Chapter Three: Three Strikes of Chaos
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A/N: Yo, people ^ ^. Just wanted you to know that I am not so good with making stuff scary. But if I have potential, I had never noticed it. So if this is scary, tell me. This doesn't mean I'm leaving out humour tough. ^-^ Do I really have a lot of genres? ^-~
No, I don't write yaoi stuff though I read it. I'm trying not to be romantic. I hate that stuff. But as you keep reading, you will realise that there is some love but I'm not making it romantic. Remember: Love is romantic only when you add in the mushy stuff.
To Ruby-san: No. Kougaiji is not playing with his sister. It's just that now that Gyokumen is not bothering them anymore, they can do whatever they want. And Lirin seems to like jumping onto people's backs. Nataku is supposed to be a bit taller but only by a few millimetres so thanks for bringing that up. *looks evilly at Nataku who is backing towards the wall* But not at the moment. *Nataku sighs with relief* But maybe after a few more chapters... *Nataku shakes his head vigorously while whispering: Don't give them any ideas! Please!*
Disclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki so don't sue me. All you'll get are a bunch of very messed up piles of paper.
By: Yamamoto Kou
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Haku decided to strike in two days time. Because he used those two days to find out more about this new form of elemental disturbance. There were a lot about things like fire, water, grass, ice and those other stuff but what was really the problem were finding out about the higher elements: Heaven, Under Heaven, Hell and the spirit/shadow world. About the only information that anybody could gather were not exactly helpful. He checked out more about them anyway.
Since Haku himself is consisted out of bits of those elements, he knows where to look.
On the second day, he came to the supposedly sparkling and crystal clear pond hidden in the freezing mountains of the South. The pond is now starting to turn a sickly green colour. The pond is the gateway for the spirits that cannot be put to rest. Komyo and Kanan don't count because they're just visiting.
Haku dipped his hand into the pond. It was hot. And gooey (to Haku's disgust. Haku: x *gag*). This means that it has been tampered with. Getting here is almost impossible to those who are not spirits or part of the elements so no youkai or humans could ever even get it in sight. As for gods, let's just say that coming here for them means that they had gotten themselves a one-way ticket to oblivion. (Since they are immortal, any contact with portals and gateways to the dead will cost them their lives. And there's no transmigration at this point.)
Haku can't do anything about it. He had the power with him but he doesn't have the know how so results could be disastrous. (Example: All the spirits will turn into real, live, chickens with no heads that go around yelling "noodle soup" and lay a square egg that are filled with chocolate and Turkish Delight every five minutes. The gate way will probably puff up and become the world's biggest source of oatmeal. Haku: -_-;;; Don't remind me.)
As for going down into that dreary, black and white underworld, he can't do that either.
An example of attempted spiritual travelling by a random (but very experienced and in Togenkyo standards, powerful) wizard years ago. (Note that it was done at a distance. A long one.)
Wizard: Now where on earth is this blasted place? *turns his scroll over and over again while rummaging through his suitcase, flipping through his spell book and crossing his arms*
Some air bubbles float gently towards the surface of the sea. If any sailor were stupid enough to dip his head over that spot wearing a pair of goggles while using a telescope, he would see an octopus with a beard and a pair of spectacles doing four things at once with it's eight pair of legs.
The underwater current past over the seabed, making the seaweeds sway and bend. But the current is not the only thing that made the seaweeds move.
The octopus wizard was too busy to even realise what had he become, let alone notice the stranger that is staring at him right in front. Its nose was only a few inches from his face.
The whale then started to feel uncomfortable. It tried to hold it in but it couldn't. The whale slightly reeled back and...
...burped the big one. But it wasn't enough to interrupt this very busy octopus wizard. Even if the whale's gooey special spit was splattered all over him, staining his spectacles.
But that was not the end of it. Every living thing that can move that is located within a six hundred miles radius from that spot moved fast. The whale seemed to sigh with relief as it farted a loooooong one. The marine plants wilted on the spot.
Octopus Wizard: *wiggled his nose and cleaned his glasses with his pair of cross arms but still not looking up*
This continued to the day he was fossilized and turned into petrol. End of example.
