7-The New Universe - By Lovely-chan
"Mirei…Mirei." Kaze woke her up.
Mirei opened her eyes. "Kaze!"
"Shh. I need to talk to you, come here outside." They went a little bit away from the entrance. "I am sorry, I know I've been avoiding you, but I don't want to hurt you."
"You are hurting me by being so far."
"You need to forget about me. I am an owl and will always be. I cannot love a woman, I cannot live a normal life."
"I don't care if you can't be one with me, I love you."
"Mirei…I love you…but you have to understand I could never make you happy."
"You can, with your presence it is enough for me. When we summon Kamii, I will ask her to change you back. I have three wishes."
"You'll do that for me?"
"Of course I will, there is nothing I want more than your happiness."
"Mirei…thank you." Mirei came closer to him and kissed him then he backed off. "What was that?"
"A kiss. You kiss your friends on the cheek, and you kiss on the lips the one you love the most."
"The one you love the most…you love me the most?" -Kaze
"Yes."
"I love you the most too." He kissed her very softly and held her against him.
Amiboshi was looking at them. [Poor guys…they don't know this will probably be their first and last kiss. He is a weird man…I wonder what happened to him.]
"Come with me, lay beside me. I want to have you near me while I sleep." -Mirei
"Ok, I will sleep too, even if I am not sleepy." He saw Amiboshi looking and went over him. Do you need something?" -Kaze
"Can I go?" –Amiboshi asked hoping he will let him go; he saw the kidness in his eyes.
"I can't…I will love to let you go. Everyone should be free…but we are all tied up somehow. Have a good night." -Kaze
"Kaze!" Kaze turned around and smiled. "Don't kill our world." -Amiboshi
"We won't kill your world. Why do people think we are evil?" -Kaze
"That is what the prophecy says. Kamii will destroy our world to create her own world in where she will be the only God to rule it all." -Amiboshi
"That is impossible. Go to sleep." He lay beside Mirei.
"What did he say?" –Mirei asked.
"Nothing." [What does he mean by the prophecy?] –Kaze was so ignorant; he didn't fully understand any conversation. His vocabulary was limited.
"Hold my hand." -Mirei
"Yes." He held her hand and fall asleep with Amiboshi's words repeating on his head.
The next day…
"Ami-baby…where are you?" Shinda was looking for him but couldn't find him.
"I haven't seen him." –Takibi
"Maybe he escaped! Now you are all mine Shinda!!" –Hosuiho *_*
"Go away! Amiboshi?" Her face was sad. "Ami? He left me!" ;_;
"What is wrong Shinda, why you cry?" –Amiboshi smiled at her.
"Amiboshi!!!!" She jumped and grabbed him. "You didn't leave me!"
"I was tired of the ropes so I took them off." -Amiboshi
"Amiboshi, you mean you could escape and…you didn't?" -Shinda
"That's right. I…like you guys." ^_^
"You asked me to set you free last night, you didn't go?" -Kaze
"You untied him Kaze?" Seiryoku asked
"No. I refused, but he told me he wanted to go. Why didn't you leave?" -Kaze
"I need to convince you I am not lying." -Amiboshi
"Seiryoku, he said something about a prophecy." –Kaze said confused.
"You are just trying to confuse us to get rid of us." Seiryoku was angry. "I will put an end to you now.
"No! Seiryoku, please don't kill him. I love him." Shinda get in the middle.
"How can you love our enemy? I though he was just a distraction." -Seiryoku
"No he is not." -Shinda
"Don't kill him Seiryoku. I will take care of him." -Kaze
"Very well, if anything happens, it will be your responsibility." -Seiryoku
"Yes." Kaze nodded.
[He took responsibility over me? This people confuse me.] Amiboshi though.
"Lets go; we are very close now." -Seiryoku.
"What else did he say?" -Hikitsu
"They are coming this way as well, so we will start the fight now. He is trying to convince them not to do it; he says they are kind, but blinded by their pain. All they want is a happy place to live." -Suboshi
"That sounds very sweet but I don't buy it. You met them Suboshi!" Nakago wanted to kill them, and the priestess too.
"Do you remember all we did to summon Seiryu? Now we are here, that doesn't mean I am evil. Everyone have his or her own reasons, even you Nakago." –Suboshi knew Amiboshi wasn't lying.
"We already decided what to do, it is all in Miaka's hands." –Tomite
"Fine, you'll see. They won't accept." –Nakago was sure they wouldn't accept.
"This is the place no da."
"They were here, but there is no trace of them." -Subaru
"I will kick this guy's butt if he hurt any of my friends, he doesn't know what he is up to! I am a new man; I am Tasuki the best Suzaku warrior!! Now wait till I get that jerk!!! Hey you friggin shit where's Tama, Nuriko and Hotohori!!" Tasuki keep yelling
"You don't have to abuse no da, we are younger for a while but you don't have to act like a baby!"
