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With that, here's the Lævateinn's Awakening.
The screams of despair and suffering filled the chamber as the Lady Angel savored the taste of her wine. Two men in robes approached her and simultaneously bowed in her presence. Protruding from their backs were angel wings that fluttered.
"Your Lady." The one on the left gestured. "We are close to our acquired goal."
"How many more souls do we need?" The Lady Angel asked in a rather calm fashion.
"We've collected around eight-hundred and twenty nine, give or take." The man on the right answered. "All we need is one hundred and seventy-nine more. Give us three-four days, tops."
"FIne." She agreed as she took another sip. "What about the hell spawn?"
"We just got word he arrived yesterday. He and his friends avoided the Drunken Clover clan."
The Lady Angel chuckled, but under it was full of malice an sadisty. "No matter, he'll be here soon."
She shooed them away. "Now go collect more anguished souls, so we can finally use Divine's Grace."
"With all due respect, your Lady; what is Divine's Grace?" The man on the left asked, making sure not to look at her
"Collect the souls, and I'll tell you. Now leave."
They both did as told and left her to her own affairs.
Kurai sat in the dusty dark basement of his mother's home meditating as she finished tracing a pentagram lying under him with the Lævateinn. Ten figures in gray voluminous robes stood over him with unlit candles in each of their hands.
One of the figures pulled the robe revealing them to be Kokoa. "I'm sorry; do we really have to wear these?" She asked as she took a deep breath.
"I saw it in a movie. I thought it would help with the mood." Gin responded from one of the robes.
Kurumu pulled the robe over her head. "What I want to know is why do you have these?"
The shortest of them all raised their hand. "And why was there one in my size?" Yukari asked
"Quiet." Katsumi told them. They all placed their robes back on.
She finished the pentagram and stood in front of Kurai.
She got everyone's attention. "I want you all to surround seven of the candles around him on the circle."
They all did as told and made a barrier of candles surrounding him.
Katsumi took a deep breath. "In order for the Lævateinn to reach it's true form, you must establish a blood link." She handed him a small knife. Kurai picked it up and immediately slashed his arm. He was used to cutting himself so he could feed on animal souls, so this wasn't a problem. He barely felt it at all.
Kiria didn't like the image of him cutting himself. "Please be careful." She said to herself.
As the first drop spilled, Katsumi caught it with the blade, and several other more drops as Kurai's arm stitched itself back together.
"When you harness the Lævateinn's true form, you both will feel each other's pain. Your tears will become one, and if one falls, the other goes with them. But in retribution, the capabilities only a Demon is able to perform will become stronger than you can even comprehend. Are you sure you want to go through with this?"
Everyone stared at him in anticipation.
Kurai took a moment to think this through. It went something like this:
Pro: Power.
Con: Easier chance of dying.
Would you really want to go through with this?
Despite that compelling mental argument. "Yes I do." He said sealing the deal.
"I want you to light the candles with your tainted fire." Katsumi ordered
Kurai snapped his fingers, and purple flames lit the candles. The wax from the candles melted faster and soon began to run through the pentagram.
"Cloaked in the darkness from the eternal hell from where it was birthed, may the ancient Demon blade Lævateinn establish a link that will be the fall of the Angel herself..."
Kiria stepped back after hearing that.
As his mother spoke a dark aura surrounded Kurai that resulted in the room starting to violently shake.
"Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth, Envy, and Pride. May the seven demons of sin bond these two and establish an eternal and powerful connection."
At those very words she took the sword plunged it into Kurai's head, the tip didn't got through him though the entire blade seemed to be submerged within his head.
By the look of his gritting teeth, he seemed to be in pain.
"Stop it, can't you see it's hurting him?" Kiria yelled
Her words fell on deaf ears as the entire room became developed in dark energy.
Tsukune removed his robe. A cold and ominous feeling ran down his spine, and he could tell everyone else felt the same. "Guys, I think it would be best to get out of here." He ran up the stairs with everyone following behind him. They all got out of there leaving Katsumi and Kurai to continue the ritual. As everyone cleared, Tsukune shut the door only to be blasted as the door was blown off of its hinges by an explosion from downstairs. The aftershock shook everyone off their feet.
Moka took the door off of him, and saw him close to unconsciousness. "Are you okay?"
Gin stood up and took a look around. "I don't think that was supposed to happen."
Ruby looked down in the smoldering remains of the basement and covered her mouth in shock. "Guys, you have to see this."
