Don't forget that it's Knives who refers to humans as 'spiders'. Sorry if I change points of view too often bit I hoped you could tell who's telling what story. And I'm also sorry for the change in writing style (you'll see what I mean). It goes back to normal in the net chapter I promise! Enjoy the last of the Halloween chapters! Sorry I'm posting it in December! Hope you guys are having fun this holiday season!
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Chapter 34
Kat was awoken by Tanya violently shaking her, "WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!"
"I'M AWAKE!" Kat hissed as she swiped at Tanya's hands. 'What on earth dies she want now? It seems as if I never get an entire nights rest without someone waking me up!'
"We have a major problem!" Tanya panted as she waited for her friend to register what she was saying.
Kat yanked the covers off her and stood up. She began to get dressed knowing that Tanya wanted her to help with the problem. Kat glanced at the clock. 'Still Halloween. Only 9:00 pm. What on earth could she need my help for? I wonder if all what happened was her trying the propane & oxygen in the microwave experiment again.' (A/N: Do NOT try to put propane and oxygen in the microwave seeing as it will explode…) "What's the problem?" Kat asked curious as to why she had to be woken up. Tanya whined pathetically. "JUST SPIT IT OUT!" Kat whispered as loud as she could so as not to wake Vash.
Tanya sucked in a deep breath before summoning the courage to continue, "Inuyasha's demon and Kenshin's gone battousai."
Kat stood there with a blank expression on her face, "You've got to be kidding."
"We've got the trick-or-treaters evacuated and Kurama's trying his best to stop Inuyasha. I've made sure Mayonakas' still asleep and Jasmine and Vix are…" Tanya paused and scratched her head in a thoughtful gesture, "Well I'm not sure."
Kat rubbed her temples as she felt a headache coming on, "What do you want me to do?"
"I thought you could talk some sense into him."
"ME?! You're his wife!" Kat hissed angrily as she attempted to think of a solution.
Tanya paused a moment, "I'm really worried about Vix and Jasmine. I'm going to go find them. Will you be ok on your own?"
Kat nodded, "Yah." 'Great. Just what I need. A waco Kenshin and a demon Inuyasha. Could this get any worse?'
Tanya took off and Kat listened to her footsteps as she ran down the hall. Kat turned to see if Vash was still sleeping but when she looked to the bed there was no one there. 'Funny… I could have sworn he was there just a second ago…' She frowned and was about to go see if what Tanya had been saying was true when someone grabbed her shoulder. Kat's scream was muffled by the hand that was placed over her mouth. 'Just my luck. Is there ever a day in my life where things are just normal. I've been around strange people so long I don't even know what normal is.'
"He's here," the person who was holding her whispered in a strange raspy voice.
'Vash?' Kat meant to ask but it came out as, "Vemerph?" since her mouth was still semi-gagged.
"Don't," the voice hissed when Kat tried to turn around.
Her question of 'who's here?' came out as, "Whemphs hekre?" 'If he would just move his hand…'
His grip slackened and Kat took the opportunity to whip around to see who had been holding her. Her eyes widened and her voice caught in her throat mid scream.
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"Vix? Jasmine? Where are you guys?!" Tanya asked the empty hallway as she ran down it looking for her friends. 'I hope Kat is ok. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to separate.'
Her gaze turned to the window and she screamed as she ducked. A figure went crashing through it into the wall behind Tanya. Glass flew everywhere and rained down upon her. She lay there for a few moments making sure she was still alive before standing up to investigate what had just crashed through the wall. Glass slid down her back and she attempted to brush some of it off. A scream sounded behind her and she paused a moment. The figure that had came crashing through the window shifted and stood. Red eyes glowed in the darkness as they glared at her.
"Inuyasha?" Tanya whispered the frown deepening on her face. 'What the hell is going on?! What happened to Inuyasha? Why is he acting like this?!'
She was about to step closer when a voice stopped her, "DON'T!" Kurama came flying through the window. He snatched Tanya by the waist and then jumped back out just in time to dodge one of Inuyasha's punches. The floor beneath Inuysaha's fist splintered and almost disintegrated from the force of the punch.
"What's going on?!" Tanya wailed to no one unparticular. 'That could have been me!'
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"Run faster!" Vix yelled as she ducked and wove through the dense forest.
"I'm going as fast as I can!" Jasmine yelled back mirroring her friend's movements.
Jasmine stumbled over some bamboo and Vix grabbed her arm, "No time for tripping!"