"Hey Chichiri let me enjoy Subaru's spell, I am not Tasuki if I don't yell!"
"That is true no da."
"Stop your foolishness fang boy, we are here to fight not to yell." Nakago couldn't stand Tasuki and all of the Suzaku warriors.
"You shadda up!" -Tasuki
"Baka." -Nakago
"Please stop it, we have to be a team." -Uruki
"Minna, you are here! We are glad you are all here." Namame appeared suddenly.
"Namame! Where are the others, what happen?" -Iname
"We are all here and ok." – Nuriko
"Why you didn't return?" -Miaka
"We lost our horses and we went into a lot of trouble." -Namame
"I couldn't communicate with any of you no da."
"Of course not, this place is cursed or something." Nuriko smiled. "Now we all are cursed!"
"That's right Nuriko." Namame looked at them wearing an evil smile.
"Nuriko…where is Taka?" Miaka asked a little confused with their attitude.
"I am right here darling." Taka shot one of his chi balls at Miaka but Chichiri shielded her.
"Tamahome-kun what's wrong no da?"
"Taka…he is under their control!" Miaka couldn't handle more pain. "Taka it's me, Miaka."
"We are here to fight you." –Tokaki
"Tokaki! Snap out of it!" Subaru yelled.
"Welcome Nakago-sama, I was wating for you traitor!" Soi's lightning stroked on Nakago but his shield protected him. "You left me behind, you left me there to die! I won't forgive you!"
"What do we do now, our own seishi are against us?" -Nakago
"Give us the Shinzajo or die!" Hotohori said mad. "Miaka, be a good girl and gave Taka your ring."
"No way! This can't be, Hotohori, Nuriko, Taka snap out of it!!" Miaka cried.
"Give us the Shinzajo!" -Taka
"Never!" -Miaka
"You asked for it." Taka once again attacked Miaka with his chi blast. "Give me that ring."
"Tatara, be a good friend and give me Suzono's Shinzajo."
"Tokaki, I don't want to fight you." Tatara didn't know what to do.
"Tomite, you are a sweetie right? Now be a good boy and give me what I want; the shinzajo." Namame smiled at him. "I am your friend, you know I will protect it well."
"No. Namame, don't you remember who you are?" -Tomite
"Of course I do, that's why I am asking, so this evil creature won't take it." -Namame
"I can do it just fine." Tomite reply.
"Give it now!!" She tried his magic on him; she paralyzed him, but Chichiri canceld the spell.
"You stupid monk, stay out of it!" –Namame attacked Chichiri but she didn't hurt him in any way.
"Miaka, I can't hold his barrier forever. Our friends are trying to kill us!" Chichiri's spell was getting weaker.
"Chichiri, I will have to do it." Hikitsu froze Taka in an ice cube.
"No!! He will die!" Miaka yelled.
"I have no choice." -Hikitsu
"Tasuki, please melt him." –Miaka yelled hysterical.
"Ok, but he will try to kill us again. Rekka Shieeen!" Taka melted and the spell was broken.
"Miaka…what happen?" -Taka
"He is ok!" Miaka ran over him and kiss him. "Taka."
"Miaka, where is Mirei?" -Taka
"I don't know." -Miaka
Nuriko grabbed Miaka's hand and took off her ring. "This belongs to me!"
"Nuriko, no!" Miaka turned around and before anyone can do anything Nuriko was gone.
"What happen to her?" Hatsui asked. "She vanished."
"She was teleported some other place." –Urumiya
The rest of the seishis were trying to stop their attacks but they keep coming back.
"Hikitsu, Tomite…freeze them no da!"
"Yes!" Both of them freeze Soi, Tokaki, Toroki, Hotohori and Namame.
"Tasuki, you are on!" -Hikitsu.
"Get back! Rekkaaaa Shieeeen!!!" He melted the ice of each of them till the last one. "I am done."
"Good job, people. Now, what about Nuriko?" -Karasuki
"We have to save her. Poor Nuriko-chan." Chiriko was sad.
"Cheer up Chiriko, Nuriko is a strong woman." -Mitsukake
"Ha, ha, ha, ha!!! Now I am ready for more fun! Are you looking for her?" The evil voice said as Nuriko appeared dead before them.
"Nuriko!!" All yelled.
"Nuriko…" Miaka cried.
"So we finally meet!!" A voice was heard when suddenly the rest of the Kamii seishi arrived.
"They are here!" Nakago said.
"Aniki!!" Suboshi yelled when he saw Amiboshi.
"Suboshi!" Amiboshi smiled. "I am ok!"
Shinda blink twice, whipped her eyes and blink again. "Another Ami?!! Wow, what a lucky girl I am!! Waii!!"
"That is my twin brother." –Amiboshi told her.
"You have a twin, and you didn't tell me. Imagine how much fun we can all have!" *__*
"I knew he had a twin." –Jimen
"You didn't told me!!! Imagine me Ami, and his twin all together!!! Waiiiii!!"
