Welcome to chapter eight! So far, I think that this is, by far, the longest chapter I ever wrote. And, thank you so much for all your lovely reviews. You guys really keep me going. Enjoy!

Chapter 8

David gasped. He couldn't believe it. He just couldn't accept the fact. He backed out of the office. His heart was heavy. He didn't notice Melynlas behind him and bumped into her. He spun around and looked into her eyes. He was speechless.

"Yo," She said, sweetly as usual.

David glared at her. "You. How could you do such a thing?!" He pushed her to the wall and pinned her tightly with his hands. His anger was beyond control. He barred his fangs.

She licked her lips and gave him an evil smile. "Get you hands of me," She demanded. David glared and reluctantly released her. She arranged back her tops and cloak into position. Then she pulled his face closer to her. "My dear, dear darling, have you forgotten out duty. Well, I've certainly done mine. Besides, he's perfect for the job, in a way. Revenge and dinner."

He pushed her away from him. " For crying out loud, is her revival really that important?"

"David," She pushed her hair back and continued, "You know what, it is that important. After I revive her, both of us will complete some unfinished business first. Then, rule this continents. That's my objective. You? Weren't you the one that said you'd do anything to get your sister back? Are you hesitating? You know that she will help you bring her back to life. Why are you denying her?"

"But she's only a soul trapped in a glass ball. What can she do?"

"That is why, we need a body for her," She snapped back. "Darling, you're underestimating her powers, is it? We Illusionians, have something you humans and other low class demons don't. By the way, she's doing a great job managing her little playthings. She trusted us to get the job done here, and we trusted her to get rid of those meddling bugs."

David sighed. What have he gotten into this time, he wondered. "Can't you just do it? I mean, bring Sara back?"

Melynlas just shook her head. "Not now. Besides, not all of us have the ability to give life, you know. In this case, only my sister can. There will be a full moon two weeks from now and that's when I'll get my strength and my sister and I will grant you your wish. That is why we need a body fast."

"Whose body are you looking for…?" David asked slowly. He closed his eyes hard, afraid to hear the answer.

The red-haired half-breed slammed himself hard on the walls of the room. His face twitched in agony and pain. Lirin and Goku watched him helplessly. Both of them were drained out of energy.

"Goku, we have to stop him," Lirin whined. She watched in horror Gojyo picked up a broken piece of glass from the ground. "Please stop," She begged but it was useless. His mind was unconscious.

Goku on the other hand was panting very hard. He was exhausted. He shook his head. "It's no use. We have to get help. Why don't I try to restrain him and you run down to get help," He suggested.

But just as she was about to leave, Hakkai and Sanzo suddenly came barging in. Hakkai quickly grabbed Gojyo's arms and pushed them aside. "Gojyo-san, wake up!" He cried out.

"I'll get help," Lirin announced, making her way out.

"Someone get the medic!" Sanzo ordered as he pushed Gojyo's head down on the pillow. "Oy baka, wake up!" He hissed, pulling out the bloody piece of glass out of Gojyo's wounded palm. Somehow, he sensed the excruciating pain his friend was suffering from inside. "He's losing blood," The monk said as he placed his finger on the redhead's wrist to check his pulse. It's slowing down, he told himself. Without any hesitation, Sanzo ripped apart his sleeves into halves and quickly wrapped up the long cut just below Gojyo's ribs.

"Yaone-san, get the tranquilizer," Hakkai said immediately as the purple-haired youkai entered. She was bewildered at the gory sight in front of her. It wasn't that she had never witnessed such thing, only that this time it had caught her by surprise.

"Yaone-san!"

Hakkai's voice shattered her thoughts. She blinked and grabbed a small potion from her small first aid bag. Making herself a place, she quickly get ready to indulge herself into a long painstaking hours of operation to at least stitch up the cuts and get Gojyo's pulse back to normal. But then she stopped. She looked at Sanzo's eyes desperately. " Anou, we need a blood donor. Do you mind donating yours?" She asked with hope.

Lirin ran as fast as she could. She was terribly exhausted but was determine to get rid of the phantom-like creature, which followed her from behind. It moved swiftly like the winds and was getting closer and closer to her. After turning around every corner existed on that certain block, Lirin came to realize that she had walked right into a dead-end. The large window in front of her was barred and locked.

