Mais' P.O.V
The smell of blood was fresh in the clearing; the sight of guts, hearts, ripped out organs filled our sights as we looked around. More than one Angel had died in this battle; more than fifty odd humans had gone down as well.
I looked up, the sky had well and truly turned to the sickeningly bloody red colour it shouldn't have. To put it simply, we were too late.
I screamed when I saw the bodies of the people I held dearest to me, from both school and Hell. My eyes travelled towards Hinanto, he was still working on trying to cause the apocalypse, but that was impossible, he had already caused it unless….no, he couldn't.
"ANGELS GROUP!" I yelled as the Angels of Darkness and Light closest to me managed to land in front of me.
"Hinanto's trying to-,"
"We know, we're working on it," one of the Angels of Light interrupted me as she winked before everyone flew off in different directions. I couldn't allow Hinanto to do this, even if he did teach me my fighting style. I looked at Masako.
"It's no wonder we never got along," I stated as I looked at her, she gave me a confused look. "Angel of Light and Darkness hate each other, but in times like these they put their differences aside," I continued, "fight with me, and we can beat this," I added as I looked into Masako's eyes. She gave me a warm smile before grabbing my outstretched hand.
"What do we do?" Ayako asked as she looked at us, we looked around the clearing.
"Get the injured to safety, get the dead to somewhere where we can bury them, make sure it's isolated. Lin, I hate to stick you with this job, but Naru needs watching over more now than ever. Do not, under any circumstances, let him out of your sight. If any of you defy these orders I will make you pay, understand me?" I asked as my eyes flashed black, my power was returning, stronger than ever. SPR nodded their heads as they all began scattering.
Masako and I looked at each other, we nodded our heads, it was now or never, now our real battle began, the battle for the earth.
We flew through the sky, no wind was present, nothing blew, nothing stood still, everything seemed to be moving in its own way, everything but the wind. But it didn't really matter, Hinanto had moved from the clearing and towards the docks of Tokyo.
"MAI!" I looked behind me to see some of the elder Angels of Light and Darkness following us. Masako smiled at the Angels of Light, who seemed to have known she was an Angel all along since they just nodded back.
"Yeah?" I asked Kasumi as she flew next to me. I didn't want the older Angels of Darkness or Light to get involved in this, the reason being, they were strong yes, but they couldn't hold their ground like they used to.
"We're coming with," Kasumi answered as she looked at us.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" I asked turned my eyes back to Hinanto, I was really trying to talk her out of it.
"This is as much our fight as it is yours," she answered with that confident smile of her; I couldn't say no, she was right after all. If only we had seen Hinanto was a fake from the beginning, none of this would have happened.
"Don't scold yourself, Mai," I looked at Masako in shock, how did she know what I was thinking? "I know what you're thinking because everyone else is thinking it, but truth be told sometimes things like this happen, and it's not your fault, there was no way of you knowing. You trusted him since you were a child, and I know there's still a part of you that wishes this wasn't happening, but it is, so stop blaming yourself and thinking what could have been and start thinking of what is, got that?" she asked as she looked at me, I nodded my head once as we all stood near the docks.
My mother and father had both prevented this before, I knew I could do it, I had to. If my mother and father were strong enough then so was I, I'm not about to let the demon of all demons be released from its underworld slumber.
"Angels of Darkness and Angels of Light have come together this day to prevent this arise from happening, everyone knows what to do, correct?" the leader of the Angels of Light and Kasumi, who was now our leader stood side by side, hands glowing either black or white as they looked at each of us.
One by one our hands lit up, black if you were of the darkness or white, if you were of the light. My hands were the last to light up, but it wasn't just my hands that turned black, it was my eyes too, which made everyone flinch. I knew why, but I couldn't help it, no matter how much I didn't want them to turn black they did, and there was nothing I could do about it.
I had the most power out of all of us, I knew that, they knew that, but I also know I could control this power, no matter how much it tried to eat me from the inside out. I've lived with it for over ten years, and now, it was time to put it to good use.
