Chapter twenty-five: Let the blood be spilled

Shadow stared at the snarling, slobbering beast and gave an uninterested look in his eyes. "Leave me alone, I have no intention of killing you" Shadow stated showing no emotion on his face. Gaara's eyes widened and I saw insanity in them, Shadow slowly looked back at me but Gaara interrupted him again by yelling, "Oh really? Well that'll make it easy then!!" he screamed and jumped at Shadow, stretching out his claws and roaring like a demon. I gasped as Shadow closed his eyes and looked at Gaara with insanity in his eyes now. His crimson eyes shone as if you could see the blood of his victims inside their case.

"Gaara! No! You have no idea what he's capable of!!" I screamed in fear but Gaara ignored me and quickly slashed Shadow with his claws but in one swift movement, the dragon stood up on his hind legs and forcibly made the sand let go of his claws, Shadow raised his head and Gaara gasped in fear as he made a direct miss by Shadow standing at the last second. Gaara was now defenceless in mid-air, Shadow's face still shown no emotion when he saw the look of fear in Gaara's eyes.

"kage fuukaku: furui gekkou buyou" he chanted and then I watched in fear as a dark aura began to evaporate from the environment around us. It was dark aura, the one thing that fuelled Shadow's powers. The dark aura went to Shadow's aid and sank into his claws until they were glowing a dark crimson. "GAARA LOOK OUT!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. And Shadow glared at Gaara,

"Be gone."

Then in seconds he threw his glowing talons at Gaara and ripped straight through the sand. I blocked my ears as Gaara screamed inpain and was sent spiralling into a tree. Smoke rising from the injury Shadow had made but just as you would think that was the end of the attack, Shadow's eyes widened and began to glow a dark crimson around the thin edges and the clawed sand began to bubble away until the sand covering Gaara completely melted away and escaped into the ground.

I was terrified what Shadow was going to do to Gaara. Shadow gave a faint smirk as Gaara winced in the great amount of pain, he got back on all of his fours and walked out of the sand as if it were nothing and walked over to Gaara's aching body. Gaara raised his head and gave a pained look at Shadow.

"Pathetic little beast knows nothing but the fist of battle" he mocked Gaara and put one of his claws onto Gaara's chest and pressed down hard. Gaara screamed in pain as he was slowly being crushed. I watched helplessly as he was slowly putting Gaara closer and closer to death.

I couldn't take it anymore, "STOP IT!!" I screamed and that caught Shadow's attention. He lifted his weight off of Gaara a little and looked back at me. Tears were streaming down my face and I was crying helplessly, "Please…just stop…" I sobbed and shakily got up from my pit of blood and despair.

I looked up to the sky as tears fell from my face and onto the ground, I watched as the blue sky was being covered by storm clouds and clashes of lightning entered my ears. The rumbles and roars.

'Rani… let me give you my powers… I see something that isn't right in Shadow'

I nodded and closed my eyes and I felt a new power enter me. It was far different to the dark aura, it was holy aura and almost immediately steam rose from my wounds and they began to heal at a rapid rate.

I made the tiger handsign and a white aura surrounded my hands to form claws and I snarled like a demon. "Now die!" I roared and pounced on Shadow, he gasped as he saw the aura I managed to touch his spine but then a force hit me that was faster then what anyone could have possibly seen.

I cried in pain and the force was so strong I went trough three trees before I landed onto the ground. "What in the—" I cut myself off as I saw Shadow on the ground parallel from me. What just happened?

I then looked for Gaara and he was parallel from Shadow, we formed a triangle together. I panted and used Laiht's powers to heal my injuries and stood up. My eyes widened when I saw Shadow and Gaara were both unconscious, if it wasn't for Laiht's healing abilities I would have been unconscious too. But what kind of monster would have been able to knock shadow and Gaara unconscious and even more do the same great amount of damage to three targets. It didn't make any sense!

Then I saw a shadow appear on the ground, it was in the form of a dragon but… shadow was somewhere else…

The shadow then suddenly stretched up from the ground and took the shape of the dragon. I gasped in terror as I recognized the monstrous, evil, demonic, dragon…

"YOU!! FATHER!!"