Sorry for taking so long~ Life is busy and really thanks for the reviews, especially weeeeeee for pointing the grammar mistake I had made again =_=||| I try to edit the errors asap if i've time to do them... (still owe the prologue mistakes yet to be done /swt)
STORM-san: XDDDD Requiem is the greatest, but I had like all Kaito's modules so much that I can't really decide ~ *lol*
Well, Fire Chosen is still not out in this story yet, so not SeeU, who was blessed Earth, or Sonika, blessed by water~ hahaha~ Try again~ =P
weeeeeee-san: Actually, I forgot. =P I thought I had took the replaced Kaito's name from Vana N'Ice, but it was spell as Kyte... So must be influence by the Evillious unknowingly, cos 'Kyle' keep ringing in my mind when I finding another name for Kaito as his other identity and in the end, it sticks. =P
*lol* /pat Don't worry, there will be more 'Mystery point'~ if you'd notice I still kept the Chosen Fire's identity a secret ^^b and a lot more along the future story~
NOOOOOOO! PLEASE, I BEG YOU, DON'T DRESS AS LUKA! DX I can really heard her lecturing me all over again….(refer to 'how to write a good story', mine another fic)*cries* But your lessons is welcome, though =D though I really hate myself for slipping back to the bad habit of mine….. Really, a big thank you can't express my gratitude of pointing out the mistakes I had made again….
And, I don't mind long reviews~ That shows your concern of getting the story better, ne? And the interaction too. And if you say my English is good, that just another meaning of I'm improving well, right? =D
aira2889-san: o-o'''' ...=D ok, I'm updating now~
Animebookfreaker-san: Yes! I agree on that! =3
And sorry for the long reviewing replies, and now I present you the next chapter~
Chapter 25
Waking out from the dreamless sleep, Kaito stared at the unfamiliar ceiling. Just…. Where am I now? He thought, sitting up slowly and pushed away the heavy blankets till covering only his leg, he survey his surroundings and feeling the ache on his body.
"Ah, finally. You are awake." Turning towards the source of the voice, he was slightly shocked at the person who was standing at the entrance of the room.
"Gaku! What are you doing here? Am I… back home when I'm unconscious? How long have I been out?" He asked, with his voice raspy and dry, which he coughed a little after questioning the purple head. Walking towards the bed-stand, Gakupo poured a glass of water and handed to him.
"Now drink some water, while I answer your questions later." Making sure he had drunk the water down slowly, he spoke again, "You had been out for three full days, which your new little friends have been worried about you. And… you can guess again why I'm here." Looking a little sad, he took a seat at the chair beside the bed and wait for his friend's reaction.
"Huh?" Confused at his friend's last replied, Kaito tried to relax his mind and recalled. The capture…the escape….. and the meeting with the twins during the demon fight….
Clutching his fist tightly on the blanket and another hand over his forehead, he tried to sort the broken images of what came next, which was jumbled and confusing. Shaking his head, he gave a low cried of 'no's when images of Lucifer's true identity came to mind. Suddenly, he was pulled into a hug from someone small. It was, Len, who had just enter the room with Rin.
"….Please, Kaito. If you forget of what happen just now, your friend will truly died in vain. And, it's ok to cry, you know." Len said, hugging him tightly, with his another twin joined in, too.
"Len is right. Take your time, we won't force you telling us anything, but every one of us will be here to listen if you need help."
Suddenly, like a broken dam, that both the rest of the memories of the events, and tears in his eyes, flowing down like drowning him, linking together. Staring at his hands with his blurry eyes, he spoke, voice trembling and his whole body shaking like a leaf, "But….. I'm a murder, I killed my friend…. A friend who had done so much for me…."
"Well, I got a message, from Piko." Turning sharply towards Gakupo, his pal, he waited in fear for the message. Was he filled with hate that he had abandoned him? Or was he going to tell him to die since he had caused him problems? Kaito couldn't help but filled with depression thoughts when Gakupo continued, slowly.
"Not sure what Len had said that makes his mind, or soul, awaked….." Looking at Kaito, who had a mixture of hope, thankful and fear in his eyes after his first sentence, he decided this is a best message from his friend too. "And he helped us to escape by holding Lucifer down. Before we left he passed me a message and thanked Len-"
"Hurry and tell Kaito the message, now! He needs that you know!" Smacking his head with her wooden Rod, Gumi walked into the room.
