Never Eternal

by yumeneko

Disclaimer: As usual... Saiyuki is Kazuya Minekura-sensei's... I'm just using it for angsty stuff...

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Warnings: Huge amounts of angst. Sanzo + Hakkai semi-fluff in later episodes. Sanzo shall become OOC. Might drive you sick. Lots of blood and Squaresoft hinting.

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"Who would ever know that he would come as an enemy?"

And so they hunted down the Terra. Their first stop was that same battlefield where they met the monster. According to the Sanzo-ikkou's description of the monster, the two necromancers knew it was a Terra.

"I thought I killed it." Sanzo said.

"There are more types of Terra than the one you fought. You can recognize them by their bodies and their posture. They're awfully weak looking when they take on human bodies, but since their bodies are flexible, they're hard to hurt. Especially when you're only using your fists." Macabre explained.

"The Terra must have been using the one you fought to kill humans to collect souls. So I guess those Terras have been cleaning up this battlefield..." Azrael thought.

"Hmm... There's a trail of blood here... Knowing that Terras like this are definitely sloppy, we might as well follow the trail." Macabre suggested.

Deeper into the forest, they finally found the dwelling of the Terra, but before they could attack, three weak looking humans seized the group with their spears.

"What is your business here?" the first man asked

"We're here to save a soul, you Terra! Give it back!" Sanzo demanded.

"Heh! You reapers are stupid! You can't fool us! You just want to enslave us again in that pool of souls!"

"So I guess the Terra have finally found some corpses they can occupy..." Azrael's eyes narrowed, "Eat this, Terra scum!" Her scythe easily cut through all three's necks, beheading them instantly. She held her hand out and sucked the lost souls into bottles.

"Let's attack!" Goku said with determination, "Huh? I smell I blood here different from those Terra…"

"This just means we need to take caution here…" Gojyo said, "I think Macabre, Azrael and Sanzo should take offensive while me and Goku will go hunt down this strange blood…"

And so Sanzo with the two necromancers ambushed the Terra. Macabre summoned souls from Pandemonium. Azrael used her favorite scythe and reaped the souls of the dead. Sanzo blasted them to hell with his gun and killed a petrified few more with the ofuda.

But something unexpected happened, while the team was killing a vast amount of Terra, Sanzo heard someone clapping.

"Bravo... Bravo... Nice display of strength, Genjo Sanzo..."

Sanzo looked towards the source of the voice and found...

"Hakkai..."      

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A/N: Ah… There's not that much rewrite here compared to the other chapters. But at least I've clarified the big deal about the Terra Sanzo fought in the first chapter.