Everyone looked down and saw Katsumi lying under a pile of boxes, while Kurai was lying on his back. And kneeling on top of his chest trying to wake him up was...
"This is the Lævateinn's true form?" Kurai asked as his eyes followed the little girl running across the room.
After he had regained consciousness, Kurai was surprised to find a four year old girl with short green hair, big blue eyes, and an extremely flat chest kneeling on top of him. What was even more surprising (and highly disturbing) was the fact she was stark naked on top of him. Most would get the wrong idea, Kiria was one of those people.
After giving her some clothing, Kurai slumped back on the couch, exhausted from the ritual.
"Now that we got that cleared out, what do we do now?" Kurai asked.
Moka, Yukari, and Kurumu were all trying to play with Lævateinn.
Moka squealed. "Oh my god, you're so cute." She picked her up and waved her around in the air.
Yukari humphed and played with her chest. She turned to Kurumu. "It seems I'm not the one with the flattest chest anymore."
Kurumu responded by poking Yukari's. "Compared to the both of you, hers is bigger."
Yukari huffed and sat back down.
Kurumu turned her attention back to the Lævateinn and buried her head in her bosom in a hugging embrace. "You are so cute, I could just eat you up."
Turns out the Lævateinn took that seriously as she struggled against the succubus and ran cowering behind Kurai. "Nya nya nya nya nya nya nya."
Mizore appeared from behind the couch and patted her head. "Those little noises are adorable."
"Those weren't noises." Kurai said. "She just said keep big boobs away from me."
Kurumu grinded her teeth.
Kurai pointed at her. "Her words, not mine."
Tsukune picked up the Lævateinn. "Really? Cause it sounds like gibberish."
Gin patted Kurai on the back. "It seems he's the only one who could understand her."
"So what are you going to name her?" Moka asked as she tried to pick up the Lævateinn.
"She's right." Ruby agreed. "You can't call her the Lævateinn. so what should we name her?"
"How about Ayami?" Moka suggested.
"Kiyoko, it means pure child." Yukari implied.
Kurai's face vaulted. "You do know she's a demon blade right." He reminded.
"How about Sadako?" Kurumu putted out
Mizore picked her up and bounced her in the air. "Mizore jr then."
Kurai snatched her back. "Absolutely not!"
Kurai looked her in the eyes. "How about Levy? It's short for Lævateinn." Lævateinn giggled at her new name
All the girls sat back down, glummed that their names weren't picked.
Kurai picked up the newly named Levy and smiled. "My name is Kurai." He held out his hand. "Welcome to the world Levy Kage."
"Ley-vee Ko-gay?" She tried to enunciate. She high fived him. "Nya nya nya nya Kai nii-chan." Kiria kissed Kurai's cheek and rested her head on his shoulder while Levy went on to chase Kokoa's pet bat. "She's like our sweet little daughter." Kiria blushed at the very thought of having a child with him.
Kurai busted out laughing. "She just called me nii-chan. How would that even work?"
"How about I'm like her legal guardian?" Kiria suggested. Kurai sighed and turned to his mother and little sister. "So what exactly does our link establish?"
Katsumi shrugged her shoulders and sipped from her teacup. "The hell if I know. You're just going to have to get to know her and see what you can do."
"Can she still turn into a weapon?" Kurai asked.
His mother placed down the teacup. "Of course, but you'll both have to go through hard work, and lots of..."
"WEAK!" Kokoa yelled as she grabbed her bat midflight and it turned into a hammer. She slug him over her shoulder. "If you want to learn how to use her, you need hands on experience." She gave a sadistic grin. "So how about a sparring match, your weapon against mine?"
Inner Moka spoke from inside the Rosary. "I think that would be a good idea."
"Are you sure?" Outer spoke in her head. "Kokoa is a bit unstable."
"But she is without a doubt an expert when it comes to weaponry. She would make a good sparring partner for him." Inner Moka suggested.
Tsukune turned to Kurai in an uneasy look. "You sure that's a good idea?"
Kurai crossed his arms. "You must be crazy if you think I'm going to do that." He was surprised to see Levy give him a determined look.
"Kai nii-chan." She said.
Kurai gulped. "Don't tell me you want to fight her?"
Levy shook her head. "Hai."
Kurai gave in and shrugged his shoulders. "Hell, why not?"
They had found a clearing where Miko usually went to train with Muffy. She said no one really came up there so it would be private.
Kurai stood next to Levy as Kokoa stood a few yards from him with her bat on her shoulder.
