A/C: Update again o3o, I´m submitting pictures at deviantart, my username is AzureCrystalie (for some reason, I can´t post the link here o.o?) so if you wish to take a look in the mean time xD
For the questions I was asked last chapter well…
There´s romance in this fic so yes XD expect romantic relationships in the future, just have patience, romance doesn´t happen out of nowhere or from a day to the other that´s what many people just don´t understand, there has to be interaction on some level for that to even be possible and right now they haven´t really interacted that much so I can only say one thing: everything on its own time XD
Also, Please try to ask things that are not spoilers XD-
Chapter 21: Brazen
I stared shocked at the sudden mutation Raze had undergone, his arms were now gigantic bone claws, they were bigger than his body and so hung slightly bent on his sides, he had a pair of little black wings on his back as well as yellow colored eyes and a demon tail with a ring around it, not mentioning the odd attire he was using
"Raze, what happened to you?"
"Huh? Moronic boy, do not confuse two completely different beings, I am not who you think I am but I cannot say I´m separated either… if you may, you can call me ´´Brazen´´" he said.
"Brazen? But that´s just how she…"
"Do not make matters bigger than what they really are, call me that" he said as he looked sarcastically at me.
"Who the fuck are you?" yelled Bruise annoyed.
"It´s been some time since I´ve been out… so you see, I´m cutting you some slack here because if I´ve been serious you would already be dead" said Ra- no, Brazen, as he looked at Bruise with disdain.
"No really, fuck, who are you?" asked as he repeated the same question.
"Does it really matter? You will die in a while" said Brazen as he stretched "It does feel good being out, you have my thanks, Mistress" He said while looking at the girl on a side.
"Huh? How…" murmured the little girl to Brazen who smirked.
"I know everything, everything involving this being, so of course I know that unlucky, sad reality of yours" said Brazen as we stared warily at him.
"What…?" murmured the girl as she stared wide eyed at him and leaned back on her place above the red cell.
"Oh? Do you need more? I also know what that red cell you sit on is really made of, pure art indeed and efficient way of recycling" he said as he chuckled "A true master piece from a puny twisted girl, isn´t it? You never cease to amuse me and thanks to you I´m free now; I do not plan on going back to that ludicrous boy"
"What? Are you saying Raze is not coming back…?" I asked him while interrupting the conversation; Bruise seemed to wonder that as well since he stared intently at him just as I was doing.
"Do not interrupt me, I will pay attention to you two after I deal with this" Brazen said as he eyed us momentarily then returning his attention to the seemingly terrified girl, she was holding her head in apparent frustration.
"I had no choice…I had no choice…" murmured the girl.
"I am not blaming you for anything, it truly is a fine example of living recycling" he said while grinning demonically, living recycling? "As I said; I´m indebted to you and to show you my gratitude, I will grant you the greatest honor…"
"My sisters…" I heard her murmur still holding her head though as soon as she said that, she raised her head to stare at Brazen who was speaking with his eyes closed.
"Of being my first kill upon awakening!" he exclaimed as he stretched his bone claw and in the blink of an eye pierced her, it had been too fast for me or Bruise to react, we just saw how her body lied unmoving on the red cell which didn´t fall even after she had been killed, I saw how he tried to blow her away but this time I flew right to move her out of the way and take her to a safe place, she was already dead but I found disrespectful to let her body be completely shredded by him; what had happened to Raze? Who was this monster? Why was he inside him or how did he come to be?
"I do not find fun for my victims to be saved when I attack them… although I have no idea if it applies to corpses" said Brazen looking seemingly thoughtful.
"You are a monster" I said as I looked at him.
"Should I applaud you for realizing?" he said as he looked at me mockingly.
"How can you kill an innocent girl? What an asshole!" yelled Bruise while glaring at him.
"Do you know how to play cat and mouse?" he asked to Bruise.
"What the fuck-"
"Do you?"
"That if I know what you mean? What if I do? Why the fuck would you-" said Bruise interrupted by him.
"Because I don´t see you running, it´s not cat and mouse if the mouse doesn´t run; it´s not exciting" said Brazen.
"What the fuck, I could give a shit for what-" Bruise said interrupted by Brazen who slapped him so hard that with the smack, Bruise was sent rocketing towards a skyscraper though he ended crashing through three more buildings after it.
"What really happened Raze…" I said as I went to see where Bruise was right after murmuring that, if it wasn´t because he had powers now; he´d probably be dead.
"Now, that´s what I meant, when mice run around in the cage, the cat has to give chase and play with them, doesn´t it?" he said as he propelled towards the direction Bruise had fell on, I right away followed him, how was I going to turn him back to Raze?
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"Agh! That bastard! He is fucking strong" I muttered as I lifted my head while groaning in pain, the impact had been so strong and harsh I had slashed my arm and hurt my leg.
"Miharu?" I heard someone say, I had broken some shops on my way to the ground, it was impressive the strength of that monster but well I snapped from those thoughts and turned to see the one talking to me who turned out to be Mitsuki.
"Mitsuki? Fuck, why do you always appear in the most unexpected places?"
"Haha, I was doing some shopping for the girls" he said as he gave me a carefree smile "Seems someone had a sibling quarrel… that injury looks bad" he said as he looked at the slash on my arm which covered from the shoulder to the wrist, though well it was probable that the wound was caused by Brazen directly rather than the impact with the buildings.
"Yeah, you have no idea what huge of a sibling issue it is… wait a second… how the fuck do you know who I am?"
"Haha I can recognize that jacket anywhere, I´m happy to see you wearing it" he said as he helped me stand.
"Right… it´s honestly not the time for this" I said flatly as I stared at him sarcastically.
"But now seeing it again, it may be a little big for you, you should really lend me it to fix it" he said while smiling.
"You know how to?"
"I will try, if I just can´t I´ll ask someone ha-ha" he said while suppressing a chuckle.
"Mitsuki…" I murmured looking at him concerned, seeing that monster killing that girl really made me think he would assassinate him if he was with me or too close to him "I´m going to have to ask you to get the fuck out of here as fast as you can"
"Huh? Why is that?"
