Don't Close Your Eyes In the Dark
Chapter 13
Nic, Yahiko and Richie wasn't far from the mansion and Nic decides that they're going no further until he tests his transplanted Kakugan out, they still hurt like a bitch though especially when he manage to activate one of it's minor abilities...the Ghouls this was taken from had to be the same blood type as Nic's too, which is more difficult to find that one thinks.
"Yes...I agree" Richie said as he made his point as heis covered eye glowed a light amber "but I've known Nic since we were kids, he's the one who took my eye...and I was forced to watch how he became deaf, mind you he wasn't born like that any more than I was born half-blind and you're the only one he seems to see a little hope in, since you care for him more than he even thinks he deserves"
Nic released Yahiko's hand without her being aware of it as he caught sight of Taeger, unchanged as the day he first saw him as a child eating his father whole as he was forced to watch, basically the main reason he ever joined the GEC as Yahiko grabbed his hand, earning his attention again as he closed his hand gently over hers
Yahiko suddenly starting crying, both men knew she was not only a great actress, but a believable one as Richie's covered eye glowed blue through the covering bandages and Nic scowled angrily at both of them
"You made her cry, ero-baka..." Nic kicks Richie in the face, coming very close to Yahiko as he turned on her "I'm very sick of tellin' ya to act your age too, Yahiko" he pinched her on the back of the neck as punishment
Richie dived into the driver's seat "just for that, I'm taking this on a joyride-" he stopped moving as Nic's sword was poking the side of his neck as he warned simply "Hands off the wheel...ass out of seat, you couldn't drive to save your own life and you know it"
"H-hai..." Richie got back into his seat, Nic got back into his seat as Richie laid his head on his shoulder, whereas Nic reached for the blonde's hair with a knife until he felt a gun in his side "Touch my hair and I'll absolutely destroy your kidney..." he warned simply as both their expressions looked murderous and Nic smiled "Joyride...don't tempt a crazy person like that with a very fast car like this"
Nic floored the gas, he knew of a place they could stay fairly close to the X-Men as he cared nothing for speed limits and never drove below or close to 60 as Yahiko ruffled his hair only to get her hand slapped 'Inu o kaou' (Get a dog)
"You remind me of my brother...he was taken by a Ghoul, but I hope we could find him someday" Yahiko said to Nic, smiling before turning to Richie "I heard getting your other eye back was quite traumatic...you were screaming and even beheaded one of those creepy scientists"
Richie pointed his .86 pistol at her face and wasn't looking at her "How would you know that...?"
"We were two walls apart but I heard everything" Yahiko replied
Not far from their location, the Ghoul brainwashed by the GEC watched them and wasn't ready to attack them yet, as they were doing as they were told without even knowing but even so, his mission was to kill the subjects and he would do it regardless of their failure...or that his sister was among them
'Tāgetto o hakai suru hitsuyō ga arimasu...' (Must destroy targets...) said Haku, the brainwashed Ghoul sent by the G.E.C to follow Nic, Richie and Yahiko, who happens to be his sister as they were both fluent in Japanese although they were only half-Japanese.
He sacrificed himself to protect her, but although thry were both still captured and experimented on, Yahiko was spared the many things he was put through as the fed him to a pack of captive and starved Ghouls...God knows how he survived that, then brainwashed him to do their bidding forever while he was too weak to fight them and barely alive to begin with, leaving Yahiko to think he was dead and vice-versa,
He was also hoping to find someone, one of the Ghouls that was turned feral and seemingly killed him, he managed to break the chain the bound the Ghoul at the neck allowing said Ghoul to escape where he was kept as Haku began fighting the control...and was losing, even now as his eye turned on the X-Mansion in the distance "Wait for them there..." he said as the part of his mind still fighting for freedom thought independently 'Maybe they can help restore my memories before I lose what little remains I have of what makes me...who I am'
With the X-Men, Taeger has had just about enough of this Mute and Nogitsune as he came out with Bane and Berserker.