Inner Moka decided to spectate the fight and had Tsukune pull off her Rosary. She stood between the both of them. "I want a decent fight, but make it fun to watch. Try not to maul each other." She walked away allowing them to start.
Kokoa's pat turned into a spiked club and she ran full speed at Kurai. The latter grabbed Levy by the arm and pulled her out of the way before she was smashed.
"Now, Levy." Kurai said to her.
Levy looked at him with a dazed look. Kurai tumble rolled out of the way as Kokoa attempted to flatten him.
"Come on Levy, turn into a sword."
Levy shook her head. "Nya nya nya."
"What do you mean you don't remember how?" Kurai yelled as he dodged Kokoa's barrage of tree smashing attacks.
"How come Levy can't turn into a sword?" Tsukune asked.
Moka crossed her arms. "I guess since she was awaken after so long, she doesn't know how."
Kiria watched as Kokoa attacked ruthlessly. "Well can't you call off your psycho sister? She'll only listen to you."
"When it comes to fighting though, Kokoa is beyond reason. She won't stop until she defeats him or vice versa."
Kiria watched the fight in fear. Something in her gut told her to help him, but another side of her wanted to see her boyfriend fight, and what he could do.
Levy refused to turn into a weapon, so the best Kurai could do was avoid the crazy red head. She swung at him a good thirty-two times, and didn't even break a sweat. She really was Moka's little sister.
"Never take your eyes off your opponent." Kokoa commented. She ceased her bat swinging and the little creature returned to normal. This time, it's wing shape alter and changed. His left wing became a sturdy sword hilt, while the left turned into a curved blade.
"My little bat Kou can turn into wide range of weapons I find pleasing." Kokoa bragged.
"If only Levy can turn into a damn weapon." Kurai gritted at her.
Levy, meanwhile gazed at the bat sword and was enveloped in a green light. When the light faded, a teal-green, four foot curved bladed katana appeared where she stood and flew into Kurai's hand. The latter was shocked at what just happened. His shocked expression was followed up with a smirk.
"Now that's more like it." He raised Levy in a fighting stance.
Kurai ran at her and disappeared as Kokoa swung her sword aiming for hi abdomen. He appeared behind her and swung towards the middle of her skull, she blocked with her sword just in the nick of time. She kicked him in the gut and he stumbled back.
"So Levy turned into a weapon after seeing Kokoa's bat demonstrated?" Gin asked.
"It's more like she can copy any weapon she sees." Ruby explained.
"If that's true, why didn't she turn into that spiked club?" Kurumu asked.
"Being a demon blade, she might be only able to turn into a bladed weapon." Tsukune deduced as he continued to watch the fight.
Both weapons were aerodynamic, and fast. Add to their speed, agility, and strength. Both Kokoa and Kurai seemed to be on par and were unable to deal a blow.
Moka spectated in fascination. "I'm impressed, those two seem to be equal. They may make good partners. This may result in a draw."
Kiria overheard her and stared at Kurai with a sad smile. "Partners, huh?" She mumbled with a bit of jealousy in her voice.
"I'll give it to you." Kokoa huffed. "You're pretty good."
Kurai stared at her in silence. Kokoa took this the wrong way. "Don't give me a pity look." She ran at him and slashed him on the side.
What Kokoa found strange was that he didn't cringe, groan, or even hissed in pain.
Instead, his eyes glowed purple and a wave of darkness surrounded him.
"What the hell's your problem?" Kokoa said as she ran to deal a finishing blow. Just as she swung her blade, Kurai ducked and gripped on her chest as a dark wave covered the hand touching her. Just like that Kokoa was thrown back and crashed into two trees.
"What's Kurai doing?" Katsumi asked with worry in her voice.
Kokoa stood up and gripped her arm. She braced for impact with her left arm, unintentionally breaking it when she crashed into the first tree, the second tree worsened it.
Despite that, she got up and gripped her sword with her good arm, letting her other one dangle. "You're going to pay for groping me you pervert." She did a high jump and stuck her foot out ready to kick Kurai's head off.
All of a sudden, he grabbed her leg and slammed her on the ground, making her drop her weapon in the process. He tossed her aside like a rag doll, and she landed on the ground in a heap.
"Don't you think he's getting a little rough on her?" Miko asked as she watched in disgust at how he was comfortable with hitting a girl.
"Don't worry, Kokoa's tougher than she looks." Moka defended.
Kurai raised Levy and her blade started to leak a thick black liquid almost like ink. It gushed from the side and crawled around her until her weapon form turned from green to pitch black.
