The Winds of Change Ch7

From "Chys Lattes"

Marick POV: In the hall...

"What's up with Bakura anyways?" I asked as we headed down the hall toward where Ryu was staying. Carl looked at me funny and I continued, "He talks like there's more than one of him. 'We' 'Us' you know? Odd as hell..." Carl nodded but didn't say anything.

Ran and Yuri were talking behind us. Something about Lisa and how much of a slut she was, and that Ran should be better off with a nicer girl.

Ryu answered when I knocked on his door and we all were about to enter when there came a scream from behind us and the sound of a wall being torn down. We spun on our collective heels and gasped at the golems charging our way. My first thought was to run like hell. Well, there were about twenty of them, or so, I didn't really count. I thought for certain I would get my ass kicked into the brick floor. Ran and Yuri and Ryu seemed to have the same idea and they headed for the back exit first thing. Carl glanced at me and drew his sword, but headed in the same direction that my friends had. There was no point in starting a fight in the middle of the dorms and destroying everything when we could take it out to the open just as easily to kick some stone ass.

All around us people were screaming, but there was no sign that the golems were after anyone other than myself, Carl, and my little band. Why the fuck were they always after US, of all individuals?

Yuri was the first out the back door, and then Ryu and Ran. Carl went out last, as I had made it out before him, then pulled out my tech blade. The golems came streaming out into the courtyard, the mist all about us. People who had been passing by were running away at the sight of the golems, bumping into us as they panicked, passing everything by in their haste to get away.

"Time to kick ass?" Carl smiled at me. One of the golems advanced toward Carl, waving its massive arms in the air above its head. They were screaming the usual Deus curses.

Yuri led the rest of the band to a safe hiding place and stood guard, ready for anything, though she had no weapon to fight with. Ran was crying like a baby. I didn't need to glance over my shoulder to hear him howling that he was gonna die and he hadn't even fucked a 'really hot' girl yet...

From: "Fieren Lochan"
Date: Sat Feb 1, 2003 10:59 am
Subject: A New Person to Watch

Seeing through the eyes of a golem was like nothing else, the vision was cloudy and extremely poor. The sense of smell was rotten as well, but the raw power surging through youre veins, now that was a nice feeling. The fools had done exactly what we'd wanted them to do, take the fighting into the open, we had more room to swing our massive arms there. Several of the people Marick and Carl were with backed off to a safe distance, they didn't want to get killed. We led our army of golems into the field of battle and took the first swing. Carl narrowly dodged the massive fist and it hit a street lamp, the lamp crumpled over, due to a very large dent in it. The mist we had put here was beginning to spread, very rapidly. It was even strengthening the golem's. Then, a third person ran in, with a large sword strapped to him. He drew and charged, but was struck aside by one of the other Golem's.

"Holy shit!" he yelled as he flew off to the side somewhere.

"Domoen! You okay!?" Carl asked.

"...do I look okay?!"

"Dumb question, watch out, these bad boys are strong!" Carl replied.

"Enough with the chattering, we need to take these things down!" Marick said.

"Easier said than done!" we spoke through the Golem, having said that, we picked up another Golem and launched it at the two standing adversaries.

"Holy shit! That is the first intelligent thing any of these creatures has ever said!" Marick said.

"What makes you say that!?" Carl asked, after dodging another Golem.

"This one here isn't chattering about Deus!" Marick said, pointing directly at our possessed Golem. "How much you wanna bet that there is something different about this one?"

"I think you're right." Carl said.

"So then let's take it down!" the one called Domoen said as he rushed in, sword drawn.

We decided at this point it would be better to back out of the fight. We released our Golem and snapped back to Bakura-Vision. We walked over to the edge of the roof we were standing on and looked out into the mist-field. It had spread nicely and was covering the entire campus now. It was time to make ourselves look like we were on their side. We drew our sword and looked out into the field. Prepping ourselves, we leapt through the air and landed a good distance away from the other three. We rushed in and began hacking away at Golems, since we knew their weak-points, they were cut down with ease.

"Guys, check it out, Bakura is here!" Marick said.

"The more the merrier." Carl said.

"Indeed." we replied as more Golem's at grass.

After our minions were defeated, we turned to face the others.

"Thanks Bakura, I have a question though, how did you know where to hit those things?" Carl asked.

"It's simple really, every creature has a weak point, after watching you three fight them for a while, we deduced that the back of the head was the weak point, none of you struck them there up until now." we answered.

