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The Shinma's Attack
Chapter 2
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In Fanelia the rulers of other countries on Gaea came to discuss the strange attacks that had been going on for about a month after two long years of peace. At this moment Van was in a meeting with them talking of plans to stop the attacks, but so far they came up with nothing.
"We must do something to stop this!! Not to long ago my people, were attacked again by these strange creatures!! I say we use whatever we've got and destroy them before anymore damage is done!!" said Masao the King of Basaram in rage bringing his strong fist down upon the table and made it shake.
"Yes we do indeed need to put an end to this, but have you already forgotten? Not even a whole army of guymelfs can put a stop to them and I do believe that it was your army of guymelefs that were destroyed by only one creature." Came the calm reply from Dryden the King of Asturia.
King Masao stiffened at the reminder of what happened that dreadful day. "Yes I know that! But what if we tried a different way? What if we used Basaram's greatest weapon on them? Surely that is powerful enough to put an end to them?"
People around the table began to mutter to one another about the idea. It's true. Basaram's weapon was indeed very powerful, but the question is will it be strong enough to wipe out the demons?
Van was sitting at the head of the table wearing his usual red sleeveless shirt, black pants, and his sword at his side with his red-brown eyes closed and arms crossed listening to them and thinking about what they had said. Right now things didn't look good for Gaea, it seemed that nothing could put an end to the terror that was being spread all through out the world and still no clues to where they came from. Yet Basaram's weapon might be strong enough to get rid of them, but that was where the problem is.
Rashi, one of Van's council, men who looked to be in his early fifty's spoke "An excellent idea majesty. Basaram's weapon just might have what it takes to be rid of these demons once and for all. From what we've seen in the Destiny War two years ago I'd say that will have no trouble taking them out."
For the first time Van finally spoke up, but still kept his arms crossed and eyes closed. "Basaram's weapon might in fact be enough to get rid of them, but we have one problem."
All eyes in the room turned to the King of Fanelia surprised at how he finally was speaking.
"Based on the information that I have on the creatures, they only attack at night and only people who are alone and helpless."
"Yes, Lord Van we know!" said another one of Van's council, men called Lance who was the youngest of the council, who looked to be somewhere around the ages of 30-35. "The creatures attack late in the night when no one is around to help. Due forgive me my lord, but I really don't see what the problem is with the use of Basaram's weapon. With it we can wipe out the demons and save Gaea!"
"Yes that's true we could easily wipe them out, but have you forgotten Lance?" Van paused for a moment then continued when no one answered. Van opened his eyes and glared at everyone in the room.
"Are problem is for the safety of the people!!" The boy King said with anger in his voice as he brought both of his fists down hard upon his chairs armrest.
"If we set Basaram's weapon off yes it may kill the creatures, but it will also kill the people!! The creatures only attack where there are people and since the city if full of people that is where they will stay!! They won't leave the city so trying to lore them out won't work!! What is the point in trying to save the lives of the people if were just gonna end up killing them while trying to kill the damn demons?!! All you have talked about is how to get rid of the creatures and haven't yet talked about of how to insure the safety of the people!! Right now it seems like nothing that we do will stop these attacks from occurring so what our best chance is now is to try and save the people when they are attacked! Fight off there attackers or something, anything! While doing that not only will we be saving lives, but also learning. Learning the creature's weakness. These things must have a weakness all we have to do is find it and by doing this we have more of a chance of understanding where they come from and what is it that they are after."
The room was dead silent when Van finished his speech. Then a moment later Dryden spoke.
"Well I guess the King of Fanelia is right. We haven't been talking much about the safety of the people and they are the ones who are mainly getting attacked. Well Van-sama I don't suppose you have an idea of how we are going to protect the people from these demons do you?"
To be honest the young King had no idea of how to really protect the people at all and he was just about to answer when a child-like voice spoke.
"I have an idea of how to protect them good sir."
Everyone in the room turned in the direction of where the voice came from. It was a short young girl who looked to be of the ages of 11-13. She was standing in front of the doorway and wore a white and light purple kimono that went all the way to the ground and was slightly to big for her; the long sleeves covered her hands. In her arms she held a Japanese doll that had pale skin, slick short black hair, wore a red rob, a light green vest, and had its eyes closed. The girl had black hair that was in loose pigtails tied with red ribbon, her eyes were a teal color, her skin was snow-white, and in an ice blue color they're on her forehead was some kind of Japanese symbol. By the looks of her she didn't look very warm at all and if you touched her you wouldn't feel heat instead you would feel nothing, but coldness.
The girl took a few steps inside the room and as she walked in the room became much colder sending chills down the backs of the men. Something about this girl was strange not just the way she dressed, but the way things felt when she walked in like the way the entire room suddenly became freezing cold. Van noticed this and knew that she was more than what she seemed to be and that something was up.
"Sumimasen, chotto onna no ko!" Rashi spoke as he stood up from his seat. "This is a private council meeting you are not suppose to be here!"
(A/N- Sumimasen- Excuse Me
Chotto- Little
Onna no ko- Girl)
Van raised his hand to Rashi to tell him it's all right.
"Hold on Rashi! She said she knew how to protect the people, that is what you said right?" Van asked the girl.
The girl bowed to Van as she spoke in her child-like voice. "Why yes as a matter of fact I did plus I also know where these so called demons come from and what they are."
Everyone in the room looked at the girl in shock and disbelief. For a whole month no one had any clues as to what and who these creatures are and where they came from and now here they may finally have an answer.
"So are you trying to tell us that you know who they are and where they come from?" The King of Fanelia asked the young girl. "This isn't some childish game is it, because if it is I will not have that here and you should leave now!"
"Oh no! This is no game I a sure you King of Faneila. For if this was indeed a game" The girl spoke as she stood up straight and grinned an icy grin. "I wouldn't be here right now, in fact if this was nothing more than a game I would be outside right now laughing at you for even trying to figure out a way to stop the attacks when in truth it would be useless."
"Just what are you getting at girl?" King Masao asked beginning to get annoyed with the girl.
"What I'm getting at is that you can't defeat the creatures with Basaram's weapon because it is pointless. Those creatures are much stronger than that weak little toy, no human weapon can kill them."
The King of Basaram was in rage. "How dare you say such a thing! I'll have you know that the weapon of Basaram was what helped win the Destiny War two years ago mind you! So I wouldn't go and be calling it weak!"
The girl grinned another icy grin at the King, which sent a cold chill down his spine. "Perhaps. But when it comes to these demons your weapon doesn't stand a chance. However there is still a away to defeat them."
Before Masao could reply Dryden spoke in order to keep the peace. "Then perhaps you'd be so kind as to tell us how to do that miss."
"Reiha. My name is Reiha and this is Matsakaze." Reiha said as she motion towards her doll Matsakaze.
"Well then Reiha would you happen to know where these demons come from?"
"Yes, I do."