"I didn't know it could do that." Katsumi asked.
What they didn't know, was that Kurai was starting to make this fight to the death.
Kurai gripped the hilt and pierced Levy into the ground. There was a long, dreadful, piercing scream as the ground began to crack from Levy. Two long, thin, shadowy arms reached out of the hole like serpents and gripped on Kokoa's leg. They raised her up and slammed her body on her injured arm, intensifying the pain. She felt as if someone was crushing her arm with a steam roller.
"You're cheating you son of a bitch." She screamed as the arms began to drag her into the newly formed small fissure.
Tsukune ran to intervene. "Kurai, stop it." He yelled as he shoved his friend getting his attention.
"She's had enou..." He was pushed out of the way as Kurai swung Levy aiming for his chest. Gin, who had just pushed Tsukune, gripped Kurai's arm and performed a disarming manuever successfully knocking Levy out of his hand.
Ruby, Kurumu, Miko and Moka grabbed on Kokoa's arms and attempted to pull her. Kokoa screamed as Kurumu and Ruby tugged on her broken arm. "That hurts a lot." She whined.
Tsukune got back on his feet and approached Gin as he shook Kurai's shoulders trying to snap him out of it.
Kiria approached him and carressed his cheek. "I'm sorry for this." She pulled her arm back and slapped him across the face. LOUD. It was so loud, it echoed through the trees for a split second.
She saw as her boyfriend's eyes returned to the blue she loved so much. Kurai looked around. "What's going on?" He asked as if he had amnesia.
He surveyed his surroundings and saw as two arms dragged Kokoa closer to the small pit.
Kurai grabbed Levy, whose blade turned back to green, and ran to Kokoa's aid. "I got ya."
He slashed with her at the two thin arms, completely severing them. Whoever they belonged to, screamed in agony as they reeled the stumps back into the pit, and the ground stitched itself back together. The two hands he cut off disappeared in a shimmer.
Kurumu helped Kokoa on her feet and she shoved her away. Kurai approached her and awkwardly scratched the back of his head. "Sorry about that." He tried to be apologetic.
Kokoa gritted her teeth and hid her eyes under her hair. "Of all things you could say this very moment, you ask something as fucking dumb as that!" Knocking Kurai to the floor out of sudden anger. She pinned his arms with her knees and punched him in the face with her right fist repeatedly."
"Kokoa! No! Stop it!" Kiria shouted as she reached for Kokoa's arm, but it was a failed attempt to control her, she snatched away with little effort.
As she continued beating the daylights out of him, Kurai laid there and took it with his eyes closed.
Tsukune and Gin dragged Kokoa off her despite her struggling. "I'm going to kill you. YOU LITTLE SHIT!"
"Kokoa calm down." Moka said trying to get her sister under control."
"I'm going to rip his thro-" Her eyes rolled back as her body slumped in her arms.
Standing behind her, Katsumi lowered her hand, which was in a knife hand chop. "Sorry, but she needed to calm down."
Moka nodded. "It's alright, I was about to do the same." She helped Kurai up and handed him to Kiria, who checked at his facial features. Kokoa's beat down left him with a bruised eye and a broken nose.
"Are you okay?" She asked him as she was about to perform her magic on him.
"I'm fine. I'm fine." He assured her.
He turned to Levy who had returned to human form. She ran up and hugged his legs crying.
"Kai nii-chan, Nya nya nya . Nya nya nya nya nya."
Kurai scooped up Levy and hugged her. The latter sobbed on his chest. "You're not a faliure, you did a good job. I'm proud of you." Levy looked him in his bruised, disfigured eyes and bawled again in his neck.
Moka watched the two and sighed as she threw Kokoa on her shoulder. She carried her back to the hous as the others followed her lead. Kurai, Levy, and Kiria were the second to last to leave. They walked back to the house, leaving Katsumi and Miko to talk in privacy.
"So that really is my long lost brother." Miko asked in disbelief.
Katsumi rested her right elbow in her left hand, and her head on her right hand. "Yeah, he's just like his father."
The both of them walked back to the house. "I miss him so much." Katsumi said to herself.
Kurai sat back as Kiria used her healing magic to fix his face. In under a minute, his black eye disappeared. and his nose cricked back into place. They might as well used their hands and turned it back into place.
Kokoa was placed in the bed of the guest room and was tied up. (Not that it would help.)
Miko placed Muffy on her head and handed Kurai a thick book. "Here."
"What is it." Kurai looked at the book and saw a picture of a broadsword.
