FLAME (2/?)
By Black Rainbow
Crossover NW/Slam Dunk fanfiction.
Disclaimer: I do not own Slam Dunk, or the Night World. If there are parts
you don't understand feel free to leave a comment and ask, because I really
don't know what is "general information" about supernatural stuff, and what
is "strictly Night World" things anymore. Blah. :) Anyway, I'm not using
the whole actual Night World set up. Just taking some stuff, and changing
other things. So it might be confusing. Don't be afraid of asking me
questions, or demanding me to be more coherent, heh.
PART 2
Kogure's Pharmacy. From across the street, it looks like a normal medium- sized square building. It is virtually unnoticeable; its colors are drab, and the window displays aren't exactly eye-catching. In fact, the average person would probably just walk by it without a glance.
Rukawa Kaede is not the average person.
In fact, he wasn't a human being at all, in the strictest sense of the word. He was part-lamia [1], part witch. and it was thanks to his witch mother that he was stuck in the middle of something that he could care less about. He would rather be on the side of the Night People; they were undoubtedly stronger, more willing to fight. But because he was part-witch (and on his mother's side to top that), he had to follow the decisions of the Inner Circle.
Thinking of this, he sighed, pushing open the doors to the pharmacy. His mother had insisted he go to the meeting on her behalf. Why did she have to be so damn political? Rukawa wondered. He looked around the dimly lit pharmacy, wondering if the Kogures ever made money from the pharmacy.
"Unity," a soft voice spoke, startling him. He thought he was alone. He searched for the source of the voice, and saw a boy at the end of the counter. The boy was shorter than him (then again, a lot of people were) and wore glasses, but it did not hide the gentle, searching look of in his eyes.
"Unity," Rukawa murmured the greeting. The boy smiled, almost in relief, Rukawa noted amusedly. In the old days 'unity' had been a witch greeting, something you say to welcome other witches. Now, it seems to be a way of determining to whom one's loyalty stands, be they witch, vampire, shifter. and even vermin.
Humans.. Rukawa reminded himself. They are humans. His mother had been a human-sympathizer, which never really boded well with Rukawa.
"I'm Kogure Kiminobu," the boy at the counter said in the same soft voice.
Circle Daybreak. how will the Daybreakers win against the Night World if they are all so. gentle? Rukawa thought, disgusted. "Rukawa Kaede," he said shortly. His mother had told him about Kogure Kiminobu before. what was it that she said? 'A witch originally from Circle Twilight. and an old soul.' If his mother were to be believed, Kogure's soul would be about eighty-nine years old now.
Kogure brightened. "Rukawa Eiko's son!" he said, almost reverently. Rukawa remained silent. "We are honored to have you with us."
Rukawa just shrugged. Kogure then led him into another room, which was lit only by a few candles. "Please take a seat," Kogure said. There was a huge table with eight chairs. At a corner of the room, there was a sofa and a loveseat. A boy was sprawled over the loveseat. The boy looked up curiously at them. He was obviously a vampire, but Rukawa sensed something else in him. He must have been a half-breed, too.
"Hisashi-kun," Kogure said. "This is Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa, this is Mitsui Hisashi."
"Rukawa Eiko's son?" Mitsui asked, raising his eyebrows. Rukawa nodded. "Well." Mitsui looked at Rukawa thoughtfully. Rukawa ignored him and sat at the other end of the room.
Half-an-hour later, Rukawa and Mitsui were joined by Miyagi Ryota (a wolf- shifter), Jin Soichiro (a witch), Miyazaki Heiji (a human) [2], Fujima Kenji (a vampire), Kiyota Nobunaga (a coyote-shifter) and Ayako (a witch). Rukawa knew Ayako, of course; he saw her whenever there was an Inner Circle meeting at his house.
Kogure came into the room after locking the front doors of the pharmacy. He closed the door behind him and smiled. "As you can see, we have a new face here today. Minna, meet Rukawa Kaede, son of Rukawa Eiko."
Almost everyone turned to look at Rukawa curiously. Ayako smiled warmly at Rukawa, knowing how much he must hate the attention.
"Who's Rukawa Eiko?"