Haku saw no more reason to just stand there, so he went back.
The pond then seemed to ripple and wobble like jelly. Shortly after words, half of a bloody head peeked over the service. It may only be half of a head but you can tell that it's cold, wet, clammy and bloody. It has some string like blood covered hair on its scalp which looks like the top of someone's skull. Its eyeballs were far too small to fill in the vein filled sockets. The bloody thing then sank back into the pond.
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Yosuki gave up on the Heavenly Library. If anything in there didn't help, then anything in Under Heaven was definitely trash. Including the ones made up to help the writer to get glory. (I am not included.)
Goujun (Hakuruyu) had flew in through the window after its flaming practice. The one thing Jiroushin dreaded more than boredom, Sanzo, paper cuts, and Yosuki. It rested upon her shoulders. She stroked it.
Soon, Hakkai came in.
Hakkai: Ano... Do you mind if I know what you're looking for? Maybe I can help.
Yosuki: Yes. I do mind. *walks out without looking up*
Goujun: *flies over to Hakkai after seeing what was coming* Kyu!
Hakkai: Sou desne Goujun. I see it. *quick pause* We'd better hide. Ne? *runs off somewhere using another exit*
Yosuki: *bumped into someone, looked at the trespasser, and glared*
Sanzo: *wasn't paying attention to where he was going, bumps into the offending one, looks at the offender, and glared*
(Exaggeration: The background changed into a flaming minefield.)
Let's just say that Sanzo and Yosuki do not like to have to share the same breathing space with each other. They don't like to know that they had just about the same personalities. It was not a complete similarity, but it was enough to map the battlefield. They now try to show each other just who is the best around here.
Yosuki: *acid stare* Baka Monk.
Sanzo: *poison glare* Baka Kami.
They soon had that glaring contest that involves buildings crumbling apart due to the sheer intensity of it. Literally.
Nataku and Jiroushin are hiding behind columns not too far away.
(Exaggeration: 'Er hu' music plays. ' Er hu' is the old Chinese musical instrument that's something like the violin, only with two strings.)
Nataku: *sitting cross-legged on the floor while sipping tea* When will they stop?
Jiroushin: *same as Nataku* I don't know.
Nataku: Do you think they have the hots for each other? *sips tea*
Jiroushin: *sips tea* Maybe. But they just keep it out of the way. *sips tea*
Nataku: Sou. *drinks tea*
The wind blew by and tinkling sounds made by the wind chime can be heard.
Lirin: *under a tree nearby* Oniichan is starting to become a boring target. *sigh* Yoane-san said that I should find someone about my size. Hmm. I wonder who. *looks left to find Nataku and Jiroushin* Ah! *leaps at them*
She jumps and lands on Nataku, who luckily had put his tea down.
Nataku: OO;;;;; *tries to get away*
Lirin: Oops. Wrong guy. *makes a short leap onto Jiroushin*
Jiroushin: *who was just about to sneak away just got hit by a flying Lirin* X-x Mommy... I didn't remember to feed my goldfish again...
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The time has finally come. The sky is dark and the stars are slowly lighting the sky. Both of them are next door. Homura (Touya) is not at work because it's his assistant's turn to take over the night shift. The theme park is so good that they still had customers rolling in and closing time is midnight.
Haku knocked on the door. His eyes were hidden in the shadows of his hair.
Rinrei (Yoko): Haku-san! It's good to see you tonight. Is there anything you need help with?
Haku: I have something I want to talk to both of you about.
Rinrei: Is it private?
Haku: Yes.
Rinrei: Come in then. *opened the door wider and allowed Haku to come in*
Homura: *looks up from newspaper* Oh, Haku. What brings you here tonight?
Haku: We need to talk. *turns to Rinrei* Would you mind closing the curtains?
Rinrei: *nods and does so*
After a pause.
Haku: Your gods aren't you?
Homura/Rinrei: *clearly shocked*
Homura: What makes you say that?
Haku: *managed a laugh* Your not the only one who changed in appearance.
Homura: What. what are you talking about?