Normal P.O.V
Lin stood by Naru, who was curled up into a ball on the ground, as he watched SPR run back and forth with injured and dead bodies. The injured were taken to the side walk, where a medical team were waiting, due to Lin who called them, while the dead were taken deeper into the forest.
Everyone froze once they heard movement from behind a bush near Naru, who looked up. The ghoul of Gene stepped out of the bushes, followed by more than ten other ghouls as they gave SPR insane looks.
Naru, who had paled in colour, rose to his feet, being supported by Lin, while Ayako rushed over with the white feather from Masako's wing. The ghouls saw her action; Gene gave a nod to one as it charged forwards, knocking Ayako to her feet before grabbing the feather and tearing it to pieces.
Monk forcefully kicked the ghoul off of Ayako before pulling her backwards. Lin also backed up with Naru leaning on him as they looked for an exit. But there wasn't one, SPR was surrounded by the ghouls, and there was no escape.
"DEMONS STRONG AND WEAK HEAR THIS PLEA!"
"ANGELS STRONG AND WEAK, LISTEN TO US!"
"COMBINE OUR POWER! UNITE US AS ONE!" SPR looked around for the voices but found none.
"OVER THERE!" Monk yelled as he pointed to the Angels of Light and Darkness all working together.
"DEMONS OF WEALTH AND POWER!"
"ANGELS OF PAST AND PRESENT!"
"ALL STRONG AND WEAK!"
"WE GATHER YOU HERE TODAY! WORK AS ONE! HELP US WIN!" SPR stared in shock as the ghouls backed away into the shadows for a moment before the chanting stopped. They stepped back out, something was wrong with the Angels, everyone knew that much.
John turned to the Angels just as one fell, a dagger sticking out his or her back, he couldn't tell the gender from where he was, but he knew it wasn't Masako or Mai.
"AH!" the scream caught Mai and Masako's attention as they turned their eyes to SPR, only to see them surrounded by ghouls.
"No," Masako whispered as she was about to take off.
"You can't leave now, if another one of us go the chant will be broken and we won't be able to win this," the leader of the Light Angels stated as he glared at Masako, who nodded her head as they continued.
"ANGELS OF PAST AND PRESENT!"
"DEMONS OF NOW AND THEN!"
"EVERY STRONG BEING ON THIS EARTH!" Mai sighed, the chant was way too long to conjured up the energy they needed right then and there. She looked over at Hinanto, who was half way to summoning the Demon and all demons. The Unspeakable, is what the Angels of Darkness called him. She gritted her teeth, cursing slightly under her breath.
The more lines had gone when she turned to take another look. Piercing red eyes, like blood. They were staring at her, looking into her very soul.
"Fuck this," Mai said as she broke away from the group, Masako gave her a shocked look before breaking off in the opposite direction towards SPR, who were in desperate need of help.
A dagger appeared in Mai's hand as she flew towards Hinanto, who had his back towards her. Holding the dagger out she felt it pierce skin, bone, organs and then skin again, she had effectively pierced it through his body.
She looked at the red eyes glaring at her; they sunk back under the water, as she pulled her dagger from Hinanto. She watched him fall towards the ocean before seeing him disappear in a splash.
Mai frowned, that was way too easy for her liking. But she didn't have time to dwell on it as a scream pierced her ears, Ayako's scream.
Masako growled as she pushed the dead ghoul off of her before charging at the one that held Ayako in its arms. Monk was busy fighting two off, while John was casting his prayer, it did make them weaker, but it wasn't helping much. Lin, however, had his own problems with Naru at the moment. His breathing had become shallow, his skin had turned pure white, almost like know, his hair had turned as black as the night sky, and the wound on his shoulder looked like it had become infected.
Mai landed behind John as she stabbed the ghoul sneaking up behind him.
"MASAKO!" Mai yelled as she threw the dagger. Masako's head shot up not a second later as she caught the dagger, with two quick swings she had killed the two ghouls that were on her.