Heads turned towards the person who asked the question. "Heiji." Kiyota started, almost exasperatingly. "How dense ARE you?"
"Heiji is new to Circle Daybreak," Fujima told Rukawa. "He just discovered the Night World last month, and haven't really absorbed what's going on yet."
"Rukawa's mother is in the Inner Circle of witches, like me," Ayako explained to Miyazaki.
"And she's really special," Jin added. "You know how we have a Maiden, Mother and Crone in the Inner Circle who have special responsibilities among the witches?" Heiji nodded, blue eyes wide, trying to absorb the information. "Well. Ayako is the Maiden of the witches - you know that, don't you? Rukawa Eiko is the Mother of the witches."
"Oh." Heiji smiled widely. "I get it. Pleased to meet you, man."
"This is the closest you get to royalty. and that's what you say to him?" Kiyota muttered under his breath.
"Can you all just shut up?" Mitsui said mildly. "The meeting is NOT about his mother." Everyone was quiet after that. Kogure smiled at Mitsui, who nodded encouragingly. "Go on."
"Uhm. Okay. uhm, everyone here knows about the prophecies, right? The first prophecy is sort of vague, about the blue fire."
"In blue fire, the final darkness is banished. In blood, the final price is paid," [3] Ayako recited quietly.
"That's it. A lot of the Elders think that it's about a final battle, between the humans and the Night People. Some are saying that it means the end of the world. The second prophecy tells us that there are four powers that will be able to stop. whatever that's coming. But. 'four less one and darkness triumphs.'"
"That means we have to get all four of the wild powers, or else we're doomed," Mitsui muttered.
"The third prophecy," Kogure continued, "gives us clues on how to find the four wild powers."
"So what's the problem?" Heiji asked.
"The problem," Mitsui started, "is that while we want the wild powers on our side to stop the whatever that's coming, the Night World Elders want them on their side to make sure that it happens. The problem, Heiji, that Ayako had a vision recently that indicated that the Night World already has one wild power on their side."
"Four less one." Jin murmured.
".and darkness triumphs," Miyagi finished. He looked disturbed.
"Damn."
"The reason Ayako and I decided to call this meeting," Kogure said, his voice raising to be heard over the room, "is because there is a new prophecy."
Silence. Everyone just shut up, wanting to listen to what he had to say.
"Four less one, but the white flame remains, In white flame, everything is destroyed."
"What was that?"
"I don't really know for sure." Kogure admitted.
"I think. I think that it means that there is another power that is stronger than the four wild powers combined. This means that this power alone could achieve what we would otherwise need the four wild powers to do. But. I think this power may be too dangerous to wield. It, this person, only exists as a last resort."
"The white flame. the power. is a person?" "Duh. If the wild powers are people, why wouldn't the white flame be a person?"
"So now all we need to do is to find this power?"
"No," Fujima muttered, rolling his eyes. "That is not all we have to do. This is just to ensure ourselves a fighting chance in the final battle. In other words, this is just the beginning."
Hanamichi looked forlornly out his room window. Life hadn't exactly been fun. He had agreed to join Sendoh and the Night World, because he felt like it was the only thing he could do. He quit school, left his family, and was moved to a mansion belonging to Maki Shinichi, supposedly one of the Night World Elders. He had never met Maki, and didn't really want to.
Every day he was either shuffled to the lab where the few witches that remained with the Night World would examine him, trying to find the source of his "power", and then he would be taken to another place for training, to test out the things he could do. Nothing had happened, so far. It was almost like he was a normal person. He didn't seem to be able to do whatever he did at Flame.
His hair was now tied back in a braid, and he was thinking of cutting it shorter. He wondered what Sendoh would say.
Hanamichi shook his head. He haven't seen Sendoh since he started to live in the mansion. He wondered what Sendoh was doing. He wondered what Sendoh's position in the Night World was. He wondered why he always found himself thinking about Sendoh. He told himself it was because Sendoh was the first person who actually talked to him after what happened at Flame, but another thought came into his mind.
