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Chapter 9: Pain from a Demon

Body cold and frost bitten, pieces of cloth from his clothes spread across the snow as he laid there, eyes closed. His breathing was ragged, and also very husky. A sound made him shiver as the wind swished past his bloodied up body.

'...where...where am i...' a voice muttered in his mind. He tried to open his eyes, but for the feeling of nothing came to him and he could even move a bit.

Feeling the urge to move, Lavitz unconsciously rolled over onto his front and pushed with his arms, despite the pain, up into a sitting position. He moaned as the pain in his head hit with much force, sending shivers and waves through his body and mind.

"Ah...damnit...what happened, where is everyone.?"He muttered, feeling the back of his head with a hand, and feeling a wet substance behind...blood.

Lavitz stood up, rather slowly but then getting a bit of his strength back as he tried to keep focus on standing and not worrying where he was at the moment. Cautiously, he made one step forward and soon found his face planted in the snow, his wounds stinging with pain.

His hissed as he tried getting up again, the agony falling upon his body, and soon he gave up all together the blood seeping into the snow, tainting it red, and his mind, slowly losing to a battle to the light. Unconsciousness.

Walking over to the edge of the forest, a young lady stood with hands at her side staring at the mountains ahead of her. Her sky blue hair waving in the wind and her pale blue eyes glittering like the water as the light shone upon them. Her left hand clutched the side hilt of her Blue Rapier as she put her right hand in the air, feeling for something.

"Hmm...Feels damp...why?" she muttered. Feeling like she needed to find out, the girl jumped off the edge and landed swiftly on her feet at the bottom them started sprinting to the forest and mountains ahead of her.

GARR!

Snapping back into consciousness, Lavitz stared at the side trees. 'What...made that sound...?' his tired mind whispered to itself. Wincing he put his arms once again under him and pushing upward into a knelt position. Fog came from his mouth as the air around him got colder, and standing up he wrapped his arms around him and looking around took one successful step forward.

"Ok...lets see if I can get this thing to work..."he harshly said pulling out the crystal from his pocket and holding it out with one hand. His one hand trembled slightly and it supported the crystals small weight. It glowed a soft green and a small map appeared in front of Lavitz's face, it swirling with static from time to time. "Come on...where am i...?" he gritted his teeth as another gust of wind slashed by, only this time it made him lose balanced throwing him up into the trees making him drop the crystal of the Wind.

Lavitz landed hard on the snow covered ground, and let out a painful cry. The wounds hadn't stopped stinging and they began bleeding again. With his face buried in the snow and scrunched up in pain, Lavitz clasped his hands tightly and tired to fight unconsciousness again. Then...just as he was losing it, a large black shadowed foot landed right near his body.

Right beside the Crystal.

Looking up with blurred eyes, Lavitz saw the only thing that came to mind, a Shadow creature with its hands on the Wind crystal. "Y-you...give that back!" Lavitz yelled as a powerful rage came over him, as he jumped off the ground and spin kicked the creature in the head. Landing in the snow on one knee, Lavitz huffed heavily.

The creatures now red eyes turned to slits as its black claw glowed dark purple and yellow. It turned its head to Lavitz and grabbed him by the neck, raising his body high above the ground at 10 feet. Putting his hands on the creature's claw, he kicked to be free and gasped for air.

"L-let me GO!" he managed, but choked and his arms finally went limp, his whole body did. The creature toothily grinned wide and hissed; "Now...i can take you back to Massster...you pathetic crystal holderrrrrr," it made another hiss and before he could even open the portal to engulf Lavitz a blue streaked blur striked right across the creature's back. It dropped Lavitz and screeched loudly running right into the other side forest and dropping the crystal.

Soon a large puff of smoke appeared showing the creature had died and disappeared.

The girl jumped from the rock from where she had stood and landed right in front of the crystal and Lavitz. She stared down at it with awe and then at Lavitz with sympathy, she thought he was dead but his small winces and twitches showed he clearly wasn't at all. She picked up the crystal and moved beside him, "This is yours...right?" she asked.

Wincing while trying to get up again, he muttered a 'yes.' Just as the girl was able to see under hm, from head to chest she gasped and moved forward a bit and helped hold him up. "Did this creature do this to you?" she murmured, but saw that he shook his head. "Oh...well, do you think you can stand Mr...?" she stopped and stared at him.

Smiling under the pain's power, Lavitz muttered his name, "Lavitz...Lavitz Slambert..." he whispered.

The girl nodded and helped him up, but also kept hold of him making sure he didn't fall. "Well, since you're going to need my help to get you do Deningrad, I'm Omni! Pleased to meet ya Lavitz!" she smiled. "Now, let's get going, oh! Here you are...keep this safe, ok...?" she asked, placing the Wind Crystal into the palm of his hand. Lavitz smiled tiredly and mouthed a thank you.

The two now set off to Deningrad.

Ryna walked slowly pasted the sandy beaches of Rouge, holding her arms in confusion on where she was. She was alone, tired, confused, and without anyone to help her. It seemed barren.

"I hope everyone is safe...wherever they are..." she whispered, stopping and staring up at the night sky and sighing. 'If only Hiecaro or any of the guys were here...' she wondered and looked around. Sighing Ryna began walking again, past a rock and a few palm trees; not knowing the shadows within them ready to strike.

Her ears twitched slightly, and she stopped yet again. 'What was that...' she thought, before whipping around and facing 3 shadow creatures. Crying out, she brung forth her Raijin Blade in front of her. "You jerks! What did you do to my friends?" she yelled out full of rage.

"Our Massster merely discarded them all over Endiness...mehehe..." one of the creatures hissed and took one large stepped toward Ryna. She growled and her whole body glowed with black and white. "Don't...come near me...!" her voice muttered dangerously low. The creatures didn't heed her warning and sprinted forward toward her.

"I TOLD YOU!! Now face the power of a true DEMON!!!" Ryna yelled, spreading her arms so that the sleeves blew past enough for her mark to show, its full blackness a true sliver, and her eyes turning black with silver outlines. As soon as once made it right beside her, she slashed her Raijin blade pointing at it and muttering a different language, the thing blew up.

The two other screeched with rage and ran forward. Ryna, knowing she had the control, sprinted forward and jumped over both shadow creatures. Making a circle with her hands, her feet emanated a black radiance into the ground creating glass like waves, the shards broke, winding all around her and then speeding toward the creatures, embedding themselves into them.

Both screeched and howled, for the pain of the demon Ryna seethed through them like wildfire. They soon blew up as well. Huffing out, Ryna knelt on the ground with face staring at the sand. 'Did...did I really have to do that...?" she whimpered din her mind.

Sitting in the sand all alone, Ryna stared at the sky with tears streaking down her face. The shadows making themselves corner around her...

Well, there ya have it! Another chappie of DTD! NOW! Please, review!