Author's Note: Thanks to all the reviews by everybody! And by the way, no,
Jim is not the bad guy…yet.
Chap.3 Unholy Return
Somewhere near the outskirts of Kuruda, a man, masked in a black hood, looks down upon the rich, bountiful, the so-called invincible city of Kuruda.
"Hehehehehe, we meet again Kuruda," the man sneered "The last time we met, I…I…l had my…first…defeat, by the hand of a naïve Var wannabe! Imagine that! A Var, who dared to defy me…hmmm…I doubt that was HIS victory, more like theirs…" The man then stopped and turned to a tree. He uttered a blood curdling, primal scream and smashed the tree to bits, not even leaving a splinter of wood unpulverized.
"Yes… their victory! If only those meddling INSECTS wouldn't have interfered, victory would have been mine!!!!" The man then lifted his hood to reveal an all-to-familiar face. "Yes, I Len Fuma should have won!" The man continued his psychotic monotone until nightfall, where only nature witnessed a nauseatic transformation. Len's face grew, and grew, until it became a snout, with an enlarged mouth, filled with white glistening fangs. His body became bigger, and bigger, until it shaped itself into a hunched form and began sprouting fur everywhere. Where Len had stood till nightfall now housed a demon-wolf.
Len was now a Wolfman.
"See what I have become now, Gau Ban!" Len growled with all his fury "Sha Khan-sama had given me another chance, and I…Will...Not…Waste…It!!!" The Wolfman let out another cry, or was it…a howl…?
Gau was lost in his train of thought. He had the chance to reveal his feelings to the woman he wanted to spend eternity with, and yet, his conscience objected to it. To hell with the age gap! He loved her and that was all that mattered.
Or so he thought.
That night, Kyou came home all smiles after the wonderful time that she had with Jim. He was, how could she say it…just so lovable, and yet, all she wanted to be was in the arms of the man of her dreams, Gau Ban.
That night, Gau had an uncomfortable slumber due to a dream he had. In it, Kyou's body was sprawled on the floor, dead. And on top of her now-dead body, stood a wolf-creature, "A Wolfman no doubt," he thought. He lunged at it in anger, but just as he reached for it, it's face turned to…Jim's.
He woke up with a start. "Jim, a Wolfman???" he thought "Sou na…" He was cut of when he heard a sort of a sniffle. "It's coming from Kyou-san's room…" He crept down the corridor and to his surprise, saw Kyou on the ground, crying her eyes out. "Aishiteru, Gau-kun, aishiteru…" he heard her choke out. Oh, how he wanted to go there at once and kiss the pain she felt away! But something in him told him, "Wait, Gau, the time will come," He was about to mentally slap that voice, but something struck him hard, harder than Low's Harkens. "That's Diaz-sama's voice!" He realized. He decided to go back to bed and get a good night's sleep. On the way, he hesitated as he heard Kyou crying again. He crept back slowly to check up on her. He found that she had cried herself to sleep. He crept in and stroked her hair, at the same time caressing her face and whispering "Aishiteru, Kyou-san, aishiteru. He then drew closer, closer, then gave her a slight kiss, like the one a father gives his child before he tucks the child in. He stood up, and this time strode out, but not before turning back and uttering "aishiteru" again.
The next day, Kyou found herself back on her bed. She felt a sudden warmness near her lips, as if someone had slightly kissed her the night before…"No, it's just probably my imagination" She murmured.
Later, Gau woke up, but it was probably more logical to say that Elle shook him out of bed :) "Oi, Gau!" she said in her usually boisterous tone, "Ya know, we need to go sparring! Ya need to be in tip-top shape for that crazy 'rule of the four fighters' bit." "Maa Elle," Gau said "Can't that wait for tomorrow? One needs to get some rest, ne?" "Oh stop with the 'I'm tired' act! C'mon!" And with that, Elle dragged Gau outside to practice.
At the same time, Kyou made herself some breakfast and sat down to eat. Folly, who had unknowingly been watching Gau the night before, sat down with her. "Oh great," Kyou thought "I won't have time to ponder my thoughts…" They sat in the table, neither speaking, until finally Folly broke the silence.