"MONK!" Masako threw the dagger towards the older man, who gave a confused look before catching it. He swung once and missed one ghoul; he swung again and hit one. He turned to the last before throwing it, like he had seen Mai do; the dagger lodged itself in the ghouls head as the ghoul fell unconscious.
Monk quickly ran over and dragged the dagger out of the dead ghoul before throwing it at Ayako, who caught it, screamed and started stabbing the ghoul that came for her.
Mai quickly took the dagger from her as she watched the remaining few ghouls run away, all but one.
The dagger in Mai's hand turned blue, collecting the dead bodies of the ghouls inside of it before she turned to Lin.
"Lin, are you ok, how's Naru doing?" she asked, but stopped once she saw his condition, Naru had turned. The remaining ghoul started laughing. Mai turned to the ghoul, Gene; he was the only one left.
"You're pretty stupid for staying," Mai hissed as she saw Masako take one of her feathers and place it around Naru's neck. The boy didn't move, he remained still, Mai knew he was keeping the hunger inside him down, but for how long, she didn't know.
"He's mine," Gene hissed back as he lunged for Mai.
"NO!" Mai's eyes went wide as she watched Naru charge at his own brother, his own twin, to save Mai, but Mai knew Gene wasn't Gene, he was something else.
The scenery around Mai began to change as she stood in a darkened room.
"Mai," she turned, Gene, the real Gene was there.
Gene," Mai whispered, she could feel the tears pricking at her eyes but never let them fall.
"Mai, you have to kill me, or I'll kill Naru. If I was in control of my body I wouldn't hurt any of you, but that's not me, all I ask is for you to kill the thing inside of me, but please don't damage my body, Naru will want to take me back for a funeral," Gene explained as he looked at Mai, who frowned slightly. She doubted Naru would ever return to normal, but she had faith, in everything and everyone.
"Alright, I promise I'll help you," Mai replied as the scene turned back to the one of Naru and Gene fighting.
"BIND!" Mai yelled as she bound Naru to the ground. "Lin, watch him, don't let him out," Mai ordered as she advanced on the Gene Ghoul, who just glared at her.
"Who are you?" Mai asked as she looked at the ghoul, who just smirked at her, he didn't answer, not that she expected him to. But that smirk told her all she needed to know.
"LEAVE!" Mai yelled as he held her hand out, the dark aurora surrounded it as she pointed it towards Gene's body. The ghoul inside of him yelled in pain as it was torn from its host before being pulled into the open.
The dead body of Gene fell to the ground, it looked exactly like Naru had before he transformed, only there was a large wound on its stomach. The ghoul's black eyes found Mai's brown ones.
Mai looked over to Masako before looking back to the ghoul, Masako got the message as she made Mai's dagger appear in her hand. The ghoul charge for Mai, but at the last minute, as the ghoul was not even and inch from Mai's face, it stopped, everything stopped.
A blue light encased the ghoul as it was sucked into the dagger. Behind where the ghoul had once been, stood Masako. Mai smiled at her, a thanks that would indeed be paid, but hopefully not for a while.
The two teens smiled before rushing over to Naru who wasn't fighting against the restraints Mai had placed on him. Instead he welcomed them, knowing he couldn't get out of them comforted him in a way.
"Mai," he managed out, Mai's head shot to him as she knelt in front of him, "kill me," he ordered as he looked into her soft brown eyes, that shot wide open at his order.
"No, we can turn you back-,"
"Not before I break out of these and kill you, you can't, not kill me before I kill or hurt any of you," Naru interrupted with a growl that only emphasised his argument. Mai looked at Masako, who looked at her with worried and regretful eyes before Mai's shined with an idea.
She took a feather from Masako's wings before taking one of her own and putting them onto a make due chain and slipping it around Naru's neck. The two feathers leant against each other as Naru's colour began to return to his skin.
"Yin and Yang," Masako gasped, "they cancel each other out," she added with an amazed look on her face.
