Sorry for the long wait but I had Writer's Block and I didn't know how to write this chapter but now I got it done and it's a long chapter to make up my forgiveness! Enjoy!
The dungeon was filled with laughter and giggles of Daphoene in the cell, she twirled around in the cell with her head up and a creepy smile on her face.
"Blood, Blood. Coming down the wall, the Demon Queen will awake with poison blood in her veins and on her hands." Her eyes were bright red and her laughter became more devious.
"Please stop, stop singing that song! Leave my body!"
The dungeon door opened and footsteps echoed as it was louder as they came closer to the cell's door, the two exorcists opened the cell door and grabbed her arms.
"It's time, it's time for the blood to be spilt and be punished."
Outside
Rin sat on the leadge of the roof and stared at the sun, setting on the horizen.
Akari, I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something.
He gave a sigh and kept his eyes on the setting sun.
"Didn't anyone tell you to never stare at the sun?" A voice said to him, the voice was new and it sounded like a girl.
He turned around and saw a woman sitting on top of the small building where the exit was, she had her hand on the bottom of her chin and gave a grin.
Her hair was black and her long hair was in a ponytail, she had a black dress with long light black sheeves and black high heels. She had a black tattoo on her ankle, it looked almost sinster but it had a meaning to it. But her golden eyes were the only thing that Rin kept staring.
Her eyes...They are...so beautiful...
"You're staring at my eyes Rin." He snapped out of it and the woman jumped down from the building and landed like a cat, she walked to him and had a grin on her face.
"Who are you, and how do you know my name?" He touched his sword bag and was going to get his sword out but his bag felt empty, he looked down and saw that the sword was gone.
He looked back at the woman and she held the sword in her hands and his blue flames showed, she gave a grin.
"So that's your power? The power of Satan, the Son like Akari." She stared down at the sword and looked at Rin in the corner of her eye.
"How do you know Akari? And how do you know who I am?" She raised the sword and pointed at Rin's neck.
"I know every Demon Queen, King, Prince and Princess of the Demon World and I intend to kill every since one of them. And even the Madness that had trapped me for almost 100 years." He looked down at the sword and looked back at her golden eyes, they almost had a depressing look on them.
"So you want to kick Satan's ass? You and me are on the same page." She gave a grin.
"You are the son of Satan, why do you want to defeat your own father?"
"He's not my father, my father died protecting me from Satan. He gave up his own life to save mine." She stared at him through his eyes, through his heart. She saw that he was telling the truth and gave a small smile and lowered the sword.
"You truely have a strong heart, a heart that only one person that I know has a heart like that and he's disappered into the world that I cannot go to. You are like him in every way possible." Rin stared at her, she put his sword back into the case and his blue flames disappered.
She handled him back his sword and he grabbed it, he kept his eyes on her's.
"Now answer my question, how do you know me?" She gave a grin and looked at the setting sun.
"I know that you love Akari and the truth behind her past and your Lost Memories." His eyes were filled with shock. "Akari is more important than you know and those dreams that you have and the visions of Akemi are true, they show the past of Akari ever since you were connected by the Enishi."
"Enishi?"
"It's the fate or destiny that bonds your relationship with Akari and gave you a chance to start the love that you have for her, you and Akari had this enishi since the day that you both were born." He stared at her and saw that her golden eyes were glowing.
"How do you know this stuff?" She gave a small grin.
"I just know and I'm not telling you my source but you know her soon." She turned around and was walking away from him.
"Wait! Who are you? You haven't answer that question yet!" She looked at him and turned her head at him, she gave a grin.
"I'm the Angel of Shadows and the Queen of Madness." He stared at her with confused eyes, she jumped onto the building and disappered as she dropped from the edge of it.
Who the hell is she?
Rin walked back to the room where everyone was, he heard screaming and whips cracking. He knew the voice of the screaming.