"Are you here to eat, or here to contemplate?" she said as Kyou was merely stirring her cereal over and over again. "Ne?" Kyou inquired. "Kyou, I know what you feel for Gau, but do you think he feels the same?" Kyou's spoon stopped halfway to the journey to her mouth as Folly asked that question. "N-Nani?!" Kyou sputtered, "I-I th-think Gau-kun loves me only as a sister Folly…" she added, subconsciously hoping what she said was but a lie. "Hmmm, are you sure?" Folly softly said, "Kyou, don't you think you should just go training?" "N-Nani?" Kyou was confused. "If one goes training, one's problems would seem small, ne? I'll even help you." "Oh, Ok Folly-san, but only because you would come along" Kyou finally agreed. "Yoshi, let's go now." Folly said. "Hehehehe, operation 'Kyou' complete." She thought.
Later, Elle was, as usual, wiping the floor with Gau. "Daijobu ka, Gau? You seem so drained. Must be thinking of a girl, ne?" Elle teased. Now, she would've expected Gau to pout, but not to look at her with anger in his eyes and release a Meice at her. She took the hit, collided with the wall, and fell down. This was not the Gau she sparred with, he had been energized by that last term Elle said. "Listen!" Gau started "Leave my private thoughts alone! If you ask that question again, I swear I will beat you so hard, you wouldn't remember anything about Kuruda!!!" He then calmed down and said "Gomen nasai, Elle-san, it's just that…I've been troubled for the past few days…" "About Kyou, right?" she thought. "Folly, how'd I let you talk me into this?" "Anyway Gau," she interrupted, let's go to a BETTER fighting arena, ne?" "Huh? Never knew there was one" Gau said.
"Ok, just close your eyes, and no peeking!" Elle instructed. "Hai" Gau reluctantly agreed. She led Gau to a clearing in the forest, then left him there. "Huh?! Elle-san, where are you?" Gau frantically inquired, after which he opened his eyes to the clearing. It was a beautiful sight, a place filled with flowers and the sunlight set just to the right shade, courtesy of the green, tall trees surrounding it. There were forest animals galore, and the breeze had just set to the right temperature. The air was cool, fresh, and had a smell Gau couldn't decipher. If he had only been dead, he would have been in paradise.
"Elle-san, is this the training place? Elle? ELLE?!" He was answered by the wind blowing through the trees. Just then, Kyou stumbled in, looking as bewildered as he had been when he entered.
"K-Kyou-sa-san" Gau stammered, "Wha-What are you doing here?" "Oh great" his conscience told him "Just the woman you wanted to see. Tell her now!" "No", the voice of Diaz came back. "Patience Gau, patience." While Gau was debating with himself, Kyou was telling him how she got there.
"U-Ummm, Folly-san told me about a neat training place, and I followed her, and…" she stopped as she saw Gau staring to La-la land. "Gau-kun, are you listening?" Gau was snapped back to reality as he saw Kyou's face. Why didn't he fall in love with her earlier, so that he wouldn't loose her at this point? How could he have regarded that peaceful, comforting face of hers as only a sister? He had to do it now, or he would loose her again. "Gomen Diaz-sama". He then turned to Kyou, took her hand, as he did a few days ago, and said with utter confidence, "Kyou-san, aishi…"
Meanwhile…
Elle and Folly were hiding in the bushes close by, surveying the whole thing. "Operation 'Aishiteru' complete!" they both whispered in unison and shook each other's hands like Tom, Ethan, and Lex in Survivor 3. "Please," a voice rasped "I beg to differ." "N-Nani?!" Elle said as a black, bulky figure jumped right at the couple.
Kyou couldn't understand it. Here was Gau, a young, handsome, spirited boy whom she loved, but she had always thought he loved Elle. Or did he?
"Demo, Gau-kun," she interrupted, "This is some sort of mistake! Y-You love Elle right?" As she uttered these words in disbelief, she said something that would leave a scar forever in the heart of Black Howling…
"Gomen nasai Gau-kun, but I am in love with someone OLDER than me, and that is…Jim Kai!"