"Alright, show yourself!" She demanded angrily. After years of training with Dokugakuji, I must at least try to defend myself, she said to herself. She clipped her hair, which was distracting her visions up into a large bun. She forced herself to stay focused as the long narrow hallway in front of her began to be filled with dark gray mists.

A large pair of black wings emerged from the dark, flapping few times before disappearing, and in it's place, an image of a human became visible. Lirin rubbed her eyes. The mist was blinding her. Finally, the image became clear. "…Jezebel?" She said in disbelief.

Jezebel's face showed no expression. She stood silently in front of Lirin. I live only to follow orders, the voice in her head reminded her. The jet-black choker she wore slowly illuminated dark red. Jezebel shook her head and growled. "Fight me!" She hissed, lurching towards Lirin. Her blades glinted in the pale sunlight through the window. "Fight me if you want to live!"

Lirin fell back but managed to regain balance as she tried to avoid most of the attacks. She broke through the attacks and began counterattacking the furious demon in front of her. She's moving too fast, her mind screamed. I'm stuck in a one sided fight. There's no way I can win if I can't read her mind. But then, Jezebel lost her balance and stumbled back a little. Chance, Lirin thought. Quickly, she created a small fireball and aimed it to Jezebel.

Unfortunately, as one of the highly trained army in her tribe, Jezebel easily avoided the flames. The demon sprang forward without warning and grabbed Lirin by her hair. She slammed the small girl hard on the wall with amazing strength.

Lirin groaned. Her body felt limb as blood began oozing out through the cut on her forehead. Jezebel stared at her. Her eyes did not show any feelings and were as cold as ice. Grasping Lirin's hair, Jezebel pulled her head back, exposing Lirin's throat.

She raised the dagger.

She held it high as both of them heard a voice not far away.

"Jez!" Melynlas happy face appeared in the hallway followed by a startled demon.

"Sire," Jezebel replied as she bowed her head down a little. "Allow me to finish my duty." She tugged Lirin's hair hard until Lirin's head rested on the floor.

Lirin coughed. She felt her lungs almost bursting but she forced herself to stare deeply into David's eyes. "You… you planned this?" Her voice came out a little choked. "What did I…do wrong that you…that you want me dead?"

David opened his mouth but no words came out. "I…I…" His words paused as Melynlas pushed him aside. "Let me tell you," She interrupted. "First, you childish face is not fit for you. Second, I hate your guts and third," She moved closed to her and continued, "Third, blame it on your mom."

"My mom?" Lirin asked puzzled. She tried to raise her head a little but unfortunately Jezebel held her head hard on the floor.

Melynlas sneered sadistically, clearly enjoying this moment. "Poor child, how can you be such an ignoramus? Don't you remember me? Look closely. Look closely at these eyes," She said angrily. " Remember the twins that that sick scientist brought back into his lab two years ago? Remember them?"

"What…?"

"Silly thing… every time I try to remember those moments, I'm actually torturing myself from inside," She sniffed, rubbing her hand against her shoulder. "Even after I escaped from there, I can still feel the pain your mother and the stupid doctor inflicted on me and my sister. Did you know if I hadn't escape earlier, I would have lost my body like my sister? Luckily you're mom didn't know that people like us don't die that easily. And now, it's payback time. I'll rip apart every bits and pieces of dignity she owns with my own bare hands. I'm going to teach her a lesson that is never ever mess around with me. Plus, watch out humans. Your soul, too will not escape my anger."

Lirin gurgle the blood in her mouth as she tried to understand the girl's words. She was having difficulty breathing. David prayed eagerly behind the tall gothic girl. He really wanted to do something, but not in this situation. Finally, he found as idea. Better try than never, he told himself.

David moved closer to Melynlas and whispered something into her ear. She grinned. "Really, since when are you eager to kill?" She asked suspiciously.

"Don't you have other unfinished business? I can take care of her. You have my words." He assured her.

Melynlas sighed and turned to Jezebel, "Let her go."

"Excuse me?"

"Let her go and give David one of your daggers," She ordered the green-hair demon. "We have more things to do. Meet me at the first floor with all this institution members. I want to recruit new soldiers for our new empire." Jezebel growled angrily at all of them and disappeared. Then she looked at David with cold expression and said," Remember, I want her dead and don't scar her body."