"Just do so dammit! I cannot explain, just go!" I yelled at him sincerely annoyed, why can´t he go before that monster appears? Luckily he threw me far but if he doesn´t hurry…
"Well, well, who do we have here?" said the monster as he appeared behind Mitsuki.
"Idiot run away!" I yelled though he didn´t move away, he only smiled and turned to face him.
"Makoto?" said Mitsuki sounding confused, how can he recognize us anyway?
"Call me Brazen, what an oddity finding you Sariel, I haven´t seen you in a while" said the monster to Mitsuki, Sariel?
"My name is Mitsuki, it s quite a sight if I must say"
"Oh, so you go by that name now? Where is your partner?" asked the demon.
"I sincerely have no idea of what you are saying" Mitsuki said as he stepped back gradually approaching me, his aura read ´´alert´´ so I figured he wanted me to pay attention.
"So you do not remember huh… that memory wiping is very effecting but I´ll be sure to refresh it for you" said the monster as he looked ready to attack.
"Well, excuse me, we need to go already" he said as he took me and held me princess style, it was awkward as fuck but I suppose this was the most comfortable way for him to carry me not to mention the long wound in my arm that ached, in this position I could touch the wound and attempt to ease it with some ice.
He did a back flip while holding me tightly and ran for the tables around a restaurant; he used them as a support to get on the roof of the building.
"Fuck, how do you do that? You are powerless!" I exclaimed seriously amazed, he even did that back flip while holding me!
"Maybe so, but I know parkour, funny enough this reminds me of my days when I lived in the streets; it was indeed amusing and besides I don´t feel your weight, I need to take you eat so you gain some haha" he said as he jumped from roof to roof dodging the demon´s attacks, I couldn´t even see what he did before and this guy dodges it making it seem so easy!
"And how the fuck do you dodge? That guy is abnormally fast!"
"He sure is, it gives me a hard time but well, remember when I told you I could read eyes earlier?"
"Yeah…"
"Well, I read the eye patterns before, I memorized what he tried to do and all I´m doing is making him miss" he said as he smiled.
"But a normal person can´t make him miss… what the fuck are you hiding?"
"Well, I know cappoeira but I don´t know if it has anything to do with being able to make him miss hmm"
"I don´t have a freaking idea of what is more amazing, honestly"
"Haha, this is a good day, I certainly enjoy you flattering me" Mitsuki said as he chuckled.
" Good day? A demon is chasing us and you fucking say it´s a good day?"
"Well, that is a fair point but I still think is a good day" he said as he jumped down to an alley.
"You know, I know this is probably the worst time to ask but how come you talk almost normally? I thought you were British" I said as I stared at him.
"Indeed I am but I´ve lived here quite some years, so many things are lost I guess" he said as he crossed the street jumping on the cars, this dude is a professional or some shit I swear "But, I do have this thing for talking politely haha my brother always told me to be a gentleman when speaking and behaving, although, I sure think sometimes I cannot act as such"
"Your brother huh…"
"Yeah, he was certainly my parent figure but he never lost his older brother role" he said as suddenly Matt joined us, why the hell?
"Hello there, why are you running so frantically? Is there a homophobic policeman chasing you or something?" Matt asked sounding as always annoying as fuck.
"No you asshole! And this is the worst time to do those jokes!" I yelled to him, it was impossible for him to recognize me unless for some reason he did just as Mitsuki could.
"Oh, if it isn´t the edgy blond from the other day…! Mind telling me why are you running already?"He asked, god, fuck this dammit, I just hoped they were the only two who could recognize us and not anyone else.
"There´s a monster following us don´t you see?"
"Monster? Maybe you lost that thing since you have nothing following you aside of me" said Matt.
"Ah? We lost him?" I murmured terribly confused, how could we lose him?
"Matt… why are you following us? Be honest" said Mitsuki while looking sarcastically at Matt.
"Well, how could I ignore you when you were running like the devil was after you with someone in your arms? Though I thought it´d be a woman not some dude" he said looking disappointed.
"Funny thing is, the devil is really after us" said Mitsuki "Matt, you should really leave"
"Is that your partner, Sariel?" the demon said as he sat on a handrail, he was probably waiting for us there.
"Seems Makoto is toying with us or well, that demon is" said Mitsuki as he stopped to stare at the demon who was looking at us.
"Makoto? You mean that cute babe?" Matt said causing me to roll my eyes.
"Dude, stop that shit" I said irritated.
"Well, I ignore what happened to her but… is it weird I still find her adorable?" He said sounding thoughtful.
"WHAT?" Mitsuki and I said while turning to see Matt equally surprised "You can´t be serious!" we said at the same time.
"Anyway, Mitsuki, do you know this guy?" said Matt as he looked at Mitsuki for some seconds and then looked at the demon that had landed and walked toward us.
"What? Don´t joke about that, I seriously don´t" aid Mitsuki frankly, I knew he was being sincere since the aura of people change when they lie and it was still the same color.
"It is sad, isn´t it? How wiping memories work so well but leave you defenseless" said the demon while looking at us, probably at Mitsuki.
"Growth comes only through experience and aside of that you may already know thee shan´t come victorious" said Matt to the monster; he was talking weird again…
"Oh really… does that mean you are going to interfere?" the demon said mockingly.
"I would if I could" said Matt as he shrugged, at least he recognizes being powerless not like this guy that thinks is superman.
"Oh, you mean if you were allowed to, don´t you?" said the demon, is he taunting him?
"Well then, I have no choice now" said Matt as he sighed "Guys…" he murmured while looking at us.
"Huh?" we both murmured as we looked at him.
"I´m off to find some ladies; have fun!" he said as he turned away and walked off.
"You useless asshole!" I yelled at his stupid way of leaving though it was better or he would end dead… if only Mitsuki did the same; which reminds me these two took really lightly the fact of a demon existing and even meeting him.
"Haha Matt sure is a jerk" said Mitsuki as he chuckled "But hey Miharu…"
"Call me Bruise when I´m like this ok" I said flatly to him.
