Cursed Mirror

RK doesn't belong to me.

Chapter 7: There She Falls; a Goddess Among The Dead

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The flight into death has always been the hardest…but I would never cry…

Kaoru swore she heard a voice echoing through her head, a voice much like hers, but this one was sad, and expecting death with a calmness much like the Shinigami himself. It was unnerving.

After Enishi had left with his task, she had excused her self to go get dressed, but the distance sound of sudden thunder got her dressed faster then any normal girl. She wasn't even paying attention to what she was pulling on, which happened to be a pair of jeans, a loose shirt, a long, sweater jacket, and finally, a dagger given to her by the Moon god himself, slipping it into the inside pocket of her coat.

The dagger was her only weapon beside the mirror, but, she never used it like the other item, it was too powerful, only a god or demi-god to control it to its true potential. Kaoru her self always refrained from using it, weary of the out come that might come if it got in the wrong hands or the hidden power inside it took over you.

Instead of heading to the kitchen, she want out side, finding the sky full of the bright lights of lightening and the echoing thunder that followed. Fear got her; the twin occurrences in the sky had always scared her, no doubt about that. Even in her time stranded in the Limbo/The Order of Time, she was unable to get over the petty fear.

But, even that wouldn't stop her from finding what the future Order--her dear friend and partner in finding the future in her dreams and mirror--had been telling her. Not only that, but the voice in her head…what were the answers she would find behind that?

Suddenly the occurrence of the lightening and thunder started going out of order, and the area started to twist and misshape, turning different colors as if it had a will of its own.

"Kaoru!" Kenshin was running towards her, wrapping her in his arms, a tight embrace as his eyes showed fear…fear of loosing her once again.

A wind started, blowing open the gate to the dojo with a bang, the sound echoing like a canon that had just gone off, the sound ringing in her ears. His hold tightened as he protected her from the wind to his best ability.

The sounds of the others running towards them, Soba clutching the mirror from the shrine to her body with her dear life. Someone said something about craziness about going for a mirror that they could easy replace, and got hit on the head by some one else, or something, but Kaoru wouldn't know, for she wasn't paying attention.

Her eyes were lost to the sky, as a strong bolt of light came across the every changing sky, and from it, came two beings. One was a big bulk, his form that of a demon from hell, like in painting done by a deranged artist whose creations would never sell to the sane or good at heart. That one landed across the street, falling on the roof with a big impact.

The other, was an exact duplicate of her. Graceful, and beautiful, her landing on the dojo's surrounding wall was like a ballerina landing from a graceful leap. There was one difference between the two though, the Kaoru being held by Kenshin had never held a sword dripping of demon blood, not even in a past life.

The one on the wall glanced at them, one at a time with uncaring eyes, until they fell on the eyes of the one like her, and they changed, but what it was they didn't know. She turned from them and jumped down.

Kaoru forced herself from Kenshin's arms and ran out the gate, not understanding why she wanted to follow, but something told her to do so. They found the two having a stand off; their bodies still as they regarded each other through the howling wind.

"You guys!" Misao cried out, running over with the rest of the gain behind her, some looking more at the pair having the stand off then where they were going.

"Where's Enishi!" Soba called in panic, and she soon spotted him, slowly moving their way, as he had to pass the two standing in the middle of the street. He was finally there, none of them had given him a look, to busy with deciding who would make the first move. His grandmother and sister hugged him, as both were worried about him.

"Ah, look at you, just as the legends had said," said the demon, his voice reminding them all of gravel being stepped on multiplied a thousand times.

"This from a man whose first intentions from a man who wanted to have sex with me? And that was their lone purpose, Fegideru," said the girl--woman, as she was nothing else.

"Rosa-chan, how can you believe something like that? I brought you back--"

"What if I didn't want to be back. My life was just fine until you showed your ugly ass to the world."

"Don't talk like that to your master!" Fegideru appeared pissed, glaring with glowing red eyes at the girl in distaste.

"Master? I have no master!" Fegideru lunged, but Rosa expected his attack, and dodged the clawed hand he had sent after her. She swiped at him with her sword when he flew by her, hitting his shoulder. Blood flowed from the wound, and that only made her want to see more.

Once more they landed across from each other and Fegideru looked up at their uninvited audience that had been gathering. He grinned a sick twisted way, the tips of yellow fanged teeth picking out from over his thick lips.

A small ball of light appeared in his hands, one Kaoru spotted. Silently she started up with a spell she knew from a long ago, one that would hopefully work, thus creating a shield around them…but, Past's spells weren't very reliable.

"What is this Fegideru, picking on just mere children? Even S Class youkai wouldn't stoop that low," came the cold voice of Rosa, her eyes a burning blue, haunting to look at but they had this hypnotizing effect that pulled you in. "Come, dear Master, we shall settle this now, agreed? With out the destruction of our child-sized audience? Agree?"

"Fuck--"

In a flash there she was, the tip of her sword at his throat, piercing it just enough to draw a few drops of blood.

"Agreed!"

"Good." With out warning of even the change in her breath, she shoved the sword through his throat, dragged it out and sliced the whole thing off. She watched his body fall to the ground, a wave of blood flowing across her booted feet, but she didn't care one bit. Taking a scarf from with in her coat, she took the demon's head and drained it off blood, wrapping it up in the scarf when she was done. "There, his head with catch a nice price…but…"

"Um…Miss?" Kaoru said slowly, walking just as slowly up to the mirror image of her self.

"Oh! Yes, I'm so sorry for this mess…but, unfortunately, I didn't know who to deal with it…and now, Kukujin Ryu, Isha, Jasper and even Chester is gone…my whole family…" Her eyes gained a soft look, far away and sad as she gazed at nothing, but seeing the faces--or cloud of smoke--that represented her 'family.'

"Maybe we could help you?"

"It would be a long shot, but, maybe you could." She smiled, showing off perfectly set white vampire like teeth. "By the way, my name is Rosanzerusu."

"Is that Spanish?"

"Yes."

"But your Japanese, right?"

"Yeah?"

"So the name thing…"

"I have no idea."

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AN: Can anyone guess what city she is named after? I'll give a hint, its in California and has quite a pollution problem. I would give more, but that would just give it all away. I guess the battle scene was short, not all that well, but, neither me or my dark side do well with action, but I thought it was well written then anything else I have done that involved action.

omochi: they are here! Clones from other dimensions! Ah! Only this part can be labeled the evil doing done by the two.

Shunu No Miko: The suspense if killing? Well, it did kill! (A very bad joke…)

kurara: winter break, got about one more week for me. And they will be able to help Rosanzerusu in the end.

Thank you for reviewing! I hope you liked this chapter as well as the others.