As soon as Melynlas disappeared from their sight, David quickly ran to Lirin and helped her up. Apparently Lirin pushed him aside fiercely. "Don't you dare touch me!" She warned, wiping her bloody forehead.

"I'm so sorry…" He apologized as his fingers fiddled with the dagger's pointed end.

"You know what, I have NEVER been annoyed in my whole life until just know," She shouted at him. Good thing I don't have heat ray vision. Otherwise, I'll burn a hole right through his heart, she grumbled silently.

"Look, I'm sorry," He repeated, trying to calm the girl in front of him down. David moved closer to Lirin and softly pressed his hand on her wounded forehead.

"What… are you doing…?"

He signaled her to stay silent as he concentrated on what he was doing, which was trying to close the cut. He smiled plainly at her. "Just something a vamp can do to save his love ones," He said as he moved his hands to another injured part.

Lirin never took her eyes of him. She began studying his features, which she really never had the time to do, when she realized that her hands suddenly felt moist. "What's wrong?" She asked. Her expression softens and a sense of sympathy rose inside her. Her anger towards David obviously couldn't get any longer that ten minutes slowly seized.

The demon blushed and rubbed his tears with his sleeve. "I'm sorry. I just can't help it. You just remind me of someone. That's all." He said quickly.

"Who?" She asked eagerly.

He shook his head slowly. "…Sara."

"Your girlfriend?"

"My sister," He answered with bitter irony. "She… died after someone put six bullets through her brain." He sat down beside Lirin and he rested his back against the locker. "I wasn't her fault, you know." He told her. " Do you still remember the weird thick mist years ago? Rumors said that it was caused by somebody who is conducting some kind of biohazard plans to revive the demon king, or whoever he was. I guess that somebody didn't realize that his or her experiments actually bring harm to creatures around them. My family and I, we all live in peace and harmony with the humans. But after this incident, dad first, lose his mind and started killing everyone that was in his way, including my mom…"

"And then?" Lirin asked. Outside, she was eager to hear his story. But inside, her heart seemed never seized to stop cursing someone. She knew who that person was. It was her selfish, arrogant self-centered mother and her pathetic professors. She knew her mother's intention was to revive Kougaiji's dad, who was sealed, not because she loved him or something, but because she was hungry for power. Her heart ached with anger every time she recalled the days her brother shed tears for his mother that her mother sealed just to take her place. "Please, do continue."

"My sister, was next. She lose every bits of memories she had. Can you believe it, she could even remember me. The demon in her was stronger than her and took control of her instantly. She was hungry all the time and soon began killing even in broad daylight. I tried to stop her, but it was too late. She killed a small boy in one of the village's farm and that was the last throw. His father saw her and then, BANG!"

"How about you?" She asked softly, searching his face with those soulful dark eyes. "How did you survived all this while?"

" When I was preparing a burial ground for Sara, Melynlas came to me. Don't ask me from where. She just happened to be standing right there behind me. She told me she was one of the members of the Illusion tribe and possessed ability to bring back life. Ridiculous right? She told me that she was willing to help me get my sister back if I help her find a suitable body for her sister. Being so fed up with life, I just agreed. We live together for a while.

Her house was filled with talismans all shape and sizes and in the middle, her living room, had a large drawing of a pentagram on the floor. Her praying mat, I guess. Sometimes, when she goes out to do the shopping, I would sit alone in the living room and read all the weird craps in the library. At times, I sense that someone is watching me, but when I look around, nothing. We set up a few plans until one day we found this school in the ad. Then she made up a whole new plan, she wants to take over this city. I think she was going nuts, but Sara's lifeless body in the freezer in her home made lab in her basement assured me that she keep her promise." He answered.

"Funny, I did remember the twins Nii experimented, but, I didn't recall them to be both girls. If my brain hadn't lost its memory, both of them are a boy and a girl." Lirin told him.

"How was I supposed to know she had some other bizarre plans set aside…" He stopped talking suddenly when he saw another kid running towards them.

"Lirin!" Goku called out, ignoring David, who was sitting beside her. "Are you alright?" He asked when he saw what was left of the cut on her forehead.

Lirin didn't answer back but tugged both David and Goku's hands. "Come on. We must hurry up get Sanzo-sama and the rest. We have a town to save!"

End of chapter…