'Anata wa, anata no kangei, kaibutsu o sugite shimatta!' (You have overstayed your welcome, monster!) Taeger came out punching the Mute into the ground before turning his glare to Xavier's office window to make sure he was watching, which he was and he muttered as he stepped on the Mute's face but his foot was stopped thinking 'You and Kami really aren't that different, except where Kami can do things with or without others, you're the world's most powerful telepath and the biggest coward I've ever had the honour to meet, I'm not gonna be surprised if you had some hand in Kami's creation as well since you knew each other when he was still Ghoul Lord...you better get out here to fix what you've done or so help me, I'll kill every Ghoul and Mutant here!'
"Think you can throw me?" Berserker asks, standing with Bane, Taji and Juggernaut as Cain, being better safe than sorry kept his eyes on Taeger and said a firm "Go to hell, I'm not going to do that"
"Why?" Taji asked, clearly curious as Berserker replied "I'm gonna prove you wrong and that I'm not a Usura-whatever he called me"
"You mean 'Usuratonkachi'?" Bane asks "It means you're a thin hammer...you're essentially useless"
"Taeger's wrong...you're quite the opposite of useless actually, well, most of the time" Kakuzu said as Temujin added "we've all been useless at some point or the other anyway..."
"Well, I intend to change what he thinks..." Berserker says as Taji groaned "...but why do you even care what he thinks of you or anyone else?"
Berserker shrugs "I don't, but he needs to be taught not to take his anger out on people" Berserker rushed off as the Ghouls snickered, Bane responding "I've known the guy since I was a kid, he really cares for no one...not even himself and trying to gain his respect doesn't come without a price that I doubt you're willing to pay"
Berserker jumps at the Mute but almost didn't have time to block midair as Taeger swung his arm back at him
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Berserker snarls as he managed to kick the Mute in the jaw "Don't get in my way...or you're dead" Taeger warned as Taji, Scar and Yamamoto finally find a way to pull Nogitsune out of Logan safely
"Are you...sure about this 'soul tethering' thing?" Taji was a bit skeptical "I don't want a demon in my body..."
"You needn't worry, Nogitsune shouldn't be able to cross into our bodies" Yamamoto said as Yang repeated "Shouldn't or wouldn't?"
"I'm only testing it now...with myself and any two persons" Yamamoto said smiling as Taji was still very skeptical and Yang narrowed his eyes with a twitchy grin "I promise I'll kill you first if that happens then..."
A aura appears around the three and enters Logan, who becomes unconscous, Nogitsune is very conscous however and struggles to hold it's new body from not just the Ghouls pulling him out, but Logan pushing him out as well as Logan's mouth opens and the black mist escapes him, leaving the, now downright enraged, mutant gasping for air as if he'd been holding his breath the whole duration of his possession or as he'd describe it, body hijacking and he decided to recooperate before any obsceneties can be heard from the moon.
The Mute noticed this and easily lifted Berserker and Taeger before stomping Bane in the chest, it no longer had a reason to rampage if it got Nogitsune, with or without his new body, as he threw a small rock between Nogitsune and Yang just before his body was possessed like Logan's was as the rock turned to a sphere trapped every bit of Nogitsune within
"No!" Nogitsune was now trapped and furious as the Mute has calmed down and brought the sphere to him using telekinesis before going to Logan and bowing to the extremely pissed mutant who merely popped his claws as a response to keep his distance, which were orange hot now but not burning him as he looked at the three with surprise
The Mute then left with Nogitsune as the X-Men felt they were still in danger and Logan's claws grew brighter and hotter, even liquifying at will as the Ghouls' magic slowly returns
Elsewhere, with Kami and Chase, Kami uses the strategy of either intentionally taking or missing certain attacks in order for Chase to remove the seal slowly for him since he doesn't know about it...this may still be Kami's undoing though with Zaraki Kurosaki out somewhere still hunting him down
'Nē, baka... Sore wa anata ga motte iru saikōdesu ka?' (Hey, idiot...is that the best you've got?) Kami asks, barely dodging the last attack which missed as he moved his head, scratching his cheek as he felt the last of the seal fade away due to his trick of dodging only certain attacks and letting the Arch Angel's aura do the job for him and his power return like a flood
Kami chuckled maniacally as Amaterasu itself somehow stopped the next lunge of his blades as Kami said to himself "Bane, it was always our fate to kill each other...you'll pay next time we meet but I'll have to deal with this Seraphim and his God permanently first"
Suddenly, Chase retreats away as the former Ghoul Lord reached for his face 'this power...where did it come from all of a sudden?' he thought that Kami had banished his powers away somehow instead of a seal being placed on him.