Gau could only open his mouth in surprise at what she said, "I guess we're not meant to be… Is this what you were warning me about, Diaz-sama?" The silence was his answer.
Before he could say something to ease the pain he felt, a black figure leapt at them.
"Shadow Claw!" it said, hitting Gau hard with a claw charged with pure darkness.
"N-Nani?!" Gau groaned, "I thought we killed the Wolfmen!" "Hmm, yes Black Howling, but you see, I am not completely a Wolfman!"
And to everyone's surprise, he turned smaller, more humanlike, and then everyone knew he was no stranger…
"Len!" Gau said, barely recovering from the attack.
"Well! I believe that 'face lift' left everyone with surprised reactions! I should do that more often!" Len jested. "Diablo Kick!" he said, kicking Gau's stomach with such force, Gau threw up some blood and regurgitated food. He then swept up Kyou, leapt away, and said to Gau something.
"Oh, by the way, Black Howling, I heard leftovers don't taste pretty bad!" he said, morphing back to a Wolfman, and threw Gau a huge sack. Gau had just recovered from the 'Diablo Kick' and was hit by the sack.
"Kyou-san!" he screamed, but to no avail. His sadness was replaced by anger, and he screamed, "I'll track you till the ends of the earth Len, and when I do, you'd better hope Kyou's alive!!!" His fury soon turned to puzzlement, as he wanted to know what Len meant by 'leftovers'. He looked in the sack, and was greeted by the stench of rotten meat. He braved the smell and looked deeper. His sadness soon came back as he learned that he not only lost the woman he loved.
He lost his best friend.
The stench came from Low's decomposing body, maimed beyond recognition, with a big 'X' slashed on his chest.
There was a letter attached to him…
"I'll be in Blorahan, Black Howling"—Len
Gau let out an inhuman scream, and ran to Kuruda, making his way to Blorahan.
The beast within was awakened.
A/N: ssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo how was it? Pls review, I badly need them! Flamers can go to hell!
Black Wing 2
Chap.3 Unholy Return
Somewhere near the outskirts of Kuruda, a man, masked in a black hood, looks down upon the rich, bountiful, the so-called invincible city of Kuruda.
"Hehehehehe, we meet again Kuruda," the man sneered "The last time we met, I…I…l had my…first…defeat, by the hand of a naïve Var wannabe! Imagine that! A Var, who dared to defy me…hmmm…I doubt that was HIS victory, more like theirs…" The man then stopped and turned to a tree. He uttered a blood curdling, primal scream and smashed the tree to bits, not even leaving a splinter of wood unpulverized.
"Yes… their victory! If only those meddling INSECTS wouldn't have interfered, victory would have been mine!!!!" The man then lifted his hood to reveal an all-to-familiar face. "Yes, I Len Fuma should have won!" The man continued his psychotic monotone until nightfall, where only nature witnessed a nauseatic transformation. Len's face grew, and grew, until it became a snout, with an enlarged mouth, filled with white glistening fangs. His body became bigger, and bigger, until it shaped itself into a hunched form and began sprouting fur everywhere. Where Len had stood till nightfall now housed a demon-wolf.
Len was now a Wolfman.
"See what I have become now, Gau Ban!" Len growled with all his fury "Sha Khan-sama had given me another chance, and I…Will...Not…Waste…It!!!" The Wolfman let out another cry, or was it…a howl…?
Gau was lost in his train of thought. He had the chance to reveal his feelings to the woman he wanted to spend eternity with, and yet, his conscience objected to it. To hell with the age gap! He loved her and that was all that mattered.
Or so he thought.
That night, Kyou came home all smiles after the wonderful time that she had with Jim. He was, how could she say it…just so lovable, and yet, all she wanted to be was in the arms of the man of her dreams, Gau Ban.
That night, Gau had an uncomfortable slumber due to a dream he had. In it, Kyou's body was sprawled on the floor, dead. And on top of her now-dead body, stood a wolf-creature, "A Wolfman no doubt," he thought. He lunged at it in anger, but just as he reached for it, it's face turned to…Jim's.