He was so beautiful. and I feel like I've known him all my life.
tsuzuku -
[1] lamia = a kind of vampire. In the NW, there are vampires that are made into vampires, and vampires that are born as vampires. The lamia are the second kind.
[2] OC. :p he looks like Sendoh without the spiky hair.
[3] all prophecies except the fourth one belongs to Lisa Jane Smith.
PART 2
Kogure's Pharmacy. From across the street, it looks like a normal medium- sized square building. It is virtually unnoticeable; its colors are drab, and the window displays aren't exactly eye-catching. In fact, the average person would probably just walk by it without a glance.
Rukawa Kaede is not the average person.
In fact, he wasn't a human being at all, in the strictest sense of the word. He was part-lamia [1], part witch. and it was thanks to his witch mother that he was stuck in the middle of something that he could care less about. He would rather be on the side of the Night People; they were undoubtedly stronger, more willing to fight. But because he was part-witch (and on his mother's side to top that), he had to follow the decisions of the Inner Circle.
Thinking of this, he sighed, pushing open the doors to the pharmacy. His mother had insisted he go to the meeting on her behalf. Why did she have to be so damn political? Rukawa wondered. He looked around the dimly lit pharmacy, wondering if the Kogures ever made money from the pharmacy.
"Unity," a soft voice spoke, startling him. He thought he was alone. He searched for the source of the voice, and saw a boy at the end of the counter. The boy was shorter than him (then again, a lot of people were) and wore glasses, but it did not hide the gentle, searching look of in his eyes.
"Unity," Rukawa murmured the greeting. The boy smiled, almost in relief, Rukawa noted amusedly. In the old days 'unity' had been a witch greeting, something you say to welcome other witches. Now, it seems to be a way of determining to whom one's loyalty stands, be they witch, vampire, shifter. and even vermin.
Humans.. Rukawa reminded himself. They are humans. His mother had been a human-sympathizer, which never really boded well with Rukawa.
"I'm Kogure Kiminobu," the boy at the counter said in the same soft voice.
Circle Daybreak. how will the Daybreakers win against the Night World if they are all so. gentle? Rukawa thought, disgusted. "Rukawa Kaede," he said shortly. His mother had told him about Kogure Kiminobu before. what was it that she said? 'A witch originally from Circle Twilight. and an old soul.' If his mother were to be believed, Kogure's soul would be about eighty-nine years old now.
Kogure brightened. "Rukawa Eiko's son!" he said, almost reverently. Rukawa remained silent. "We are honored to have you with us."
Rukawa just shrugged. Kogure then led him into another room, which was lit only by a few candles. "Please take a seat," Kogure said. There was a huge table with eight chairs. At a corner of the room, there was a sofa and a loveseat. A boy was sprawled over the loveseat. The boy looked up curiously at them. He was obviously a vampire, but Rukawa sensed something else in him. He must have been a half-breed, too.
"Hisashi-kun," Kogure said. "This is Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa, this is Mitsui Hisashi."
"Rukawa Eiko's son?" Mitsui asked, raising his eyebrows. Rukawa nodded. "Well." Mitsui looked at Rukawa thoughtfully. Rukawa ignored him and sat at the other end of the room.
Half-an-hour later, Rukawa and Mitsui were joined by Miyagi Ryota (a wolf- shifter), Jin Soichiro (a witch), Miyazaki Heiji (a human) [2], Fujima Kenji (a vampire), Kiyota Nobunaga (a coyote-shifter) and Ayako (a witch). Rukawa knew Ayako, of course; he saw her whenever there was an Inner Circle meeting at his house.
Kogure came into the room after locking the front doors of the pharmacy. He closed the door behind him and smiled. "As you can see, we have a new face here today. Minna, meet Rukawa Kaede, son of Rukawa Eiko."
Almost everyone turned to look at Rukawa curiously. Ayako smiled warmly at Rukawa, knowing how much he must hate the attention.
"Who's Rukawa Eiko?"
Heads turned towards the person who asked the question. "Heiji." Kiyota started, almost exasperatingly. "How dense ARE you?"
"Heiji is new to Circle Daybreak," Fujima told Rukawa. "He just discovered the Night World last month, and haven't really absorbed what's going on yet."