"Then might I ask where do these evil creatures come from?"
Reiha's grin only grew wider.
"The creatures that attack your world come from none other than the Mystic Moon."
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Earth: Tokyo, Japan
It was night with another bright full moon hanging in a starless night sky. Miyu stood over a dead body of a jogger that was lying in the grass on the side of the path in the park. Once again the body had bite marks on his neck with bloodstains on them and all the blood drained from the body. This was the 20th body that Miyu had found that showed signs of being attacked by a vampire shinma. "Well at least the shinma hadn't skipped town." The Guardian thought. "But the number of lives being lost because of this shinma is still increasing."
After taking one final look at the dead man giving him a sorrowful look of apology she turned and walked away. It really bothered Miyu to see humans die at the hands of a shinma when they didn't do anything to deserver it. Even if a human was, as evil as you can be Miyu still wouldn't want a human to die like that. Not at the hands of a shinma for that is a fate that no human good or bad should have and to make sure that no other humans will fall to that fate Miyu would do whatever it takes to put a stop to them.
'I must stop this, I must stop this now!' Thought the Guardian as she broke into a run. 'If I hurry I might be able to catch the shinma and put it out of it's misery. I will not allow this shinma to get away again, I will not allow anymore human life to be lost at it's hands! I try to forgive, but not in this case this shinma has gone to far! I will not let this shinma go free doing as it pleases!'
Once Miyu ran out of the park she stopped and closed her eyes seeing if there are any energy signs of a shinma. So far she felt nothing, but then! "I sense something. It's fait, but it's there." Once again Miyu broke off into a run and while running she used her mind to call out to Shiina and Larva. "Larva! Shiina! I've got a lock on the vampire shinma! It's at Sakawa Cemetery and if we hurry we can end this tonight!"
Before Larva and Shiina could reply the vampire princess broke the mind link. As she ran towards the cemetery she changed from her brown school uniform into her white knee link kimono.
"You will never harm another human ever again. This I promise."
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Sakawa Cemetery
A little girl with short blond hair and holding a red rose was sitting in front of a tomb stone crying. She had just lost her mother and was left all alone with no other living family. She and her mother were driving home one night till out of nowhere on the drivers side of the car the glass window was shattered! Someone or Something had crashed threw the window and attacked them both, but in the confusion the car swirled around then went straight into a building at full speed killing the mother on impact. However the little girl managed to survive the crash because before impact the one who attacked them got to the girl in time and saved her. But just as the attacker saved the girl the attacker turned on her and was about to finish what they'd started, but lucky for the little girl that was when the cops came so in fright the attacker fled the scene giving the girl an evil grin and saying in a low, unfriendly tone "I'll be back." Still no matter what happens to her now the little girl would never forget that night. The night of her mothers death, the night she met her whole families killer. Her mother's body was examined by police and confirmed that it was the same killer who killed everyone in her family. Her mother had two bite marks on her neck and all the blood drained from her body just like everyone else in her family who was killed. And now thanks to the killer she had no one, she was alone.
"Mommy! Mommy! Why did you have to die? Why?! You said you wouldn't leave me! You said that we would always be together and that no one would separate us ever!"
"Aaaaa! Ain't that cute! A little girl crying out for her mommy! I almost want to cry!"
The blond haired youth turned around and once she saw who it was that had spoken pure terror rose within her. It was the killer!
A teenage girl with short boyish light brown hair, sparkling green eyes, and a light tan color school uniform stood on top of a tomb stone with her arms crossed and an evil grin spread across her face. Her mouth opened a little bit so the little girl could see her fangs.
"What's the matter little girl? Scared?" The teenage girl asked in a low, raspy voice.
"You! It's you! You're the one who killed my mother!" The little girl replied as she backed up towards her mother's tomb. "You killed my mother! My father! My Brother! All of them! Grandma! Uncle Ben! All of them!"
"Oh yes that's right! I did kill them!"
"Why?! Why'd you kill them?! Why?! What'd they ever do to you?!"
"Nothing. They did nothing to me." Was the reply as if she didn't care.
"Then if they didn't do anything to you why'd you kill them anyways?"
"Because that's how I stay alive! I feed off human's blood and they're fears! I even feed off there sorrow, which that is what I'm doing to you right now! I'm feeding off your sorrow, which by the way is very grand! Best I've had in a long time!"
"Wha?! What are you talking about?!"
"It doesn't matter. Because in about a moment you won't be able to care! I've come to put you out of your misery for I've already taken more than enough of your pain and sorrow into me so now there really is nothing left that I find useful of you, expect." The killer's grin grew wider as she licked her lips and fangs. "Expect your blood."
The little girl stiffened at what she said and remembered how everyone in her family was found with bite marks on they're neck and all the blood drained from there body.
"You're.you're.you're a.a vampire?!?" The little girl stuttered.
"Vampire? Hardly! I'm more than a mere vampire I'm a shinma!"
"S-Shinma?! What's that?!"
"Your worse nightmare! AARRAAHH!!" The shinma leaped into the air and rushed at the little helpless girl in mid air in a flash bearing her fangs at the girl.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" The girl screamed as she slammed her eyes shut and put her arms over her head still holding the red rose.
But before the shinma could reach the little girl a figure wearing a midnight black cloak and a mask blocked her path holding a scythe. The figure raised his weapon up high and slammed the long handle into the shinma sending her backwards in the air.
The shinma however made a flip in the air and landed on her feet in a fighting stance glaring knives of hate at the intruder.
"Hey!! Just what do ya think ya doing?!?! Who are ya?!?! Get out of my way!! Huh?"
Just then a thick spooky fog appeared to the right of the shinma and a girl could be seen standing there wearing a white knee length kimono, a purple sash tied around her waste into a large bow, and playing a flute.
"What is the meaning of this?!?! You there what do you want?!?!" The stray shinma cried out.
The girl stopped playing her flute and looked up at the stray shinma with her sad brown lonely eyes and spoke in a low emotionless voice.
"I want you now that you have finally showed yourself, you should know now that there is no escape from me this time. Give up this body, mind, and spirit you must leave her. Go back to the darkness quietly."
The stray shinma stiffened once the mysterious girl had spoken and knew right away who she was.
"So you are the Guardian who I've heard so much about!" The stray shinma spoke in a cruel voice her eyes narrow and cold.
"And you must be the stray vampire shinma who has been hunting humans down for your own selfishness, Hitomi Kanzaki I believe is your name! Hitomi Kanzaki The Japanese Vampire Shinma who is famous for her numbers of attacks on human life."
"Ah, so you've heard of me have you? I see you've been doing your homework! Well it is only right after all you are a Guardian so you should know the shinmas you fight! But do you really wish to fight me? After all you and I are not to different, we both are shinmas; vampire shinmas to be exact!"
"I am not a shinma like you who prey on weak defenseless humans! Vampire shinma or not you and I are nothing alike and never will be!"