"Hmm, alright, Bruise… stop thinking it´d be better for me to leave you" he said shocking me, how did he know? I wasn´t even staring at him!
"What? I wasn´t-"
"So you were… just don´t do it, I´m here for you" he said while smiling though I surely ignored what he meant "We´ll get through this together, you´ll see"
"Just don´t blame me if you end up dead" I said irritated "Dumbass"
"Haha, I promise not to" said Mitsuki.
"Well, are you done? I´m getting bored" said the demon as he looked dully at us.
"Why don´t you just attack then?" I asked seriously wondering why hadn´t he interrupted us.
"It wouldn´t be fun to kill you while you are standing, though if you bore me too much then I´ll finish you two and go look for other mice to hunt" said the demon as he approached us, we started walking backwards though before attempting to run, we saw how Rage landed in front of us.
"Bruise, go away, I´ll win you some time" Rage said flatly.
"Rage? Are you a retard? He is going to kill you!" I said mad at his recklessness.
"Raze is my responsibility, I couldn´t do anything for that girl but I won´t let him kill you as well"
"Fuck that! He is my brother as well! Don´t order me to go!"
"What can you do? You are hurt already, I will try to win you time so just go away!" he yelled sounding angry, he was probably hell serious.
"Asshole! I wo-" I said interrupted by Mitsuki.
"Miharu, let´s do as he wishes for now" said Mitsuki as he ran away "We´ll be a burden to him, and well, I respect his feelings to not want to lose is younger brother"
"What, how do you know that?" I asked skeptical.
"Those are words an older brother says, I figured he as the parent figure among you three because of that" he said as we continued to run away, we rounded street and went straight through the business zone in which I noticed dead people all over, he must have passed over there but when…?
"This guys has no limits damn it…" I muttered irritated.
"I really wonder if he did this in the time before he appeared behind me" said Mitsuki as we hid in an alley behind a trash bin.
"But that´s impossible… there was no such gap to be able to do this… how can he teleport this way?"
"How funny" said Mitsuki making me turn to see him confused, funny, how?
"This is the same place where I first met you, so, who knew we were going to be hiding here of all places" he said while smiling gently.
"Mitsuki… please, just go" I said.
"What? Why do you insist on that? I won´t abandon you" he said as he looked concerned at me.
"You are powerless! I don´t give a fuck if you know parkour or cappoeira! You can die easily! Easier than me!"
"Well, so be it" he said sounding serious "I don't plan on leaving you to die"
"What? Just tell me a fucking reason I can understand!" I said trying to figure what this idiot was thinking.
"Because I´m starting to see you as a person I cannot afford to lose" he said sounding serious.
"What...?" I murmured while being perplexed.
"And I just want to protect you" he said as he smiled to me, he then leaned his head on the wall behind us "I think I´m starting to understand what my brother felt; Miharu… I´m sorry if I´m acting arrogant for thinking I can protect a powerful person as you, but I can´t ignore how I truly feel… and I know I just know I should be the one that protects you at times like this"
"Idiot you are not my fucking guardian angel… I could give a fuck if you leave me to save yourself, I prefer that anyway"
"I really wonder… I know I´m no angel Miharu but you see… I´m here for you" he said as he faced me while giving his back to the trash bin.
"Mitsuki…" I murmured suddenly noticing the demon standing on a side of him, I widened my eyes surprised on how he caught up with us and in a split second Mitsuki hugged me to the ground dodging a thrust from the demon.
"Miharu, you have to go now" he said sounding irritated as he tightened his hold on me, I could feel his breathing turning slower and heavier and so noticed something covering my chest, it was liquid so of course I thought it was blood right away.
"What…? Just when…?" I murmured while looking at the demon licking the blood from his fingers, if I can call them that… I then darted my attention to the wall which was splattered with blood, he must have been wounded when he attempted to dodge just now.
"Miharu, please go… I´m not holding you like this so he can pierce us together, I´m just doing so to instruct you to flee, I shan´t wait until he assassinates you, so please in my behest just run away…"
"No, Mitsuki, I´ll take you with me" I said as he shook his head, the demon was there still licking his fingers probably waiting to kill us in the perfect moment; I also noticed how when he licked the blood some of the scratches and cuts on him were instantly cured, I wonder how he got injured and… when?
"Miharu, I´m sorry for being selfish but I cannot afford behaving otherwise…" he said as e panted, he was probably losing consciousness from the blood loss "Matt, please take him away"
"Matt? What are you saying retard! He ditched us a while ago!" I said confused on him calling Matt.
"Aye, aye" Matt said as he took me from his arms and so held me princess style as he ran away jumping to a nearby roof.
"What are you doing? You left Mitsuki there! That thing will kill him!" I yelled angry and confused "Isn´t he your best friend? Why are you abandoning him you asshole…!"
"I´m just respecting his wishes" he said as he continued his way away from the alley, I also noticed he jumped farther than Mitsuki did.
"What the fuck, you are going to say you know parkour too?"
"Yep, I lived with Mitsuki after all, so we know how to do pretty much the same" he said.
"If so… why did you leave him back there…?"
"Because I know he won´t truly die there, that´s why" said Matt.
"Won´t truly die..? What are you saying…?"
"I doubt you´ll be killed as well" said Matt.
"Then why did you save me?"
"Mitsuki asked me to so I did, I wouldn´t have if he hadn´t asked" he said flatly.
"Jerk, so what are you doing? All because of Mitsuki?"
"I´m just playing along, it´s more fun this way than to stand and watch from the sidelines"
"You are fucking weird you know" I said while looking sarcastically at him, though I felt the uneasiness fading as he had said Mitsuki wouldn´t die.
"So well, here´s your stop" he said puzzling me.
"Huh?"
"I have somewhere to get to before I arrive too late" he said as he dropped me "See ya!"