"Rukawa's mother is in the Inner Circle of witches, like me," Ayako explained to Miyazaki.
"And she's really special," Jin added. "You know how we have a Maiden, Mother and Crone in the Inner Circle who have special responsibilities among the witches?" Heiji nodded, blue eyes wide, trying to absorb the information. "Well. Ayako is the Maiden of the witches - you know that, don't you? Rukawa Eiko is the Mother of the witches."
"Oh." Heiji smiled widely. "I get it. Pleased to meet you, man."
"This is the closest you get to royalty. and that's what you say to him?" Kiyota muttered under his breath.
"Can you all just shut up?" Mitsui said mildly. "The meeting is NOT about his mother." Everyone was quiet after that. Kogure smiled at Mitsui, who nodded encouragingly. "Go on."
"Uhm. Okay. uhm, everyone here knows about the prophecies, right? The first prophecy is sort of vague, about the blue fire."
"In blue fire, the final darkness is banished. In blood, the final price is paid," [3] Ayako recited quietly.
"That's it. A lot of the Elders think that it's about a final battle, between the humans and the Night People. Some are saying that it means the end of the world. The second prophecy tells us that there are four powers that will be able to stop. whatever that's coming. But. 'four less one and darkness triumphs.'"
"That means we have to get all four of the wild powers, or else we're doomed," Mitsui muttered.
"The third prophecy," Kogure continued, "gives us clues on how to find the four wild powers."
"So what's the problem?" Heiji asked.
"The problem," Mitsui started, "is that while we want the wild powers on our side to stop the whatever that's coming, the Night World Elders want them on their side to make sure that it happens. The problem, Heiji, that Ayako had a vision recently that indicated that the Night World already has one wild power on their side."
"Four less one." Jin murmured.
".and darkness triumphs," Miyagi finished. He looked disturbed.
"Damn."
"The reason Ayako and I decided to call this meeting," Kogure said, his voice raising to be heard over the room, "is because there is a new prophecy."
Silence. Everyone just shut up, wanting to listen to what he had to say.
"Four less one, but the white flame remains, In white flame, everything is destroyed."
"What was that?"
"I don't really know for sure." Kogure admitted.
"I think. I think that it means that there is another power that is stronger than the four wild powers combined. This means that this power alone could achieve what we would otherwise need the four wild powers to do. But. I think this power may be too dangerous to wield. It, this person, only exists as a last resort."
"The white flame. the power. is a person?" "Duh. If the wild powers are people, why wouldn't the white flame be a person?"
"So now all we need to do is to find this power?"
"No," Fujima muttered, rolling his eyes. "That is not all we have to do. This is just to ensure ourselves a fighting chance in the final battle. In other words, this is just the beginning."
Hanamichi looked forlornly out his room window. Life hadn't exactly been fun. He had agreed to join Sendoh and the Night World, because he felt like it was the only thing he could do. He quit school, left his family, and was moved to a mansion belonging to Maki Shinichi, supposedly one of the Night World Elders. He had never met Maki, and didn't really want to.
Every day he was either shuffled to the lab where the few witches that remained with the Night World would examine him, trying to find the source of his "power", and then he would be taken to another place for training, to test out the things he could do. Nothing had happened, so far. It was almost like he was a normal person. He didn't seem to be able to do whatever he did at Flame.
His hair was now tied back in a braid, and he was thinking of cutting it shorter. He wondered what Sendoh would say.
Hanamichi shook his head. He haven't seen Sendoh since he started to live in the mansion. He wondered what Sendoh was doing. He wondered what Sendoh's position in the Night World was. He wondered why he always found himself thinking about Sendoh. He told himself it was because Sendoh was the first person who actually talked to him after what happened at Flame, but another thought came into his mind.
He was so beautiful. and I feel like I've known him all my life.
tsuzuku -
[1] lamia = a kind of vampire. In the NW, there are vampires that are made into vampires, and vampires that are born as vampires. The lamia are the second kind.
[2] OC. :p he looks like Sendoh without the spiky hair.
[3] all prophecies except the fourth one belongs to Lisa Jane Smith.