"So sorry to hear that. I was thinking that since we both have something in common that we could be friends and not enemies. But!!!" The stray vampire shinma known as Hitomi Kanzaki leaped into the air and went flying towards Miyu as her nails slightly became claws, her green eyes flaring up with a rage reflecting the desire for death, her fangs becoming more of a wild beasts, and letting out a non-human like cry that sounded that of a demon. "Since you choose other wise you leave me no choice, but to kill you!!!! RRRRRAAAHH!!!!!!!"
Miyu jumped to the side just in time before Hitomi slashed right through her, but just as she did the Guardian had to leap a great leap backwards the moment her bare feet had touched the ground for Hitomi wasn't done yet as she swung her other claw-like hand at Miyu. "This shinma is fast!" The vampire princess thought. Again the moment her feet touched the ground she had to jump out of the way, but this time she was too slow. Using her great strength, Hitomi slammed Miyu into a tombstone, which caused it to crack into pieces. "This shinma is VERY fast! And strong! Not like any other shinma I've ever faced before! I need help!" Miyu looked up in time to see Hitomi charging at her at full speed with an evil grin across her face. If she needed help now was the time and there was only one person who could help her now. "Larva!!"
The figure wearing the midnight black cloak and mask known as Larva appeared in front of Miyu and slashed out at the stray shinma with his scythe. Hitomi ducked into a roll to the side as the scythe barely missed her. She stood up and charged at Larva just as a black and blue Japanese sword appeared in her hand. She raised her weapon up high and clashed it together with Larva's. Larva shoved Hitomi backwards and charged in to disarm her, but Hitomi saw this coming and did a back flip and once she landed they're weapons clashed together once more.
"Why are you against me?!" Hissed Hitomi with there weapons still together. "You and I are exactly alike!"
"Not exactly! I fight for Miyu now!" Was Larva's reply.
"Foolish Western Shinma!! You fool! She's a Guardian! Don't you see that eventually she'll send you back too?!! It's what she does send strays like us back!! But that never has to happen not if we kill her!! Don't you see?!! If she's dead we never have to return!!"
Larva's eyes narrowed, though you couldn't see it through his mask. "That's not my problem!"
Hitomi gritted her teeth together in anger. "You traitor!!"
Using all her strength Hitomi pushed the western shinma back with such force that he stumbled then she slashed her sword across his chest. Larva hardly had anytime to get out of the way, he was just lucky.
Miyu watched the two do battle and as she was watching a flame in her hand was firing up. Once she felt it was strong enough Miyu fired her flame at Hitomi. "Into the darkness stray shinma! Go!!"
The flame came fast towards Hitomi, but lucky for her she saw it in time. Hitomi shoved the western shinma aside who was trying to keep her from escaping Miyu's flame. "You think that will get rid of me?! Think again!!" Hitomi held her sword out at the flame with two hands as a psychic shield went around her as the flame hit her sword then vanished.
"No my flame! It didn't work!" Miyu said in surprise. "Shiina! Tell me!"
Just then Shiina the rabbit-like shinma creature fell out of a tree and landed on Miyu's shoulder. Shiina used her right eye's power on Hitomi and learned just what was needed.
"Watch out Miyu! This shinma has psychic powers!"
"That's right bunny!! And it's high time I use them!!" The sword in Hitomi's hand disappeared and then she raised her hands high in the air just as an invisible force slammed into Miyu and Larva knocking them both off their feet.
"Give it up Guardian!! You, your servant, and your little pet can't defeat me!!" Hitomi spat.
During all this the blond short, haired little girl just sat there against her mother's tombstone with her knees held close to her chest with her hand still grasping the red rose in fear. "Who are these people?" She wondered. "What do they want? Why are they fighting? Mommy! Mommy, make them go away! Make them stop fighting! Mommy!" The girl began to cry.
Miyu saw this and could have sworn that the girl cried out for her mother. This fight had gone on long enough and it was time for it to come to an end.
"Aaaah what's this? The little girl crying out for her mommy again?" The stray shinma taunted as she began to walk towards her. "Don't worry little girl because in a few seconds you'll be joining your dead mother and family!"
"That's far enough Hitomi Kanzaki!!"
Hitomi stopped dead in her tracks and was about to turn around when a flame came flying over her right shoulder burning her.
"Aaarrr!!" Hitomi clutched her right shoulder and turned to glare at Miyu, but her glare was turned into fear when Larva suddenly appeared in front of her and swiped his sharp deadly hand across Hitomi's chest. Larva's hands were not like any other hands anyone had ever seen before. They were a light pale blue, his nails were rose red, and his knuckles had black strips like long thin tear drops going up half way of both his hands. The western shinma's hands may not have always looked it, but his hands were as sharp as knives so if ever he didn't have his scythe he had his hands, which could be just as deadly or more.
Hitomi flinched backwards nearly falling over in pain. Having one hand holding on to her burnt shoulder and another hand pressed against her chest where Larva had wounded her and while trying to stop the bleeding the shinma straightened her sights on Miyu and what she saw made fear rise up within her.
She saw that Miyu was standing tall with flames burning all around her preparing to send her back into the darkness. Hitomi instantly felt helpless towards the Guardian seeing how that she was more than what truly meets the eye, her firepower was increasing by each passing second. "Unreal! Her power is increasing, but how?! Her power can't be over mine in such a short amount of time! No way!! "
"Into the darkness shinmaaaa!!" Miyu raised her hands high in the air as flames poured out from them and went all around her as it joined together to creature one large flame and went straight towards Hitomi.
`Oh no!! Oh no!! Oh no!! Oh no!! Oh shit no!! Please God no!! Not now!! Van I'm sorry!!` Hitomi could feel the intense heat coming from the vampire princess's flames. It looked like it was the end of Hitomi Kanzaki. She closed her eyes as she awaited death and thought with all her heart of the last person who ever had cared for her.
"Vaaaaaan!!"
Just then a pillar of light came down over her, Miyu, Shiina, and Larva and lifted them up into the night sky along with the helpless little girl.
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Fanelia
"Are you trying to tell us that these demons come from none other than The Mystic Moon?" Dryden asked Reiha again not sure if he heard right.
"That's exactly what I'm saying. The demons that attack you come from The Mystic Moon."
Everyone in the room began to talk at once among each other with the information that Reiha had given them. Van just sat there his eyes never leaving Reiha's gaze as he stared hard at her teal icy eyes with no expression on his face. All though he didn't look it he was just as shocked as everyone else in the room, but still needed to be sure. The young king searched the strange girl for any clues of a lie, but found none; Reiha was telling the truth. Van snapped out of his thoughts as he began to over hear what the others were talking about.
"Did you hear what that girl said?"
"The demons come from The Mystic Moon!"
"No surprise there! What fools we are for not thinking of that our selves! Everyone knows that the Mystic Moon is cursed and now suddenly these creatures appear!"
