Pieces of Darkness
By,
Sugar n Sorceris of Spirit
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Chapter Three: Pieces Given A Name
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Mia stood half naked looking at herself in the mirror. A bra and underwear clung to her and the long chained pendant hung around her neck. Steam swirled around her making odd shapes haunting her. She took a deep breath, warm air filling her lungs. Removing the pendant from around her small neck she let it drop into the pile of cloths and removed the rest of what she was wearing. She stepped into the shower the hot water flooding over her like a waterfall did over a rock.
After her shower was done she dried off and moved back to her room to change. Slipping into a pair of blue jeans and purple T-shirt she placed the pendant around her neck and let it fall under her shirt. Tugging a jeans jacket over her arms and buttoning it up she ran down stairs to see five pairs of worried eyes on her.
Mia sighed and walked into the kitchen. Sai was busy cooking away at the stove and smiled at her, she gratefully returned it. She removed a glass from the cabinet and took out the milk. She set the glass down and poured a glass. Sai side glanced at her and she returned the glance.
"What?" she asked pushing the milk back into the refrigerator. Sai shrugged.
"I didn't ask anything," he said flipping the toast.
"No," Mia said taking a sip of milk, "but you're thinking something, and I want to know what it is."
"Mia has it ever occurred to you that you can't make people tell you what they're thinking?" Said asked with a small smile.
"Yeah, but it's been working for me so far. So spill it," Mia replied sweetly with a smile. Sai laughed and shook his head.
"It's just, why did that girl attack you and not us?" Sai asked. Mia froze her breath caught in her chest. Sai noticed her reaction and quickly set down his beloved spatula. "Mia?"
"Wha.." she looked at him realizing she had stopped moving, "Oh nothing, just remembering yesterday," Mia semi-fibbed.
"Maybe you should stay home today," she shook her head at his suggestion.
"I better be off," Mia said hugging him quickly and leaving.
The guys came in after she left for breakfast and glanced at him. He looked back, they were doing a lot of looking today.
"Nothing," his single word reply came.
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Ryo gulped and shuttered. His concious told him not to go into Mia's room and look around but his head told him different. 'Stop confusing me!' he cried to himself in his mind. He inched open the door seeing the clean kept room. Taking an unsure step in he scanned it for anything out of the unordinary. Nothing. He sighed and stepped out.
"Dude! You didn't even look," he looked back to see Kento standing behind him.
"I looked in, nothing seemed wrong," he said shrugging. He felt wrong looking through Mia's room, it was where she kept her most privet secrets.
"If there's going to be anything in there it won't be out in the open," Sage said pushing past Ryo into Mia's room. He opened draws moving things around looking for things. Ryo stepped in after Kento followed Sage. They looked and he stood and stared.
He sat down on her bed looking dumbfound around the room. His eyes rested on a frameicture in the window that he hadn't seen earlier. He picked it up and smiled. It was a picture of all the guys and her. White Blaze was being used as a chair by Yulie and Kento while Ryo knelt down petting him. Sage had his arm around Mia's shoulders and Rowen sat at their feet on the grass. Sai had his arm linked with Mia's all with smiles plastered across their face. He frowned, they had been so happy then. What happened?
"Ryo, bud you okay?" Ryo looked up at Kento's question and nodded.
"Yeah, fine," Ryo looked at the picture and rose an eyebrow. He moved his hand along back of it and felt a key taped to the back of it. He pulled it off to see an old fashion designed key in his hand.
"Good work man!" Kento said slapping him on the back. He shook his head and put the picture down and they looked around the room trying to find what the key could go to.
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Mia stood happily in the elevator thinking about how her relationship with the guys had changed. One little attack that's all it took. She frowned. Were they only acting like this because they thought she couldn't take care of herself? Because it was their job? 'Well I'm winning this battle guys,' she thought.
She got out on the third floor and walked over to her friend's office. She rapped on the door and her friend looked up with a smile. Mindy had always been found of Mia, they were close friends. Sister's almost.
"Hey Mia!" she said motioning for her to come in, "What can I do for you?"
"I was just wondering where the item scanner was? Last time I checked it was in..." Mia trailed off and Mindy nodded her understanding.
"I think it's in the lab again," Mindy answered with a smile.
"Have the files been cleared?" Mindy shook her head and Mia smiled. "Thanks," she moved out of her office and down the first flight of stairs.