Rinrei: *was getting closer to the phone*
Haku: Can't you even recognise the one who beat you years ago?
Homura: *eyes Haku closely before turning to Rinrei* You don't have to call the police. *smiled*
Rinrei: Hontoni deska? Do you know him?
Homura: I'm not sure but *turns to Haku* you don't happen to know someone called Son Goku, do you? Are you his son?
Haku: *let out a few more laughs* No. I am Son Goku. In the flesh.
Homura: *raised an eyebrow*
Haku: Long story. To put it short, I've changed a lot.
Homura: If you're really Son Goku, then tell me, what does he say the most?
Haku: *rolled his eyes and repeated the sentence that had sent Sanzo's harisen on the rampage countless of times* Haraetta.
Homura: *smiled wider and laughed with relief* Yokatta! I'm glad it's you.
Rinrei: So he's the one who managed to beat you up so badly! *shook her head and smiled* I was having a hard time putting his wounds right.
So they sat down and Homura and Rinrei explained what had happened to them all these years.
It all started when Rinrei was sentenced to transmigrate to Togenkyo. She had somehow managed to make an illusion to convince and satisfy the ones who were at her execution while she makes her escape to Togenkyo to weave the spell that made her seem mortal to the gods. She made a copy of herself to convince the gods that had transmigrated her so the one that Homura had though was her grave was actual the grave of her copy. Rinrei wanted Homura to be with her but she had to wait for the perfect time. She had to make sure that the gods in Heaven think that Homura died. When he fought with Son Goku, she found the chance. She teleported him to her side when they all thought he was dying. Ever since then they had been together.
Haku in return told them what he really was.
Homura and Rinrei were satisfied with the theory but they were eager to know what happened after all these years.
Haku: Maybe later. *left*
Homura: Yare, yare. He's going to leave us in suspense.
Haku's hand was just on the doorknob until all his senses alerted him for something. Alarm ranged and clanged furiously in his head. Out of instinct to follow his senses, he ran out of the building.
He ran towards the nearby park at full speed and skidded to a halt when he reached there.
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It was supposed to be a peaceful night in heaven. Supposed to be anyway. But now Heaven is in an almighty uproar. The Heavenly Army was now either running away or fighting desperately.
Sanzo was shooting and backing away at the same time. Hakkai was firing ki blasts from the roofs. Gojyo had his shakujo out and is now trying to fight them off. Kou used his demon powers. Doku swished his sword through the air as he gets engaged in a fierce battle. Yoane grabbed as much bombs as she could and flung it at the opposing adversary and when that's done, she started using her spear against them. Lirin is being outnumbered but is fighting her way out. Nataku was using his fire dragon powers on the approaching ones though some of them seem to be fire resistant.
The things were stepping out of the shadows in groups. They were horrifying. One of them appeared to be a moving black blob crawling on the ground but it soon rises in a fury of black veins to form a black vein made creature of the shadows. But it's eyes were aquatic blue with helplessness and pleading in them. But that was soon taken care of as the black, throbbing veins crept over them. Muffled screams were heard before the veins subsided to reveal a pair of grey, emotionless eyes that are outlined red.
Yosuki was busy with her own problems. The one she saw playing the piano was here. It came closer to her. Closer and closer wearing that hanging jaw on that blood stained and vein covered skull face. The porcelain skin was still dangling under her chin. Her fingertips were dripping with tar and the tar continued to drip down her long fingernails. (Why tar? You'll find out soon enough.) Yosuki slashed at her but she kept coming. Even if she is breaking up and falling to pieces literally. What spilled out of the cut up parts is not pretty.
Yosuki started to back away. The girl like creature may be in bits on the ground, but all her fallen body parts was dragging herself towards her. The tar soon went up in flames as a few bits of one of Nataku's flaming targets rolled close.
The fire burned but the pieces did not burn. Instead, it was building itself up. It then went for Yosuki again. In fact, the creatures are not really taking the full blow of their attacks no matter how critical the result should have been. The whole lot of them were starting to panic.
Then everybody heard chanting. They turned to find Sanzo chanting from his Evil Sutra. The sutra seemed to spread out like vines and wrap the creatures. Including the one in front of Yosuki. The creatures soon disintegrated.