"Cursed demons from a cursed moon! It makes perfect sense!"
"They must have come here to curse all of Gaea just like the Mystic Moon!"
"We can't let that happen! We must put a stop to them once and for all!"
After hearing those words Reiha began to laugh. Everyone stopped talking and once again turned to face her.
"I fail to see what's so funny, care to share with us Miss Reiha?" Van asked her raising an eyebrow.
Reiha stopped her laughter, but still had a smile across her lips. "What's funny is that all of you think that the demons have come here to curse your world when in truth you don't have a clue at all as to why they are here."
"Then perhaps you could tell us since it seems that you know an awful lot about them. Why are they here? Why do they come to Gaea?"
"It's exactly as it sounds like yet it might not be. It may be true that the demons have come to curse you all, but yet I believe that isn't there full intentions I should know for I have seen it all before."
"You mean this has happened before?!" Van replied as he lead forward in his chair to hear more of what Reiha had to say.
"Dear King of Fanelia where I come from attacks like these still go on and even as we speak I can grantee that someone is being attacked at this very moment! Only the attack that takes place is more quietly and done much slower towards the victim, it even may take days or weeks or even years to kill them off."
"No way! And no one has been able to put a stop to them?! Or tried?!"
"No one can put a stop to the demons for no one has the power to do so, humans can't kill them so stopping them is out of the question and the thought about trying oh yes people have indeed tried though few have, but everyone of the few had failed and lost there life. You see? It's pointless to try and fight them when you can't even hurt them so the best thing and really the only thing that you can do is give up."
"Giving up is something that I don't do, not if the fate of my people are in danger! As long as there is breath in my body I won't rest till these attacks are stopped! Everything no matter what it is has a weakness and I will find that weakness of the demons and destroy them so no more harm is done! There must be a way to defeat them!"
"Oh there is a way there has always been a way."
Van was beginning to feel frustrated. Reiha had known all along and yet she was playing with him and saying that it was all, hopeless and now she is saying there was a way! Van was glad to hear that all was not lost yet he was pissed that Reiha just didn't say so sooner in the first place! "Well then why didn't you say so sooner girl?! This is no game! Tell us! How do we stop the demons?"
The whole room grew quite as all eyes were turned on Reiha waiting for an answer that had been most despraitly needed for a month.
"The way to get rid of the demons is to send them back to once where they came from-"
"The Mystic Moon?!" Rashi interuped as he stood up with his hands on the table, staring hard at Reiha.
"NO you old fool!!" Reiha snapped bitterly as she glared at Rashi. "If you'd let me finish I was just about to tell you!! They once came from the darkness and that is where they must be sent, the demons must return to the darkness for that is the only way to be rid of them."
Small talk could be heard from around the table until Dryden finally spoke. "Returning them to the darkness huh? How do we do that?"
"That's the easy part you don't."
The room went quite again as Reiha looked at they're blanked expressions of confusion on their faces then spoke. "But someone else does."
"And who is that someone?" Dryden asked in his calm voice.
"The Guardian."
"The Guardian?"
"The Guardian is the only one who has the power to send the Shinmas' into the darkness where they will stay forever."
"Shinmas'?"
"Shinma is the name of the demons. Shinmas' are the worse and the strongest kind of demon ever to live. They feed on humans to survive in the world and that I believe is the true reason to why they have come to Gaea, to feed off it's people and only the Guardian can put a stop to them."
"Where can we find the Guardian?"
"Oh don't worry I'm sure that the Guardian will find you. By seeing how things are I should say that it is only a matter of time before the Guardian arrives."
"Arrives from where and why is it that only this so called Guardian can put a stop the Shinmas'?" This time it was Masao who spoke.
"Like the shinmas' the Guardian too is from the Mystic Moon and will soon arrive here on Gaea and put an end to these shinmas'. Why only the Guardian you ask can put a stop to them? Simple, it's because it takes a shinma to defeat a shinma."
"You mean to say that the Guardian is a shinma?" Lance asked in shock. "If this Guardian is a shinma or whatever these demons are called how can we be, sure that the Guardian won't turn on us and attack the people?"
"You don't and you don't really have much of a choice. You either take the help of a Guardian or you don't and have the whole world be destroyed by the power of shinma. The choice is yours alone and whatever you choose is up to you for I personally couldn't care less."
`They come..from the Mystic Moon.` Van was speechless as to what he had been hearing. These demons, these.shinmas' had come from the Mystic Moon. Thinking of that made Van worry about Hitomi. What was life like for her on the Mystic Moon with these shinmas's? Was it safe, horrible, what? He didn't know, for all he knew she could have been long since dead! And this talk of a Guardian, the only person who can put an end to the attacks on Gaea and an end to the shinmas' that did this was none other than a shinma them self. Could this Guardian be trusted? Was the Guardian different from all the other shinmas'? It didn't look like Van had much of a choice either trust the Guardian or have all of Gaea be destroyed by demons from another world. Yet another thing that Van had on his mind, how did Reiha know all of this? How did she know that the shinmas' had come from the Mystic Moon? How'd she know all of this?
"Sumimasen Miss Reiha, but I would like to ask you something."
"Yes, King Van?"
"How do you know all of this?"
"Whatever do you mean?"
"I mean how did you know that the Shinmas' as you say they are called come from the Mystic Moon?"
Reiha looked at the young King as a grin spread across her face. For a moment she just stood there and said nothing as she and Van returned each other's gazes. Van could sense something about Reiha as he looked into her cold heartless eyes. He felt that she knew more than she lead on for others to believe and that she was something much more than she appeared. By the looks of her she looked to be a short little girl carrying her doll around while wearing a slightly to big kimono, but if anyone were to look closer you could tell that there was something dark and cold about her.
Reiha smiled at Van and clutched her doll Matsakaze closer to her. "Don't worry you will find out soon enough." With that Reiha turned to leave, but turned right back around to face Van as a pink glow caught her eye. "And by the looks of things I'd say that the time has come." Reiha pointed toward the tear, drop shaped pink stone on a gold chain around Van's neck.
Van looked down and saw that the pendent was glowing.
"You know who has returned to Gaea King Van."
Van looked up at Reiha in disbelief who, was looking at him seriously.
"Better hurry or you will be to late. For the Guardian too has arrived at last on Gaea and the first shinma to be sent back into the darkness just might be your true love." A cold breeze with snow blew in threw the whole room! And when the breeze and snow had gone so was Reiha.
Without a word Van had stood up and ran out of the room not even listening to the calls of the others as Reiha's words repeated themselves in his mind. `I know who has returned to Gaea? Hitomi! It must be Hitomi! I must hurry she might be in danger! Gods please don't let me be to late!`
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Who is Reiha?
Will Van make it in time to save Hitomi from being returned to the darkness?
Will Van still love Hitomi if he ever found out that Hitomi was a Shinma?
Will Miyu help save Gaea?