She pulled out a key to the lab room and unlocked in. She pushed it open and went over to the same item scanner that Carol had used to look at the purple gem that caused misery. Clicking on 'Object Files' she scanned down the rows of items scanned. She clicked on unknown and grinned. The purple gem starred at her from the screen almost grinning back, only an evil grin. 'I'll find out what you are you can bet on it,' she printed the information she had on it and took of the pendant. She quickly scanned it. Something fell over and Mia gasped looking behind her. Nothing.
"Get a grip Mia," she said to herself and looked back at the scanner. Hearing footsteps from the side of her Mia took the hint. She wasn't alone and it wasn't pleasant company either. She grabbed the pendant right as someone brought a sword down on the scanner. Mia screamed and looked up at a man dressed in black. His dark brown eyes burned into hers and she felt cold all over with fear. She pivoted on her heel and ran out the door. She yanked open the door and ran up the stairs to her office. She stopped once inside and waited. Nothing.
"They must only attack when you're a lone," Mia thought praying, saying thank you to God.
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Ryo, Sage and Kento stood starring down a stairwell. They stood in Mia's walk in closet looking down at where they had removed the carpet and wood thinking it was the crawl space. Ryo sneezed from the dust that puffed around them.
"Do you think we should go?" Kento asked munching on a cookie.
"What if it's something we're not suppose to see?" Ryo questioned not wanting to go down there. He wasn't scared of it, more of Mia.
"C'mon, we'll get the guys and we'll all go down together," Sage said disappearing out of Mia's room and into the hall. He quickly returned with Rowen and Sai tagging along behind him. With flash lights in hand they moved down the stairway with Rowen at the entrance as the lookout.
Ryo lead the way down the dust infested darkness. The stairs creaked as if it was a warning to turn back and leave, but the Ronins ignored it. They moved farther and farther down the dark stairs until the hit bottom. They looked around seeing stain-glass everywhere. Their faces drooped at the pictures that held the wall. They were of war, evil demons, witches and other demonic things.
"I wonder if Mia even remembers these things," Sai said looking at a picture of a young witch. Long red hair flowed to her ankles with silver streaks running through it. She had aquamerine blue eyes and was as pale as the girl they had fought the other day. Sai shivered at the resemblance of Mia to the witch.
"Sai what are you looking at?" Kento asked coming up behind him. He paled at the sight of the picture in front of them.
"Guys! She's back!" Rowen's faint voice called to them. They quickly shoved each other up the stairs and closed the entrance way and ran out of Mia's room. Ryo glanced back praying she didn't notice if anything was out of place.
"Hey Mia," Sage said walking down the stairs. Mia glanced up at him with a warm smile.
"What are you doing home so early?" Rowen asked leaning against the upstairs railing.
"Oh, um, something happened at work that's all," Mia said dodging the real reason.
"Oh? What happened?" Rowen said carrying on the already dead conversation.
"Stuff," Mia said moving up the stairs and into her room. Rowen and Sage looked at each other frowning.
"She's dodging something," they said at the same time and went on with their business.
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Mia locked her bedroom door and removed the information she had printed out. Taking off the pendant she held in next to the print out of the gem. She frowned narrowing her eyebrows. 'They're nothing a like,' she thought. Her thumb ran along the setting. Nine sharp edged arms wrapped around the edge of the gem holding it tightly in its clutches. A knock at the door scared Mia out of her thoughts and she pushed the pendant under her covers.
"Yes?" Mia asked opening the door. She screamed falling back with the girl from earlier on top of her, strangling her. "G-get OFF!" she brought her leg into the girls stomach flinging her into the air. Mia scrambled up running for the stairs. "G-"
The girl tackled her as she reached the stairs. Mia's ankle twisted and she fell down the stairs, rolling along their doomed path with the girl. Mia hit her head on the railing then banged it on the floor once they reached the bottom. The girl was a few feet away from her standing up.
"Mia, I heard you scream, wha-" Ryo stopped seeing Mia at the bottom of the stairs with the girl near her.
"Give it back," she hissed at Mia whom rolled over on her stomach moaning. Her ice blue eyes narrowing at Mia's green-blue ones.
"Get away from her," Ryo said running down the stairs calling his sub armor.
"I want her, not you," the girl hissed glaring at Ryo who protected Mia. The others ran down the stairs and helped Mia up.
"You'll have to get through us to get to her," Sage barked standing up to protect Mia with Ryo and Kento.
"What is she to you anyway, why protect her?" the girl hissed. Ryo glared at her clenching his fists.
"She's our friend and we'll keep her safe no matter what!" Ryo growled closing his eyes and opening them again calming himself.
"What do you want with her?" Kento snapped.