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In the park, Haku is now bound by several creatures of darkness and he aims his Nyoibo-gun inwards to try and blast these tentacles off. He had managed to finish off half their number but is now suffering from one broken arm, a sprained ankle and a cut across his cheek and thanks to the ones which are currently binding him, he's now feeling the worst from his broken arm and lack of air.
These are not creatures but corrupted spirits. Want proof? If you look closer, you'll find them slightly transparent but only if you really look in to it. Haku can easily see that. Especially under these circumstances.
One of those spirits saw what Haku was about to do so it wound his tentacle around him tighter. Haku cringed because his arm feels like its gonna come off and if he doesn't do something, it will. The tentacle then slowly crept up and covered his nose and mouth to see that he dies soon. More were creeping out of the shadows.
Haku pulled the trigger but he was a little off due to the pain and the struggle to breathe. But the tentacles got blasted off anyway. Unfortunately, he also got his shoulder. The one on his supposedly good arm and is now on the ground.
Haku: *mumbled* Great. Just great. *he couldn't even clutch his shoulder now*
This isn't a loss as there were more of them. It seems that there are not gonna be anymore than this.
Haku decided to get drastic before these start getting out of hand. He tried to use both hands to grab the sword and stand up. He breathed hard because pain isn't something you can easily shrug off. These spirits were not worthy enough to be fought with his limiter off. He squinted his eyes to try and ignore the fuzziness made by the pain and slashed his sword through the air. The sword started to spark up with white lightning as it sent blasts of energy matrix towards them. It too about five more minutes but he managed to get rid of them.
He finally called back Nyoibo into wherever it disappears to and finally dropped back to the ground to be engulfed by pain in waves. He ignored the beads of sweat rolling down the side of his face as he takes in gulps of air.
Nataku and Kanzeon Bosatsu descended at Haku's front door.
Nataku: He's not in. Strange. He rarely goes out. Guess we'll have to teleport directly to him huh?
Kanzeon Bosatsu: *nodded* Ah. We need all the help we can get to fix up Heaven.
And so they teleported to where Haku was in the park.
Nataku: Haku, we need- *sees the state his friend is in and rushes to his aid*
Kanzeon Bosatsu: What happened?
Haku: *pants* Same... thing that... probably happened to ...you.
Nataku: How do you know? *tries to help him stand up to get Hakkai to heal him in Heaven*
Haku: *shrugs off Nataku's hand and tries to stand up by himself* I'll stand up myself. *tries not to flinch* Besides, you don't come down here for no reason do you?
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In the spirit world...
It was havoc. Half of the population had been contaminated. A little boy tries to escape the deadly vines. But to no avail. It grabbed his ankle and bits of it started to contaminate him. He could feel the change. It was horrible. He squirmed and shook all over. It was like using a hot knife covered in salt peeling your skin off. The little boy looked around to find the other guy that had been caught before him. He looked horrible. His upper lip is now sticking to the piece of skin under his right eye. His tongue is bitten off and it lied on the ground. His eyes looked like they would pop out any second.
The boy only had time to see the face. He was almost fully contaminated. He struggled. A shadow loomed above him. He loathes the owner of that shadow.
Shadow's Owner: What's the matter boy-o. You look like you need to relax a bit.
Boy: You... Argh! *tries to get at the owner of the shadow but couldn't*
By now, the contamination was up to his neck.
Shadow's Owner: Now don't look so down. *grabs the boy by the chin and pulls his face closer*
Boy: *spits*
Shadow's Owner: *drops the boy wipes it off* Why you little- *calms down* Come now. You're going to be useful to me anyway. *turns and walks away*
Boy: *settles back onto the ground and cried*
He's died once and why does this have to happen to him. He's never even found out what freedom is. Until he was six, he was kept in a prison like place. Soon he was whipped to death. That was why he could never rest.
And this had to happen.
Boy: Tasukete. *closed his tear filled eyes as he becomes fully contaminated*
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AFN: Do you guys think I'm a bit cruel? Sorry about that but I really can't help it. Please read and review.