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Here's a LONG 1 4 ya! I think it's long.
The Shinma's Attack
Chapter 2
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In Fanelia the rulers of other countries on Gaea came to discuss the strange attacks that had been going on for about a month after two long years of peace. At this moment Van was in a meeting with them talking of plans to stop the attacks, but so far they came up with nothing.
"We must do something to stop this!! Not to long ago my people, were attacked again by these strange creatures!! I say we use whatever we've got and destroy them before anymore damage is done!!" said Masao the King of Basaram in rage bringing his strong fist down upon the table and made it shake.
"Yes we do indeed need to put an end to this, but have you already forgotten? Not even a whole army of guymelfs can put a stop to them and I do believe that it was your army of guymelefs that were destroyed by only one creature." Came the calm reply from Dryden the King of Asturia.
King Masao stiffened at the reminder of what happened that dreadful day. "Yes I know that! But what if we tried a different way? What if we used Basaram's greatest weapon on them? Surely that is powerful enough to put an end to them?"
People around the table began to mutter to one another about the idea. It's true. Basaram's weapon was indeed very powerful, but the question is will it be strong enough to wipe out the demons?
Van was sitting at the head of the table wearing his usual red sleeveless shirt, black pants, and his sword at his side with his red-brown eyes closed and arms crossed listening to them and thinking about what they had said. Right now things didn't look good for Gaea, it seemed that nothing could put an end to the terror that was being spread all through out the world and still no clues to where they came from. Yet Basaram's weapon might be strong enough to get rid of them, but that was where the problem is.
Rashi, one of Van's council, men who looked to be in his early fifty's spoke "An excellent idea majesty. Basaram's weapon just might have what it takes to be rid of these demons once and for all. From what we've seen in the Destiny War two years ago I'd say that will have no trouble taking them out."
For the first time Van finally spoke up, but still kept his arms crossed and eyes closed. "Basaram's weapon might in fact be enough to get rid of them, but we have one problem."
All eyes in the room turned to the King of Fanelia surprised at how he finally was speaking.
"Based on the information that I have on the creatures, they only attack at night and only people who are alone and helpless."
"Yes, Lord Van we know!" said another one of Van's council, men called Lance who was the youngest of the council, who looked to be somewhere around the ages of 30-35. "The creatures attack late in the night when no one is around to help. Due forgive me my lord, but I really don't see what the problem is with the use of Basaram's weapon. With it we can wipe out the demons and save Gaea!"
"Yes that's true we could easily wipe them out, but have you forgotten Lance?" Van paused for a moment then continued when no one answered. Van opened his eyes and glared at everyone in the room.
"Are problem is for the safety of the people!!" The boy King said with anger in his voice as he brought both of his fists down hard upon his chairs armrest.
"If we set Basaram's weapon off yes it may kill the creatures, but it will also kill the people!! The creatures only attack where there are people and since the city if full of people that is where they will stay!! They won't leave the city so trying to lore them out won't work!! What is the point in trying to save the lives of the people if were just gonna end up killing them while trying to kill the damn demons?!! All you have talked about is how to get rid of the creatures and haven't yet talked about of how to insure the safety of the people!! Right now it seems like nothing that we do will stop these attacks from occurring so what our best chance is now is to try and save the people when they are attacked! Fight off there attackers or something, anything! While doing that not only will we be saving lives, but also learning. Learning the creature's weakness. These things must have a weakness all we have to do is find it and by doing this we have more of a chance of understanding where they come from and what is it that they are after."
The room was dead silent when Van finished his speech. Then a moment later Dryden spoke.
"Well I guess the King of Fanelia is right. We haven't been talking much about the safety of the people and they are the ones who are mainly getting attacked. Well Van-sama I don't suppose you have an idea of how we are going to protect the people from these demons do you?"
To be honest the young King had no idea of how to really protect the people at all and he was just about to answer when a child-like voice spoke.
"I have an idea of how to protect them good sir."
Everyone in the room turned in the direction of where the voice came from. It was a short young girl who looked to be of the ages of 11-13. She was standing in front of the doorway and wore a white and light purple kimono that went all the way to the ground and was slightly to big for her; the long sleeves covered her hands. In her arms she held a Japanese doll that had pale skin, slick short black hair, wore a red rob, a light green vest, and had its eyes closed. The girl had black hair that was in loose pigtails tied with red ribbon, her eyes were a teal color, her skin was snow-white, and in an ice blue color they're on her forehead was some kind of Japanese symbol. By the looks of her she didn't look very warm at all and if you touched her you wouldn't feel heat instead you would feel nothing, but coldness.
The girl took a few steps inside the room and as she walked in the room became much colder sending chills down the backs of the men. Something about this girl was strange not just the way she dressed, but the way things felt when she walked in like the way the entire room suddenly became freezing cold. Van noticed this and knew that she was more than what she seemed to be and that something was up.
"Sumimasen, chotto onna no ko!" Rashi spoke as he stood up from his seat. "This is a private council meeting you are not suppose to be here!"
(A/N- Sumimasen- Excuse Me
Chotto- Little
Onna no ko- Girl)
Van raised his hand to Rashi to tell him it's all right.
"Hold on Rashi! She said she knew how to protect the people, that is what you said right?" Van asked the girl.
The girl bowed to Van as she spoke in her child-like voice. "Why yes as a matter of fact I did plus I also know where these so called demons come from and what they are."
Everyone in the room looked at the girl in shock and disbelief. For a whole month no one had any clues as to what and who these creatures are and where they came from and now here they may finally have an answer.
"So are you trying to tell us that you know who they are and where they come from?" The King of Fanelia asked the young girl. "This isn't some childish game is it, because if it is I will not have that here and you should leave now!"
"Oh no! This is no game I a sure you King of Faneila. For if this was indeed a game" The girl spoke as she stood up straight and grinned an icy grin. "I wouldn't be here right now, in fact if this was nothing more than a game I would be outside right now laughing at you for even trying to figure out a way to stop the attacks when in truth it would be useless."
"Just what are you getting at girl?" King Masao asked beginning to get annoyed with the girl.
"What I'm getting at is that you can't defeat the creatures with Basaram's weapon because it is pointless. Those creatures are much stronger than that weak little toy, no human weapon can kill them."
The King of Basaram was in rage. "How dare you say such a thing! I'll have you know that the weapon of Basaram was what helped win the Destiny War two years ago mind you! So I wouldn't go and be calling it weak!"
The girl grinned another icy grin at the King, which sent a cold chill down his spine. "Perhaps. But when it comes to these demons your weapon doesn't stand a chance. However there is still a away to defeat them."
Before Masao could reply Dryden spoke in order to keep the peace. "Then perhaps you'd be so kind as to tell us how to do that miss."
"Reiha. My name is Reiha and this is Matsakaze." Reiha said as she motion towards her doll Matsakaze.
"Well then Reiha would you happen to know where these demons come from?"
"Yes, I do."