"Ok ok, I'm getting there. Sheesh." Staring at the blue teen, who was looking like a frightening kid right now, Gakupo took a deep breath and repeats Piko's message, "Our dear friend, Piko, said 'Thank you for staying alive'. There, I said it." Starching his head on where Gumi had hit him, he looked for any reaction from the patient.
Breathing heavily, Kaito stared at Gakupo's face, trying to find anything that tells him he was joking, that actually Piko had been hating him. Looking around at the other three faces, who nodded and confirmed the truth of the message, he felt that he couldn't take it anymore.
Tears continue to flow rapidly, he brawled like a small kid, with the twins kept hugging him as his source of comfort, Gakupo patting his back, while Gumi took a seat beside his bed, trying to comfort him in some way.
For the time being, he didn't know he had been crying due to happiness, sadness or desperation. The only thing he knew was, he felt like pouring everything, all the stress he had out right now.
~.~.~
Opening the window for better air ventilation, Rin looked at the just awoke patient, who had finally calmed down two hours later. Gumi and Len passed today's dinner around, which was a piece of bread with a bowl of chicken stew, and sat around in Kaito's bedroom. In between the meals, they took turns and told him how Rin had met up with them after separated from Kaito, and also what happened after Rin had put him to sleep. For all the while Kaito had been listened attentively without interrupting, and ate his meal silently.
"…And we ran towards the exit after Piko told us to run." Len said, biting another mouthful of bread. Although hearing Piko's name still pains Kaito, but it was not as much as when he had first saw him as a Lucifer's container. Trying to hide the pain that might shown on his face, he mimicked Len's action of biting the bread, except a little harder.
"But sadly, that bastard took over again, when we are just about to reach the exit. He blocked it using wood magic, and when I was about to ask Len to burst it with his fire, someone from outside had done that for us, and she is so cool!" Gumi said, taking over.
Like they had been rehearsed, Rin took over right after Gumi just ended her sentence, "After she had burned the exit open, she fired some blue flames at our enemies, then she casted green fire balls at Sonika-san, Lily and you. At first I was thinking, 'why is she attacking us? Is she a foe, or an ally?' Then when I saw the injuries on Lily and Sonika-san had healed, and you are not looking so pale anymore, then I believe she is an ally."
Happy to find a good distraction, Kaito remarked on his knowledge of flame magic. "Well, that green fire is the Flame of Life, and it's also considering one of the rare Fire element magics. The only use for that fire, is as a healing injures or sharing some energy to a mage who overuses its magic power."
"Oh….. I see…. That's why she sent the green flame to us, so she is healing us in some ways?" Gakupo said, chewing the meat in the stew.
Giving him the weirdest look at him, Kaito sighed heavily after that. Raising his eyebrow, Gakupo wondered what that reaction was for. But sadly, he didn't tell him why, only asked Gumi to continue the story.
"Well, after healing the three of you, Cul-san, which is her name by the way, she asked us to follow the yellow bird, which brought us to Oliver and his new companion, which I believe she called herself as See U. And they protected us all the way out to the hidden path we had used this morning, and ran out of the capital. With SeeU's Earth magic and Gakupo's and Oliver's wind magic, we managed to fly all the way to Cul-san's hometown, Aluka Village in half day's time." Gumi concluded, and finished her food almost the same time.
"Wait a sec, you said GAKUPO uses wind magic and bring us here? That useless guy over there?" Pointed at his buddy with his thumb, Kaito questioned.
Feeling a vein popping, Gakupo tried to hold his temper, and asked, "Kyle, what do you mean by that?"
Crossing his arms and stared at him for a while, Kaito shook his head, answered, "Well, just kind of disbelieving, that's all. 'Cos the only thing I can remember about your magic tricks, is how you manage to zap my theory books into ashes by Lightning, or torn the books and shedder them into pieces using Wind. And I believed Piko had said it before, that anything regarding magic, you are hard to teach."
"What!"