"What? Think I'm stupid or something?" Mai asked with a mock pout.
"You said it not me," Masako replied with a slight laugh, everyone else laughed slightly as well as they all looked at the sky. It was returning to its normal blue colour, the Angels of Light and Darkness were still fighting and restoring the earth, but something felt off to Mai, something like.
"RRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRR RRR!" something like that.
Mai, Masako and SPR all turned to see a large black dripping monster with piercing red eyes that glared all around for the one who had prevented its arrival only moments ago.
Its eyes landed on Mai as she stood with SPR. Her eyes became hard as she glared back at the monster, but she noticed something different about it, something like….
"Oh no," Mai whispered as she looked at the monster.
"What?" Naru asked; finally back to his normal self, but only for now. Mai knew once the make due feather necklace came off he'd turn again.
"That thing's absorber Hinanto into it, I knew something wasn't right," she answered.
"So what do we do?" Ayako asked with a scared expression.
A white glow began to engulf SPR. They all looked around in shock before they saw two figures in front of them. I woman with long brown hair and crystal blue eyes. She wore a black tan top with black shorts; there were no shoes on her feet but black wings sprouted from her back. Next to her stood a man with blond hair and brown eyes. He wore a white top with matching shorts, like the woman he wore no shoes, and instead of white wings, he had black wings. Mai's expression went from confusion to shock as she stared at the two.
"Mom, dad," she whispered, Masako gave her a shocked look before looking at the two. Mai knew her parents were Angels, but she didn't know one was of light while the other was of dark.
"Mai, baby, we miss you so," her mother sighed as she looked at Mai, "I'm so sorry you got messed up with Hinanto. When we died we had you on the list to be an Angel of Light like your father and I," she added with a frown on her face.
"But your wings are black," Monk pointed out rudely, earning him a hit with Ayako's purse of doom.
"That they are young man, but there are such things as traitors in this world. I did not like the doing of the Angels of Darkness, and once I figured out who Buer really was, I left for the Angels of Light. Of course my wings never changed colour, but I was welcomed into Heaven with open arms," Mai's mother responded.
"But now is not the time for explanations, now is the time to take this thing down once and for all," Mai's father spoke up, "you know what you have to do Mai," her father added as he looked at his wife.
"Mai you have to surrender to your power, but to make things easier, I will take over your body and your father shall take over the young man's who turned into a ghoul. By doing this neither of you will die, if it comes to that, and your friend will come out normal again, the ghoul will be gone from within him. But you both have to trust us," her mother spoke up. Mai looked at Naru from the corner of her eye; his emotionless mask had been put back on as he watched the two spirits.
"I trust you," Mai whispered as she stepped forwards. Naru looked at her before stepping forwards too.
"If Mai trusts you, then I will," he spoke as he watched the two of them. Mai's mother walked over to her before placing her hands on Mai's shoulders.
"I'm so proud of you," her whispered before she disappeared into Mai's body.
"I promise you won't be hurt from this…" Mai's father trailed off not knowing Naru's name.
"Shibuya," Naru answered with his work name.
"Shibuya," Mai's dad finished as he also disappeared into Mai's body. Mai's eyes turned blue as she looked at Naru, whose eyes had turned brown.
SPR gave a shocked look at how Mai and Naru resembled the actual spirits that were in front of them moments before.
"Ready as I'll ever be," Naru answered as white wings spread from his back.
"Hara-san, you stay here," Mai ordered as she gave Mai an 'if-you-don't-listen-I'll-kill-you' look. Masako nodded as she and SPR watched Naru and Mai fly into the air.
As SPR watched the retreating two figures they could faintly hear a call of;
"THIS ENDS NOW!" in the distance.
Apologies about this story not being updated, but busy month with Christmas shopping and everything, not to mention I have to start revising for my English exam next week. Anyway, I'm back, for now, and I hope this chapter was alright for you all. So review and I'll try to update soon. And I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, now REVIEW!