"I can't believe it!" Amiboshi couldn't believe what she was thinking when they had more than 25 warriors to fight.
"Mirei!" Taka and Miaka yelled.
"Mom, dad! You are both here?" Mirei was confused to see her father too.
"Mirei, please listen to me." -Miaka
"Why are you with them mother, they are trying to hurt me." -Mirei
"Mirei, I didn't know you were the Kamii no Miko till a while ago. We don't want to fight you. We want to help you." -Miaka
"Help? Then give us the shinzajo so we can summon Kamii." -Mirei
"No! We cannot let you summon Kamii!" -Miaka
"You see Lady Mirei, even your mother turned her back on you because you are one of us." -Seiryoku
"No, that is not true!" Miaka said worried.
"Mother you said you wanted to help, then give those shinzajo to us." -Mirei
"We can't do it, we can't let you destroy this world." Taka said with a soft voice.
"Father, we won't destroy this world, all we want is peace in our hearts." -Mirei
"We can all live in peace." -Miaka
"No! For years all the people in this world criticized, hate and torture the Kamii warriors, there is no way they can keep living in this world, they need a place where no one will ever push them down again."
"Mirei, they won't listen to us, we are just evil and worthless junk to them. I say we fight!" – Jimen
"I say we fight too." –Hosuiho
"I agree." –Shinda
"I will fight for us." -Seiryoku
"Mirei, only if you wish…I will fight against your family. I know you love them." –Kaze
"I am with Kaze." -Takibi.
"Mother…father…I don't want to fight you, but if you can't understand, then I will."
"You are the one who is not understanding, Kamii's plans for this world is to destroy it and become the only god in this land, why do you think she wants the shinzajo's for? She wants them to seal our Gods away and rule it all. You can summon her with only your seven warriors, you don't need the shinzajo."
"Yes I do! I need them to unseal Kamii, she is the one sealed away." -Mirei
"No Mirei, if she were sealed, none of you could use your powers." -Taka
"That's a lie!!!" Seiryoku yelled. "Enough of your lies, you won't poison Mirei's head with your lies. The truth is with us."
"I am sorry mother. Kamii seishis…be sure not to hurt my parents…fight!"
"Mirei! No!" –Miaka yelled frustrated because she couldn't stop her.
"As you wish Lady Mirei." -Kaze
"Wait! Won't you like to meet me? I am Kangae, your last warrior. I have a gift for you my priestess." He gave Mirei Miaka's shinzajo.
| Name: Kangae
Age: 20 Hair Color: Bald Eye Color: Purple Location of Character: Left palm of hand. Abilities: Can control people's mind by hypnosis and can manipulate them at will. Hobies: Playing with people's emotions. Dwelling: Lives in the Konan Empire, but in an unknown place.
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"This is…Suzaku's shinzajo?" –Mirei [Mother's ring.]
"Yes Lady Mirei." -Kangae
"Well done Kangae, welcome to our family." -Seiryoku
The Kamii seishi and all of the other warriors were ready to fight. Mirei and Miaka stare at each other crying.
"Are you sure Mirei?" Kaze asked and she nodded. "Then I'll fight. Power of the wind, come to me!" The whole place was a huge twister; all of the seishi were inside of it, only a few were out of the twister. "This won't be that hard."
"Kaze where is my father?" –Mirei asked because he wasn't there anymore.
"I don't know." -Kaze
"Is he inside of the twister?" -Mirei
"Maybe." -Kaze
"Don't, stop it!" –Mirei was worried about Taka.
"I can't Mirei, if I do we'll loose." -Kaze
Nakago noticed they were arguing and decide to take revenge. "It is time."
"Kaze, I am not so sure anymore…they are too many." -Mirei
"Mirei there is no turning back now, I asked you before. Now…ahhh!" Kaze fell on the floor as Nakago's attacked and knock him down.
"Kaze!! Noo!!" Mirei looked at Nakago with hate. "You, I won't forgive you!"
"What you are going to do, hit me?" Nakago walked closer to Mirei. "It is your time to die, Kamii no Miko.
"Ahhh!!!" Kaze with his weak strength managed to throw him several silver feathers that were like knives. Nakago was hurt by most of them.
"You bird boy…I though you died. I will kill your precious!" -Nakago
"Nakago!!!! Stay away from my daughter!" –Taka came just in time.
"Tamahome, or should I say Taka. I knew you would betray us." -Nakago
"I am not betraying anyone. I won't let you or anyone hurt Mirei. She is a victim of Kamii, and I will save her." Taka was so mad at Nakago.
"What are you going to do, kill me?" -Nakago
"If I have to." -Taka
"Kaze, are you ok?" -Mirei
"I am alive." He stood up. "I will protect Mirei with my life!" Kaze's eyes turned deep purple, almost black. "You will feel the wrath of Kamii!!" His voice changed from sweet to demoniatic. "Nakago, die!" A thousand feathers cut through his skin and leave him agonizing in the floor.
