A Devil's Halo: Part Fourteen
Peace for Now
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Oni had no idea what he was doing. He was backing away! He was backing away from a stupid little minion of his! Was he scared? Was this going to end the way it did with his last, lost minion? Yamato... or was it Matt... or both... Dammit! Who cares!
No. He couldn't possibly let it end that way. Stop backing away then...
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Sora happily swung the plastic bag that held Taichi's medicine in it, around. After the fifth swing though, it slipped through her fingers, and fell onto the cold street. There were no cars, so she decided to just walk and grab it.
BEEP BEEP!!!!
No cars? She was wrong.
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"I swear on my own grave that if you harm Sora, you will regret it even more than when you regret not sleeping early for your damn 'beauty sleep' you sick bastard!" Tai yelled, as he ran full speed to his 'master'. He didn't think twice before hitting the demon, instead, he just raised a fist and slammed it into Oni's face as hard as he possibly could. Oni didn't even have time to dodge the attack. Instead of ending his punching spree right then to hurt Oni in other ways that were very possible right now in Tai's mind, he continued throwing his fists at the devil. "You son of a bitch!!! You arrogant, self-centered, haughty spawn of the most extremely pure evil in the whole universe!!! Die dammit, DIE!!!"
Oni was too startled with Tai's actions that he had absolutely no time to recover from all the punches he was throwing.
Suddenly, the two heard a loud screeching halt from earth.
'Hehehe... the bus that I called on for Sora's premature death...' Oni thought happily.
The punches from Tai were stopped, as the teen rose up towards the little ball of Oni's that showed what was happening down on earth. The boy was horror-struck as he glanced down at the glass bubble...
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"Miss! Miss! I'm very sorry about that! I didn't see the stop sign... Oh poor dear... You must be scared to death!" called out the bus driver as she climbed out of her bus to wards the teen staring wide-eyed at the front of the bus with her mouth wide open in a silent scream as if the whole world had been muted. "Miss...?" she called out again. This time Sora snapped out of her trance and looked over at the older woman.
"I-I... I'm sorry... I wasn't looking. I mean. There weren't any cars there and then... I didn't know. I should have been more careful... Thank you..." Sora finally said, with a bright, grateful smile. Then she threw her arms around the woman and hugged her tight.
"Thank you!" she said even more cheerfully. "Thank you!" she smiled as she unfurled her arms from the woman's body. "Thank you!!!" she repeated again as she picked up Tai's cold medicine and waved as she jogged off in the direction of the inn that she and Tai shared.
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Tai smiled at this. Oni was too busy being beaten up by his fist, so buy that he couldn't concentrate on Sora's death. He turned around to face Oni once again... but... Oni had disappeared. The bastard had gone off in another dimension of hell in order form him to run away from the fight.
"Even I didn't hold as much power as you when I used to be Oni's minion..." said a familiarly calm voice from behind Tai.
He turned around to face Matt smiling with a shield of bright yellow surrounding him; protecting him from the heat and the fires of hell.
"Interesting... Now can you tell me how I can get out of here?" Tai asked a little too roughly due to his bad mood from Oni's cowardice.
"Sure... Just come with me... But... Did you see the end result of your hits Taichi? Oni had black burn marks all over his face!" Matt said, amused.
"H-How did that happen?" Tai asked curiously.
"Easy. It was because of the red aura that radiated off of you. Your powers became so intense that it radiated off of you and if or when you touch Oni, he will melt. Literally," he stated.
Tai nodded slowly before Matt touched his shoulder and the two went sailing across a universe of eternal light...
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"Tai...? Ta-ai!" a teen age red head with blazing crimson eyes called out at the inn. "Hey! Tai! Where'd you go?" she asked, as she looked for him inside of the bathroom, the bedroom, and the little living room space. No one... "Tai..." she called again.
Thud.
Sora looked at the direction of the sound and followed it to the bedroom.
"Oww..." a dark figure said as they rubbed their behind. "Did you have to make such a painful landing Matt?!" it asked, calling out to an unseen spirit.
There was a hearty, but ghostly chuckle.
"Tai?" Sora asked, walking towards the figure.