He woke up with a start. "Jim, a Wolfman???" he thought "Sou na…" He was cut of when he heard a sort of a sniffle. "It's coming from Kyou-san's room…" He crept down the corridor and to his surprise, saw Kyou on the ground, crying her eyes out. "Aishiteru, Gau-kun, aishiteru…" he heard her choke out. Oh, how he wanted to go there at once and kiss the pain she felt away! But something in him told him, "Wait, Gau, the time will come," He was about to mentally slap that voice, but something struck him hard, harder than Low's Harkens. "That's Diaz-sama's voice!" He realized. He decided to go back to bed and get a good night's sleep. On the way, he hesitated as he heard Kyou crying again. He crept back slowly to check up on her. He found that she had cried herself to sleep. He crept in and stroked her hair, at the same time caressing her face and whispering "Aishiteru, Kyou-san, aishiteru. He then drew closer, closer, then gave her a slight kiss, like the one a father gives his child before he tucks the child in. He stood up, and this time strode out, but not before turning back and uttering "aishiteru" again.
The next day, Kyou found herself back on her bed. She felt a sudden warmness near her lips, as if someone had slightly kissed her the night before…"No, it's just probably my imagination" She murmured.
Later, Gau woke up, but it was probably more logical to say that Elle shook him out of bed :) "Oi, Gau!" she said in her usually boisterous tone, "Ya know, we need to go sparring! Ya need to be in tip-top shape for that crazy 'rule of the four fighters' bit." "Maa Elle," Gau said "Can't that wait for tomorrow? One needs to get some rest, ne?" "Oh stop with the 'I'm tired' act! C'mon!" And with that, Elle dragged Gau outside to practice.
At the same time, Kyou made herself some breakfast and sat down to eat. Folly, who had unknowingly been watching Gau the night before, sat down with her. "Oh great," Kyou thought "I won't have time to ponder my thoughts…" They sat in the table, neither speaking, until finally Folly broke the silence.
"Are you here to eat, or here to contemplate?" she said as Kyou was merely stirring her cereal over and over again. "Ne?" Kyou inquired. "Kyou, I know what you feel for Gau, but do you think he feels the same?" Kyou's spoon stopped halfway to the journey to her mouth as Folly asked that question. "N-Nani?!" Kyou sputtered, "I-I th-think Gau-kun loves me only as a sister Folly…" she added, subconsciously hoping what she said was but a lie. "Hmmm, are you sure?" Folly softly said, "Kyou, don't you think you should just go training?" "N-Nani?" Kyou was confused. "If one goes training, one's problems would seem small, ne? I'll even help you." "Oh, Ok Folly-san, but only because you would come along" Kyou finally agreed. "Yoshi, let's go now." Folly said. "Hehehehe, operation 'Kyou' complete." She thought.
Later, Elle was, as usual, wiping the floor with Gau. "Daijobu ka, Gau? You seem so drained. Must be thinking of a girl, ne?" Elle teased. Now, she would've expected Gau to pout, but not to look at her with anger in his eyes and release a Meice at her. She took the hit, collided with the wall, and fell down. This was not the Gau she sparred with, he had been energized by that last term Elle said. "Listen!" Gau started "Leave my private thoughts alone! If you ask that question again, I swear I will beat you so hard, you wouldn't remember anything about Kuruda!!!" He then calmed down and said "Gomen nasai, Elle-san, it's just that…I've been troubled for the past few days…" "About Kyou, right?" she thought. "Folly, how'd I let you talk me into this?" "Anyway Gau," she interrupted, let's go to a BETTER fighting arena, ne?" "Huh? Never knew there was one" Gau said.
"Ok, just close your eyes, and no peeking!" Elle instructed. "Hai" Gau reluctantly agreed. She led Gau to a clearing in the forest, then left him there. "Huh?! Elle-san, where are you?" Gau frantically inquired, after which he opened his eyes to the clearing. It was a beautiful sight, a place filled with flowers and the sunlight set just to the right shade, courtesy of the green, tall trees surrounding it. There were forest animals galore, and the breeze had just set to the right temperature. The air was cool, fresh, and had a smell Gau couldn't decipher. If he had only been dead, he would have been in paradise.