"Nakago-sama!" Soi ran toward him when she saw him falling down. "Nakago, Nakago!" She cried.
"Father, you really will defend me?" -Mirei
"Yes, I will stay beside you, so no one try to hurt you." -Taka
"I will go join the others Mirei." Kaze was still looking like a devil; Mirei was scared to see him like that.
"Kaze…I never see you like that before." -Mirei
Jimen made a huge hole in the floor where most of the warriors fell; Hosuiho filled it with water at incredible pressure so most of the warriors inside the "pool" they made were drowning.
"I can't swim!!" Tasuki yelled.
"So old and still don't know how to swim?" Chiriko yelled
"I am not old, look at me!!" -Tasuki
"Sure with a spell, anyone can do it." -Chiriko
"Will you try a way to get out?" Tasuki saw Takibi in action. "Wow, now that is using fire."
Takibi was fighting against Hikitsu and Tomite, but they couldn't stop him. "Aren't you tired of those useless tricks?"
"He is good, I have to admit." -Tomite
"A lot better than I expect." -Hikitsu
"You won't get through them no da!" Chichiri was protecting the mikos from Shinda.
"I am sorry, you were saying?" Shinda took Suzono with one of her spirits; Suzono was in the air. "Give me the Byakko shinzajo or else die."
"Do as you wish; I don't have it." -Suzono
"Let her go, your battle is with me." Tatara appeared.
"Tatara, don't give it to her, it doesn't matter what she does to me, I'm already ded."
"I know…but Nyan Nyan is there, and if I die…I'll be beside you." -Tatara
"Tatara…" -Suzono
"Give it!" Tatara and Shinda fight, but Kangae stepped before her.
"Leave this to me dear, take care of the monk." Kangae hypnotized Tatara and made him give him the shinzajo. "Thank you, now kill your priestess and all of the other four gods warriors."
"Yes." Tatara said and tried to kill Suzono.
"Noo!!!" –Yui yelled and hit him with a rock. "Sorry Tatara." All the Mikos run away and hide.
"Tatara-san…" Suzono cried looking at him bleeding in the floor.
"Here my priestess, there is only one more to go." Kangae said to Mirei.
"Mirei, stop this non sense battle. Look at all the people dying." -Taka
"I can't stop it now. I can't." -Mirei
Shinda saw when Takibi was going to kill Amiboshi and Suboshi. "I am sorry Amiboshi, but I have to. Nothing personal." Takibi throw his fire at them and Shinda received the shot trying to save him. "Shinda! Why?"
"Amiboshi…don't kill him." Shinda fell on the floor almost dead.
"Shinda!" Both Takibi and Amiboshi came close to her.
She opened her eyes. "Keep fighting Takibi, we are almost done." She looked at Amiboshi. "Thank you…Ami.." She closed her eyes and died in Amiboshi's arm.
"Shinda! Shinda!" Takibi turned sad and extremely furious. "I won't loose!" His eyes glowed; he was a demon, not a warrior anymore. "Ahhhh!" He jumped and started fighting with Hikitsu again. "Where is the shinzajo!!!" Takibi's attacks where stronger and a lot more faster. Hikitsu couldn't keep up with him much longer.
"Leave him alone! I have it." Tomite yelled.
Takibi turned his attacks on him and Hikitsu tired helping out but they were no matches for him.
Seiryoku was fighting with five warriors. Tokaki, Namame, Hatsui, Karasuki and Hotohori. All of them were badly hurt, but keep trying.
Kaze saw him and made them vanish in his twister. "Now take them all." He said as the twister moved around swallowing the remaining warriors standing in the floor. He spotted Takibi and made it turn the other way. Takibi in that second killed Tomite and took the shinzajo from him. "We are ready."
Takibi ran to Mirei and give the shinzajo to her. "It is time, Mirei."
"Forgive me father." -Mirei
Taka grabbed her hand. "Don't do it, I won't let you go."
"Let her go!" Kaze yelled.
"No. I am not afraid of you monster!" –Taka yelled at Kaze with anger.
"Let her go!" –Kaze walked closer and closer.
"No!" Taka throw one of his blast at him, Kaze didn't do anything against him or shield himself because Mirei asked him not to hurt her father and if the shot reflected on his shield it could hurt Mirei; she was too close. Kaze fell on the floor and his eyes turned back to normal.
"Kaze! Kaze, don't die on me, please! Please live." -Mirei
"Mirei…I love you." Kaze said touching her face with his hands full of blood.
"I love you too Kaze, please don't leave me." Mirei cried as she watched him change into an owl. She knew at that point she lost him. "Kaze!" She hugged the owl lying in the floor and cried hopeless. "Kaze, don't leave me."
"Mirei…I am sorry. I…" –Taka was shock when he realized they were in love. He killed the man his daughter loved.