"Then might I ask where do these evil creatures come from?"
Reiha's grin only grew wider.
"The creatures that attack your world come from none other than the Mystic Moon."
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Earth: Tokyo, Japan
It was night with another bright full moon hanging in a starless night sky. Miyu stood over a dead body of a jogger that was lying in the grass on the side of the path in the park. Once again the body had bite marks on his neck with bloodstains on them and all the blood drained from the body. This was the 20th body that Miyu had found that showed signs of being attacked by a vampire shinma. "Well at least the shinma hadn't skipped town." The Guardian thought. "But the number of lives being lost because of this shinma is still increasing."
After taking one final look at the dead man giving him a sorrowful look of apology she turned and walked away. It really bothered Miyu to see humans die at the hands of a shinma when they didn't do anything to deserver it. Even if a human was, as evil as you can be Miyu still wouldn't want a human to die like that. Not at the hands of a shinma for that is a fate that no human good or bad should have and to make sure that no other humans will fall to that fate Miyu would do whatever it takes to put a stop to them.
'I must stop this, I must stop this now!' Thought the Guardian as she broke into a run. 'If I hurry I might be able to catch the shinma and put it out of it's misery. I will not allow this shinma to get away again, I will not allow anymore human life to be lost at it's hands! I try to forgive, but not in this case this shinma has gone to far! I will not let this shinma go free doing as it pleases!'
Once Miyu ran out of the park she stopped and closed her eyes seeing if there are any energy signs of a shinma. So far she felt nothing, but then! "I sense something. It's fait, but it's there." Once again Miyu broke off into a run and while running she used her mind to call out to Shiina and Larva. "Larva! Shiina! I've got a lock on the vampire shinma! It's at Sakawa Cemetery and if we hurry we can end this tonight!"
Before Larva and Shiina could reply the vampire princess broke the mind link. As she ran towards the cemetery she changed from her brown school uniform into her white knee link kimono.
"You will never harm another human ever again. This I promise."
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Sakawa Cemetery
A little girl with short blond hair and holding a red rose was sitting in front of a tomb stone crying. She had just lost her mother and was left all alone with no other living family. She and her mother were driving home one night till out of nowhere on the drivers side of the car the glass window was shattered! Someone or Something had crashed threw the window and attacked them both, but in the confusion the car swirled around then went straight into a building at full speed killing the mother on impact. However the little girl managed to survive the crash because before impact the one who attacked them got to the girl in time and saved her. But just as the attacker saved the girl the attacker turned on her and was about to finish what they'd started, but lucky for the little girl that was when the cops came so in fright the attacker fled the scene giving the girl an evil grin and saying in a low, unfriendly tone "I'll be back." Still no matter what happens to her now the little girl would never forget that night. The night of her mothers death, the night she met her whole families killer. Her mother's body was examined by police and confirmed that it was the same killer who killed everyone in her family. Her mother had two bite marks on her neck and all the blood drained from her body just like everyone else in her family who was killed. And now thanks to the killer she had no one, she was alone.
"Mommy! Mommy! Why did you have to die? Why?! You said you wouldn't leave me! You said that we would always be together and that no one would separate us ever!"
"Aaaaa! Ain't that cute! A little girl crying out for her mommy! I almost want to cry!"
The blond haired youth turned around and once she saw who it was that had spoken pure terror rose within her. It was the killer!
A teenage girl with short boyish light brown hair, sparkling green eyes, and a light tan color school uniform stood on top of a tomb stone with her arms crossed and an evil grin spread across her face. Her mouth opened a little bit so the little girl could see her fangs.
"What's the matter little girl? Scared?" The teenage girl asked in a low, raspy voice.
"You! It's you! You're the one who killed my mother!" The little girl replied as she backed up towards her mother's tomb. "You killed my mother! My father! My Brother! All of them! Grandma! Uncle Ben! All of them!"
"Oh yes that's right! I did kill them!"
"Why?! Why'd you kill them?! Why?! What'd they ever do to you?!"
"Nothing. They did nothing to me." Was the reply as if she didn't care.
"Then if they didn't do anything to you why'd you kill them anyways?"
"Because that's how I stay alive! I feed off human's blood and they're fears! I even feed off there sorrow, which that is what I'm doing to you right now! I'm feeding off your sorrow, which by the way is very grand! Best I've had in a long time!"
"Wha?! What are you talking about?!"
"It doesn't matter. Because in about a moment you won't be able to care! I've come to put you out of your misery for I've already taken more than enough of your pain and sorrow into me so now there really is nothing left that I find useful of you, expect." The killer's grin grew wider as she licked her lips and fangs. "Expect your blood."
The little girl stiffened at what she said and remembered how everyone in her family was found with bite marks on they're neck and all the blood drained from there body.
"You're.you're.you're a.a vampire?!?" The little girl stuttered.
"Vampire? Hardly! I'm more than a mere vampire I'm a shinma!"
"S-Shinma?! What's that?!"
"Your worse nightmare! AARRAAHH!!" The shinma leaped into the air and rushed at the little helpless girl in mid air in a flash bearing her fangs at the girl.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" The girl screamed as she slammed her eyes shut and put her arms over her head still holding the red rose.
But before the shinma could reach the little girl a figure wearing a midnight black cloak and a mask blocked her path holding a scythe. The figure raised his weapon up high and slammed the long handle into the shinma sending her backwards in the air.
The shinma however made a flip in the air and landed on her feet in a fighting stance glaring knives of hate at the intruder.
"Hey!! Just what do ya think ya doing?!?! Who are ya?!?! Get out of my way!! Huh?"
Just then a thick spooky fog appeared to the right of the shinma and a girl could be seen standing there wearing a white knee length kimono, a purple sash tied around her waste into a large bow, and playing a flute.
"What is the meaning of this?!?! You there what do you want?!?!" The stray shinma cried out.
The girl stopped playing her flute and looked up at the stray shinma with her sad brown lonely eyes and spoke in a low emotionless voice.
"I want you now that you have finally showed yourself, you should know now that there is no escape from me this time. Give up this body, mind, and spirit you must leave her. Go back to the darkness quietly."
The stray shinma stiffened once the mysterious girl had spoken and knew right away who she was.
"So you are the Guardian who I've heard so much about!" The stray shinma spoke in a cruel voice her eyes narrow and cold.
"And you must be the stray vampire shinma who has been hunting humans down for your own selfishness, Hitomi Kanzaki I believe is your name! Hitomi Kanzaki The Japanese Vampire Shinma who is famous for her numbers of attacks on human life."
"Ah, so you've heard of me have you? I see you've been doing your homework! Well it is only right after all you are a Guardian so you should know the shinmas you fight! But do you really wish to fight me? After all you and I are not to different, we both are shinmas; vampire shinmas to be exact!"
"I am not a shinma like you who prey on weak defenseless humans! Vampire shinma or not you and I are nothing alike and never will be!"