"Asshole…" I muttered as I hovered in the sky, Mitsuki wouldn´t have dropped me…
"Bruise? Ugh…" I heard Rage murmur, so I went down to look at him, he was bleeding against a wall as three similar looking girls to the one the demon killed lied probably dead close to him and near him was the blonde girl from the PowerPunks, she seemed beaten and was bleeding too, I wasn´t sure if she was dead but she was unconscious on the pavement.
"Rage? Man, he drilled a hole in your stomach… not to sound offensive but why aren´t you dead yet…?"
"I have no idea" he said flatly as he groaned in seemingly excruciating pain.
"I told you to not be stupid but no! You had to go all ´´I´m responsible´´ and shit! Fuck you, dumb retard!" I yelled as I bent down to try and take a look at his wound in attempt to treat it.
"Miharu… where is that guy, the singer?"
"How do you-"
"So, I was right… was he killed?" he asked me making me feel like shit for earlier.
"Probably, I don´t know, don´t ask, please" I said feeling horribly guilty and I wondered how could he ask those things so insensibly like.
"Alright, I won´t… Miharu, he is behind you…" Rage said making me freeze.
"Nice treat you left for me back in the alley, here are my thanks" he said a I turned to see him trying to yell mad for confirming he had indeed killed him, I didn´t manage to say anything since he pierced my chest. "So, how does it feel to die just as you did in another reality? Funny, isn´t it?" he said as he grinned satisfied, I just started to lose consciousness feeling even worse for dying now that Mitsuki had sacrificed himself to avoid just this…
"Miharu…" I heard Rage utter as I lost consciousness.
"Mitsuki… I´m a useless bastard, I´m sorry…" I said as everything turned dark…
"Hahaha, it is funny how he was really useless, now you, you are still alive? That´s impressive" said Brazen as he laughed amused after seeing how Bruise´s eyes closed and remained there unmoving.
"I don´t know what happened to Makoto but give him back.." Rage said as he glared at Brazen with what remained of his strength.
"What is the point being locked inside a being that doesn´t amuse me? He doesn´t kill, he doesn´t do anything useful, the only thing he does is die; I´m bored of living inside someone like that"
"What is that you fear by killing? What is that you hate, what consumes you?"
"I have not but one goal and that is doing what I like best and that is being myself" said Brazen as he snickered.
"What a sad being you are… that satisfaction you seek by being you will never come" said Rage as he started losing consciousness.
"Says the one hiding an ugly monster inside, a monster not a part from your personality but a side which only corrupts the growth of your soul" said Brazen as he snickered and looked mockingly at Rage.
"Growth…" murmured Rage close to fainting.
"Souls are supposed to grow through human experiences, I´m not tied to that bullshit since I´m an evil unlike any other and I possess no soul whatsoever"
"Aren´t you… sharing his soul, right now.."
"Uh…" murmured the demon looking surprised at Rage for that sentence as he finally closed his eyes losing consciousness "I really wonder about that, heh"
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"Oh…" Raze murmured as he looked still puzzled and so he transformed to follow us instead of being pulled along "Bruisee you can let me go nowww"
"Alright" he said letting him go and so followed us towards downtown.
"Haha I just love to fly! But I still think skydiving is fun! Want to join me next time?"
"I don´t know man, this guy will have a heart attack if I ever follow you on that" said Bruise, this sounded familiar… I was so confused for some seconds though I turned to see Raze who looked expectant at me.
"We don´t have that much of free time, Raze" I said as I started to realize this had happened before but I didn´t understand how.
"Geez! You two are so boring!" he said as he sped up "So where are we going?"
"We heard screaming coming in this direction" said Bruise as he pointed ahead towards downtown.
"Alright then!" he said as he sped up though I matched his speed aware of something I wasn´t sure of, all of a sudden a girl tackled Raze with a hug, she looked oddly familiar too…
"Masaru! Masaru! Masaru!" The girl said excitedly as she hugged him
"Masaru? Who is that?" he asked puzzled, Raze seemed unfazed on the fact she had tackled him on the first place.
"Don´t joke with me, Masaru!" she said as she snuggled against him, she had pink hair, red eyes; a black dress, a doctor coat, a pair of red mary janes and a red headband with a red cross as decoration, she looked around 8 years old and had the aspect of a young nurse.
"Uhmmm… who are you?" he asked still confused.
"You don´t remember me? It´s me misst-" she said silencing herself as she stared at Raze "Wait a second…"
"My name is Makoto, not Masaru" he said while smiling.
"Where is Daitaro?" she asked him puzzling us, who was that?
"He is missing isn´t he?" she said as she looked down "Why are you not looking for him?" she asked him now looking at Raze with a creepy and diabolical wide grin.
"Eh?" Raze murmured as he looked in another direction noticing the blood covered places.
"Anyway! You can call me Missy hehe, we´ll be talking to each other more than you think, Masaru" she said as she uttered a soft giggle.
"What happened here…" Raze murmured horrified at the sight of the corpses covering the streets and the blood smeared on the buildings.
"Raze, Hey" I said though I couldn´t help but remain quiet afterwards this was too odd, it´s like I had lived this before but why…?
"Who is she?" I heard Bruise say, this girl… this girl… why do I find her familiar? I tried desperately to remember but nothing came to mind, still, I had the feeling I was forgetting something really important.
"My name is Missy, I´m a member of the Vaccine girls" the girl said and it then sank to me, the memory of everything that had happened before; as he stared to transform into that monster.
I took the girl with my right arm and with the other I held the red cell, she looked puzzled at me as well as Bruise who followed me.
"Rage, what are you doing? Didn´t you see Makoto mutating back there?" he asked me sounding confused, I was somehow disappointed but at the same time relieved he didn´t remember.
"Bruise, I don´t like giving orders and you know that but this is one of the cases I must resort to it" I said as I spotted the rest of the vaccine girls who had tried to aid me in battle the last time, they didn´t know that Missy went through back then and I did not plan to explain them this time either.
"What? Alright man, I trust you know what you are doing but I expect an explanation afterwards" said Bruise as the girl in my arms kept staring at me puzzled and somehow startled.