"Akari! What are they doing to her?" He ran to the door but Yukio grabbed him into his arms. "Let me go! They are hurting her!"
Marie covered her mouth and tears fell down her eyes, Luka crossed her arms and stood against the wall with her eyes lowered and eyes closed.
The whips kept cracking and hitting Akari, Mephisto stared at her back that was being whipped. Mother Mary put her hand on his shoulder and looked at him in his eyes, they were filled with despair and sadness.
A few minutes passed and the cracking of the whips stopped, everyone looked at each other and saw the doors opened. Akari was pushed out and fell onto the floor, she panted and hissed in pain.
"Akari!" Rin and Shiemi ran to her, her dress was torn open in the back. Her white skin was marked with bloody whip markings also with old and new bruises near the markings, she tried to sit up but she fell down and had no strength in her body.
"Shiemi, heal her!" Shiemi took out Nii, Nii sat on top of Akari's markings but she screamed out in pain.
"There's holy water in the markings and it's burning her inside and out, it won't let her heal." Mephisto and Mother Mary walked out of the room, Mephisto's head was lowered. Rin looked at him and stood up in front of him.
"How come you let her be whipped? For a crime she didn't do? She was only a little girl and she had nothing to do with her mother's death! Why did you let her face a crime that someone did? What kind of-" Rin yelled at him but stopped when Mephisto put his arm on his neck and pushed him against the wall, the wall cracked with the strength brought on it. He looked at Rin with angry eyes.
"DO YOU THINK THIS IS EASY FOR ME? I HAD TO WATCH HER BE WHIPPED, BEATEN AND TORTURED EVER SINCE SHE WAS A CHILD! I HAD TO TAKE CARE OF HER WHEN NO ONE WOULD!" Yukio walked to Mephisto as he yelled and put his and on his shoulder.
"Mephisto, stop-" Mother Mary put her hand on his arm and gave him a shook of her head, he nodded and walked back a step.
"I CARED ABOUT HER AND LOVED HER LIKE SHE WAS MY OWN DAUGHTER, WHEN SHE WAS HURT BY OTHER CHILDREN, I HAD TO BE THE ONE THAT SHE CRIED TO AND TAKE CARE OF HER! I WAS THE ONLY ONE SHE SAW AS A PARENT WHEN HER MOTHER DIED, IT WASN'T MY CHOICE OF LETTING HER BE BEATEN OR WHIPPED!" He stopped yelling and lowered his head, Rin stared down at him. "I loved her, I promised her that I would protect Akari and now she's gone. I promised her, I loved her and I promised her!"
Rin saw Akemi behind Mephisto, she put her hand on his shoulder and looked up at him with her gentle brown eyes. She kissed his cheek and put her arms around him into a embrace, Mephisto felt this warmth around him and a tear fell down his eye.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that." He let his arm go and Rin fell to the floor and coughed, he looked up at Mephisto and saw the tears in his eyes.
Arthur opened the doors and walked in the room, two exorcists walked in also and picked up Akari by her arms.
"It's time for punishment." He gave a smile as he said those 4 words that Rin was afraid of, he stared at him and looked at Akari who was being pulled away to the Roof of the Blessing that he was tortured for being the Son of Satan.
The exorcist put Akari on the blue greenish glass cross, bounded her wrists on the cross and bound her ankles together so she couldn't escape or fight back but she had no energry left in her to fight.
She stood on the cross with her arms spread open, her face was pale white with sweat coming down. She looked like she was in the verge of dying but she wasn't, her back had blood drops falling down on the floor and against the glass cross.
The Exorcists stared at her as the dress flew in the wind, she lifted her head up a little at looked at them.
Rin was in the back and he tried to get through the crowd but they wouldn't let them, they kept pushing him back but he finally got through three people to see Akari's pale sweaty face.
"Let go of her!" He yelled at the Exorcists, they didn't look at him.
Akari looked at Rin, she gave a faint smile at him.
