Fading Hope
Kiimi was exhausted, she had trecked miles with the military men. Every now and then they would jab her, seemingly to just check the collar was still working. How she hoped it would stop working and she would be able to break free from her constraints.
They stopped for the evening, there wasn't a big group of them travelling together. She sat with her uncle, it was more out of habit than anything else. He was the known evil in the equation, at least she knew what his evil side looked like. So far the general had barely said a word to her, it surprised her when he sat down next to her and actually looked relaxed, she'd heard the men call him General Arnun. He was poking the fire pit infront of them and he started talking to Kiimi, still not looking at her "Did you lot actually believe no one would notice a time traveller coming and going. We'd been keeping a close eye on her for a long time, that Kagome girl. Of course once she'd wished the jewel away and started attending school again we'd given up hope especially as you seemed to have been a lost cause. We spent 10 years working on your father before we even knew about Kagome, oh how we tried to create another angel. As it turns out Angels aren't born biologically but anyone with these powers can use the passage ways even if just a little bit. Your father kept many secrets to himself, and we had him for 30 years, the little bits we got out of him we put to good use. It was through him we learnt about the passage ways, then we found that girl Kagome, well we went looking for her – She wasn't hard to keep an eye on but we were too slow. We had no choice but to start from scratch, the women your father got pregnant all died, then your mother offered herself up. She was an amazing woman, we were together for many years, she was a wonderful scientist. She believed she would be able to carry a child with the help of science." Kiimi glanced at her uncle, it was hard to notice but his disdain for this man was present, part of her uncle must have hated him for allowing the experiment to go ahead instead of protecting her, he virtually fed her to the wolves for his own gain. General Arnun was still talking "We knew you had inherited some of your father's DNA because you had half turned. I was so happy the experiment had been a success, then unfortunately you had 20 years of disappointing us ahead. Oh we had to get your dear old uncle here to push and push. But we got it eventually! Here you are, making us proud." Kiimi could feel the bile rising to the back of her throat, this man could have been her father, he almost is. Kiimi had a questioning expression on her face, Arnun caught on "Yes, you're probably wondering what we're doing now, You will follow me." That stupid collar on her neck caused her to follow his order, they walked to the edge of where they were camping. Below them there was a small settlement, families asleep in their huts. Kiimi shrugged, she still didn't understand. Arnun put his arm around Kiimi and proudly gestured towards the mountain face infront of them "In there is a slumbering demon. You will merge with this demon! I know it sounds mad but this is the where your mother's genius takes place. We couldn't do this with a full angel, they had no evil in their heart and couldn't merge, a normal human couldn't survive the merge but you….you're special. Because you have human DNA, we naturally as humans have evil within our hearts, you will be able to merge with the demon and the angel DNA will cause you to survive the merge. Now, yes I know how excited you must be right now, it gets even better. It will be a test of wills once it begins, if you win you'll be granted all that extra power – which of course translates to I'll get all that extra power, as you will still be wearing that collar and be under my control. OR you'll fade away, you'll lose against the demon – did I mention this is the original demon? You will lose against this demon, the demon will consume you and be constrained in a human body which means it will retain it's power but still we will still be able to manipulate it with this pretty little collar. You see we really can't lose. Those people down there, they will lose though, which is a shame it really is. We will slaughter every last one of them until there's enough blood in the air that we our-selves will be breathing it in! there will be so much blood it will awaken Asmodeus. And then I will command you to merge and you will just have to do it! Brilliance, I'm so proud of your mother you know." He still had his arm around Kiimi's shoulder, she couldn't help the reflex any longer, she vomited all over the floor. She smiled for a moment, some of the vomit had landed on Arnun's shoes. "Dirty little wench!" he lifted his hand and brought it down heavily across her face, he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped his hand clean. He turned and walked away leaving Kiimi wretching on the floor.