU TO THE RANK OF CAPTAIN! YOU INSUFFERABLE BRAT! I WILL END YOU MYSELF AND GIVE YOUR LIFELESS CORPSE TO ESDEATH HERSELF!" Ogre bellowed when he saw the two. "Have at it Tatsumi, I believe you have some business to attend to with him. I'll step in if you need aid." Akame said, stepping back. "Well Ogre, I didn't think you would be as corrupted as you are. This is perfect for me to end you as you've done some things behind my back to try and get me thrown into stockades for no reason." Tatsumi said, grinning and summoning Futherlor. Ogre had an expression of disbelief. "How would you have come across this information?" Ogre asked angrily. "I got my information from eavesdropping on you from time to time Ogre, now I say we should end this." Tatsumi said, charging at Ogre. "Let's!" Ogre said, charging at Tatsumi. Tatsumi knew his fighting style quite well and was able to dodge multiple of his blows. He hadn't expected that Ogre would have kicked his legs and thrown him off of his feet and then stabbing his stomach. "Well, this is new." Tatsumi said, throwing some strikes at Ogre with no pattern to them, causing Ogre to maintain multiple hits. Tatsumi coughed blood up. Ogre was thrown back and infuriated. "BRAT! DIE!" Ogre yelled, charging at the weakened Tatsumi. He nearly impaled his heart. Tatsumi defended himself and raised his sword, causing their swords to meet and threw Tatsumi back into a building on the other side of the street. Tatsumi was holding out barely as he now had glass, stone, and wood stuck in him and was cut quite well. He had one trick up his sleeve however. Ogre charged to finish Tatsumi off but found himself being turned into a pile of flesh as Tatsumi's spikes met with Ogre's stomach. "I forgot about that…" Ogre said, falling back with his stomach area now a confusing pile of meat. "Impressive. I could have done better, but you did it." Akame said, picking Tatsumi up. "Thanks…" Tatsumi breathed out. Akame had to tend to his wounds or he would have suffered an infection and died. She was swift, patching the many wounds up after taking shards of materials out of the wounds. When she was finished, Tatsumi gave a weak smile and whispered something that she couldn't hear. He could keep himself awake for a little while longer. Akame picked up a book off of the corpse of Ogre and gave it to Tatsumi who read some of it before feeling like he could get sick. It was details of all of the corrupt things that Ogre had accomplished while alive and it was sickening. "I'm glad we killed that bastard…" Tatsumi said, coughing up some blood. "Save your strength." Akame said, jumping up onto a rooftop to find Sayo and Leone. Soon after seeing their progress, she would take Tatsumi back as the bandages and anesthetics would wear off shortly and would cause even more damage to Tatsumi. "Seryu listen to me! The empire is corrupt! I can tell you some things that will make you see this and you too will see it yourself!" Sayo yelled out. "No! This is not corrupt and never has been! You can't change what I have seen as justice!" Seryu yelled back. This might help. Tatsumi yelled to Sayo, saying, "Give her this!" Tatsumi threw Sayo Ogre's journal. Seryu looked up and saw Tatsumi being carried by Akame. Shit. "Tatsumi?" Seryu asked, looking as if she were about to cry. "Here, read this and find out about why we think that the empire's so corrupt!" Sayo said, yelling Seryu the book. She caught it and began reading. Her eyes filled with even more tears. "No… He did this? This is just… just vile!" Seryu said, throwing the book off to the side before collapsing to the ground crying. "MY WHOLE LIFE I'VE BEEN PROTECTING A CORRUPTED OFFICER WHO TAUGHT ME THE MEANING OF JUSTICE! MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A CORRUPTED LIE!" Seryu yelled out with tears running down her face. She felt as if she had been kicked by reality and woke up to a nightmare. "Do you see now why we decided to switch over to the revolution?" Sayo asked. "I do. I also see the error of my ways…" Seryu said, looking up at Sayo. Seryu cocked a pistol and pointed it at herself. "SERYU WAIT!" Sayo yelled, making and effort to try and shoot the gun out her hand with her bow. She was a moment too late as Seryu turned the gun around and shot her heart. "What…" Sayo said falling back. Tatsumi saw that and went into a blank rage. Akame was thrown onto the ground below as Tatsumi pounced at Seryu and pounded her face into the ground. "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE IN HELL AND THEN I WILL FIND YOU MAKING HELL ITSELF TURN BLACK WITH FEAR WHEN I KILL YOU THERE." Tatsumi yelled, smashing Seryu's face one last time and killing her. Tatsumi then ran over to Sayo who lay there bleeding out. She gave him a faint smile and said, "Thank you Tatsumi." Sayo said, passing out thinking she was going to die. Tatsumi sat there and cried his eyes out, unknown to his knowledge that Sayo's heart was reforming because of his tears. He fell back and continued crying. Akame and Leone looked on with pure confusion and definite awe. Sayo was alive. In turn Tatsumi sacrificed part of his own life force, causing him to suffer. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO YOU FUCKING IDIOT?! Sayo began to cough, breathing in new air and realizing that she wasn't dead. She looked down to see her flesh now rebuilding over her heart, but her skin was darkened where her heart was. She looked around to see Tatsumi on the ground crying. "Tatsumi?" Sayo asked, moving to his side. He looked up, seeing Sayo wasn't dead. "Thank you I guess..." Sayo said, unsure of what else to say. Tatsumi couldn't help but hug Sayo. He couldn't remember that he smashed Seryu's face in but remembered falling into a void before seeing Sayo alive. Tatsumi's strength faded. What's happening?! Well you tell me. I hope you're happy because as a result of this, your life force will forever be lessened. You had better not do this again or else you will end up facing withdrawals from your body and the power you hold. You've made yourself weaker to bring back the one you love, a grave mistake. So that means that my life will end sooner than I would have died without doing that? Why don't you think about it more and then ask me. As of now, you're lucky to even have me speaking to you as you've pissed me right the hell off. DON'T YOU EVER DO SOMETHING THIS STUPID AGAIN JACKASS! But… Tatsumi's eyes closed as his strength vanished completely.


I apologize for being late with publishing this chapter. This is going to be the point in which it may take a week to get one chapter done and ready for publishing. I prioritize my school work over writing and frankly, I have a ton of school work to do. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter! The OC is coming soon… Very soon… Now, as for the reviewing, at this point I'm on the verge of just skimming the reviews because either I have one review that is positive and only positive or I get a few and there end up being the rare criticism that I ask for. If you have an idea that might improve the story, PM me and I'll give it a try! I would also like to note that I didn't edit this to the best of my abilities as I am sick. Still, please feel free to criticize me!