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A/N: Yo, people ^ ^. Just wanted you to know that I am not so good with making stuff scary. But if I have potential, I had never noticed it. So if this is scary, tell me. This doesn't mean I'm leaving out humour tough. ^-^ Do I really have a lot of genres? ^-~
No, I don't write yaoi stuff though I read it. I'm trying not to be romantic. I hate that stuff. But as you keep reading, you will realise that there is some love but I'm not making it romantic. Remember: Love is romantic only when you add in the mushy stuff.
To Ruby-san: No. Kougaiji is not playing with his sister. It's just that now that Gyokumen is not bothering them anymore, they can do whatever they want. And Lirin seems to like jumping onto people's backs. Nataku is supposed to be a bit taller but only by a few millimetres so thanks for bringing that up. *looks evilly at Nataku who is backing towards the wall* But not at the moment. *Nataku sighs with relief* But maybe after a few more chapters... *Nataku shakes his head vigorously while whispering: Don't give them any ideas! Please!*
Disclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki so don't sue me. All you'll get are a bunch of very messed up piles of paper.
By: Yamamoto Kou
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Haku decided to strike in two days time. Because he used those two days to find out more about this new form of elemental disturbance. There were a lot about things like fire, water, grass, ice and those other stuff but what was really the problem were finding out about the higher elements: Heaven, Under Heaven, Hell and the spirit/shadow world. About the only information that anybody could gather were not exactly helpful. He checked out more about them anyway.
Since Haku himself is consisted out of bits of those elements, he knows where to look.
On the second day, he came to the supposedly sparkling and crystal clear pond hidden in the freezing mountains of the South. The pond is now starting to turn a sickly green colour. The pond is the gateway for the spirits that cannot be put to rest. Komyo and Kanan don't count because they're just visiting.
Haku dipped his hand into the pond. It was hot. And gooey (to Haku's disgust. Haku: x *gag*). This means that it has been tampered with. Getting here is almost impossible to those who are not spirits or part of the elements so no youkai or humans could ever even get it in sight. As for gods, let's just say that coming here for them means that they had gotten themselves a one-way ticket to oblivion. (Since they are immortal, any contact with portals and gateways to the dead will cost them their lives. And there's no transmigration at this point.)
Haku can't do anything about it. He had the power with him but he doesn't have the know how so results could be disastrous. (Example: All the spirits will turn into real, live, chickens with no heads that go around yelling "noodle soup" and lay a square egg that are filled with chocolate and Turkish Delight every five minutes. The gate way will probably puff up and become the world's biggest source of oatmeal. Haku: -_-;;; Don't remind me.)
As for going down into that dreary, black and white underworld, he can't do that either.
An example of attempted spiritual travelling by a random (but very experienced and in Togenkyo standards, powerful) wizard years ago. (Note that it was done at a distance. A long one.)
Wizard: Now where on earth is this blasted place? *turns his scroll over and over again while rummaging through his suitcase, flipping through his spell book and crossing his arms*
Some air bubbles float gently towards the surface of the sea. If any sailor were stupid enough to dip his head over that spot wearing a pair of goggles while using a telescope, he would see an octopus with a beard and a pair of spectacles doing four things at once with it's eight pair of legs.
The underwater current past over the seabed, making the seaweeds sway and bend. But the current is not the only thing that made the seaweeds move.
The octopus wizard was too busy to even realise what had he become, let alone notice the stranger that is staring at him right in front. Its nose was only a few inches from his face.
The whale then started to feel uncomfortable. It tried to hold it in but it couldn't. The whale slightly reeled back and...
...burped the big one. But it wasn't enough to interrupt this very busy octopus wizard. Even if the whale's gooey special spit was splattered all over him, staining his spectacles.
But that was not the end of it. Every living thing that can move that is located within a six hundred miles radius from that spot moved fast. The whale seemed to sigh with relief as it farted a loooooong one. The marine plants wilted on the spot.
Octopus Wizard: *wiggled his nose and cleaned his glasses with his pair of cross arms but still not looking up*
This continued to the day he was fossilized and turned into petrol. End of example.