"Don't touch me!" Mirei pushed away his hands. "You killed Kaze, and I won't forgive you, never! I hate you and I don't care what happens to any of you anymore!"
"Mirei I didn't know you loved him." -Taka
"Well I do! Seiryoku! Lets go! It is time to summon Kamii!" Mirei yelled with anger.
"Yes your eminence." Seiryoku jumped and grabbed her, then they disappear.
"Mirei! Mirei! Miaka, Mirei…Miaka!" Taka ran to where she was. "Miaka, Miaka answer me!" He shaked her but she was fainted. "Mika!" Taka couldn't hold his tears any longer; everything around him was a massacre. Warriors from all sides were dead. "What have we done?"
"Lets go Jimen, they are gone already." -Hosuiho
"Yes." Hosuiho and Jimen headed for the exit when they saw Kaze. "Kaze!" Hosuiho took him and then left.
"Who survived?" Hotohori asked.
"Many are wounded but still alive" Tokaki answer. They searched around and help a few get outside the waters.
"Tasuki!" Hotohori took him out. "Tasuki, Tasuki…"
"He is dead." Hikitsu said. "He drowned."
"He didn't know how to swim." Hotohori replied.
"Chiriko, Mitsukake!" Hotohori kept taking them out.
"I am ok. I will help the ones hurt." Mitsukake said as he closed Chiriko's eyes. He also drowned.
"Suzono, are you ok?" -Tokaki asked when he saw her on the floor crying.
"Yes, Tatara is?" -Suzono
"We haven't found him." -Tokaki
They keep looking till they were ready to go. "We are lost now, we are ready to die? Are we going to give up?" Suboshi asked.
"I think I can find them." Amiboshi said. "I know where the ceremony will be."
"Let's go then." Hikitsu said.
"Yes." Taka was very worried and depressed with all that was going on. So many friends were dead, and his daughter hated him at that moment.
The remaining warriors hurried to where the ceremony to summon Kamii will take place. "This is the place." Amiboshi said.
"They are inside no da."
Lady Mirei was getting ready for the ceremony, she bath and wear a beautiful dress Takibi brought her. "She is very depressed Seiryoku; I don't know if she will resist the ceremony." Takibi said sadly.
"The death of Kaze affected her deeply, and I share her feelings. I cared a lot for Kaze, he was a special creature, but I know he is here watching us."
"I think the fact that her father killed Kaze is hurting her more than she says." Takibi saw it all, and knew how terrible it was for both Mirei and Taka.
"I know. Maybe we should wait for the ceremony." Jimen said.
"No, we can't. I know they will not give up and will come after us. Remember that Amiboshi knows where we are, and he was still alive. I tried to kill him because he knew too much, but Shinda…" -Takibi
"Hey, it wasn't your fault. Shinda decide to save him, and give up her life." –Jimen
"I know, but still…I kill my friend, and I cannot forgive myself." Takibi cried for the first time.
"We have to be strong; we lose two wonderful friends, but we are still alive and must fight for what we believe and for what they also believed. We cannot fail them now, they give up their lives so we can finish our job in this land." Seiryoku finally said.
"Everything is ready Lord Seiryoku." Hosuiho came inside the room and announced.
"Very well, let's go. It is time." Seiyoku was glad for the news.
"We made it." –Kangae was excited.
"Don't rush things, we need to be on guard because the other warriors may come to ruin the ceremony." –Jimen
"That is correct; Jimen I want you to be on guard." -Seiryoku
"Yes my lord." –Jimen replied.
"Why you all call him Lord Seiryoku?" Kangae asked curious. "I though we were all the same."
"He is a warrior just like us, but we respect him more than anyone. He is our guide, protector…more like a father." –Takibi explained.
"Oh. I don't know much about any of you. I didn't even knew Kaze and Shinda."
"They were great, I'll tell you about them later." Takibi remembered his friends with respect and love.
"Lady Mirei, are you ready." Hosuiho asked a little worried for her.
"Yes. I am ready; it is time to get revenge. I swear to Kaze I will summon Kamii, and I will keep my promise." -Mirei
"Then come with me." Hosuiho walked her to the ceremony place.
"Lady Mirei, you must read this prayer to summon Kamii, and then throw it in the fire. Can you read it?" Seiryoku asked.
"Let's see…I think so. My Uncle Keisuke taugh me how to read ancient scripts."
"Then we can start the ceremony." Seiryoku and the others get in position to start the ceremony.
[Forgive me father…mother…but I must keep my promise to all my friends.] "Let me read it first so I can make sure I know all the characters."
"Alright, but please hurry; we don't have much time." -Seiryoku
Mirei began to read Kamii's prayer and she couldn't believe what she was reading. "This can't be…I…cannot do this!"
"What is wrong Lady Mirei?" Seiryoku asked his priestess.
"Did you read the prayer Seiryoku?" -Mirei
"Yes."