"After the blue skyscraper, you know the tallest one in the business zone, there are three buildings in a diagonal line and around that area is a shopping district" I said
"Yeah, so?"
"That must be where you met th- I mean, that singer you know is probably around that area"
"That singer…?... Oh, you mean Mitsuki? How do you-"
"No time to explain, go over there and when you meet him, you two have to leave and I do not mean slowly, you must run away with him as fast as you can" I said talking seriously.
"Man, you are freaking the hell out of me but alright, you better explain everything afterwards!" he said as he left right away.
"Uhmm… why are you doing this and who are you?" asked the girl.
"My name is Daiichi and I´m doing this for your welfare, so please ask your sisters to go somewhere else and to not interfere"
"Daiichi? Oh, Daitaro, right? Okay! I will do just that, I don´t understand what´s going on but I trust you" she said, although I was thankful she would do as I told her to, I was still confused on why she trusted me so much and why she had called me Daitaro.
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"What the fuck is going on with Rage? All of a sudden asking me to come here…" I murmured to myself honestly wondering what was wrong with him.
"Miharu?" I heard someone say, I stared straight ahead looking at no other than Mitsuki, Rage was right on this though the way he had said It sounded like it was a rough guess from him.
"Mitsuki? Fuck, why do you always appear in the most unexpected places?" I asked him finding this oddly familiar
"Haha, I was doing some shopping for the girls" he said as he gave me a carefree smile "I must say you also appear unexpectedly haha"
"Well I guess so... wait a second! How the fuck do you know who I am?"
"Haha I can recognize that jacket anywhere, I´m happy to see you wearing it" he said as he approached me.
"Right… it´s honestly not the time for this" I said flatly as I stared at him sarcastically.
"But now seeing it again, it may be a little big for you, you should really lend me it to fix it" he said while smiling.
"You know how to?"
"I will try, if I just can´t I´ll ask someone ha-ha" he said while suppressing a chuckle.
"Mitsuki…" I murmured recalling what Rage had said earlier and so took his hand and pulled him to start walking.
"Ah? Miharu, something wrong?" he asked probably puzzled, however I decided against alerting him about what was going on since I wasn´t even sure.
"Call me Bruise when I´m like this" I said flatly.
"Bruise? Uhmm okay, it´s about the hidden identity of yours, isn´t it?"
"Yeah so be quiet" I said irritated, I did not know why but this felt terribly familiar and it made me feel like shit for some reason.
"What about going to where the girls are and watch a movie? Haha Matt will probably be there but don´t worry, he is nice when women are around though well, he is kind of unpredictable" he said cheerfully.
"It´s alright… but I do not watch movies without popcorn and ketchup"
"Haha indeed, popcorn is essential- huh? Did you say ketchup?" said Mitsuki looking at me skeptical as well as surprised; I suddenly felt pressured so much by a risk of death situation, so much that I couldn´t stand it and therefore switched accidentally. "Bruise you went suddenly quiet, are you alright?"
-I Couldn´t stand this horrible uneasiness so I tugged from his hand gently and stared at him "…"
"Miharu? Is it you?"
"Mits…ki"
"Huh?" he murmured looking surprised at me "What did you say…?"
"Mit…suki…" I murmured struggling, I stared at him pleading him to go faster, I could feel the danger approaching behind us, and it was suffocating me.
"Oh… alright then, hang on tight, we´ll take a shortcut" Mitsuki said as he suddenly lifted me and held me in his arms and went straight to an alley where he used a trash bin to get on a roof "I can barely feel your weight, I shall invite you to eat next time so you gain some haha" he said as he made his way to the mansion, I could feel at ease now as I felt that uneasiness was left behind in that street where we were; I really wonder what it was about…
Xxx
As I watched the girls leave I hurried to the demon´s side to avoid him going after Bruise, I didn´t know how could he get where he wanted so fast and I seriously wanted to prevent that.
"Well, well, so we meet again" said the demon as he hovered in a relaxed position, he had one of his claws on his head and the other was made into a fist against his cheek, his legs were crossed Indian style and he was positioned horizontally "Did you finish driving everyone away?"
"How do you…" I murmured lost on what to say, he was aware we were reliving the same things?
"It´s just as why you remember this, there´s no explanation indeed" he said as he looked bored at me "Do you expect me to have fun only with you and no one else?"
"Raze is my responsibility and I´m not letting anyone interfere, If someone is going to be killed it will be only me not anyone else" I said, I wasn´t going to allow this being to go murder everyone again.
"So it is true that you want me just for yourself… aren´t you being a little bit selfish?" he said as he chuckled amused "I do not belong to anyone, I have fun with as many I like and no one can ever change that… maybe if you were capable to stop me but we both know that´s not happening any time soon"
"I don´t know of what I´m capable of, but I do not plan on leaving without putting up a fight"
"If that is even possible" said the demon sounding arrogant.
"I will strive for bringing Makoto back if that´s the last thing I do"
"Are you insane? There´s no way you can achieve that, there´s not even a way to turn me back to that boy without hurting him on the process" he said uninterested on the conversation.
"I may hurt him, yes, but if that puts an end to you and he comes back, it is worth it" I said.
"I wonder… what can a guy like you do? You are not even near the power you can achieve, the potential in you is being wasted and that because of your mediocrity but I give you credit for at least willing to hurt your priceless sibling" said the demon as he closed his eyes and smirked in amusement.
"There´s no point in talking to a being like you, I won´t allow you to go in a killing rampage"
"Says the empty being with an empty monster inside" said the monster mockingly.
"I don´t even wish for you to take me seriously, nor will I lose energy trying to do so" I said flatly looking boringly at the monster, it was indeed a waste of time trying to reason with him.
"Well, I don´t even feel like playing cat and mouse with you since we already did that, didn´t we?"
"I´m just asking for a fair match, I do not want to play anything else"
"Is that so… what about a psychological trashing then?" he said as he opened his eyes and looked slyly at me.
"What..." I murmured really wondering what he had meant with that.