"A book on all types of weapons both modern and historic. I did the same for Muffy during my training. If you're going to train the Demon blade, it needs to see every kind of weapon possible. It has pictures so she'll have an easier time copying them."
"Thank you so much." He showed Levy the book. "You're going to be a dangerous little girl, aren't you?"
Levy giggled and clapped her hands.
Miko turned to Katsumi. "Mom where's Angus with our groceries? He should've been back hours ago."
"I'm sure he's fine sweetheart, he probably went to look for a new place to get drunk." Kurai's mother poured everyone tea and turned to her son. "What happened out there? You looked a little...off."
"What was up with Levy's change in color? And you trying to drag Kokoa into hell." Moka, who had the Rosary back on asked
Kurai racked his brain trying to think back and then it hit him. "I think it might have something to do with this dream I had during the fight."
"Wait, you were asleep when you tried to kill her?" Kiria asked.
"Man that's cold blooded." Mizore commented.
"It's hard to explain but during the fight, I slipped into some kind of comatose state. One minute Levy turned into a blade, and then everything went black."
"Kind of like her blade. It went pitch black." Ginei reminded.
"So what was the dream?" Kurumu asked.
Kurai sighed and tried to remember and visualize the dream.
"I was in a small room. The floor and even the walls were checkered black and gray. It was dark and I was sitting in an armchair with a TV standing right in front of me. But it was all static as if the cable was cut. The silence was so eerie you could actually hear a pin drop."
Tsukune interrupted "Do you think Levy had something to do with it?" Miko shushed him. "Continue."
Kurai continued "The weird part about the dream was that I wasn't alone. There were two people, one on each side of the TV staring dead at me."
"Did you get a good look?" Kiria asked him.
"Let me finish." Kurai tried to remember their faces. "There was a guy and a girl. Um...the guy had black hair with some of it brushed covering his right eye. He wore some kind of tunic or some kind of cloak. But what got me was his eyes, they were red and slitted, like a vampire or a demon's. And there was a girl on the other side. She had violet hair that reached up to her chin, and she wore a green dress similar to Ruby's. But there was something else, there was something familiar about her but I couldn't put my finger on it."
Kurai cocked his head back in deep thought. "I felt like I've seen her before but I can't remember ever meeting her or someone remotely close."
Kiria clenched her fist in a fit of light jealousy. The very thought of another girl in Kurai's dreams sickened her. But she quickly dispelled that thought. 'Does he think of other girls?'
"What did they do in the dream?" Kiria asked him.
"They talked to me. Let me think for a second." He tried to remember the detailed conversation from within his subconscience.
"He told me that I'm fighting a losing battle. At first I thought it was about the Angel, but he told it was against the strange darkness that lurked within my heart. He told me I might as well lose everything and succumb to it. I had no idea what he was talking about. But if I had to guess, he was talking about turning me evil. As for the girl, she said something different. She told me to remember what I had forgotten. Try to remember before the Angel tried to Purge me."
"Wait a minute, what does the Purge mean?" Yukari asked.
"It means to rid someone of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition, typically giving a sense of cathartic release. A feeling of pure bliss." Ruby defined.
Katsumi turned to Kurai in grave horror. "Don't tell me the Lady Angel tried to perform the Purging on you."
"The Purging?" Mizore asked
Kiria nodded. "It's an old spell that was commonly used by Angels, as a way to "Purify" a soul that left for the path of sin. But it was a dangerous technique and was forbidden to be used. It's been like that for over two hundred years."
"What does it do?" Moka asked.
Ruby stood up to answer. "It takes away everything that is valuable to a person's existence. Their memories, their sense of self, emotions, personalities, it doesn't kill you but the feeling makes you beg for death. It's similar to a Demon taking someone's soul."
Tsukune remembered the words Kurai said after he took Kuyous's soul: "A fate worse than death. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no...anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just - exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever...lost."
"So there's an Angel's way of stripping someone of their being?" Tsukune asked.
Katsumi nodded and turned to her son. "Kurai, what exactly do you remember?" She asked.
"I remember everything from when I was taken, and when I escaped at the age of five, living on my own for the next six years, and than...and than..." He tried to remember what happened next. "I remember waking up in a hospital bed and there was a package with my Yokai Academy uniform, and acceptance letter. I woke up and four years had passed. I was in a coma for four years."
"And you never told us?" Tsukune asked feeling suspicious he kept this piece of information from his friends.