'Yōyaku... Sukoshi kaisō shita watashi no ban' (Finally...my turn for a little payback) Kami stepped forward and smiled at the look the Angel had, somewhere between pure terror and absolute disdain and hatred 'Korera no honō wa mada taema naku shinka shite ori, watashi wa sudeni eien ni ikiru koto ga dekimasu... Watashi wa hito o korosu ito ga nainode, kore wa amari ki ni shimasen!' (With these still constantly evolving flames and my already apparent longevity, I can live forever...I don't care much for this though, as I have people to kill and no intention of stopping!)
Kami was axhilerated but very angry...not a good thing with the kind of damage he can wreak even on a good mood "Burn!"
Elsewhere, Zaraki Kurosaki was ready to kill Michael and somhow imprison Azazel, since even he knew that although he could beat Azazel in a fight, he could not kill the Demon Lord...that was when he sensed it, Kami...and to say he was exhilerated was an understatement, he was willing to let Azazel off only strictly because he was not able to kill him...but not so much for Michael, he's willing only to spare his life now because he may lose Kami, causing anyone near him to suffer the consequences of involking his wrath
"Who do you think you are, interrupting our fight, Ghoul?" Michael asked as Zaraki stood between him and the Demon Lord as he looked at his palm and grinned maniacally "No one special enough to be of you concern...you're well acquinted with my younger brother though...don't you see the resemblance?"
"You're Kami's brother?" Michael said with wide eyes as Kami made to claim of ever having a family and although he knew that many Ghouls, Kami included, were born into clans all over the world...Kami was very clear that he was the only living member of his clan as said "Impossible...his family's dead"
"Hm...did he ever claim to who or what killed them?" Zaraki said, smiling widely when Michael remained silent "In truth, the clan lost many things...many lives but they survived and moved underground, watching you humans because Taji-kun was so entralled with your kind...what a baka..."
Suddenly the door was blasted off by a strong blast of wind as Jason X Cain appeared...
"Knock knock!" Jason said as he blasted a hole where a door used to be as Zaraki wasn't the least bit amused or surprised glaring over his shoulder to see Kobrax standing where he'd crashed in earlier
Anakondrai came in beside Jason with a less than amused look "Your sense of humor is drier than the surface of Mars, Mr. Cain"
'Ōkina waru ōkami ga watashi ni yūshoku o motarashita yō ni mieru...' (Looks like the big bad wolf has brought me dinner...) Zaraki said 'Karera wa chōdo sōko no naka de mottomo shāpuna tsūrude wa arimasen' (they're not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed though)
"I don't know what he said, but I hate him already" Jason said as Comrax said, having picked up a little Japanese from Kami replied with a chuckle "I think he just called you the least sharp tool in the shed...can't say I disagree"
"I'm leaving...you're in my way" Zaraki said "I was merciful to your boss...for now, but that was the last of my mercy and I won't be expecting any more of it if I were you"
"There's three of us and only one of you" Cobrax said as Zaraki looked at him and shrugged "I'll eat the two hebi and pick my teeth with what's left of windmill boy here...hardly an entertaining fight and there's four of you...forgotten about your mutt already?"
"Fenrir?" Cobrax looked around but saw no sign of the Wolf-like Ghoul as Jason ran at him "I could care less!"
Zaraki smiled evilly, before running at him and smashing him to the side of his head with his metal pipe and going out the door, knocking him through that wall
"Where do you think you're going...do you really think we'll let you go after what you've done?" Anakondrai shifted into his snake form
"Hmph, you worms aren't worth my time so I'm out of here" Zaraki walked away "whatever you do is your problem, not mine"
Anakondrai lunged at Zaraki but missed as he disappeared, he looked back at the sound of someone whistling and saw Zaraki holding Kobrax in a chokehold with his legs dangling as he snarled "Richard!"