"I want my gem back! It belongs to me," she hissed glaring past the three guys and at Mia. Her ice eyes burned into Mia's leaving a feeling of evil running through her.
"What gem?" Sai asked pushing Mia behind him and Rowen.
"The one she wears around her neck," she held out her hand, "give it to me." Her hand started to glow but nothing happened. "Where is it!?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Mia screamed back feeling pain in her heart.
"Deitie!" they looked up and the pain in Mia's chest seized. They saw a girl in all black standing at the top of the stairs glaring down at her.
"Brenda, Warrior of Cryptic! Why are you here?" Deitie hissed. Ryo jerked his head toward Rowen saying get Mia out of here. As soon as Mia and Rowen started to move Dietie shot a beam of black light at them. Mia screamed and they ducked out of the way. "She goes no where!"
"You want your gem?" Brenda said distracting Dietie again. Dietie glared at her.
"You have it?" Brenda held up a silver chain clasping the gem in her hand.
"Come get it!" she took off running and Dietie pushed past the Ronin's after her. Brenda grabbed onto the railing doing a handstand on it falling back into a back flip in the air. She landed on the floor as Dietie flung herself over the railing, tripping and falling. She landed cracking the floor beneath her as Rowen got Mia out of the house. Brenda held out her hand and shot a white light out at Dietie. She screamed a disappeared.
"Who are you?" Sai asked getting ready to fight her. Rowen tugged Mia back inside with the others seeing Dietie gone.
"I'm Brenda, warrior of Cryptic," she said kneeling down on one knee.
"How'd you get the gem?" Mia asked surprisingly. Brenda smiled and flung the pendant at her. There was a cross on the chain and Mia smiled. "You didn't have it,"
"Where is it Mia?" Brenda asked. Mia ran upstairs and came down holding it in her hand. Brenda nodded. "Keep it safe, that is one of the strongest pieces to it all,"
"Pieces to what?" Kento asked.
"The door," Brenda replied, "it unlocks all evil once they are all together, but if it is in the hands of someone powerful and they don't want the evil to be let out they have the power to not allow it, as long as you have all of them."
"How will we get all of the other ones?" Mia asked.
"Look inside your heart and you will see, follow yourself," Brenda said disappearing.
"Follow yourself?" Mia whispered looking at the pendant in her hand.
By,
Sugar n Sorceris of Spirit
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Chapter Three: Pieces Given A Name
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Mia stood half naked looking at herself in the mirror. A bra and underwear clung to her and the long chained pendant hung around her neck. Steam swirled around her making odd shapes haunting her. She took a deep breath, warm air filling her lungs. Removing the pendant from around her small neck she let it drop into the pile of cloths and removed the rest of what she was wearing. She stepped into the shower the hot water flooding over her like a waterfall did over a rock.
After her shower was done she dried off and moved back to her room to change. Slipping into a pair of blue jeans and purple T-shirt she placed the pendant around her neck and let it fall under her shirt. Tugging a jeans jacket over her arms and buttoning it up she ran down stairs to see five pairs of worried eyes on her.
Mia sighed and walked into the kitchen. Sai was busy cooking away at the stove and smiled at her, she gratefully returned it. She removed a glass from the cabinet and took out the milk. She set the glass down and poured a glass. Sai side glanced at her and she returned the glance.
"What?" she asked pushing the milk back into the refrigerator. Sai shrugged.
"I didn't ask anything," he said flipping the toast.
"No," Mia said taking a sip of milk, "but you're thinking something, and I want to know what it is."
"Mia has it ever occurred to you that you can't make people tell you what they're thinking?" Said asked with a small smile.
"Yeah, but it's been working for me so far. So spill it," Mia replied sweetly with a smile. Sai laughed and shook his head.
"It's just, why did that girl attack you and not us?" Sai asked. Mia froze her breath caught in her chest. Sai noticed her reaction and quickly set down his beloved spatula. "Mia?"
"Wha.." she looked at him realizing she had stopped moving, "Oh nothing, just remembering yesterday," Mia semi-fibbed.
"Maybe you should stay home today," she shook her head at his suggestion.
"I better be off," Mia said hugging him quickly and leaving.
The guys came in after she left for breakfast and glanced at him. He looked back, they were doing a lot of looking today.
"Nothing," his single word reply came.
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Ryo gulped and shuttered. His concious told him not to go into Mia's room and look around but his head told him different. 'Stop confusing me!' he cried to himself in his mind. He inched open the door seeing the clean kept room. Taking an unsure step in he scanned it for anything out of the unordinary. Nothing. He sighed and stepped out.