"Ah, and one more thing," Kaito continued, ignoring his friend's outburst, "I did tell you about the properties of the different colour flames before, and yet you are here asking me again. Didn't that makes you like a useless mage?"
"Just a minute Kyle, you expect me to remember that whole junk you had told me more than 6 years ago?" Staring his best buddy disbelieved, he tried to crack his mind, remembering all those 'little theories' that Kaito had once fed him about.
"Well….just the main point, not the whole thing. Care telling me you at least remembered how many types of fire there was in the whole Hamonia? You have the time until…. I finished my stew." Humming, he continued to eat while ignoring his poor friend cursing at him.
Looking at the scene in front Rin started to laugh at them, with Gumi followed the suit. But Len was frowning instead, staring at Kaito.
"Kaito, I don't mean to spoil your mood or anything, but did you….." Before Len could complete his question, Kaito already started answering him.
"Did I lose control of my fire element magic before? Well, the answer would be yes, then." He said, finishing his food like the matter didn't bother him at all. "Now Gaku, my answer?"
"Sorry, Kyle, I'm a little curious over your 'lost of control' thing that I…."
"Nice try, why don't you just list out how many you know, before I satisfy your curiosity? After all six years is really long, and I have my own sets of questions for you too."
"Damn it...you just don't let it go, right? Fine, I only know 3 types, plus the green one would be the fourth. Red Flame is the most common seen in fire element, and the other two flames would be the Blue Flame and the Gold Flames, which are the rare and advance type in fire element magic."
Nodding his head and giving him a light smile, Kaito remarked mockingly, "Ok, sorry for thinking you are totally hopeless just now, so…."
"So, how did you know I wanted to ask you that?!" Len asked, cutting off Kaito suddenly, which made the person in question stare at him weirdly.
"….Len, you lost your control of the flames before, wasn't it? It's a common reaction that when you heard I burned myself during the escaping at Entas, which is located between the two countries, Aqua and Ventus, you will ask this question." He replied notchanly, while sipping some water. "After all if you know how I feel after that event to be able to use fire magic properly again, you could have tried and see if you will pull off that feat too."
Thinking a while, Kaito decided just summarized the whole thing, enough to satisfy their curiosity, as they might not have enough time to hear everything. He could feel something bad is coming, as least, the wind blowing in from the window told him so. Taking a deep breath, he began the painful memories on that event….
"Well, as you had already know that during the run, I wasn't able to go near any villages or towns to stay, or even to rest, is because once I do, that poor place will become a waste land in next day.
"After running out of supplies, I continued to move on, without any food and rest, due to my own ignorance that I failed to notice I had been tracked, since the day when I left my home. I still could remember that I was frightened at that time, that the pursuers was lurking somewhere at the shadows. I thought if I gone to another country, I might be able to shaken away them, but I was wrong.
"Upon reaching the mountain trail at Entas which leads to Ventus, I was ambushed. Waiting there was a big carriage, which Lucifer was inside, and a big number of knights waiting there. Don't ask me how many are there, 'cos I don't remember the exact number of them. I could only remember I fought my way until somehow, I ended up at the top cliff, and nope, Gaku, I had ended somewhere without those waterfalls.
"Feeling desperate and tired, I continued to use my magic to keep them away from me and, I was cornered in the end. Because I was stubborn, I didn't want to give up for I had travelled this far, I poured everything I got into this magic, the deadly Blue Flame."
Moving out of the bed, Kaito went around the room and packed his things, ignoring the questioning stares at him, and continued his story at the same time, "Len, unlike you, you didn't know much of the magic in this world, and you just earned that Gold Flame during that mess up event in Kagami Village. It's common that for the instinct magic, during its first use, it usually ended up lost control. I'm sure Gaku had lots of stories to tell you how I use that blue flame to play tricks, or even taking down monsters ten times bigger than us."
Taking his black cloak and pulled over his shoulders, he fastened it before looking at his friends. "That event at Entas is the first time, I had lost controlled over the blue flame of mine, which instead burning the enemies like I had willed it, it rebounded and burned me. It was hot, with the flames licking all over my body, and it hurts like hell. Blinded by my own fire I lose my step, and I fall over the cliff."