"You are not only useless here, the only way to save this boy is through killing me, meaning you would need to kill him too" he said shocking me, I had to kill Makoto? "But whatever is better for humanity right?"
"…"
"This is not the only reality where you had let him die or well where you lost him due to that mediocrity of yours" he said as he stared while smiling demonically a me, I didn´t understand what he was trying to do, was he trying to make me feel guilty so he could kill me?
"How many realities had it been since you´ve strived for that boy and come out not winning? How many times will you keep on it until you are satisfied? You should accept there´s no way of saving him and be happy with his destiny since it will always be the same" said the monster while holding his claws on his sides while shrugging.
"What´s your point?" I said trying to make him finish whatever he was doing.
"I am the result of your continuous failure through the different realities you had struggled" he said while chuckling and changing to a standing up position "My existence in this reality is your already failure"
"Not doing anything to change you back to him is what truly means losing him; I don´t care if what you are saying is true, Raze won´t be lost here"
"Is that so… being sincere with you, there´s like one reality in which I never came to be but in that reality he had been lost since the start, so I really wonder what I represent, am I really that dangerous to him?"
"Be quiet already, I don´t care of what you are saying and don´t think I´m dumb, this is also playing cat and mouse, didn´t you say you were going to decide on something different?"
"Well, if you relate "cat and mouse" with making something vulnerable for the cat to then eat it without getting hurt it is kind of correct except for the part of not getting hurt; I do not fear that whatsoever" he said as he smirked. "Boy, if you ever plan on getting stronger I suggest you trying to beat your fears first"
"What…?"
"Yes, try beating your fear at hurting this boy and also try dissipating that hole of madness in your heart" he said as he closed his eyes and sounded serious.
"Why are you telling me this…?" I asked puzzled.
"If you do not learn how to use all of your powers when the true moment of testing comes, then you will go down by the true face of evil" he said still sounding serious.
"…"
"As for the reason I´m telling you this… you can take it as recognition of not falling for what I told you even if it´s completely true, now can we proceed?"
"Are you going to fight me now?"
"Maybe so" he said as he shape shifted and appeared with Raze´s form though he still had yellow eyes "Maybe I will, Daiichi" he said while giggling maniacally.
"What are you trying to pull now with this?" I asked while staring warily at him.
"Pull something with this? There´s nothing! I only want to protect Daitaro hehe"
"Daitaro again…I don´t understand who is that but what do you want to gain from taking Makoto´s form anyway?"
"Makoto? Who is that? My name is Masaru not Makoto" said the demon.
"Are you trying to trick me into thinking you are someone else? ´cause that´s not happening any time soon" I said flatly.
"Eh? But I´m just looking for Daitaro…" he said as he looked away seemingly sad "I can´t find him anywhere, it doesn´t matter where I go to look for him, he won´t appear!"
"I don´t care who Daitaro is! Fight me already, I´ve had enough of your cat and mouse play" I said as I frowned at him who looked down seemingly scared.
"Why are you mad anyway…? I don´t know you… I only want Daitaro back, if he was here with me I would go away but he is not…"
"Stop that! Who are you pretending to be?" he was wearing down my patience, was he mocking me? Did he want me to sympathize with him in this form so he can kill me?
"You… you are not like Daitaro… you are mean and you keep yelling at me! Daitaro rarely does that! But you are not Daitaro! Wait a second… do you know where he is?"
"Brazen, if you are not planning to fight me I´m going to stay here without saying anything anymore until you do" I said as I stared warily at him.
"You, you know where Daitaro is don´t you?" he asked as he started giggling "You know where he is right? Can you tell me where he is?"
"…"
"So you don´t plan on telling me? Alright then, I guess I can do something about it…" he said while smiling as he then grinned maniacally again "I can make you tell me by force!" he said as he suddenly disappeared and appeared in front of me, I quickly defended with a knife I had already prepared and had in my hand for when he decided to attack, Brazen was holding a butcher hatchet and was pushing against me with force as he kept giggling.
"If you plan on battling me like this so be it" I said as I made a roulette of knives and surrounded Brazen with them.
"Hehe, what game are we playing then Daiichi?" he said as he looked around in amusement.
"Knives ball!" I yelled as the knives fired off at Brazen, I flew around watching him deflect all of the attacks "Stabbing Massacre!" I yelled as the knives duplicated rapidly creating thousands of them.
"You amuse me hehe" I heard him say as he deflected each one accurately, I kept sending knives as he countered them and it was not until the last one that finally slashed him on the arm.
"Haha, that´s amusing" said Brazen as he shape shifted and turned back into his original form, I also noticed the wound had instantly closed.
"That is odd, weren´t you going to crush me psychologically?" I asked him while looking warily at him.
"I was, yes, however, I cannot crush you with something you don´t understand yet; before attempting to affect you with the shape I took, you need to know the back-story first… that, and I was sick of using a tiny hatchet plus acting insane, it's a true pain in the ass" he said as he made a troubled face and sighed.
"Sounds like you don´t recognize yourself as insane"
"I may be insane regarding stuff humans don´t comprehend but I´m a much superior being that finds annoying having to act as if all my neurons were in a frenzy"
"So you will fight me now, for real?" I asked still being careful.
"Do I have another choice? But, I´m warning you that fighting me in this shape is the worst thing you can ask for" he said as he chuckled.
"I will get Raze back, I swear" I said as I locked on him to fire another attack.
"Well then, ´´Night of Carnage´´ "he said making the atmosphere turn dark, I then launched my attack before anything happened.
"Blaze!" I yelled as I turned into a sphere of raw fire and navigated the place dodging the bones thrusting from the ground crazily, this is how he had got me before but I was now aware of what this attack did.
"Bone Crusher!" he said as he trapped me between his claws trying to crush me for I gave another push sliding through his hold then turned quickly to kick him "Bone Strike" he said as a random bone appeared and hit me making me lose my fire ball appearance.