"It was all in the past, I thought I was over it. Although that is one thing I don't remember, how I ended up in one." He pointed to Tsukune and Moka. "Ever since I met you two, weird things have been happening to me. From the headaches, to the anger issues, a lot of freaky shit went down ever since I met you guys."
They both hung their headsKurai caught his mistake and realized he was inadvertatly blaming them for all his problems.
"And I don't blame you at all." He finished.
They both gave him reassuring smiles.
Kurumu pouted her lip in thought. "So if the Angel's Purging can erase one's memories, maybe it has a different effect on Demons. Putting him in a four year coma."
"That's maybe the smartest thing you ever said." Yukari teased. Kurumu chose to ignore that.
Kurai turned to his mother. "There's something I wanted to ask you since we got here: Where is exactly is the Angel's base?"
Katsumi turned to Miko, the latter nodded in agreement. Katsumi turned to her son and kneeled next to him.
"From what Angus told me, their location is in Wishaw county. It's about a fourty-five minute drive from here. About two months after the church house collapse in Japan, the church in that county burned to the ground. A week later it was bought and became private property. No one is allowed in, which makes it a good place to hide. He told me for the past two months, they built another chamber and the missing cases in this town started piling up."
Kurai's teeth griited and his eyes glowed red. "Than we're going to bust all those prisoners out of there tonight."
Katsumi shook her head. "Out of the question. You don't even know what or who is waiting there. They could have hundreds of guard. And you haven't even gotten close to mastering the Lævateinn ."
Kurai stood up and stared his mother in the eye. "Who give's a shit?! While we're talking, people are suffering down there. Fuck a plan, I'm going on pure instinct."
"And that brand of stupidity is what's going to get you killed." Katsumi countered.
"Maybe you don't know what it's like having someone make your life hell, cause I do. For two years, that's how I felt 24/7. Maybe you don't give two shits what happened to my mother but I did."
"I am your mother." Venom dripped from Katsumi's words.
This time, Kurai went over the deep end. "You know what, Miley, Kami, whatever the fuck you want to call her, she was more of a mother to me in the five years since I was born than you ever were in my life."
Katsumi's eyes widened as he muttered something heart breaking. "Cause you were never in my life."
The entire room went silent. Unlike everyone else in the room, Kurai was unaware of the damage the words he said had caused.
Katsumi raised her hand up looking like she was about to slap him, she placed her hand down and started to tear up. She was shaking from both intense anger and from sobbing.
"If that's how you feel." She muttered as she went to her bedroom door. "Than you can go die for all I care." She slammed the door and the sound made everyone flinch from uneasiness.
Kurai gripped on the weapon book and stormed out of the front door. "Let's go Levy."
The little weapon did as told and followed him out the front door.
Everyone sat there speechless of what just went down. All of a sudden, Kiria ran out of the door to stop Kurai before he did something stupid.
As she walked out the door she saw him with Levy hanging on to his neck.
"Kurai." She ran up in front of him and hugged him tight. "Please it's getting late. Go back and apologize to your mother an-"
She was silenced as Kurai gave her a stone cold gaze. "I thought I made it clear she's not my mother." He walked past her and kept his back to her as he walked a little bit
"Are you coming with me?" He abruptly asked her.
Kiria's eyes teared up and she looked at him with his back turned to her. She waited too long to answer and he got the wrong idea. "That's what I thought."
"Kurai wait!"
He and Levy disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kiria fell on her knees and sobbed to the ground as she clutched her stomach. "I love you."
Several hours passed and Kurai stood with Levy riding on his shoulders in front of an old chapel that was claimed to be private property. The front entrance was locked with several chains and a key lock
"Are you ready Levy?" Kurai asked her.
"Kai nii-chan. Nya nya nya nya nya."
Kurai ruffled her hair. "Everything is going to be fine. I'm not going to let anyone hurt you."
Levy nodded and jumped off his shoulder.
"Okay Levy, bowie mode."
"Hai." Levy transformed and took the form of a bowie knife with a serrated back. Kurai gripped the handle and stabbed the key hole of the lock. A second later, it broke and all the chains fell to the floor.
"Too easy." Kurai smirked.
He slowly opened the door and entered without a peep. The entire place was dark and a familiar sensation went through him.
"I can feel countless souls from beneath my feet Levy." He loosened his grip on her. "Katana mode."
The blade became longer and curved until he was now holding the same katana from earlier.
The interior looked like any other church. Rows of seats, an alter with an organ. A wooden statue of a crucified Jesus Christ. Nothing really out of the ordinary.
