This is my very first fan fiction series. I am sorry if there are many errors in this chapter.
I DO NOT SHAKUGAN NO SHANA NOR ITS CHARACTERS! HOWEVER, EXPECT THAT THIS FANFICTION WILL HAVE VERY HIGH SIMILIRATIES WITH THE ORIGINAL STORY BUT DO NOT WORRY! Expect OCs and plotlines different from the original.
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"I Sakai Yuji, commands you, flames of the power of existence, to restore everything - TIME MEMORY!" Yuji's body began to glow with blue light before the black flames completely dominated the Mystes' body. The black flames around Yuji blazed and turned itself into an inferno, releasing its aura with all of its glory. A large magic circle afterwards appeared under his feet, encompassing the entire city. Then dust around the ruined city began to rise up and revolve around Yuji.
The dust around Yuji began to settle down into the ruined landscape as the black flames rained down into the earth, burning everything on sight. Then the ashes rose up from the ground and from those ashes, the ruins turned into buildings and houses. Humans, who were involved in the battle, finally were restored like magic. Everything eventually went back to normal.
"Kazumi, I hope that I will see you again! I promise." Then a drop of tear came out of his eye then falls into the Earth.
"Finally, the battle is done and all thanks to Yuji! We won!" Shana screams out of happiness and enjoyment.
"We won" the Crimson denizen and the flame hazes celebrated their victory.
"We might have won this battle, but the war is not yet over." Hecate states her opinion.
"Yes, and I think the Mystes knows that." Sydonay states his opinion while looking up and the Mystes who is thinking about something while looking at the horizon.
Chapter 14 – Aftermath
Burning with black, white, and blue flames, Yuji remained hovering in the sky. While looking at the newly restored city with its frozen citizens, Yuji cannot do but think about Kazumi. As he looked at the horizon filled with crimson sky.
"Hey Reiji Maigo, can I ask you about something?" Yuji asked the treasure that was resting inside his heart.
"Yes Master, what can I answer for you?" the Reiji Maigo asked him.
"It's just that what really happened to Kazumi, the one that disappeared inside that hole." Yuji asked the Reiji Maigo.
"I don't know Master. The only thing I knew about those black spheres is that they serve as portals to another dimension or they may lead to the great abyss, a region where infinite darkness reign supreme." The Reiji Maigo explained to Yuji his knowledge about the nature of the black spheres.
"I see! Well, I am surely impressed by your vast knowledge. How come you knew so many things, Reiji Maigo?" Yuji asked the Reiji Maigo.
"I don't know why, I'm sorry master." The Reiji Maigo answered Yuji's question in an unconventional method.
"I understood! Don't worry yourself Reiji Maigo." Yuji comforted the Reiji Maigo.
"Thank you Master." The Reiji Maigo expressed his appreciation to the Mystes.
"Well, if what you said was real, that those spheres lead to somewhere else, then I'm sure that Kazumi is still alive. The proof that she still exists is that I remember her and the bracelet that she gave to me still shines in my hand." Yuji reinforced his belief that Kazumi is still alive.
"I hope you were right, Master." The Reiji Maigo answered Yuji with a half-approving-half-doubting face.
Yuji finally deactivates the fuzetsu that he had summoned earlier. Yet after deactivating his spell, Yuji still, feels very sad with sorrow and suffering grips his very soul. As he looked ahead, he finally saw the moon that shines above him. The cool breeze whips his body with a gentle force.
"Kazumi, I shall looked for you, no matter where you are! I will wait for you. Thank you for your love that you have given to me, even though you knew that I am not even close to being human. Thank you for being there with me when I need you the most and above all else, thank you for the care that you have shown to me." Yuji cried as he uttered his words with his mouth while looking at the seemingly endless horizon.
"Yuji-kun, are you alright?" Hecate immediately looked at Yuji's face. She then noticed that Yuji's tears were flowing out of him like waterfalls.
"Hey, Yuji, are you alright?" Shana also asked him while hovering in the sky together with Hecate.