"And…. That would be all for now." He concluded, taking his white sword and tucked it safety in his black belt, leaving everyone in the room burst outcries of rages at him.
"Shouldn't you finish your story, that how you had survived the ordeal? How could you ended just like that!?" Gumi said, stomping her foot, with Rin doing the same.
"Yeah! Just… WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED NEXT! DON'T LEAVE US HANGING LIKE THAT!" Rin screamed at the blue figure, who was just…effectively ignored her.
"Come on guys, start packing your things. In a moment Oliver will come and asked us to start moving, our pursuers sure had lots of free time to find us." He said, wrapping his brown scarf round his neck, covering the burn mark before checking through his pack bag.
"Huh?" Before anyone could ask more, Oliver popped into the room, with his yellow companion perched at the top of his head.
"Hi Oliver and James, how are you? And thanks for the help earlier and during the Ritani Town. I own you and your friends a lot now." Kaito greeted, and once again ignored the surprising stares from Gakupo, Gumi and the twins.
Looking at him all prepared, Oliver raise an eyebrow. "Good to see you finally awake, BaKaito. So you knew….?"
"More or less. After all, today is a good wind that blows towards us, not to the enemy. Got to go now before trouble visits."
Nodding his head in approval, Oliver turned his attention to the rest of the group. "You heard him. Now start packing, and I going to bring you out here in five minutes time."
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"I want to see Kyle~ Not struck here with you to do this boring patrolling~" Lily whined, while walking along the thick forest that covered the small, little village, where Len and the rest was staying at. Her red head partner just sighed and continued to walk.
"Come on Lily, he will be fine. Even his friends, after one day rest, were already fine to do their things. His injuries had been healed since yesterday, so he should be waking up anytime." She said, ignoring the whines.
"But Cul…..What if he had been mentally scared by that bastard that he won't wake up forever? Or if he needs someone who knows him best to consult him? Or…."
"Shut up, Lily, it's irritating. He has his friends around, and I'm sure they can help him. So stop be a mother hen and kept nagging every little thing up and down concern about him."
Staring at her with her bright red eyes, Cul continued, "I knew you had been taking care of him since his birth, and watch him grew up until he was 8, that Tonio forced you to leave him behind. But sorry that I still failed to see why there is an urge to see him."
Rolling her eyes, Lily remarked, a little frustrated, "Of course, since you probably missed half of the party. Kyle was just beside me, in an arm reached, but I still failed to protect him! I let the bastard insult him, doing something like a weird brainwash mumbo jumbo on him that his mentality breaks in front of you! My poor, poor Kyle…."
Suddenly, a little yellow bird flied and preached onto Cul's shoulder, with a small note on its peak. Carefully, she removed and opened the folded note from the bird, reading the contains inside it, while the bird fly away immediately after its mission done.
"Lily, I have one good news and one bad news. Which one do you need now?" She asked, burning away the note with her magic.
"…..Bad news then." Lily replied, stopping her complains and the half sobs.
"That would be we are moving to Plan C. The enemies found where we hide, and with the King of Terra's help and approval, they will be clearing this forest to find the hidden village here."
"Plan C….you mean….."
"Don't tell me you had forgotten it, Plan A and Plan B are in events that should enemies came while he was still unconscious, we had to protect the place while Oliver bring them out of this country. Plan C is…."
"That the subject is awake, and we just do the delays till they are safe out of this area? And after that we can abandon the village?" Cracking her knuckles with her eyes beaming with excitement, Lily exclaimed, "Yooooosh, I'm burning up. Time to crack some enemies. Let's GO!"
Skipping happily away, Cul sweat dropped that her best friend/rival had such an unpredictable…mood. Shaking her head, she followed behind to the north of the village, where the enemies were lurking.
REALLY sorry for crappy chapter, especially the lame planning part…. Any way I think I still owe about abilities talk right? So here is one of the abilities I going to leak: future telling, or seer in common names.
Seer had a range of non-rare to the rarest, due to one's accuracy on foretelling a future, like what happen next, or what's tomorrow's dinner. Luka's consider having the rarest of all seers because she has the accuracy of 99.9% correct. (Thanks to Kaito, it's not 100% anymore)
And see you in next update~