"You knew it, did you knew this was evil?" -Mirei
"We are evil to you?" -Seiryoku
"No."
"Then don't be afraid." -Seiryoku
"I can't ask for the devil to come before me!" –Mirei was shocked with Seiryoku's indifference.
"It is not the devil, it is a goddess of darkness, that doesn't mean she is evil." -Seiryoku
"Didn't you read this? It is very clear to me she is evil! Mother was right, and Amiboshi didn't lie, you knew it Seiryoku, you knew it all along and you lied to me!" Mirei started crying.
"You will summon Kamii, now move!" –Seiryoku loose his patience
"No, I won't do it! Let me go!!" Mirei tried to escape but it was useless against Seiryoku.
"You all know? Do you? You fooled me?" -Seiryoku
"What's wrong Lady Mirei? What happen Seiryoku, why is she crying?" Takibi didn't know what was going on.
"He lied to me, look at this. Read Kamii's prayer, look and see what you really are."
Takibi beguin to read and his eyes tear. "You mean…Amiboshi didn't lie to us…you mean I am an evil creature. You mean the devil made me…that's why…that is why everyone hated me, because I was a creature form hell!!"
"Takibi, you don't have to feel bad. We are the same, she created us, and she wants us. We can be happy with her. Listen to me, we are what we are and we cannot change it." –Seiryoku tried to convice him.
"I refuse to be an evil creature…if I am a devil, then I must die!"-Takibi
"Takibi, don't! You don't have to die…let's forget about this ceremony." Mirei said.
"All the people I've killed…I deserve hell. All I did for a wish, for an empty dream, a lie. I don't want to fight anymore." Takibi ran away with his hopes and dreams broken.
"Fool! We are making this ceremony, so move!" –Seiryoku pushed Mirei.
"No, Noo!!!" -Mirei
"Kangae!" –Seiryoku called on him furious.
"Yes my lord." -Kangae
"I need you to hypnotize Mirei and made her say the Kamii prayer. She doesn't want to do the ceremony. The other warriors poisoned her head." -Seiryoku
"Yes, as you wish." -Kangae
"Kangae, no…please listen to me. This is wrong! Please listen to me." -Mirei
"Do it!" Seiryoku yelled. "Do it I say!" -Seiryoku
"Inmediately." Kangae hypnotized Mirei and she walked forward.
"Lets the ceremony begin." Seiryoku said.
The other warriors were inside the building looking for them, when they finally reach the end. "There they are!" -Hikitsu
"Mirei! Don't!" Miaka yelled but Jimen was waiting for them.
"No, you won't stop us." Jimen make the stairs start to crumble. The seishi were trying to escape jumping and teleporting to another area.
"From the darkness of hell, and the perverse power of death. In the name of the mischievous laws, hate and evil. I summon thee Kamii, lord of hell. I now say this words to thee, appear on earth from the deepest shadows of hell for the sake of those here who adore you. Come to us here with thy vicious power. Smash the goodness surrounding us; take us! And hear our wishes to thee! Ascend to us now from hell!" With those words the prayer to summon Kamii was over. All was left was to throw the script into the fire.
Hosuiho was shock when he heard the prayer, but couldn't move. He noticed Mirei wasn't herself and that Takibi left the place. [Something is wrong.] He though worried. [I have to stop her, this is not right.] Hosuiho tried to take the script away from her and they begin to fight over it. Seiryoku interfere and killed Hosuiho. Kangae was also under a shock and decides to break the spell on Mirei.
"What have I done?" Mirei had the script in her hands.
"Throw it now!" Seiryoku grabbed her arms and put them inside the fire.
"Mirei!" Taka yelled and sends one of his chi shoots to Seiryoku. Taka hit him and he fell with Mirei in his arms, still holding the script. It was a little burned but was still complete.
Jimen turned around and saw Hosuiho dead in the floor and Seiryoku hurt. Even though he was hurt, Seiryoku stepped grabbing Mirei and send toward the Four Gods warrios one of his energy blows that throwed Jimen, Taka and Miaka in the open ground. Taka grabbed Miaka before she hit the ground, and Jimen open a way to where Seiryoku and Mirei were. "Seiryoku! What are you doing to Lady Mirei?!!" His eyes glowed in deep black and the ground behind him opened taking him inside along with Mirei. "Mirei!"
"I will kill her if you don't let me finish this." Seiryoku said.
"Mirei, are you ok?" Taka yelled with a fainted Miaka in his arms.
"Mother!" Mirei cried looking at his unconscious mother. "Let me go Seiryoku, help me Jimen, please help me!"
Jimen didn't know what to do; he knew Seiryoku was too strong for him, even when he was hurt in one arm. "Lady Mirei, hold on! I won't give up on you."
Taka placed Miaka in the floor and stood up to confront him. The rest of the warriors were right behind him. "We are here to help Tamahome." Hotohori said firmly.
"None of you weaklings can do anything to me." Seiryoku laugh.