"Elle-san, is this the training place? Elle? ELLE?!" He was answered by the wind blowing through the trees. Just then, Kyou stumbled in, looking as bewildered as he had been when he entered.
"K-Kyou-sa-san" Gau stammered, "Wha-What are you doing here?" "Oh great" his conscience told him "Just the woman you wanted to see. Tell her now!" "No", the voice of Diaz came back. "Patience Gau, patience." While Gau was debating with himself, Kyou was telling him how she got there.
"U-Ummm, Folly-san told me about a neat training place, and I followed her, and…" she stopped as she saw Gau staring to La-la land. "Gau-kun, are you listening?" Gau was snapped back to reality as he saw Kyou's face. Why didn't he fall in love with her earlier, so that he wouldn't loose her at this point? How could he have regarded that peaceful, comforting face of hers as only a sister? He had to do it now, or he would loose her again. "Gomen Diaz-sama". He then turned to Kyou, took her hand, as he did a few days ago, and said with utter confidence, "Kyou-san, aishi…"
Meanwhile…
Elle and Folly were hiding in the bushes close by, surveying the whole thing. "Operation 'Aishiteru' complete!" they both whispered in unison and shook each other's hands like Tom, Ethan, and Lex in Survivor 3. "Please," a voice rasped "I beg to differ." "N-Nani?!" Elle said as a black, bulky figure jumped right at the couple.
Kyou couldn't understand it. Here was Gau, a young, handsome, spirited boy whom she loved, but she had always thought he loved Elle. Or did he?
"Demo, Gau-kun," she interrupted, "This is some sort of mistake! Y-You love Elle right?" As she uttered these words in disbelief, she said something that would leave a scar forever in the heart of Black Howling…
"Gomen nasai Gau-kun, but I am in love with someone OLDER than me, and that is…Jim Kai!"
Gau could only open his mouth in surprise at what she said, "I guess we're not meant to be… Is this what you were warning me about, Diaz-sama?" The silence was his answer.
Before he could say something to ease the pain he felt, a black figure leapt at them.
"Shadow Claw!" it said, hitting Gau hard with a claw charged with pure darkness.
"N-Nani?!" Gau groaned, "I thought we killed the Wolfmen!" "Hmm, yes Black Howling, but you see, I am not completely a Wolfman!"
And to everyone's surprise, he turned smaller, more humanlike, and then everyone knew he was no stranger…
"Len!" Gau said, barely recovering from the attack.
"Well! I believe that 'face lift' left everyone with surprised reactions! I should do that more often!" Len jested. "Diablo Kick!" he said, kicking Gau's stomach with such force, Gau threw up some blood and regurgitated food. He then swept up Kyou, leapt away, and said to Gau something.
"Oh, by the way, Black Howling, I heard leftovers don't taste pretty bad!" he said, morphing back to a Wolfman, and threw Gau a huge sack. Gau had just recovered from the 'Diablo Kick' and was hit by the sack.
"Kyou-san!" he screamed, but to no avail. His sadness was replaced by anger, and he screamed, "I'll track you till the ends of the earth Len, and when I do, you'd better hope Kyou's alive!!!" His fury soon turned to puzzlement, as he wanted to know what Len meant by 'leftovers'. He looked in the sack, and was greeted by the stench of rotten meat. He braved the smell and looked deeper. His sadness soon came back as he learned that he not only lost the woman he loved.
He lost his best friend.
The stench came from Low's decomposing body, maimed beyond recognition, with a big 'X' slashed on his chest.
There was a letter attached to him…
"I'll be in Blorahan, Black Howling"—Len
Gau let out an inhuman scream, and ran to Kuruda, making his way to Blorahan.
The beast within was awakened.
A/N: ssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo how was it? Pls review, I badly need them! Flamers can go to hell!
Black Wing 2