Kurai looked around for any place that led to a chamber. That's when he felt a chill run down his spine. He quickly turned around and slashed several oncoming objects flying towards him.
"I see the welcoming committee is here." He picked up the remains of what he had just cut off. It felt rough but undeniably smooth. It felt like...
"Paper?" He said to himself.
He gripped the katana Levy and watched as the familiar face of Thushimo approach him.
"So I see your loyalty belongs to the Angel." Kurai said as he readied Levy.
Thushimo remained silent as he pulled on the skin of his arm, and Kurai watched in disgust as his skin stretched and wrapped around his body like silly putty. A majority of it covered the top of his head, and mouth, his entire upper body, and his pelvis.
"Seeing as you're aware of monster existence, it's safe to assume you're not human. By the looks of it, you're a Mummy."
Thushimo smirked at his deduction.
Quick Monster Fact:
A mummy is a deceased human or animal that had been resurrected by the means of Witchcraft or Necromancy. Back in Ancient Egypt, slaves would wrap their pharaohs and kings in paper made from a strong material called papyrus, and preserve their internal organs in jars. They would bury them in tombstones called a Sarcophagus with gold and treasure because they believed in a life after death. Mummies are normally peaceful creatures but are also vengeful and extremely dangerous, especially to grave robbers who would disturb their tombs. Because they lack a brain due to their mummification, mummies are considered to be mentally challenged, but in actuality are intelligent beings.
Thushimo held out his hand and his fingers stretched and rocketed towards Kurai, who responded by grabbing them and using his strength to throw the mummy man over his shoulder. Thushimo flew in the air and slammed into the alter.
Kurai ran to him and attempted to impale Levy through his chest, but as the mere blade hit his chest, Levy refused to go through him. It was like trying to cut through a block of lead.
Before Kurai could even react, Thushimo's fist collided with Kurai's gut, sending him flying a few yards near the front entrance.
Kurai picked up Levy. 'This guy's mere skin is like metal, and his punch felt like a hammer.'
An idea popped into his head. He gripped Levy's hilt. "Levy, saw mode."
A second later, Levy changed from a katana into a chainsaw with a green saw. Kurai gripped the handle and pulled on the cord until she revved to life.
Kurai's eyes turned red. "And Kiria said watching that horror movie was bad for me."
The mummy merely snapped his fingers and the entire room went pitch black.
"So that's how you took care of those drunks." Kurai said
Thushimo remained silent as he extended his hands and his fingers rocketed towards Kurai again. He dodged with a high jump and swung the saw down on his shoulder. Kurai saw as Levy started to cut through his skin like armor. He squinted his eyes as flying bits of paper and skin flew in all directions.
Thushimo smirked and sent another punch for Kurai's gut. But was surprised when Kurai blocked it with his own hand.
"I think it's time to light things up." Kurai's hand bursted into flames, and Thushimo easily started to catch fire. The flames spread from his arm to his chest, and in under a minute, Thushimo was completely smothered in flames.
When it finally died down, all there was left was a pile of ash, and soot.
Levy turned back into human form. She placed her hands on her hips.
"Nya nya nya nya." She scolded
"Sorry about that." Kurai chuckled. After looking around, they came up with nothing. There was one other door at the side of the building.
"I can feel the presence of multiple people." Kurai said to Levy. "So we go here."
Just as he was about to open it:
"Nii-chan." Levy called out.
Kurai walked over to her from the other side of the building and shushed her. "We have to keep our voices down."
"Hai." Levy whispered. She pointed to the painting depicting the ten commandments. Kurai eyed her as she slowly moved the corner and it swung open like a door, revealing a dimly lit passage way. Kurai looked to the door he was about to open. What exactly was in there.
He gestured to Levy. "Lets go."
They made their way quickly down the stairs to find the way blocked by a heavy looking wooden door that had been reinforced with strips of metal and heavy duty padlock.
Levy got ready to change into a weapon, but Kurai held out his arm to stop her. "I got this."
Levy nodded and climbed on his shoulder. Kurai placed his hand on the lock, and the door exploded off its hinges.
Four robed guards from inside heard the explosion. "What was that?" They were met with several flying pieces of wood and metal that knocked them out.
Kurai walked over the guards and looked in shock at what looked like an old fashion dungeon with rows of cells lined up.
The very sight brought a twisting feeling in Kurai's gut as he remembered spending time in a cell. What also unnerved him was the eerie silence.
"Katana mode."
Levy changed into a sword and Kurai gripped it as he walked into the chamber.