"Rin, please. Just let me go. I will be fine, I promise." He stared at her with watery eyes and lowered his head with a scowl.
Arthur walked up to her and looked up at her with a small smile before he grabbed her hair in his hand, he held it tight. She felt her hair being pulled at a tight strength.
"This is a succubus that has seduced men for far too long! She shall be punished as the flames burn her skin and her beauty will be taken!" He took out his long sword and put it near her hair. "And we shall start by cutting the long white hair that was given to her at birth." He said before he let his sword cut her hair.
Akari's eyes went wide and Rin's too as they saw her white long strands of hair fall down to the floor, she stared down at her hair.
My hair.
"Mommy, why is my hair always changing color?" Little Akari asked Akemi as she brushed her shoulder length hair.
"It's because. Sometimes, we believe that our hairs have a mind of it's own and as you grow up. They will get longer and change color, darker or lighter. So your hair has a mind of it's own like mine does." She gave a smile down at her, Akari gave a smile back.
"Penitence for your crime!" They all started to say to her, Akari had tears come down her eyes and down her face.
Rin stared at her with tears in his eyes.
She's...being punished for something that she didn't do...Akari...
"Penitence for your crime, penitence for your life!" They all kept saying to her, she kept her head down as the circle around her started to glow and felt a pain throughout her body.
She started to scream in pain as the circle glowed more brighter, Rin tried to move to her but he couldn't. He fell down to the floor and lowered his head with tears down his face, he kept hearing her screams of pain in his ears. He shut his eyes closed and covered his ears from the pain of her voice.
Please...someone...help her...
Rin!
He heard a familar voice in his head, he looked up and saw a large black shadow flying over them in the air with cherry blossoms flowing in the wind. The petals attacked the exorcist around Rin and made them fall down to the ground. The large shadow landed on the ground and made cracks around it's feet, he stared up at it and smiled.
"Kuro." He ran to the giant black cat and hugged him, the cat gave a smile to him.
"What are you doing here?" Yukio said to him as he stared at him with a confused look.
We came here to save Akari!
"We?" Yukio and Rin heard footsteps behind him and saw Levi and Marie standing together, Levi had his hood off of his head but still wearing his black cloak. The cherry blossom fairies flying around him with a serious look on his face as he stared at Rin.
"I am only here to save my mistress from being killed by those exorcists." Yukio gave a nod at him and Rin lowered his eyes down, Levi walked past Rin and put his hand on his shoulder for a quick second. "I also owe her in my debt."
He put his hand off his shoulder and walked to Kuro, Rin looked at him in the corner of his eye and gave a grin at him.
Levi gave a small smile back but then his eyes turned wide.
"Your highnesses! Watch out!" He said outloud, Rin turned around and saw a exorcist in front of him with a sword that was heading for his face.
"Rin!" Yukio said outloud before taking out his gun but when he blinked for a second. A black shadow appeared in front of the exorcist, the shadow took the sword between it's hands and pushed it back, making the exorcist take a step back before the shadow kicked the exorcist with it's foot. The exorcist fell down and fainted from the impact.
Yukio, Rin, Levi and Marie stared at the shadow. It turned around and turned out to be a short black haired woman that had a green eye and a red eye that they all knew.
"Luka!" Rin said outloud, she looked down at him and gave a small smile. She looked at Yukio and gave a chuckle.
"You forgot to pack these in your gun." She threw a pack of bullets to him in one throw, he caught them and put them in his gun. "Don't worry, they will make them go to sleep not die from a regular bullet."
She looked at Levi and gave a frown, she walked to Rin and put her hand on his head.
"You need to be more careful and use that sword of yours. We need your power to help Akari." He looked up at her and gave a grin.
"Right." He nodded at her, she smile a little and walked in front of him. She stood and took out her shurikens from her bra and held them in her hands.
"So," She turned around to look at Rin and grinned. "Let's save Akari."