"So sorry to hear that. I was thinking that since we both have something in common that we could be friends and not enemies. But!!!" The stray vampire shinma known as Hitomi Kanzaki leaped into the air and went flying towards Miyu as her nails slightly became claws, her green eyes flaring up with a rage reflecting the desire for death, her fangs becoming more of a wild beasts, and letting out a non-human like cry that sounded that of a demon. "Since you choose other wise you leave me no choice, but to kill you!!!! RRRRRAAAHH!!!!!!!"
Miyu jumped to the side just in time before Hitomi slashed right through her, but just as she did the Guardian had to leap a great leap backwards the moment her bare feet had touched the ground for Hitomi wasn't done yet as she swung her other claw-like hand at Miyu. "This shinma is fast!" The vampire princess thought. Again the moment her feet touched the ground she had to jump out of the way, but this time she was too slow. Using her great strength, Hitomi slammed Miyu into a tombstone, which caused it to crack into pieces. "This shinma is VERY fast! And strong! Not like any other shinma I've ever faced before! I need help!" Miyu looked up in time to see Hitomi charging at her at full speed with an evil grin across her face. If she needed help now was the time and there was only one person who could help her now. "Larva!!"
The figure wearing the midnight black cloak and mask known as Larva appeared in front of Miyu and slashed out at the stray shinma with his scythe. Hitomi ducked into a roll to the side as the scythe barely missed her. She stood up and charged at Larva just as a black and blue Japanese sword appeared in her hand. She raised her weapon up high and clashed it together with Larva's. Larva shoved Hitomi backwards and charged in to disarm her, but Hitomi saw this coming and did a back flip and once she landed they're weapons clashed together once more.
"Why are you against me?!" Hissed Hitomi with there weapons still together. "You and I are exactly alike!"
"Not exactly! I fight for Miyu now!" Was Larva's reply.
"Foolish Western Shinma!! You fool! She's a Guardian! Don't you see that eventually she'll send you back too?!! It's what she does send strays like us back!! But that never has to happen not if we kill her!! Don't you see?!! If she's dead we never have to return!!"
Larva's eyes narrowed, though you couldn't see it through his mask. "That's not my problem!"
Hitomi gritted her teeth together in anger. "You traitor!!"
Using all her strength Hitomi pushed the western shinma back with such force that he stumbled then she slashed her sword across his chest. Larva hardly had anytime to get out of the way, he was just lucky.
Miyu watched the two do battle and as she was watching a flame in her hand was firing up. Once she felt it was strong enough Miyu fired her flame at Hitomi. "Into the darkness stray shinma! Go!!"
The flame came fast towards Hitomi, but lucky for her she saw it in time. Hitomi shoved the western shinma aside who was trying to keep her from escaping Miyu's flame. "You think that will get rid of me?! Think again!!" Hitomi held her sword out at the flame with two hands as a psychic shield went around her as the flame hit her sword then vanished.
"No my flame! It didn't work!" Miyu said in surprise. "Shiina! Tell me!"
Just then Shiina the rabbit-like shinma creature fell out of a tree and landed on Miyu's shoulder. Shiina used her right eye's power on Hitomi and learned just what was needed.
"Watch out Miyu! This shinma has psychic powers!"
"That's right bunny!! And it's high time I use them!!" The sword in Hitomi's hand disappeared and then she raised her hands high in the air just as an invisible force slammed into Miyu and Larva knocking them both off their feet.
"Give it up Guardian!! You, your servant, and your little pet can't defeat me!!" Hitomi spat.
During all this the blond short, haired little girl just sat there against her mother's tombstone with her knees held close to her chest with her hand still grasping the red rose in fear. "Who are these people?" She wondered. "What do they want? Why are they fighting? Mommy! Mommy, make them go away! Make them stop fighting! Mommy!" The girl began to cry.
Miyu saw this and could have sworn that the girl cried out for her mother. This fight had gone on long enough and it was time for it to come to an end.
"Aaaah what's this? The little girl crying out for her mommy again?" The stray shinma taunted as she began to walk towards her. "Don't worry little girl because in a few seconds you'll be joining your dead mother and family!"
"That's far enough Hitomi Kanzaki!!"
Hitomi stopped dead in her tracks and was about to turn around when a flame came flying over her right shoulder burning her.
"Aaarrr!!" Hitomi clutched her right shoulder and turned to glare at Miyu, but her glare was turned into fear when Larva suddenly appeared in front of her and swiped his sharp deadly hand across Hitomi's chest. Larva's hands were not like any other hands anyone had ever seen before. They were a light pale blue, his nails were rose red, and his knuckles had black strips like long thin tear drops going up half way of both his hands. The western shinma's hands may not have always looked it, but his hands were as sharp as knives so if ever he didn't have his scythe he had his hands, which could be just as deadly or more.
Hitomi flinched backwards nearly falling over in pain. Having one hand holding on to her burnt shoulder and another hand pressed against her chest where Larva had wounded her and while trying to stop the bleeding the shinma straightened her sights on Miyu and what she saw made fear rise up within her.
She saw that Miyu was standing tall with flames burning all around her preparing to send her back into the darkness. Hitomi instantly felt helpless towards the Guardian seeing how that she was more than what truly meets the eye, her firepower was increasing by each passing second. "Unreal! Her power is increasing, but how?! Her power can't be over mine in such a short amount of time! No way!! "
"Into the darkness shinmaaaa!!" Miyu raised her hands high in the air as flames poured out from them and went all around her as it joined together to creature one large flame and went straight towards Hitomi.
`Oh no!! Oh no!! Oh no!! Oh no!! Oh shit no!! Please God no!! Not now!! Van I'm sorry!!` Hitomi could feel the intense heat coming from the vampire princess's flames. It looked like it was the end of Hitomi Kanzaki. She closed her eyes as she awaited death and thought with all her heart of the last person who ever had cared for her.
"Vaaaaaan!!"
Just then a pillar of light came down over her, Miyu, Shiina, and Larva and lifted them up into the night sky along with the helpless little girl.
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Fanelia
"Are you trying to tell us that these demons come from none other than The Mystic Moon?" Dryden asked Reiha again not sure if he heard right.
"That's exactly what I'm saying. The demons that attack you come from The Mystic Moon."
Everyone in the room began to talk at once among each other with the information that Reiha had given them. Van just sat there his eyes never leaving Reiha's gaze as he stared hard at her teal icy eyes with no expression on his face. All though he didn't look it he was just as shocked as everyone else in the room, but still needed to be sure. The young king searched the strange girl for any clues of a lie, but found none; Reiha was telling the truth. Van snapped out of his thoughts as he began to over hear what the others were talking about.
"Did you hear what that girl said?"
"The demons come from The Mystic Moon!"
"No surprise there! What fools we are for not thinking of that our selves! Everyone knows that the Mystic Moon is cursed and now suddenly these creatures appear!"