"Knife Shield!" I said as I created a barrier made out of knives which protected me somehow of an attack he had made that had sent me crashing into a building and so hovered down to the street, I tried to think of a strategy to counter him but as I raised my head, I noticed the blue PowerPunk who was staring at me on the other side; she had been involved in the fight against Brazen since he had pierced some of the shopping bags she was carrying, this time instead of yelling something to me, she decided to ignore me and kept walking like saying ´´Oh, there he is, well, I couldn´t possibly careless so I´ll do as if I didn´t see him in the first place´´ it was alright she did that since she had been killed by Brazen in attempt to get revenge on her clothes…
"Well, well, If it isn´t that girl from earlier, want me to invite her?" he asked me as he smirked.
"Do as you please" I said knowing it didn´t matter what I wanted, he always did what he wished.
"Alright then, it´ll be fun killing her twice" he said as he approached her and as expected pierced her clothes.
"HEY! THOSE WEREN´T CHEAP YOU ASSHOLE!" I heard her yell; it was just like last time, except that at that time I hadn´t interfered with their fight and so she ended up dead before we could cooperate; this time though, I propelled where she was and quickly lifted her moving her out of the way, I simply needed to cooperate with her to try and achieve something. "Hey! What´s with you? I thought I had ignored you! Why are you helping me you, scum?" she yelled probably indignant of her position.
"Just cooperate with me or you´ll make things even more complicated" I said flatly, she looked even harder to talk to than Brute.
"And why should I cooperate with lowlifes as you?"
"Because, we have the same enemy right now and we cannot win fighting separately" I said as I eyed Brazen who was supposedly on the street, but when I turned to see him, he was no longer there.
"Blood Rain!" yelled Brazen turning the sky gray and so made blood rain though as we stared, she suddenly reacted.
"Poison Spumante!" yelled Brat as she put us both in a purple bubble avoiding the blood.
"So…"
"Hmph! I´ll cooperate okay? Just don´t ever mention it" she said looking annoyed.
"I won´t" I said flatly.
"Ever!" she said sounding angry.
"Yeah, as you wish"
"I don´t believe you...! Okay, we´ll make a deal alright?" she said sounding all of a sudden sly.
"…"
"I´ll cooperate but… I want the blond´s cell phone number" she said as she smirked, although I hated to do so, this was a crucial time, worst timing to ask for a cell phone but it was indeed clever to ask in this situation I couldn´t say no.
"Alright, I´ll give it to you… after you cooperate" I said as I looked sarcastically at her.
"Oh no! I want guarantee! Give it to me now!" she said as I turned to see Brazen who looked confused beyond words, I looked at her skeptical as well, I couldn´t believe she was serious.
"Seriously…"
"Duh! I´m not stupid, I know you can just break the deal after I cooperate!" she said, well yes, I could do that but I´m not that dishonest.
"Alright…" I said while sighing and so whispered the number to her.
"Great!" she said as she typed his number on her phone "What was his name?"
"Rave… can you help now…" I said troubled at her lack of focus on what was happening, if Brazen wasn´t waiting for us to continue attacking, we would probably be already dead.
"Sure I will" she said as she kept typing and then closed her cell phone and kept it away "I´ll follow whatever you have in mind just like with Berserk now, I would flee with the number but I have no way of doing that with that guy" she said referring to Brazen, I really expected her trying to pull that and so didn´t want to give her his number but well… I don´t think she´ll use his number for other things that are not flirting… Miharu will have to forgive me on this; I just need to tell him when I meet up with him.
"Blood Spikes!" yelled Brazen as our bubble exploded and we flew upwards trying to avoid the attack, the rain kept falling strong, it became more acid as it kept pouring down, we flew in a zigzag way as we looked for Brazen who had become sneakier and so we didn´t manage to spot him easily.
"Fire off!" I yelled turning the acid rain around us into fire balls now manipulated by me and so I flew with them swirling around me and as soon as I found Brazen I tackled him.
"Clever move" said Brazen as he dodged it and appeared behind me "But not good enough to damage me" he said as he chuckled.
"Crystal Bombing!" yelled Brat as she approached from behind him and launched countless icicles at him, attack he only slapped away but well, I held her hand and pulled her with force switching our positions quickly.
"Cutting Flurry!" I yelled as several types of knives and hatchets fired off at him, she looked at me puzzled for the earlier move and so propelled to my side "Flaming Ring" I said shielding her, so she passed without being hurt by my attack.
"Well, it looks like this is all play to that jerk" she said as she frowned annoyed.
"It indeed is" I said flatly.
"Any strategy?"
"I plan on attacking a vulnerable area, but I can´t find any" I said frustrated as I scrutinized him.
"What about his wings? If you cut them he might not be able to fly anymore while we could still be hovering" she said making me think on it.
"Maybe so… but I kind of doubt that´ll do something" I said thoughtfully.
"Well, what about giving it a try? It´s not like it´s going to come out perfect anyway" she said.
"Alright, I´ll try and cut off his wings" I said as I aimed at his wings "I´ll make you invisible now, try and launch attacks to distract him so I can take a better aim at them"
"Okay, I can surely do that" she said as she flew off covered with my astral barrier.
"Target Practice!" I yelled making several energy balls which shot from different directions, mixed with them was random ice and poison attacks from Brat, he didn´t even bother looking around, he only smirked at me.
"Care to do something more elaborated? I know you can pull off something nice" he said mockingly.
I flew towards him then creating a great quantity of shadow clones and surrounded him while pointing at him with different types of knives, they created a spherical mesh which had him on the center and as I fired of a fire beam at him the other clones fired off their weapons surrounded with fire, mixed in the attacks were Brat´s poison bubbles and poison icicles, I then in the process of the attack working, went behind him without him noticing me since he was more concentrated on diverting the countless attacks, I locked on his black wings and focused a great amount of energy into one single attack.
"Sharp Final Slash" I said as I approached him and a dagger appeared in my hand, Brat in the mean time had been smacked and sent harshly to the ground, she was probably alright since I had covered her with a Flaming Ring when I turned her invisible; I approached him quickly and without hesitation slashed him but as I did, I failed to notice he had turned around.