Haku saw no more reason to just stand there, so he went back.
The pond then seemed to ripple and wobble like jelly. Shortly after words, half of a bloody head peeked over the service. It may only be half of a head but you can tell that it's cold, wet, clammy and bloody. It has some string like blood covered hair on its scalp which looks like the top of someone's skull. Its eyeballs were far too small to fill in the vein filled sockets. The bloody thing then sank back into the pond.
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Yosuki gave up on the Heavenly Library. If anything in there didn't help, then anything in Under Heaven was definitely trash. Including the ones made up to help the writer to get glory. (I am not included.)
Goujun (Hakuruyu) had flew in through the window after its flaming practice. The one thing Jiroushin dreaded more than boredom, Sanzo, paper cuts, and Yosuki. It rested upon her shoulders. She stroked it.
Soon, Hakkai came in.
Hakkai: Ano... Do you mind if I know what you're looking for? Maybe I can help.
Yosuki: Yes. I do mind. *walks out without looking up*
Goujun: *flies over to Hakkai after seeing what was coming* Kyu!
Hakkai: Sou desne Goujun. I see it. *quick pause* We'd better hide. Ne? *runs off somewhere using another exit*
Yosuki: *bumped into someone, looked at the trespasser, and glared*
Sanzo: *wasn't paying attention to where he was going, bumps into the offending one, looks at the offender, and glared*
(Exaggeration: The background changed into a flaming minefield.)
Let's just say that Sanzo and Yosuki do not like to have to share the same breathing space with each other. They don't like to know that they had just about the same personalities. It was not a complete similarity, but it was enough to map the battlefield. They now try to show each other just who is the best around here.
Yosuki: *acid stare* Baka Monk.
Sanzo: *poison glare* Baka Kami.
They soon had that glaring contest that involves buildings crumbling apart due to the sheer intensity of it. Literally.
Nataku and Jiroushin are hiding behind columns not too far away.
(Exaggeration: 'Er hu' music plays. ' Er hu' is the old Chinese musical instrument that's something like the violin, only with two strings.)
Nataku: *sitting cross-legged on the floor while sipping tea* When will they stop?
Jiroushin: *same as Nataku* I don't know.
Nataku: Do you think they have the hots for each other? *sips tea*
Jiroushin: *sips tea* Maybe. But they just keep it out of the way. *sips tea*
Nataku: Sou. *drinks tea*
The wind blew by and tinkling sounds made by the wind chime can be heard.
Lirin: *under a tree nearby* Oniichan is starting to become a boring target. *sigh* Yoane-san said that I should find someone about my size. Hmm. I wonder who. *looks left to find Nataku and Jiroushin* Ah! *leaps at them*
She jumps and lands on Nataku, who luckily had put his tea down.
Nataku: OO;;;;; *tries to get away*
Lirin: Oops. Wrong guy. *makes a short leap onto Jiroushin*
Jiroushin: *who was just about to sneak away just got hit by a flying Lirin* X-x Mommy... I didn't remember to feed my goldfish again...
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The time has finally come. The sky is dark and the stars are slowly lighting the sky. Both of them are next door. Homura (Touya) is not at work because it's his assistant's turn to take over the night shift. The theme park is so good that they still had customers rolling in and closing time is midnight.
Haku knocked on the door. His eyes were hidden in the shadows of his hair.
Rinrei (Yoko): Haku-san! It's good to see you tonight. Is there anything you need help with?
Haku: I have something I want to talk to both of you about.
Rinrei: Is it private?
Haku: Yes.
Rinrei: Come in then. *opened the door wider and allowed Haku to come in*
Homura: *looks up from newspaper* Oh, Haku. What brings you here tonight?
Haku: We need to talk. *turns to Rinrei* Would you mind closing the curtains?
Rinrei: *nods and does so*
After a pause.
Haku: Your gods aren't you?
Homura/Rinrei: *clearly shocked*
Homura: What makes you say that?
Haku: *managed a laugh* Your not the only one who changed in appearance.
Homura: What. what are you talking about?
Rinrei: *was getting closer to the phone*
Haku: Can't you even recognise the one who beat you years ago?