"Dude! You didn't even look," he looked back to see Kento standing behind him.
"I looked in, nothing seemed wrong," he said shrugging. He felt wrong looking through Mia's room, it was where she kept her most privet secrets.
"If there's going to be anything in there it won't be out in the open," Sage said pushing past Ryo into Mia's room. He opened draws moving things around looking for things. Ryo stepped in after Kento followed Sage. They looked and he stood and stared.
He sat down on her bed looking dumbfound around the room. His eyes rested on a frameicture in the window that he hadn't seen earlier. He picked it up and smiled. It was a picture of all the guys and her. White Blaze was being used as a chair by Yulie and Kento while Ryo knelt down petting him. Sage had his arm around Mia's shoulders and Rowen sat at their feet on the grass. Sai had his arm linked with Mia's all with smiles plastered across their face. He frowned, they had been so happy then. What happened?
"Ryo, bud you okay?" Ryo looked up at Kento's question and nodded.
"Yeah, fine," Ryo looked at the picture and rose an eyebrow. He moved his hand along back of it and felt a key taped to the back of it. He pulled it off to see an old fashion designed key in his hand.
"Good work man!" Kento said slapping him on the back. He shook his head and put the picture down and they looked around the room trying to find what the key could go to.
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Mia stood happily in the elevator thinking about how her relationship with the guys had changed. One little attack that's all it took. She frowned. Were they only acting like this because they thought she couldn't take care of herself? Because it was their job? 'Well I'm winning this battle guys,' she thought.
She got out on the third floor and walked over to her friend's office. She rapped on the door and her friend looked up with a smile. Mindy had always been found of Mia, they were close friends. Sister's almost.
"Hey Mia!" she said motioning for her to come in, "What can I do for you?"
"I was just wondering where the item scanner was? Last time I checked it was in..." Mia trailed off and Mindy nodded her understanding.
"I think it's in the lab again," Mindy answered with a smile.
"Have the files been cleared?" Mindy shook her head and Mia smiled. "Thanks," she moved out of her office and down the first flight of stairs.
She pulled out a key to the lab room and unlocked in. She pushed it open and went over to the same item scanner that Carol had used to look at the purple gem that caused misery. Clicking on 'Object Files' she scanned down the rows of items scanned. She clicked on unknown and grinned. The purple gem starred at her from the screen almost grinning back, only an evil grin. 'I'll find out what you are you can bet on it,' she printed the information she had on it and took of the pendant. She quickly scanned it. Something fell over and Mia gasped looking behind her. Nothing.
"Get a grip Mia," she said to herself and looked back at the scanner. Hearing footsteps from the side of her Mia took the hint. She wasn't alone and it wasn't pleasant company either. She grabbed the pendant right as someone brought a sword down on the scanner. Mia screamed and looked up at a man dressed in black. His dark brown eyes burned into hers and she felt cold all over with fear. She pivoted on her heel and ran out the door. She yanked open the door and ran up the stairs to her office. She stopped once inside and waited. Nothing.
"They must only attack when you're a lone," Mia thought praying, saying thank you to God.
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Ryo, Sage and Kento stood starring down a stairwell. They stood in Mia's walk in closet looking down at where they had removed the carpet and wood thinking it was the crawl space. Ryo sneezed from the dust that puffed around them.
"Do you think we should go?" Kento asked munching on a cookie.
"What if it's something we're not suppose to see?" Ryo questioned not wanting to go down there. He wasn't scared of it, more of Mia.
"C'mon, we'll get the guys and we'll all go down together," Sage said disappearing out of Mia's room and into the hall. He quickly returned with Rowen and Sai tagging along behind him. With flash lights in hand they moved down the stairway with Rowen at the entrance as the lookout.
Ryo lead the way down the dust infested darkness. The stairs creaked as if it was a warning to turn back and leave, but the Ronins ignored it. They moved farther and farther down the dark stairs until the hit bottom. They looked around seeing stain-glass everywhere. Their faces drooped at the pictures that held the wall. They were of war, evil demons, witches and other demonic things.
"I wonder if Mia even remembers these things," Sai said looking at a picture of a young witch. Long red hair flowed to her ankles with silver streaks running through it. She had aquamerine blue eyes and was as pale as the girl they had fought the other day. Sai shivered at the resemblance of Mia to the witch.
"Sai what are you looking at?" Kento asked coming up behind him. He paled at the sight of the picture in front of them.