"Bone Strike" he simply said in the moment I had unleashed my attack, I contemplated how I sliced his neck halfway in horror and then felt the excruciating pain in my stomach; we fell to the ground rapidly and crashed on the pavement brutally.
"…Brazen…" I said as I noticed him smirking at me as he knelt down just as I was doing.
"Congratulations on beating your fear, heh" he said as blood trailed from his mouth and I noticed his neck´s wound dripping with blood and so not much time passed before his eyes turned back being green.
"Makoto…?" I murmured as he then fell to the floor facing up, he looked at me sideways with a worn out expression.
"Rage…. Hey…" he murmured weakly.
"Don´t speak…" I said as I mustered any strength left and stood up while picking him up "I´ll rush you to a hospital" as I said that I hovered to the sky trying to shrug off the pain in my stomach, the grief it caused me seeing Raze this way made me ignore the pain somehow and I just felt how the adrenaline was the only thing impelling me to go forward.
"It´s no use Rage… I don´t think I´ll be conscious for more time…" he said as he smiled apologetically at me.
"No, hang in there, don´t go, please try to hold on a little longer!" I said feeling frustration accumulating wildly.
"Rage… you are also in a bad state, please… look after you, you are also important and you are much more important to me… there´s no use trying to save me, I can feel I´m leaving soon…"
"Why are you talking like that? I can save you, just believe in me!" I said as I saw him shed tears.
"I have always believed in you Rage… maybe I had stressed you too much for how I relied in you, I´ve been always so unfair with you" he said as he started closing his eyes "to be honest, I´m scared, I don´t want to die… "
"Then, hold on a little more, I promise you, you´ll be fine so please don´t leave me just yet…"
"Rage I´m sorry… but I´m thankful you know, no matter how selfish I was; you were there for me" he said as he coughed brusquely.
"Don´t talk Raze… please…" I said, maybe if he stopped talking the bleeding wouldn´t be so bad, he wouldn´t be straining himself so much…
"… I´m so happy I found out we were brothers, I finally had a family again, although… I always felt at home when I was with you" he said as he smiled broadly though it didn´t last long since he started coughing again.
"Makoto… please, forgive me" I said as I held him tightly.
"No… forgive me for troubling you so much, it wasn´t fair, it wasn´t…."
"Makoto…" I murmured as I turned away to cough brusquely, just the same way he was doing.
"I´m scared…" he murmured as he kept crying "But, that wouldn´t be a nice way to leave, right…? Sorry for being such a hypocrite, I´m always smiling and now I´m crying"
"Don´t worry for that Raze… cry if you want, cry until you are satisfied…" I said as I started losing consciousness, it couldn´t be happening! I needed to reach the hospital or Raze would…
"I kind of regret not having Miharu here to say good bye… I wanted to apologize for being such an insensitive friend" he said as he chuckled nervously "and to thank him for being my friend and brother too" he said as he started losing consciousness.
"Rage, I´m not mad for whatever you did… I know you always have a reason to do things, so, thank you" he said as he finally passed away and so just remained with a smile on his lips.
"Makoto…" I murmured cursing for what had happened, if only I had prevented this incident, if only I had known …"I´m sorry…" I murmured as I lost consciousness, I was unfortunately not going to reach the hospital any time soon…
000
"Oh…" Raze murmured as he looked still puzzled and so he transformed to follow us instead of being pulled along, why did I feel like my shirt dampened? "Bruisee you can let me go nowww"
"Alright" he said letting him go and so followed us towards downtown.
"Haha I just love to fly! But I still think skydiving is fun! Want to join me next time?"
"I don´t know man, this guy will have a heart attack if I ever follow you on that" said Bruise, as he said that I stopped abruptly and so the other two did just the same.
"Something wrong Rage?" asked Raze as he looked confused at me, everything came back to me, everything that had happened, but it looked like it had been rewinded , everything looked as how it had started the very first time, I sighed in relief but I suddenly noticed a scar on Raze´s neck and so I widened my eyes terrified, just why…?
"Raze… your neck…" I said as I started trembling uncontrollably, what had happened? It had all been reset right? Why did he have that scar as if it had really happened? Just, why…?
"Man, what´s wrong with you? Were you day dreaming or something? It could explain why you were so silent" said Bruise as he arched a brow looking puzzled at me, it hadn´t happened yet Raze had that scar, just how…?
"When did-" I said interrupted by my brusque coughing, I was coughing blood all of a sudden… no it was not something random, it wasn´t; I was coughing blood just as I was doing earlier before everything returned to how it originally was, but if it had really gone back to normal, why was this happening…?
"RAGE!" exclaimed Raze terrified as both Bruise and him helped me down to the ground and put me against a wooden fence to examine me.
"HOLY SHIT" said Bruise as they stared wide eyed at the hole on my stomach, the hole covered from above some length bellow the collarbone to slightly above the belly button.
"Bruise, we need to get him to the hospital" said Raze as I looked at him staring horrified at my wound.
"Right" said Bruise as Raze carried me on his back and so hurried to the hospital.
"Just what thing pierced you dude! Looks like a drill stabbed you or some shit!" exclaimed Bruise as he followed Raze on a side.
"I´m sorry, to you two" I said as I lost consciousness, I was remembering how I had lost them earlier.
"Huh"? murmured Raze as he looked puzzled at Bruise, I was glad at how they didn´t remember; I lost consciousness leaning on Raze´s back while tugging of his shirt slightly frustrated on the scar he had even after all that.
Xxx
-Leaving a store with several shopping bags-
"Ah, finally, I bought those shoes I wanted!" exclaimed Brat as she left a store "I should text Raven to see if there´s any parties going on or happening soon" she said as she opened her phone and searched in her list of contacts for Raven´s number "Raven…Raven…Raven…Rave?" she murmured puzzled as she stopped walking to stare at the mysterious number on her cell phone. "Interesting… when did I get the number of that blond? Well, it doesn´t matter, heh" she said as she skipped the number and typed a text message to Raven, after sending it she closed her cell phone and kept it away "What a good day this turned out to be" she said with a smirk.