The figure looked over at her and beamed. "Sora!"
Tai stood up, walked to Sora and embraced her, lifting her off her feet, while she laughed. "What's wrong with you Tai?" she asked affectionately. When he finally put her down, her smile faded a little to reveal dangerously inflamed ruby eyes. "What the hell is wrong with you?! You're sick!!! Don't you know what that means? You're supposed to stay in bed and not waste your energy! You got me all worried!!!" she scolded him, as she hit him hard on the arm.
"Ow... It isn't my fault! On-- I just had to use the restroom..." he lied.
"Yeah. Right. And my mother's really Kangaroo Jack in disguise."
"No, but really-" he tried again, but he was cut off.
"What about Oni?" she asked, surprising him.
'Dammit... she caught on...' he thought.
Sora smirked at this. "So I was right wasn't I?" she asked smiling.
'Dammit! It was just a stupid guess!' he cursed himself. Then again. He couldn't lie to her. "Yeah..."
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Tai told Sora of everything that had happened, and she finally understood that she was involved deeper in this that she had imagined.
For goodness sake, he wanted to kill her!
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Later that night, the two were still up devising a plan on how to finally corner Oni and make him give Tai up. They couldn't very well destroy the demon, but they could at least threaten him and weaken him enough so that he would give Tai's soul up once and for all, and for Tai to finally become a human once again, just like Matt.
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"No... It looks more like a chicken. Can't you see the semi- long neck, the beak and the obvious chicken-like body?" Tai asked Sora as the two sat on the sun bathing chair on the inn porch that night, looking at the stars.
Sora shifted a little to make herself more comfortable on Tai's stomach. "What do you mean by 'obvious chicken-like body'? A turkey has the same body as a chicken, just a little larger in size. And it obviously has a longer neck, and that little flap of skin over the beak. It's a turkey!" she said, pointing up towards the made-up constellations of theirs.
"Okay, okay... you win..." he smirked as he kissed the side of her face. Sora leaned a little more into him as he began making butterfly kisses all the way down to her neck. Sora had to try and suppress and giggle and a moan at the same time. He stopped and looked up at the star lit sky again. "Okay. Whoever finds the big dipper wins," he said, immediately searching for the ladle-like constellation of stars.
"Wins what?" she asked, as she too, tried to find that specific group of stars.
"Anything and everything the other person wants."
Sora smiled at this. "If that's the case then..." she smirked. "There it is," she said, pointing up at the correct constellation. She turned her whole body around and straddled him.
"What is it that you want Sora?" he asked, raising his hands up to her face, and running his fingers through her fiery hair, staring up at her prefect crimson eyes.
Sora smiled at his, and kissed him, keeping her lips on his a little longer than necessary. She rested her body on his and curled a little for his warmth, as he continued to subconsciously stroke her hair away from her face. "I love you Tai..." she whispered to him, as she was gently lulled to sleep by his stroking.
"I love you too Sora..." he whispered back, kissing her forehead.
"I don't want tonight to end..." she said in a barely audible whisper.
"Shh..." he calmed her gently. "Go to sleep..." he said, as she quickly listened to his soothing voice, and fell into a deep, comfortable, and safe slumber under the star and moon-lit sky, on the porch on Tokyo Inn.
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Author's Notes: I know that it's been a while since I updated. A month actually, and I'm extremely sorry about that. School just doesn't give me as much free time anymore. I'll try and update more frequently but it won't be as frequent as I would like it to be. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. By the way, thank you for all the continuous reviews, even if I haven't reposted my story, people somehow found it and reviewed it. Thank you very much!
For once, I would like to put a little 'Thank You Post' for everyone who has reviewed my chapter... because... well... it reached over 100! That's so cool! Thank you all!
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Sugar is good for the soul! Hyperness is always good to have. Lol. I'm one to talk since I'm usually always hyper with my friends now-a-days. I didn't really think that this fic was really imaginative, but... well *shrugs* if you say so ^_^. You're the reviewer and reviewers always know best. Oh yeah... yup ^_^. Go Tai go! He always just seemed like the type of person to never give up and defend his honor.
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