Kangae was trying to put a spell on Seiryoku, but his mind was too strong and wouldn't let him. "I can't do anything!"
"You traitor!" Seiryoku knew what he was trying to do and killed him with a single blast.
"Kangae!" Both Mirei and Jimen yelled.
"I trusted you, I admired you and respected you all this time, and you betrayed us, but what I cannot forgive is that you betrayed Lady Mirei! Kill me if you want to, but I will take you with me! Leave Lady Mirei in peace!!!" Jimen throw dirt to his eyes trying to blind him for a moment just to take Mirei away from him.
"You can't do better than that? I though you were one of us. I guess I believed in you all, and you were all a bunch of sentimental fools! Why do you care for a girl from another world, she won't stay here with us. She will go away and leave us!"
"Then let her be free and happy!! I don't want her to suffer all we suffered." -Jimen
Chichiri also tried to take her, but it was impossible to do it. All the warriors make their attack, ice, earth, magic, all sorts of spells, but none of them could harm Seiryoku. He walked near the fire once again and tried to burn Lady Mirei's hand along with the script, but the fire faded…Takibi make it stop. "Seiryoku…I will never allow you to hurt Lady Mirei. She is holy for me, and no one. Listen well, no one will hurt the only person I've ever loved!" His body was into flames, his eyes turned black and shinny and his character glowed in his throat. "Jimen, let's do it together!!!"
"Yes!" He yelled. Both of them concentrate all their energy and power and the other seishis did the same. They were surrounding him, but all were afraid to hurt Mirei. Without thinking any longer Takibi jumped and grabbed Seiryoku making him let go of Mirei. Takibi hold Seiryoku till he was also on fire. Seiryoku burned till he was only ash.
Takibi was lying on the floor; he was weak. His body turned back to normal because his strength was too little. Seiryoku tried to kill him while he was holding him by taking all his energy away, but he died before he could take it all. "Takibi!" Mirei kneeled in front of him. Please someone save him!" Mirei cried hopeless.
"Mitsukake, can you?" Taka asked.
"I'll try." Mitsukake was weak also, and had healed Tokaki a while ago, but he helped him. Mitsukake felt weaker, but managed to save Takibi. "You'll be ok now."
Mirei smiled as she looked down at him. "Thank you; you saved me, and thanks to all of you. Thanks Mitsuake for saving Takibi."
"Mirei…you are hurt?" Takibi asked
"Nothing to worry about." Mirei smiled and help him stand.
"Takibi, we are glad." Jimen said as he hugged him.
"Thanks." -Takibi
"I am too." Taka smiled. "You are the hero!" ^_^
"We all are. Thanks Taka, and Mitsukake for saving me and all you did to help save Lady Mirei." -Takibi
"Mom!" Mirei ran over Miaka when she saw her move. "Mom are you ok?"
"Mirei! What happened?" -Miaka
"She is safe now Miaka." Yui smiled at her.
"Our work here is done. We can go now." Hikitsu said to all the seishis.
"Not yet!" Taiitsukun appeared.
"Waaaa!!!! Who is that ugly old hag!!!" Takibi and Jimen yelled hugging each other.
"I'm scared! Get back Lady Mirei!" -Takibi
"You better get use to it no da!" -Chichiri
"You morons, she is a…what is she?" -Mirei
"Enough! I must say you all did an incredible work. It is sad to see we had to loose to many of our warriors, but to you Taka, Hikitsu, Hotohori, Tokaki, Subaru, Urumiya, Mitsukake, Uruki, Amefuri, Chichiri, Soi, Suboshi, Amiboshi, Jimen and Takibi I must thank for saving our world."
"What about us? Didn't we help at all?" Yui protested. -_-
"Of course you did Lady Yui, also Miaka, Suzono, Takiko and of course Lady Mirei. You all showed me you can all worked as a team and not as individual groups. Those who didn't learn died. Teamwork was the key for success, if you all didn't work as one, you will never defeat Seiryoku. He was the most powerful one of all. Now I must have to say the four gods are grateful for your hard work and success and will like to grant Lady Mirei one wish."
"Me?" –Mirei said surprised.
"Yes. Because of the love you give to your warriors they stayed beside you and didn't let out the evil inside them. Now our world is saved and you will be rewarded for your hard work trying to stop the ceremony and the evil."
"One wish…" She looked around and saw how everything was a mess. She remembered all the warriors that died and all the pain she cause. "I wish all the lives lost in this war can be reestablish to the way they were, except for Seiryoku. I wish that his soul goes through a change for goodness and not evil. I want peace for all the men and woman who fight in this war."
"Your wish will be granted." Taiitsukun said. "All the seishis will be reborn in this world once again."
"Can I say goodbye before I go?" -Mirei
"Yes you may." -Taiitsukun
Mirei turned around and smiled at all the seishis from the four sides. "Please give my friends a place to live in peace."