"Do you remember a girl wields the name Kazumi?" Yuji asked the two while crying.
"Kazumi, who is she? I don't know her, why?" Shana immediately answered Yuji's question.
"Kazumi, Kazumi, Kazumi – I can't remember if have I even meet her. Do you know her, Yuji-kun?" Hecate answered Yuji's question.
"Oh! I see, nevermind!" Yuji then looked back and slowly moved away from the two of them.
"I wonder what happened to Yuji-kun." Hecate asked Shana.
"Yeah, I think he is just tired after all that battle." Shana expresses her opinion on Yuji's situation.
After the fuzetsu was dispelled, all the flame hazes and the crimson denizens involved immediately scattered away and wear there disguises to blend in with the society. Sydonay on the other hand looked for Yuji and finally he found him.
"Sakai Yuji, what shall we do now? Are we going to let Bal Masque get away? I think, if we are to eliminate the threat posed by Bal Masque, I think we should strike them now when they are still weak." Sydonay asked Yuji about what to do with Bal Masque.
"Let them go. Let them go for now. Besides, I don't care what in the world are they going to do next." Yuji answered Sydonay with a very sad tone.
"But… Wait did something happened inside that battle. Tell me Sakai Yuji." Sydonay asked Yuji about his present condition.
"Hey Sydonay do you know how it feels to lost someone who is important to you?" Yuji asked Sydonay with a very downhearted feeling.
"Well, why do you asked, Sakai Yuji?" Sydonay asked Yuji with an anxious face.
"Just asking, I am just wondering why I am feeling like this. We are victorious yet I am defeated. Why did this happen, Sydonay-san – why?" Yuji's eyes began to wonder through the sky and thinking about Kazumi.
"It seems that you are very problematic this time Sakai Yuji. Well then, since you are the leader of our organization in this city and you are the one who have successfully defeated that guy, so you have every right to decide what to do, Sakai Yuji!" Sydonay leave Yuji behind as he moves back to the headquarters. Yuji on the other hand was alone in the sky and left to wander aimlessly while grieving for his lost friend.
Many days have passed since the incident. However, Yuji hasn't even recovered from his lost. Everyone, even Alastor, has any memories or traces of existence that proves Kazumi's existence. He even asked Ike about Kazumi, but he has no idea who is she.
Yuji is breaking apart. Every time he remembers Kazumi's last farewell and her final resolve, Yuji's heart crumbles into pieces. His heart cannot take anymore the weight of the disappearance of a friend that accepted him and loved him even though he is not human.
Then one night, three weeks after Bal Masque's invasion of Misaki City, Yuji is again on his spot in the sky, where his mind automatically synchronizes with Kazumi's mind and where Kazumi finally disappeared. As looked into the moonless sky filled with stars, his thoughts were wondering.
"Reiji Maigo, I have been wondering." Yuji asked the Reiji Maigo.
"What is that you are wondering, Master." The Reiji Maigo asked about Yuji's inquiry.
"I wonder. What if I am have been stronger? What if I focus more on Morphius more than Bel Peol before Morphius could even copy you, Reiji Maigo? What if I have discovered your true nature earlier? Could all those things change the outcome of the battle?" Yuji asked the Reiji Maigo.
"Indeed, if you did more of what you just have said a while ago, then everything could have change. That young girl couldn't have disappeared the die. However, time is a one-way trip. You can go forward but you cannot walk back. You can only back at it." The Reiji Maigo expressed his opinions.
"Hey! Hey! Sakai-san it has been a long time. Sad again, aren't you? That human girl and her disappearance really have kick you out of balance." Johan said to Yuji who was staring on the moonless sky with pale eyes.
"Kazumi is an important person for me. She was and has been there for me even before Shana arrived. Now I lost her. I have saved the city. I have protected everyone. However, why can't I protect one single valuable girl of my life, tell me Johan, why?" Yuji began to cry again.