"Cursed demons from a cursed moon! It makes perfect sense!"
"They must have come here to curse all of Gaea just like the Mystic Moon!"
"We can't let that happen! We must put a stop to them once and for all!"
After hearing those words Reiha began to laugh. Everyone stopped talking and once again turned to face her.
"I fail to see what's so funny, care to share with us Miss Reiha?" Van asked her raising an eyebrow.
Reiha stopped her laughter, but still had a smile across her lips. "What's funny is that all of you think that the demons have come here to curse your world when in truth you don't have a clue at all as to why they are here."
"Then perhaps you could tell us since it seems that you know an awful lot about them. Why are they here? Why do they come to Gaea?"
"It's exactly as it sounds like yet it might not be. It may be true that the demons have come to curse you all, but yet I believe that isn't there full intentions I should know for I have seen it all before."
"You mean this has happened before?!" Van replied as he lead forward in his chair to hear more of what Reiha had to say.
"Dear King of Fanelia where I come from attacks like these still go on and even as we speak I can grantee that someone is being attacked at this very moment! Only the attack that takes place is more quietly and done much slower towards the victim, it even may take days or weeks or even years to kill them off."
"No way! And no one has been able to put a stop to them?! Or tried?!"
"No one can put a stop to the demons for no one has the power to do so, humans can't kill them so stopping them is out of the question and the thought about trying oh yes people have indeed tried though few have, but everyone of the few had failed and lost there life. You see? It's pointless to try and fight them when you can't even hurt them so the best thing and really the only thing that you can do is give up."
"Giving up is something that I don't do, not if the fate of my people are in danger! As long as there is breath in my body I won't rest till these attacks are stopped! Everything no matter what it is has a weakness and I will find that weakness of the demons and destroy them so no more harm is done! There must be a way to defeat them!"
"Oh there is a way there has always been a way."
Van was beginning to feel frustrated. Reiha had known all along and yet she was playing with him and saying that it was all, hopeless and now she is saying there was a way! Van was glad to hear that all was not lost yet he was pissed that Reiha just didn't say so sooner in the first place! "Well then why didn't you say so sooner girl?! This is no game! Tell us! How do we stop the demons?"
The whole room grew quite as all eyes were turned on Reiha waiting for an answer that had been most despraitly needed for a month.
"The way to get rid of the demons is to send them back to once where they came from-"
"The Mystic Moon?!" Rashi interuped as he stood up with his hands on the table, staring hard at Reiha.
"NO you old fool!!" Reiha snapped bitterly as she glared at Rashi. "If you'd let me finish I was just about to tell you!! They once came from the darkness and that is where they must be sent, the demons must return to the darkness for that is the only way to be rid of them."
Small talk could be heard from around the table until Dryden finally spoke. "Returning them to the darkness huh? How do we do that?"
"That's the easy part you don't."
The room went quite again as Reiha looked at they're blanked expressions of confusion on their faces then spoke. "But someone else does."
"And who is that someone?" Dryden asked in his calm voice.
"The Guardian."
"The Guardian?"
"The Guardian is the only one who has the power to send the Shinmas' into the darkness where they will stay forever."
"Shinmas'?"
"Shinma is the name of the demons. Shinmas' are the worse and the strongest kind of demon ever to live. They feed on humans to survive in the world and that I believe is the true reason to why they have come to Gaea, to feed off it's people and only the Guardian can put a stop to them."
"Where can we find the Guardian?"
"Oh don't worry I'm sure that the Guardian will find you. By seeing how things are I should say that it is only a matter of time before the Guardian arrives."
"Arrives from where and why is it that only this so called Guardian can put a stop the Shinmas'?" This time it was Masao who spoke.
"Like the shinmas' the Guardian too is from the Mystic Moon and will soon arrive here on Gaea and put an end to these shinmas'. Why only the Guardian you ask can put a stop to them? Simple, it's because it takes a shinma to defeat a shinma."
"You mean to say that the Guardian is a shinma?" Lance asked in shock. "If this Guardian is a shinma or whatever these demons are called how can we be, sure that the Guardian won't turn on us and attack the people?"
"You don't and you don't really have much of a choice. You either take the help of a Guardian or you don't and have the whole world be destroyed by the power of shinma. The choice is yours alone and whatever you choose is up to you for I personally couldn't care less."
`They come..from the Mystic Moon.` Van was speechless as to what he had been hearing. These demons, these.shinmas' had come from the Mystic Moon. Thinking of that made Van worry about Hitomi. What was life like for her on the Mystic Moon with these shinmas's? Was it safe, horrible, what? He didn't know, for all he knew she could have been long since dead! And this talk of a Guardian, the only person who can put an end to the attacks on Gaea and an end to the shinmas' that did this was none other than a shinma them self. Could this Guardian be trusted? Was the Guardian different from all the other shinmas'? It didn't look like Van had much of a choice either trust the Guardian or have all of Gaea be destroyed by demons from another world. Yet another thing that Van had on his mind, how did Reiha know all of this? How did she know that the shinmas' had come from the Mystic Moon? How'd she know all of this?
"Sumimasen Miss Reiha, but I would like to ask you something."
"Yes, King Van?"
"How do you know all of this?"
"Whatever do you mean?"
"I mean how did you know that the Shinmas' as you say they are called come from the Mystic Moon?"
Reiha looked at the young King as a grin spread across her face. For a moment she just stood there and said nothing as she and Van returned each other's gazes. Van could sense something about Reiha as he looked into her cold heartless eyes. He felt that she knew more than she lead on for others to believe and that she was something much more than she appeared. By the looks of her she looked to be a short little girl carrying her doll around while wearing a slightly to big kimono, but if anyone were to look closer you could tell that there was something dark and cold about her.
Reiha smiled at Van and clutched her doll Matsakaze closer to her. "Don't worry you will find out soon enough." With that Reiha turned to leave, but turned right back around to face Van as a pink glow caught her eye. "And by the looks of things I'd say that the time has come." Reiha pointed toward the tear, drop shaped pink stone on a gold chain around Van's neck.
Van looked down and saw that the pendent was glowing.
"You know who has returned to Gaea King Van."
Van looked up at Reiha in disbelief who, was looking at him seriously.
"Better hurry or you will be to late. For the Guardian too has arrived at last on Gaea and the first shinma to be sent back into the darkness just might be your true love." A cold breeze with snow blew in threw the whole room! And when the breeze and snow had gone so was Reiha.
Without a word Van had stood up and ran out of the room not even listening to the calls of the others as Reiha's words repeated themselves in his mind. `I know who has returned to Gaea? Hitomi! It must be Hitomi! I must hurry she might be in danger! Gods please don't let me be to late!`
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Who is Reiha?
Will Van make it in time to save Hitomi from being returned to the darkness?
Will Van still love Hitomi if he ever found out that Hitomi was a Shinma?
Will Miyu help save Gaea?
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