"They are welcome into our world." Amiboshi said. "They are my friends." ^_^
"Thank you." Takibi and Jimen said happy.
"And for you two…I will miss you. I will have you always here in my heart." She hugged Jimen and at the end she hugged Takibi. "Thanks for believing in me." She kissed his cheek and smiled at him. "Be good, and don't fight too much. Consider the people around you and don't yell too much."
"I won't." Takibi looked at the floor, where he laid Kaze's rests. "Won't you say goodbye to him?"
"Yes." Her eyes were filled with tears as she walked closer to him. "Kaze…I will always love you deep inside my heart." Mirei took some feathers from his wings and held them close to her chest. "Mom, dad. I am ready to go home."
"Yes, we are." Miaka said. "Goodbye to all, and thank you." She looked at the Kamii warriors. "Thank you for saving my daughter, and for loving her."
"I will like to thank you too." Taka also said. "Goodbye minna!" the three of them hold each other and a red light surrounded the three of them.
"A red light?" Mirei asked.
"That is Suzaku's light." Miaka replied.
"Suzaku…it feels warm." Miaka, Taka, and Mirei returned to their world. Mirei hold tight the feathers in her hands and cried as she was transported back to her world. "Mother; father…forgive me."
"There is nothing to forgive Mirei. Forgive me for killing the one you loved. I was trying to protect you." -Taka
"I know…I don't hate you for that." Mirei hugged Taka as she cried for the lost of Kaze.
"You'll see…everything will be ok Mirei. I promised." Taka said softly to his daughter.
One year later…
"Mirei, Mirei, your brother is home!" Miaka called to her daughter.
"Really!!! Tamahome!! Tamahome!!!!" She ran down the stairs and fell at the end. "Woaaah! Oops, clumsy me!" ^_^
"Mirei-chan, you haven't change a bit. Still so clumsy!" ^_^ "I brought you a gift. I don't know, I saw it and think of you. I hope you like it." -Tamahome
"Is it food?" -Miaka
"No, it is not food. I wanted to give you something that will last more than one second." Her brother said smiling.
"Ok." ^_^
"Here. Open it." -Tamahome
Mirei opened the box and inside was a sculpture of an owl painted with silver wings. "It is…beautiful." Her eyes glittered as she looked at it. "I love it, thank you Tamahome!" She hugged her brother and placed her figure in her night table. "Kaze…you will always be beside me." Mirei smiled looking at the figure, all the memories remain deep inside her heart. Her brother return home, and she felt an intense happiness.
"Now, there is someone I will like you all to meet. He is my best friend from Germany and I ask him to come along. If you mother and you father don't mind, he will be staying with us."
"No problem Tamahome." –Taka smiled
"Where is him?" Miaka asked.
"He is outside, I wanted to tell you before you met him." –Tamahome
"Let him in!" –Mirei smiled.
"Mimizuku! Come inside will ya'!" –Tamahome called to his friend outside the door.
He walked inside the room a little shy. "Good afternoon, I am Sasaki Mimizuku. Forgive my intrusion, but Tamahome insisted on bringing me here." He smiled.
"He lives alone, and since I was coming home, I though maybe he could stay…at least for a while." –Tamahome
"Welcome home, Mimizuku." Miaka smiled.
"You…look familiar." –Taka said.
"You look familiar too, Tamahome is definitely your son!" -Mimizuku
"Hey, what do you expect?" -Taka
They all laugh but Mirei. "Hey sis, won't you say hello to my friend? Mirei? Mirei!!! Hello, come back to Earth!" -Tamahome
"Huh? Oh! Hello…Kaze." -Mirei
"Mirei, his name is Mimizuku!" Tamahome yelled. "She is crazy forgive her man."
"Hello Mirei-chan, it is very nice to see you again." He winked an eye and smiled.
"Nani?" Tamahome didn't get it. "What do you mean by see you again?"
"I know she knows what I mean." -Mimizuku
"Aha." She nodded. "I am glad too." ^_^
"Oh…sure sure leave me in the mystery!!!" Tamahome frown.
"Ha, ha, ha. Mirei, Mimizuku why don't we all come inside. I know we'll be a nice family." Taka smiled; he understood the whole thing.
"Yes." Mirei stared at Mimizuku and her heart filled with all the hopes and dreams she left behind a year ago. "Maybe this time we'll find happiness."
"We will." –Mimizuku said smiling.
"Now what the hell is that!! Mimizuku, don't you look at my sis!! Hey stop it! Don't hold her hand!!! Mimizuku!!! Father?!!"
"Leave them alone." –Taka
"Don't they look cute?" -Miaka
"But…ahhh!" -_- "Why I don't understand?" Tamahome sat on the sofa confused and trying to understand why they were all acting so weird.
At the end, the Gods made another miracle of love. No matter where or how, love can always transcends and go through many changes. There is always hope, there is always love and there is always a whole new universe waiting for us, we just have to open our hearts to love…
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