"Easy there brother, don't push yourself to hard. You have to ease yourself up. Don't blame yourself. Maybe it was her fate to disappear that night. Maybe it was just her time to…" Suddenly Johan was interrupted by Yuji's sudden burst of power. When he looked at Yuji, his circular pupils became slits and the side of his pupils began to glow with yellow light.
"Fate - What are you talking about Johan? Don't make a foul out of me! Well if what you have just said was true, that fate is the one that was pulling the strings behind the scenes, then I cannot allow it continue on playing with people's lives. If wars were fate's way of playing, then I shall end up all fighting. I shall destroy that reasons why wars exist. I already lost Kazumi ones, I cannot allow both Hecate… and… Shana…" Yuji was suddenly cut-up with his words when he said Hecate and Shana's name.
"I see! Hecate and Shana were already walking down in the path that was in stored with me and they were able to walk with me in a close distance was because they were powerful. Now, in order to chase me, she wished to become powerful and so when she able to muster all of her strength on that day, she finally stand up close to me. Why didn't I realize it?" Yuji is very confused be his emotions after he realize why Kazumi was there. Yuji finally calmed down. With his anger finally subsides, his eyes were then back to normal.
"Wow, you have just realized that. You really are the densest being I know both in the crimson world and the human world." Johan proudly expressed his opinion to Yuji. "Well then Mystes, I bid farewell to you now. I can't stay out for long" Johan finally disappeared and returned to the Reiji Maigo.
"Don't worry Kazumi, you already have reached me. Your voice surely was a reassuring remedy. Wait… voice – no – a roar." Then Yuji remembered a segment of his memories as his memories replayed through his mind.
"A roar, I heard a powerful roar while we are fighting. Reiji Maigo, can you tell me of anything that could be related between the roar, you – the Reiji Maigo and the opponent? In addition, did something happened out of the ordinary while we are fighting" Yuji asked the Reiji Maigo.
"To be honest, I have also heard that roar, but I have never known someone or something that could create do something like that." The Reiji Maigo honestly answered Yuji.
"I understood! Now then I think it's time to investigate that sound, the roar that causes my victory." Yuji finally starts his descent back to Misaki City. "A roar huh, I wonder how it came into existence, what is it made of and why it was there. This cannot be just plain roars. That one is a special one that enables me to use black flames. "Yuji speaks out of his curiosity.
Meanwhile on the ground, while Yuji were hovering high above the sky, Hecate, on the other hand was wondering what Yuji could have been thinking. Yuji seems disconnected to the world with reasons she doesn't understand.
"Yuji-kun, I know something is not alright here. I know that! Yuji-kun, I hope I could help you but it seems that you are always unreachable. What really might have happened that night?" Then Hecate remembered something. It's all about the black spheres that formed that night.
"Those black spheres, does those things could have been related to Yuji's sadness and sorrow. However, how is it related to Yuji's sorrow? Those spheres could only lead an individual to the other worlds. Something isn't right here. I better check it out!" Hecate then vanished in the night as she looks for anyone who might have known something about the black spheres of existence.
The night by the next day, Yuji was absent again. It has been four straight days since Yuji last enter school. It was also been quite some time when Yuji last talk about something with Shana or the others. Shana now began to worry about Yuji. All she could remember the last week was that Yuji had been asking here about a girl she doesn't know and his been acting weird since then.
Flashback
"Hey Shana, can I ask you one thing?" Yuji asked her.
"Yes, Yuji, what is it about?" Shana anxiously waits for Yuji's question.
"Do you know a girl who goes by the name Yoshida Kazumi?" Yuji asked Shana while looking at a bracelet on his hand.
"Kazumi… Kazumi… no I don't remember her. However, why are you asking me this Yuji" Shana asked Yuji.
Yuji looked away and sighed. Shana asked Yuji however; she failed to capture Yuji's attention. He just looks at his bracelet with eyes full of sadness and sorrow. He walked away from Shana afterwards. It seems that Yuji now has his own world as if she never existed there after she answered his question.