"Well, it looks like we really needed your help, thanks." Marick said.

"It was no problem, like we said earlier, you aren't the only ones who can fight." we answered. "Just don't get used to receiving help."

"We won't." Domoen said.

"Well, we have to get going. Ja ne*." we said, walking away.

As we walked away, we took a look into their minds. Marick seemed weirded out by our speech, Carl didn't know what to think, and Domoen hasn't a clue who we are. Good, exactly the way I wanted them to think, minus the speech part. This Domoen though, we hadn't even heard of him until this point, perhaps it would prove wise to watch him as well.

* Ja ne means later or something like that, every subbed anime I've ever seen translated it that way.

From "Chys Lattes"

Ryu's place afterwords

Bakura headed off and the rest of us surveyed the damage. Not much this time, really, compared to usual. More sections of the school were blocked off and there were even more paranoid security guards all around. They, being the idiots that they are, didn't yet notice the pattern in the attacks leading, oh, right back to yours truly and company. We decided not to bring them up to date just yet, incase we get expelled from the campus for SOME odd reason or another...

We headed into Ryu's place and went directly to his basement. Business as usual. Domoen sat in too, listening as we practiced our new songs with Carl playing Ryu's spare but really cool looking guitar. I had a keyboard set up in the basement here too, my spare. I had left my favorite back in my apartment where it was safe. Apparantly, the Carl had forgotten to bring his own guitar in all of the confusion earlier. That was fine. Ryu kept his guitars in tune all the time, so it was all ready for practice. There were a few faces hanging around outside in the hall, listening to the sounds coming up from in the little basement.

Odd, how things can just go back to normal so easily like nothing had really happened.

- From: Delith Nightblade
Date: Sun Feb 2, 2003 1:01 pm
Subject: Emergal of the Light....

Practice was good. Which means to say, no killer weasels, cats, or raving golems attacked us. I played my best, and impressed everybody. Afterwords, Marick came over to me, and said, "You said you weren't half bad."

"I didn't lie. I'm good. don't worry about it Yami."

Damn. There it was again. As much as I knew that this was Marick Waters, some crocodile deep down in my brain kept insisting that it was Yami Eien, the Darkness Eternal.

"Huh?"

"Sorry. You know, I can't get rid of the feeling that this has happened before, though not quite."

"Same."

"You guys are all weird." Domoen said, spinning one of his pistols around his finger.

"And you aren't?"

"Point taken."

My world suddenly went white, and I somehow knew that Marick was the same way.

-Lucien Nightblade, your time has come.- The voice was in my head, and I started to move without concious volition outside, setting the loaned guitar down. Once outside, I walked to the roof, and looked about. My vision was angular, as though constructed through the panes of a crystal. I saw, in multiple views, a huge dragon type thing, this time not near us, but near some other place.

I stepped off the roof, and began to walk across the air, reaching for the amulet in my pocket.

It as then I realized that I wasn't in control.

My hand held out the amulet, and slammed it into my chest, causing a spark of pain, but a releasal of such power that I thought I would die.

From the farthest edges of my peripheral vision, I saw darkness slowly spread, and then it rushed to the farthest forward edges of my vision, creating a cascade of white to spread back and engulf me.

Then, it was as though I saw myself from outside my body. My body grew more muscular, and my hair flowed down along my back, becoming the colour of pure spun gold, and a large cape flew from my shoulders, feathers on each side. My clothes changed into that of a uniform, white and red, with a black belt running lop-sided across my waist, weighed down on the right side with a scabbard and sword. The sword was intricately designed, and a small blue stone stood on the pommel. I now wore black gloves, studded with two emerald gems, and gold knee guards. Black boots, high topped, completed the uniform...

***LUCIEN NIGHTBLADE POV***

I stood upon the air, in a world full of noise.

Thankfully, Excalibur was at my side. But what first caught my attention was the dragon.

"Vanchron." I murmured, with a slight grin on my face. I drew Excalibur, and rushed in, it's eons old blade catching the light, and through it back as a rainbow, even as my first stroke fell...

From: "Dracahl Nailo"
Date: Sun Feb 2, 2003 2:58 pm
Subject: Vash cruises

I left my dorm because the Frat guys nextdoor were throwing a HUGE party and it was loud and sleep was impossible. Fuko was on a date or something..... I wasn't listening. I was walking threw the streets when near my rival University Tech Star was surrounded by a blue fog. Weird, I rubbed my eyes and looked again still there. I scratched my head.