Homura: *eyes Haku closely before turning to Rinrei* You don't have to call the police. *smiled*
Rinrei: Hontoni deska? Do you know him?
Homura: I'm not sure but *turns to Haku* you don't happen to know someone called Son Goku, do you? Are you his son?
Haku: *let out a few more laughs* No. I am Son Goku. In the flesh.
Homura: *raised an eyebrow*
Haku: Long story. To put it short, I've changed a lot.
Homura: If you're really Son Goku, then tell me, what does he say the most?
Haku: *rolled his eyes and repeated the sentence that had sent Sanzo's harisen on the rampage countless of times* Haraetta.
Homura: *smiled wider and laughed with relief* Yokatta! I'm glad it's you.
Rinrei: So he's the one who managed to beat you up so badly! *shook her head and smiled* I was having a hard time putting his wounds right.
So they sat down and Homura and Rinrei explained what had happened to them all these years.
It all started when Rinrei was sentenced to transmigrate to Togenkyo. She had somehow managed to make an illusion to convince and satisfy the ones who were at her execution while she makes her escape to Togenkyo to weave the spell that made her seem mortal to the gods. She made a copy of herself to convince the gods that had transmigrated her so the one that Homura had though was her grave was actual the grave of her copy. Rinrei wanted Homura to be with her but she had to wait for the perfect time. She had to make sure that the gods in Heaven think that Homura died. When he fought with Son Goku, she found the chance. She teleported him to her side when they all thought he was dying. Ever since then they had been together.
Haku in return told them what he really was.
Homura and Rinrei were satisfied with the theory but they were eager to know what happened after all these years.
Haku: Maybe later. *left*
Homura: Yare, yare. He's going to leave us in suspense.
Haku's hand was just on the doorknob until all his senses alerted him for something. Alarm ranged and clanged furiously in his head. Out of instinct to follow his senses, he ran out of the building.
He ran towards the nearby park at full speed and skidded to a halt when he reached there.
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It was supposed to be a peaceful night in heaven. Supposed to be anyway. But now Heaven is in an almighty uproar. The Heavenly Army was now either running away or fighting desperately.
Sanzo was shooting and backing away at the same time. Hakkai was firing ki blasts from the roofs. Gojyo had his shakujo out and is now trying to fight them off. Kou used his demon powers. Doku swished his sword through the air as he gets engaged in a fierce battle. Yoane grabbed as much bombs as she could and flung it at the opposing adversary and when that's done, she started using her spear against them. Lirin is being outnumbered but is fighting her way out. Nataku was using his fire dragon powers on the approaching ones though some of them seem to be fire resistant.
The things were stepping out of the shadows in groups. They were horrifying. One of them appeared to be a moving black blob crawling on the ground but it soon rises in a fury of black veins to form a black vein made creature of the shadows. But it's eyes were aquatic blue with helplessness and pleading in them. But that was soon taken care of as the black, throbbing veins crept over them. Muffled screams were heard before the veins subsided to reveal a pair of grey, emotionless eyes that are outlined red.
Yosuki was busy with her own problems. The one she saw playing the piano was here. It came closer to her. Closer and closer wearing that hanging jaw on that blood stained and vein covered skull face. The porcelain skin was still dangling under her chin. Her fingertips were dripping with tar and the tar continued to drip down her long fingernails. (Why tar? You'll find out soon enough.) Yosuki slashed at her but she kept coming. Even if she is breaking up and falling to pieces literally. What spilled out of the cut up parts is not pretty.
Yosuki started to back away. The girl like creature may be in bits on the ground, but all her fallen body parts was dragging herself towards her. The tar soon went up in flames as a few bits of one of Nataku's flaming targets rolled close.
The fire burned but the pieces did not burn. Instead, it was building itself up. It then went for Yosuki again. In fact, the creatures are not really taking the full blow of their attacks no matter how critical the result should have been. The whole lot of them were starting to panic.
Then everybody heard chanting. They turned to find Sanzo chanting from his Evil Sutra. The sutra seemed to spread out like vines and wrap the creatures. Including the one in front of Yosuki. The creatures soon disintegrated.