End of Flashback
"Alastor, do you have any idea why Yuji seems to be acting weird. He seems to be very sad. As if, he lost something. Do you think there is a reason behind it?" Then Shana felt some strong presence coming close to her and closing in to her at a very fast speed.
Moments later, they have finally sighted the source of the powerful flames. It was Yuji, but this time his flames were a strange mixture of black, blue, and silver light. Its presence is indeed very strong even for someone who has the Reiji Maigo.
"Hey Alastor, when did we first notice that Yuji was acting weird and when did he first the Yuji was able to muster that kind of power." Shana asked Alastor.
"Black Flames, I also wonder what Sakai Yuji really is. Those kind of flames especially the black flames, only one man in the crimson world who can use those flames but it should have been impossible." Alastor wonders as he looked at a high-speed moving power of existence.
"One more thing, why is Yuji very sad as if something very important to him was lost. It has been three weeks already since that event happened. Mind if I ask you a question, Alastor?" Shana asked Alastor who was catching a glimpse on the flying Mystes.
"What is Shana?" Alastor then switched his attention from Yuji to Shana.
"What are those black spheres that showed up I the battle between Yuji and Morphius?" Shana asked Alastor while wondering about the extent of things.
"Yes Alastor-sama, what really might have happened that night? It seems something happened to Yuji and those black spheres might have been related to his peculiar actions." Hecate arrived to the location were Shana and Alastor were discussing. "Oh! Shana it's you, nice to meet you here." Hecate greeted Shana, but Shana didn't bother to answer Hecate's greetings.
"So what brings you here, Hecate of the Supreme Throne?" Alastor asked Hecate.
"Alastor-san, can you please stop calling me Supreme Throne. You can just call me Hecate." Hecate advised Alastor.
"Well then I shall call you Hecate from now on. However, I know that you are not here because you want me to call you by your name. Hecate, what are your motives and you came here?" Alastor asked Hecate.
"My real intentions – you really are as brilliant and perceptive as what my father, the Snake of the Festival mentioned me a long time ago." Hecate states her compliment to Alastor. "Alastor-san, do you know something about those black spheres aside from the fact that it allows any entity from all the eleven worlds to crisscross from one universe to another?" Hecate asked Alastor about her question.
"The black spheres – I know one day someone will ask me about it. Well then, I will tell you one thing about the gates of the abyss, the eleven worlds, and the secrets of humanity. Humans were a cursed race. Thus, fate has created a destiny for them to live to, only to be devoured by then other races, but not all of them. Those races that protected the human race prohibit them to enter another universe to maintain stability of the eleven worlds and to preserve the human race who was once the most…" Alastor stopped his explanation when he was about to say something.
"What's the matter Alastor?" Shana asked Alastor and demanded an explanation why he stopped.
"The fate that awaits for those humans who will cross the gates is to be forgotten. Those who will pass the gates shall suffer a punishment more extreme than death, the human curse. Every human who will have this curse will have their presence completely wiped out as if they never exist at all. Every connection they have will disappear. Everything about them will vanished and they will be trapped between the worlds for eternity." Alastor explained the hidden secrets of the doors and humanity.
"I see! Then can you tell us more, Alastor?" Shana asked him while begging.
"No, I cannot! Only Crimson Gods have the right to know about this secret. I'm sorry Shana!" Alastor expresses to her his apologies.
"I understand now! Someone who was once important to Yuji-kun was sucked into the portal. It all makes sense then. That's what he was trying to say when he said to Sydonay that we have been victorious against Morphius yet he was defeated when he lost that, I think he calls her Kazumi I think?" Hecate finally figured it out Yuji's true thoughts and feelings. "That's why he feels sad, sorrow and suffering." Hecate added, expressing her opinion about Yuji's emotions.
"Hey Alastor, come to think of it, you just said that anyone who entered the doors are destined to be forgotten, and so there shall be no trace of them that they exist at all in the first place, am I right, Alastor?" Shana tries to confirm her thoughts about the gates of the abyss.
