The Kagato Chronicles

By: nyke

Book One: Inner Demons

Chapter Three

"I'll make this simple for you, Kagato," Yanouku said. "You summoned me, so it is my job to reward you by giving the ultimate power in the universe, Tsunami. Do you understand?"

Kagato nodded dumbly.

"Good. So all you have to do is let me assimulate with you with you and together we can leave this place," Yanouku said, confident that he was going to succeed. This was the worst part of his curse. Normally, he could merge with anyone any time he wanted, but because of Tsunami banishing him here, he could only merge with one person once, and that was only if they were willing. The only reason she had done this was so that he wouldn't merge with the first person that stumbled onto his tomb and then simply jump from mind to mind until he was on the same power trip as before. He only had one shot at this, so he had to make it work.

He had been watching Kagato for years, with the small bit of power he had left, had even saved him from death when his parents were captured, and just a few hours ago, when his cruiser was about to crash. He was perfect.

Kagato was still terrified that he would be ripped apart at any time. At this point, he would have agreed to walk barefoot into hell just to be anywhere but here.

Yanouku smiled as he felt kagato opening his mind to him. It began.

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Washu stopped typing and stared at the screen of her transparent laptop. She had had these moments less often as time passed and she began to move on from losing her family. Yet the void was still there. She needed another child. There was no question, no doubt. She didn't think that she could simply get pregnant again. She would not put her baby or herself in a position where they could lose each other again. But there had to be a way…

She stood up and began walking down the corridor. She stopped suddenly and turned to stand directly in front of the tank that held the Mass. No way. she thought. They board will laugh me out of the academy. But the longer Washu pondered the idea, the more it appealed to her.

She could make this work. All she had to do was combine an egg from her on body and some Mass with it and boom. Instant baby. She ran back to her computer and began her research.

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The assimulation was complete. Kagato looked around for Yanouku, but he was no where to be seen. It felt so good to have this much power flowing through his veins. He was all-powerful and knew it. It was you're typical disaster waiting to happen.

Now all he had to do was figure out how to get out of here. He put a hand to the wall next to him and began walking along it. In less than thirty minutes he had circled the room twice without finding a door. He was still trapped in here.

He slumped against the wall in defeat.

You're going to give up this easily? The voice echoed in his mind and he instantly knew it wasn't his.

"Who's there?" Kagato called out to the empty room.

Who do you think?

Yanouku? How did you get in my mind? Wait. Never mind that, just tell me how to get out of here.

You still haven't figured it out? I'm going to have to walk you through everything aren't I? Oh well, just close you're eyes and think about the place you want to go. Picture it in you're mind.

"How is that going to help?"

Just do it.

Kagato closed his eyes and imagined his dorm room. He tried to concentrate on it and will himself there. When he opened his eyes, he was sitting on the edge of his bed.

"How did I do that?" he asked Yanouku.

Now that we are one, you will have many new powers that you will have to learn to use. Teleporting is one of them.

Kagato was about to ask another question when he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and froze. God what had happened to him. He wasn't himself anymore. His eyes, once a rich chocolate brown, were now a cold golden yellow. His once short silver hair was now a duller gray and reached his shoulders. Yanouku was stunned at this transformation as well. He had never seen this happen before. Before either of them could speak, the door burst open and Washu stumbled in. She stopped short when she saw Kagato's knew look, but chose not to say anything about it.

"You're not gonna believe want I just discovered. Come look at this," she said urgently just before she took off down the hall. Kagato followed obediently.