"Didn't I warn him not to test me, little Richard?" Zaraki asked the younger man as he barely nodded "Please don't kill me..."
"Oh, don't beg me yet...I'll kill you both in due time" Zaraki said before disappearing again and pointing at Jason "make sure that fool is still alive, I'm not through with him"
Zaraki made it into the forest, where he knew he'd eventually be ambushed by Fenrir...
Zaraki sat at the base of a tree drinking water when Fenrir appeared before him from nowhere "I could've taken your life before you knew I was there, would you have liked that?" Fenrir asks as Zaraki ignored him "disappear, wolf...I have no patience for a coward and a weak one at that"
"I wasn't hiding...otherwise, I wouldn't have revealed myself to you, of all people" Fenrir started walking towards Zaraki as he slowly went into his wolf form "you're my prey, not those snakes and their brainless mutant..."
Fenrir slashed the tree into pieces but Zaraki was gone 'Sugoku yatta yo, kowai kemono ka nanika ni shiyou to shite iru no? Kimitachi no kemono to asobu jikan ga naikara ne' (Nicely done, are you trying to be a scary beast or something...because I have no time to play with wannabe beasts)
"You might have time to regret what you've done to my employer, if you keep your mouth shut" Fenrir snarled as Zaraki started laughing loudly like a maniac, even rolling on the ground "You're a hilarious wolf, somewhat delirious too if you think that I actually regret anything I've ever done...you're lucky to still have said employer"
"I couldn't help but hear you were looking for Kami...kill me and rest assured, you'll never make it to him alive" Fenrir smirked as Zaraki pulled him to his feet "take me to him them"
"Go fu-" Fenrir felt something hit his butt hard as Zaraki snarled "Bad wolf...Is that any way to be talking back to your soon to be master?"
"I will rip your throat out once this is over..." Fenrir snarled as he led Zaraki straight to Kami.
A/N - Logan's now free of the Nogitsune, but is still on edge about what Xavier is determined not to tell them, while Zaraki and Kami are going to meet next chapter...if he and Fenrir don't murder each other first, how will Kami react to meeting his elder brother that he knows should be dead? All and more next chapter!
A man has been following and watching Zaraki for some time, silent as the wind as he now chose to take a break, now aware that Zaraki only wishes to use Michael to his own ends that joining his ranks of criminals and sociopaths that pale in comparison to him...
Maul was a staggering man with bright red hair and silver/grey piercing eyes as well as something rarely ever seen on Ghouls, self done tribal tattoos on his arms and most of his chest and back as a sign that he's grown a lot but still has more room for growth, he sat on a branch as his phone buzzed in his pocket and he pulled it out to see nothing but a picture of himself when he was younger (and much less tattooed) with the man he owed his life to, his master Yang Hiachi...he'd left Yang on his own pilgrimage after a bit of a disagreement with him but he doesn't hate him, he fully understands why he wanted to save Kami from himself but also why he abandoned that ideology and wanted nothing more that Kami dead as well.
"I think it'ts time I gave my dear master a call..." Maul said in his usual, seemingly aggressive tone although he was much nicer that he looked when he wanted to be, Yang having earned a great deal of his respect over the years since he took him in and raised him with his naturally agressive nature "Yang-sama..." he didn't smile but was happy
"Maul, you're still alive?" Yang answered thinking he'd died when he'd just refused to remain in contact as he said "I think I'm coming back, there's something we need to talk about..."
"You know where the Xavier Institute is, right?" Yang queried as Maul replied "Never heard of it, but I'll find it...shouldn't be very hard" Maul was highly intelligent and resourceful as well as powerful both with his magic, which he doesn't like using very much, and his preferred hand to hand capabilities, having more speed and flexability than Yang despite being twice his size, Yang doesn't know his real name either but he prefers to be called Maul
A/N - With Bane and Yang's respective apprentices on their way to the mansion, Zaraki, Azazel and even Yang's mysterious student, Maul not far behind, how are the X-Men going to stop Michael and Logan coping with the new additions to his powers from Nogitsune's possession of his body?