"Yes, Shana! No creatures or races in the eleven worlds are exempted in this rule. Why do you asked Shana?" Alastor asked Shan about why she was able to ask that question.
"Yuji! Why Yuji was able to remember this girl?" Shana asked Alastor about Yuji's situation why he was able to remember Kazumi.
"Yes, come to think of it, why did it happen?" Hecate asked Alastor about Yuji.
"I don't have the answer of that question. No one should be able to remember her after all about that thing that happened, that is if she human at all. However being a creature other than humans could explain it, but there is one problem regarding about the topic. We have no memories of her nor do we have any evidence that she even exist in the first place." Alastor clarifies his point to the two curious girls.
"I see, thank you a lot, Alastor-san. That helps a lot! Goodbye and goodnight to the two of you then!" Hecate then flew away from the scene and finally she vanished away.
"The girl sure has the qualities the same with that guy." Alastor then smirked.
"Well then now that we now know something, we must start doing something now. I must also buy a gift for Yuji, there are five more days left before Christmas Eve. I must comfort him now, now that he – no – we have lost one important friend." Shana said to herself.
"Do what you wish, Shana?" Alastor gave Shana his blessings, and then the two of them left the scene and started to walk away.
"Yuji, I'm so sorry I failed to notice your suffering that we have lost an important person. I hope I can help you somehow, Yuji." Shana expressed her feelings of remorse and grief to Yuji.
Meanwhile on Sereiden, Bal Masque is now alive. Crimson Lords from all over the four corners of the world gathered on this special event to discuss the final move. Finally, Bal Masque has recovered from the deep wounds of humiliation and defeat.
"Lords of Bal Masque; Tredinor, Morphius and Bel Peol – finally we are ready to take the next step." Fecor kneeled in front of the new trinity.
"Fecor, stand up! Now listen everyone, are all of you aware of the risk we are facing here in this final step for the completion of our plan?" Bel Peol stood up and faced the crowd gripping her fist tight.
"Kindly enumerate to us the risk that we are about to face here, Bel Peol-sama?" A crimson lord asked Bel Peol. Bel Peol then sighed as she looked at her subordinates.
"Tredinor and Morphius haven't told you anything. Very well then, Misaki City, the place where a vital piece in order to revive our great lord, is also the most heavily armed city in the world. Now are you ready to face such a threat." Bel Peol asked her people.
"Yes we are aware about that fact. Now that you have talked about that, milady, according to my subjects, after the defeat of Bal Masque in Misaki City, the numbers of their armies over that region has expanded by almost 100 times." One Crimson Lord reported his newly gathered intelligence to the leader of Bal Masque.
"Added to that, all of these numbers are concentrated to the last three legendary general of Bal Masque under Sydonay's command – Marchosias, the legendary cavalry general; Haborym, the best artillery commander; and Ribesal, the greatest infantry general." Another Crimson Lord made statement about the presence of the three generals. Then crowd then started to feel the greatness of their opponents.
"No, it's not the three generals that are the threat here, but the flame hazes who will be present in that battle. In addition to that, the flamed hair burning eyes Shana, the contractor of the flame of heaven, Alastor the God of Atonement and Destruction. Furthermore, Hecate of the Supreme Throne and Sydonay of the Thousand Changes will be fighting against us there!" A Crimson Lord states his fears to his comrades, adding up to the number of the threats to deal with.
"The three former generals of our great lord are now our opponents. The last time these three were fighting together, they have managed to hold off the greatest army ever assembled in the history of our kind, the defence of Sereiden. That battle between the four crimson gods and there immense collection of flame hazes, crimson lords and hundreds of billions of denizens against Bal Masque's army of less than ten million strong and our lord himself was there legacy and why Bal Masque remains as it is today. Bel Peol-sama, I know that you already know how good those people are. We don't have any generals here except you yourself and Decarabia who can match those men." A crimson lord cowers in fear as he thought about the three generals.