Kurai approached the first door and growled in annoyance as he smashed through the door, only to lurch back from what was on the other side.
Prisoners.
Young females to be exact. They all looked beat up and worn down, chained to the wall. Some were wearing no clothes at all, displaying a multitude of bruises on their body, the ones who weren't completely naked were covered in rags that barely covered their private places. They all looked at the sword wielding demon with eyes full of fear. They mostly likely assumed he was either going to rape them, or kill them.
A feral snarl escaped from is lips as he looked at the terrified women on the ground. Kurai's eyes came to rest on one scared brunette lying in a fetal position. His body literally shook with effort to contain the rage that was inside of him.
With a roar of anger he put his fist through the wall. He stalked over to the young girl and with one swing of his arm, tore the chains from the wall. He then proceeded to snap the manacles bind her hands together. He repeated the process for all the women there.
Kurai showed them the stairs as he stripped the unconscious guards of their clothing, right down to their boxers, and handed them to the women.
"Get behind me." Kurai's eyes turned red as blood boiling anger and hatred filled his system. In a simple snap of his fingers, all the cell doors exploded and several different people with little to no clothing stormed out.
"There's a stairway that leads to freedom. Run and don't look back." He yelled to all of them.
They all didn't need to be told twice as they rushed past him to get the hell out of there. As the chamber cleared Kurai was about to continue onward as he felt someone tap his shoulder. He turned to see the young brunette he released first. She gazed at his eyes and hugged him tight.
"Thank you." She whispered in his ear as she kissed his cheek.
As she disappeared within the staircase, Kurai continued on with his little jailbreak. In under a half hour, he took out seventy-two guards and members, and released a countless number of prisoners. The more he saw helpless prisoners, with bruises and scars laid around their bodies, the more hatred for the Angels infested Kurai. Pretty soon, a dark feeling of malice and bloodlust passed through Kurai, and he felt a sudden urge to kill.
Kurai headed up the stairs and stopped at the exit when a throbbing headache formed. "What the hell's wrong with me?" He asked himself. "Why do I have the sudden urge to mutilate people?"
As he reached the exit of the passage way, his path was blocked by several robed cultists armed with assault rifles.
"Freeze." He ordered him.
Kurai raised Levy getting ready to fend himself. "Put down the sword." They all aimed ready to shoot.
Kurai was about to teleport when something caught the corner of his eye. He looked up in horror as he saw a body hung up on a cross, and placed on the wall for all to see. He couldn't deny her face from all his photo. The brown hair, the kind face with misery, the white dress tainted in blood, and two white angel wings spread eagled.
Written on the left was Filth, Harlot, and Slut. While the right read. "A disgrace to Angels everywhere." There was no denying it. Kurai was looking up at his deceased foster mother: Kami.
Something washed over Kurai as he fought back the tears. A dark aura washed over his entire being while the guards watched in fear.
"Kill the demon." They opened fire but their guns were thrown from their hands before they even pulled the trigger.
They looked up at Kurai, whose blond hair steadily grew pitch black, a scowl formed on his lips as Levy turned into human form.
"Look at them Levy." He hid his eyes under his hair.
"Nii-chan?" Levy called out to him.
The guards attempted to run for the front exit, but just as they were about to taste freedom, the doors slammed shut. The door wouldn't open despite their struggling."
"We're locked in." One of the male cultists yelled as Kurai approached them.
"You live your lives while people suffer. You tainted a woman who was the very embodiment of kindness. And that is why I'm about to kill you."
The cult followers cowered as a feeling of despair flooded their systems.
The dark aura surrounding Kurai disappeared. "Now then." He looked up at them, revealing his wide psychotic looking, demonic red eyes, and a feral grin.
"LETS HAVE SOME FUN SHALL WE?!"
As the entire room went pitch black, all that could be heard was psychotic laughter, screaming, and a sickly splash.
Finally got that done.
Alright, to some of you who can't figure it out, Levy speaks a made up language. She can only say "nya". And only Kurai can understand her.
Here are some of her translations in order of the story:
Keep big boobs away from me.
Nice to meet you
I'm so sorry. I promise to be a better weapon
Are you sure about this? We could die.
You didn't have to cremate him.
Okay so next chapter should be up soon, and this story is about to take a good turn. Anyone who has weapon suggestions, PM or review and I'll see if I can fit it in the story.
(Only blade weapons. Swords, axe, knives, etc.)
My next chapter should be up in two weeks.
Next time with Lost in Sanity