"Fog isn't blue and centered only in one place." I said to myself as I continued on my walk. I came to a sports store. I had remembered I destroyed my last Snowboard the other weakend.....Damn trees. I walked into the store and started to look around.

"You better not be a demon or you will be road scum in a second." The old till guys said.

"Demon?"

"Yes wherever Blue Fog is a Demon comes with."

"Whatever old man." I grabbed a set of board gear....(Boots, Binding, Board) "I'll take these old man."

"Yes Yes 1000 for all of them."

"Fine Charge it." I said tossing him my card. I punched in the coad **** and left with my new gear. I continued on my walk and then I thought I saw a Golem from the Fantasy games but I passed it off as a weirdo in a costume. I headed back to Dragonwing University. I headed into my wing the music was gone the Frat Boys must be out cold. I opened my room and headed in.

"Fuko you here, I got a new Board!!!" I yelled walking in. No answer guess she's not here. I tossed my new board and stuff on my bed and clicked on the TV. News happened to be on.

"Breath Taking News Monsters attack Tech Star university."

"I hope they all died..... Wait Monsters?"

"What looked ot be ummmm Golems attack the University, but the efforts of four students stopped the attack."

"What the hell, the old man was right."

**** Next Day ****

Fuko had brought tickets home for some no name band and gave them to me or well one of them to me. I decided I had nothing better to do so I decided to go to see if they suck. I headed to the club they all looked to be students somewhere. I got from row how the hell did Fuko get these, I never score good tickets there always nose bleed. I was waiting for them to come on. They finally started they were fairly good for a No Name Band. They weren't good enouph to get a mosh going though. Then that gay blue fog rolled in. Then some weird Cat things with clawsa and Spins busted all in like they were FBI. I watched as the crowd ran in fear.... Pussy's. I pulled my gun out and made my way threw the crowd. I noticed of to the side a guy with white hair watching calmly... The hell some of the people in the band also started to fight the Monsters. I popped one of the monsters in the face it staggered and kept comming I pumped a few more into the head of the beast and it finally fell The others were using weapons and after 10 clips on my part I always carry 15 with me they all died. I spun my guin and blew the smoke from the barrel and put it away.

"Alright the hell was that." I said grabbing a guy with brown hair.

"Demons."

"The fuck. Demons. You gotta be kidding me."

"Nope."

"...Tell me whats going on." I set letting go of his shirt.

"The Blue Fog Summons those demons and they seem to be after us."

"Thats it."

"Yup."

"And the 'Golems' at Tech star yesturday."

"Same thing."

"This is messed up."

"Vash...You alright." I heard Fuko yell.

"Fuko..Ya I'm fine and you."

"Fine I suppose what were those things."

"Would you belive demons."

"Well sure."

"Hey kid whats your name."

"Carl."

"The names Vash, I go to Dragonwing you go to Tech Star right."

"Well ya."

"I don't like you." I said whle starting to leave.

"Why?" He said.

"Rival schools man get used to it." Another said. I started to leave again when I felt that feeling like your being watched. I stopped and looked around. 'Weird' I said quietly that 'White haird guys gone'.

From: "Fieren Lochan"
Date: Sun Feb 2, 2003 4:12 pm
Subject: Another Uncovered

After leaving that club that Marick and Carl's band was playing at, we were thinking about the appearance of the blonde guy with the gun. We sensed somethng from him, something ancient, could he be another Millenial? If so, we would need to keep an eye on him as well. We checked our pockets, there were five Mist Bottles left, more than enough. Leaving the club however, we didn't go very far. We hid in an alley, waiting for the blonde person to leave, we wanted to take a look into his mind, maybe we would find something there. When he left, he had a female with him, interesting, she might get in the way. But then again, we sensed something different about her as well. We probed into the blonde mans mind, his name was Vash. Attends Dragonwing Community College. Wants to be a member of SWAT... the hell is SWAT? Had pancakes for breakfast and a bowl of cheerios for lunch...

Bah! This is all useless! we thought. We decided to keep probing.