"Bel Peol-sama, I suggest that we deploy all of our troops, including all the Crimson Lords in this battle. The real threat is not the three generals, the flame hazes, Sydonay of the Thousand Changes, Hecate of the Supreme Throne nor the Flame Haired Burning Eyes Hunter, Shana the contractor of the Flame of Heaven, the Crimson God Alastor. If the information I have from one of my subordinates who were also in that battle, the greatest threat that we have today is the Mystes of the Reiji Maigo himself…." The Crimson Lord speaks his opinion and suggestion about the incoming battle when all of a sudden Morphius moved in front of him and began to speak.
"Indeed you are right my comrade! That Mystes is indeed the greatest threat for our success. If we are to win this battle, we must first get rid of him! I say we must…" Morphius was in the middle of his statement when Bel Peol interrupted him.
"Morphius, I know you bear a grudge against the Mystes of the Reiji Maigo, however, Morphius have you already done what I asked you to do?" Bel Peol asked Morphius about the task she had appointed to him.
"If that tasked is what you are totally concerned about, then don't worry, I have already done it. Now we have three of those stuffs, not a problem at all! We can make the statue work again with no hassle and eliminate every threat who dares to stand in our way." Morphius brags about his achievement. Bel Peol then laughed, thinking about the victory that she thinks was in stored for them.
"I see, well good job, Morphius. With that kind of weapon, not even that Mystes could defeat us. Five days from now, the night before Christmas, we shall revive the statue of pride, and with that we shall summon our great lord – the Snake of the Festival." Bel Peol, then raised her fist. "My comrades, by Christmas Eve, we shall launched an invasion at Misaki City and by Christmas, our great lord shall walk among us, leading us to our paradise." Bel Peol, states her bold declaration, launching the crowd into a frenzy of screams and cries of joy."
"Finally, milord, we can finally walk by your side. We can finally live in peace, together with your subjects." Beol Peol expressed her excitement in her mind while watching the crowds.
While a great festivity was happening in the Sereiden, were millions upon millions of denizens are preparing themselves to the great battle that is going to happen, in Misaki City, Yuji's search for his answer continues. This time in the skies of his beloved city, Yuji was staring at the moonless sky. Finally, after a nine-month wait, the winter snow arrives.
"Snow!" Yuji while hovering the sky realized that it was snowing.
"Master, behold the end of the current era and the dawn of a new one." The Reiji Maigo declared the incoming change.
"I feel that a few days from now, a major event are going to trigger a massive change that will usher in a new era." Yuji states his concerns to the Reiji Maigo.
"I agree with your instincts, Master!" the gears of the Reiji Maigo then began to turn faster. Finally, the flames of the power of existence inside Yuji intensify.
"Well then my friend, shall we prepare for the new day. This is not the time to mourn. I shall correct my mistakes. I don't want to see anyone to suffer like Kazumi. I don't want to lose more loved ones. After that, I shall solve the mystery between the loud roar and Kazumi's whereabouts." Yuji expresses his will and determination as he watch the snow falling into the ground.
"Yes, Master! I shall follow your every command." The Reiji Maigo states his resolved to the Mystes, his master. After that, Yuji flew away from there and then finally disappeared.
End of Chapter
Note: I'm all out of ideas. Therefore, what I did is to do the time skipping thing. I have no idea what to do with my characters at this point.
Note: Kazumi is making an impact in the story. If you want to ask why I turned the plot into these, it was because I was watching Guilty Crown while I was writing this chapter. I was amazed how an individual could be change in just a blink of an eye. Anyway just read my story if want to see what I have in mind.
Note: I'm sorry about the news I am going to tell you. In this story, I will never use the 'selection under Misaki Tower scene' since Yuji is full of grief and Shana and Hecate were quite disturbed about their Yuji. Moreover, the main character for that night, Kazumi was also missing. So again, I am very sorry. Nevertheless, that battle will still be present in this story. This time the goal is not to capture Yuji or do something else. Rather it will be a battle about… sorry I am not going to spoil this one out.
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