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In the park, Haku is now bound by several creatures of darkness and he aims his Nyoibo-gun inwards to try and blast these tentacles off. He had managed to finish off half their number but is now suffering from one broken arm, a sprained ankle and a cut across his cheek and thanks to the ones which are currently binding him, he's now feeling the worst from his broken arm and lack of air.
These are not creatures but corrupted spirits. Want proof? If you look closer, you'll find them slightly transparent but only if you really look in to it. Haku can easily see that. Especially under these circumstances.
One of those spirits saw what Haku was about to do so it wound his tentacle around him tighter. Haku cringed because his arm feels like its gonna come off and if he doesn't do something, it will. The tentacle then slowly crept up and covered his nose and mouth to see that he dies soon. More were creeping out of the shadows.
Haku pulled the trigger but he was a little off due to the pain and the struggle to breathe. But the tentacles got blasted off anyway. Unfortunately, he also got his shoulder. The one on his supposedly good arm and is now on the ground.
Haku: *mumbled* Great. Just great. *he couldn't even clutch his shoulder now*
This isn't a loss as there were more of them. It seems that there are not gonna be anymore than this.
Haku decided to get drastic before these start getting out of hand. He tried to use both hands to grab the sword and stand up. He breathed hard because pain isn't something you can easily shrug off. These spirits were not worthy enough to be fought with his limiter off. He squinted his eyes to try and ignore the fuzziness made by the pain and slashed his sword through the air. The sword started to spark up with white lightning as it sent blasts of energy matrix towards them. It too about five more minutes but he managed to get rid of them.
He finally called back Nyoibo into wherever it disappears to and finally dropped back to the ground to be engulfed by pain in waves. He ignored the beads of sweat rolling down the side of his face as he takes in gulps of air.
Nataku and Kanzeon Bosatsu descended at Haku's front door.
Nataku: He's not in. Strange. He rarely goes out. Guess we'll have to teleport directly to him huh?
Kanzeon Bosatsu: *nodded* Ah. We need all the help we can get to fix up Heaven.
And so they teleported to where Haku was in the park.
Nataku: Haku, we need- *sees the state his friend is in and rushes to his aid*
Kanzeon Bosatsu: What happened?
Haku: *pants* Same... thing that... probably happened to ...you.
Nataku: How do you know? *tries to help him stand up to get Hakkai to heal him in Heaven*
Haku: *shrugs off Nataku's hand and tries to stand up by himself* I'll stand up myself. *tries not to flinch* Besides, you don't come down here for no reason do you?
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In the spirit world...
It was havoc. Half of the population had been contaminated. A little boy tries to escape the deadly vines. But to no avail. It grabbed his ankle and bits of it started to contaminate him. He could feel the change. It was horrible. He squirmed and shook all over. It was like using a hot knife covered in salt peeling your skin off. The little boy looked around to find the other guy that had been caught before him. He looked horrible. His upper lip is now sticking to the piece of skin under his right eye. His tongue is bitten off and it lied on the ground. His eyes looked like they would pop out any second.
The boy only had time to see the face. He was almost fully contaminated. He struggled. A shadow loomed above him. He loathes the owner of that shadow.
Shadow's Owner: What's the matter boy-o. You look like you need to relax a bit.
Boy: You... Argh! *tries to get at the owner of the shadow but couldn't*
By now, the contamination was up to his neck.
Shadow's Owner: Now don't look so down. *grabs the boy by the chin and pulls his face closer*
Boy: *spits*
Shadow's Owner: *drops the boy wipes it off* Why you little- *calms down* Come now. You're going to be useful to me anyway. *turns and walks away*
Boy: *settles back onto the ground and cried*
He's died once and why does this have to happen to him. He's never even found out what freedom is. Until he was six, he was kept in a prison like place. Soon he was whipped to death. That was why he could never rest.
And this had to happen.
Boy: Tasukete. *closed his tear filled eyes as he becomes fully contaminated*
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AFN: Do you guys think I'm a bit cruel? Sorry about that but I really can't help it. Please read and review.