Likes Blitzball, snowboards, has an annoying brother, hates Tech Star... Who doesn't? We thought. Dislikes Carl, who cares, we probably like him even less. Then we found it, a corner shrouded in shadow, this is what we were searching for. The corner of the mind reserved for the Millenial... Which one was he though? That, we couldn't figure out just by reading, we would need to meet him. What a waste of a mind, waking his Millenial up might be a bad idea though, who knows who it could be? For all that we knew, it could be Lucien, Yami Eien(think thats how it's spelt) or even Kai. Now for the girl... We delved deep into the recesses of her mind, it was a veritable flood of information. It would take years to sort it out. So we skimmed through. Pancakes for breakfast, Cheerios for lunch, the hell is with these people!? Hmmm... lives with Vash... the only two that I know of that inherintly drew to each other, even through the shells were Kai and Miyu. That would explain quite a bit. In fact, Kai might even be influenced to see things the way of Master Deus...

So Vash, waking you up might be a better idea than we previously thought... But how to do it? Looking at Fuko, we discovered how we could make him do what we wanted... First step, head back to our Dorm.

*** Later ***

We'd changed our garmants back to what we were wearing when we first appeared in this time. There was one new addition, a pitch black robe. After putting it on, we opened our window and set our feet on the wall. Mentally lifting ourself we landed on the roof, which was two stories up. Time to go to Dragonwing. We leapt from rooftop to rooftop, seeking out the mind of Vash. It wasn't too long until we found it. Two stories above ground, the window third from the left. We peered in and saw the two talking about something. Then Vash got up to answer the door, we opened the window and snatched Fuko and left a note. It read:

Vash:

If you would ever like to see your friend Fuko again, meet me at the top floor of the Deblin Co. Building. Come alone, at midnight, and if it would make you feel better, bring your gun. I'll be waiting...

Anonymous

We thought that making it say 'I' instead of 'we' would throw him off the trail in case he ever met us in person. Our plan was simple, wake up Kai and use a Mist Bottle to send him to Master Deus. If Kai didn't see things our way, Master Deus would kill him. If Kai was killed, we would oblige Vash's friend and kill her too, so they could get back together in the next life. We couldn't help but grin, we so love when a plan comes together... All that was left to figure out was a way to draw Kai out...

From: "Ridia"
Date: Sun Feb 2, 2003 10:00 pm
Subject: The Night's Mist

Mist filled the streets outside. I frowned at it from my perch atop the polished bar. My fingers ran through my hair next to the cat-ears headband I wore.

This joint was one of the weirdest I've worked at yet. 'The Kinky Kitten', a strip bar. Don't get me wrong - I only waited tables. But, the nanager was a real whack-job. Everyone - even the naked girls - wore ears. No exceptions. Well.. not the guys, unless they were strippers...

We even had belts with tails on them! I was toying with the end of it as I peered at the television. It was out of order again. Apparently big-time; the screen was pretty much shattered. It happened right before my shift. Too bad I missed it.

...I ALWAYS MISS THE BAR FIGHTS!

Why me? Why can't I EVER be there for a knock-'em-down-drag-'em-out?

....I should have been a flippin' bouncer...

...Except the bouncer wore a full-body tiger-suit....

Neeeeeeeevermind.

My watch said I'd be off work in thirty minutes...

---

Christ it was cold out! But, what did I expect to be - roasty toasty? I was wearing my work-uniform under my trench. Damned platforms. Anyways, I got home after a while, my feet worse for wear: cabs are too fucking expensive.

There had been rustlings in the mist around me while I'd walked, though I'd be damned if I'd seen another human within sight.

My apartment was tiny, cluttered. A studio appartment. I'd partitioned it off with little stand-up walls, like people change behind.

Home.

My homework was neglected on the table. Essay and other such shit. Yay, college is soooo fun.

Yes, that was sarcasm.

My trench hit the floor. I kicked it aside then tore off the boots. Ah, freedom for the opressed toes! I wriggled them as I walked to my table, glancing at my half-finished essays. I added a couple lines off the top of my head before heading for my partitioned off bed-room.

Another boring day in my life. God, I was tired...

When had I ever felt so damned exhausted..?

***

*

I laid on my back, looking up at the stars. My fingers entwined with his. It was a hazey night, the clouds drifted lazily across the full moon. His warmth was beside me, seeping into me. I was so wonderfully tired as my eyelids drifteed shut...

*

***

I couldn't sleep. I stared at my clock above my over-large teddybear's head as if it were my evil foe. Two am. Good GOD let me sleep.. just a little bit?

....

Two thirty am.. I tossed, staring at my poster-covered ceiling angrily, as if the half-clad rockstars were responsable for my inability to sleep.. It was odd, I'd been so rudely awakened from the most wonderful dream...