"Guys! She's back!" Rowen's faint voice called to them. They quickly shoved each other up the stairs and closed the entrance way and ran out of Mia's room. Ryo glanced back praying she didn't notice if anything was out of place.
"Hey Mia," Sage said walking down the stairs. Mia glanced up at him with a warm smile.
"What are you doing home so early?" Rowen asked leaning against the upstairs railing.
"Oh, um, something happened at work that's all," Mia said dodging the real reason.
"Oh? What happened?" Rowen said carrying on the already dead conversation.
"Stuff," Mia said moving up the stairs and into her room. Rowen and Sage looked at each other frowning.
"She's dodging something," they said at the same time and went on with their business.
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Mia locked her bedroom door and removed the information she had printed out. Taking off the pendant she held in next to the print out of the gem. She frowned narrowing her eyebrows. 'They're nothing a like,' she thought. Her thumb ran along the setting. Nine sharp edged arms wrapped around the edge of the gem holding it tightly in its clutches. A knock at the door scared Mia out of her thoughts and she pushed the pendant under her covers.
"Yes?" Mia asked opening the door. She screamed falling back with the girl from earlier on top of her, strangling her. "G-get OFF!" she brought her leg into the girls stomach flinging her into the air. Mia scrambled up running for the stairs. "G-"
The girl tackled her as she reached the stairs. Mia's ankle twisted and she fell down the stairs, rolling along their doomed path with the girl. Mia hit her head on the railing then banged it on the floor once they reached the bottom. The girl was a few feet away from her standing up.
"Mia, I heard you scream, wha-" Ryo stopped seeing Mia at the bottom of the stairs with the girl near her.
"Give it back," she hissed at Mia whom rolled over on her stomach moaning. Her ice blue eyes narrowing at Mia's green-blue ones.
"Get away from her," Ryo said running down the stairs calling his sub armor.
"I want her, not you," the girl hissed glaring at Ryo who protected Mia. The others ran down the stairs and helped Mia up.
"You'll have to get through us to get to her," Sage barked standing up to protect Mia with Ryo and Kento.
"What is she to you anyway, why protect her?" the girl hissed. Ryo glared at her clenching his fists.
"She's our friend and we'll keep her safe no matter what!" Ryo growled closing his eyes and opening them again calming himself.
"What do you want with her?" Kento snapped.
"I want my gem back! It belongs to me," she hissed glaring past the three guys and at Mia. Her ice eyes burned into Mia's leaving a feeling of evil running through her.
"What gem?" Sai asked pushing Mia behind him and Rowen.
"The one she wears around her neck," she held out her hand, "give it to me." Her hand started to glow but nothing happened. "Where is it!?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Mia screamed back feeling pain in her heart.
"Deitie!" they looked up and the pain in Mia's chest seized. They saw a girl in all black standing at the top of the stairs glaring down at her.
"Brenda, Warrior of Cryptic! Why are you here?" Deitie hissed. Ryo jerked his head toward Rowen saying get Mia out of here. As soon as Mia and Rowen started to move Dietie shot a beam of black light at them. Mia screamed and they ducked out of the way. "She goes no where!"
"You want your gem?" Brenda said distracting Dietie again. Dietie glared at her.
"You have it?" Brenda held up a silver chain clasping the gem in her hand.
"Come get it!" she took off running and Dietie pushed past the Ronin's after her. Brenda grabbed onto the railing doing a handstand on it falling back into a back flip in the air. She landed on the floor as Dietie flung herself over the railing, tripping and falling. She landed cracking the floor beneath her as Rowen got Mia out of the house. Brenda held out her hand and shot a white light out at Dietie. She screamed a disappeared.
"Who are you?" Sai asked getting ready to fight her. Rowen tugged Mia back inside with the others seeing Dietie gone.
"I'm Brenda, warrior of Cryptic," she said kneeling down on one knee.
"How'd you get the gem?" Mia asked surprisingly. Brenda smiled and flung the pendant at her. There was a cross on the chain and Mia smiled. "You didn't have it,"
"Where is it Mia?" Brenda asked. Mia ran upstairs and came down holding it in her hand. Brenda nodded. "Keep it safe, that is one of the strongest pieces to it all,"
"Pieces to what?" Kento asked.
"The door," Brenda replied, "it unlocks all evil once they are all together, but if it is in the hands of someone powerful and they don't want the evil to be let out they have the power to not allow it, as long as you have all of them."
"How will we get all of the other ones?" Mia asked.
"Look inside your heart and you will see, follow yourself," Brenda said disappearing.
"Follow yourself?" Mia whispered looking at the pendant in her hand.