From "Chys Lattes"

-@- The Kinky Kitty Corner

Yuri POV-

Ryu and I headed out on the town after our practice, when Carl and Marick disappeared upstairs for something. There was less mist out tonight, but I brought along a weapon or two just in case. And Ryu had his gun with him.

We wandered around aimlessly for a while until my brother had this brilliant idea to go into the strip bar. We didn't have any cash to waste there, so I asked him why, and he said maybe we could get a gig. I had never considered that kind of place for a gig, so I decided to go in with him, curious of the result of his query.

He went straight for the manager and I lounged at the bar, watching a woman in cat ears serve up the customers as she toyed with her long plastic cat tail. "What will you have, miss?" The woman asked me. I frowned. I didn't come here to get drunk, and didn't bring enough cash to waste on Ryu and I for that purpose. Despite what Ryu had told Marick, our money was tight lately. He just didn't want to confess it and scare him.

"Nothing for me. Just watching."

"Do I sense a hentai mind behind that pretty blue hair?" The lady asked me. I smiled and glanced at the mostly naked men on stage, "Yeah, probably."

Ryu came out a few minutes later, a wide smile plastered to his face. "We got a gig, in the back room called the 'Kinky Kitty Corner'. No real money in it, but if we do an extra hour, it'll be worth around two or three. Enough to hold Marick off. Oh, and Carl too, I suppose. He gets a cut in it too."

"Now that he's here, we're not making as much, bro." I told him regretfully. He sighed and nodded. Then he looked at the stage. "Hey, what does it take to get a job here, part time?"

The woman behind the bar laughed and handed him a slip of paper. He filled it out and handed it back.

"There's our portion of the cut increased, sis."

"You're gonna be a stripper?? Ryu! How could you!" I frowned at him and slapped him on the shoulder.

Ryu just continued to stare at the pretty girls on the stage who brushed up to the half naked guys. Oh, men will be men I suppose... I thought again about ordering that drink..

- From "Chys Lattes"

After the gig at the kitty

Yuri POV-

Oh, Gawd, that manager was so pissed! He almost fired Ryu just for him hopping off the stage and clobering one of those...those... 'CataRat' things, knocking over his sound equipment in the process. The weird Catlike creatures that ran around, claws out, scraping people up as they passed in fright like they were nothing were all over the place. They came in after our gig and started to bust stuff up. There were puddles of blood on the floor, but I think no one died. I swear it was all because of that damn blue mist. Who the hell was responsible for it? I really dunno.

I just remember some weird ass college punk coming at them through the crowd while we all hopped off stage to help out the fight...er, well, Ran went to hide behind the giant speaker, but for the most part, we all were in on it.

Domoean was there too, he'd been in the back so he had a good chance to take out a lot of them and quickly. Carl immediately had rushed to join him and Marick, who had taken to carrying his techblade all the time, was ready to fight too. He'd taken left while my brother and I were at stage right.

If I remember correctly, Bakura was there. He wasn't fighting them, but he was there, standing still in the back, watching. He was watching Carl and Marick, as they hacked through the army of nastys. They were doign good, and ended the fight pretty quick, then this other college guy who grabbed at Carl after the place cleared up. They yelled at eachother for a while then settled down. I don't think the punk liked him much, and Carl was not the least bit miffed about it at all. After hearing he was from Dragonwing, he kinda expected to be steriotyped and misjudged.

Didn't phase him.

I don't remember seeing Bakura after that. Strange. That guy was of no help at all!

When the manager came into investigate the noise, Ran came out of hiding and proclaimed that he had defeated them all single handedly, earning himself an extra hundred from the manager for 'helping out'. The rest of us got extra cash credit as well, but that's only because the manager watched the tape of it afterwords and didn't see Ran anywhere in the crowd while we beat the shit out of the baddies. It was hectic, that's for sure. If that guy with the little gun had have hung around, he probably would have gotten some money too for defending the fort. Oh well, his loss.

Marick suggested we head back for the night after we'd been paid. He got an odd look on his face when Ryu said to go on ahead and he'd catch up, while heading into the back room of the Kitty corner where they kept the changing rooms for the exotic dancers. Domoen suggested that instead of heading back, we go to the bar for a little relaxation time. Marick agreed, and well, they got a surprise when the houseband started playing the old song, 'the stripper'...

Ryu's never gonna live it down.

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