Kenshin crashed through the bamboo stalks behind them slowly gaining. His golden eyes blazed with fury and hatred. His sword was too long to use in the forest which caused his rage to build.
"Why is he after us!?" Jasmine asked. 'I don't remember doing anything at all to anger him! Why didn't Kat tell us he was this dangerous!?'
"I don't know but if I die, I'm blaming it on Kat!" Vix said as she began to run faster.
"WAIT FOR ME!" Jasmine called as she picked up the pace.
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'Silver and black. Silver and black.' Kat's thoughts raced as she caught sight of the figure in front of her. It looked like Vash but it couldn't be. The person in front of her wore a black duster coat and ebony sunglasses. The sides of his hair were jet black and the rest was metallic silver. Still, he resembled Vash. 'What happened to him? Does this have something to do with Halloween? I can never remember Vash looking this angry or stressed. Maybe it isn't him after all…'
"Who are you?" Kat asked as she watched the anxious man in front of her.
"He's here," the man said again as he stared out the window.
"Who-" Kat was cut off by the sound of shattering glass and a scream. 'Oh my god! Tanya! I have to help her! This man can wait!'
She turned to go when the person grabbed her arm. She turned to see what it was he wanted, "Knives is here."
'It is Vash! But there's something wrong…' Kat caught what he had said, "Wait…Did you just say Knives?!"
Vash stood by the window looking out as if waiting for something to come and grab him. The window shattered as a bullet crashed through it and nailed Vash in the stomach. His glasses got knocked off and Kat gasped. Vash stood up, blood oozing from the wound, as if nothing has happened, eyes glowing blue.
"Vash…?" Kat whispers. 'What's going on?! Is Knives really here? We're not going to make it if Inuyasha, Kenshin and Vash are acting strange. I hope Tanya's ok…'
Vash growls and leaps for the window. His coat disappears as it flaps in the breeze caused by Vash jumping out the window.
Kat follows closely behind.
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"GO! GO! GO!" Vix yells as Jasmine looses speed.
"I can't!" she yells back.
"If you can't we'll die!" Vix screeches. 'Why me?! Why me?! Why me?!'
The Hitokiri gains a few yards as they slow down. The horror in Jasmine's eyes grows stronger as she stumbles over another bamboo root. Her arms are cut and bleeding covered in bruises. Vix doesn't look much better either. They shiver as a wolf howl pierces through the night. The Battousai is still gaining growing angrier by the second. Tears spill down their faces as they know that they won't make it. That unless a miracle happens, they are done for.
'We can't keep this up much longer…'
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A bullet sings by his head and explodes into his right shoulder. He gazes ahead in disbelief. The man he had faced so long ago in their last duel was a man who never aimed for the head. The man he had faced before was a wimp who feared killing. The being before him now looked like a human equivalent of a rabid dog, or a demon. Foaming spit runs down his mouth and neck, blood drips from his finger tips. His woman spider is screaming for them to stop. Tears spill down her face. 'Pathetic spider. How week and disgusting.'
Another battle rages on a few yards away between two strange beings he has never seen before. Blood flies, coats and splatters everywhere. The noises the other creatures make is a bit un-nerving even for him. 'Perhaps this is hell? And I am just damned to live here forever? If this isn't hell I'll never know what is.'
He lifts his gun and fires.
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Kat screams again for them to stop. Vash is covered and dripping his own blood everywhere. 'He'll die if they don't stop! Everyone here is loosing blood! How much blood can someone loose before they die?'
Vash gets hit by another of Knive's bullets and acts as if nothing happens. He fires another of his own and it grazes Knive's shoulder.
Kat cries out when Knive's gun casing pops off. She knows what's coming next. 'No! Anything but that! They'll kill us!' A glowing ball of energy forms and Knive's arm becomes scaly.
Vash mirrors his movements and Kat watches petrified as their arms transform. Scales coat their biceps and gleam in the moonlight.
"YOU'LL KILL US!" Kat screeches, "YOU'LL DESTROY EVERYTHING!"
Wings sprout from the guns and there's a pause as they charge. Particles of light dance at the tips of the cannons.
"DON'T DO THIS VASH YOU'LL KILL US ALL!" Kat yells again in hope of him hearing.
The wind picks up as the energy given off from their angel arms stirs the leaves and dirt. Kat's hair whips about her face and her eyes widen in horror.
Knives fires.
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The howl sounds closer. 'I can't go on! I'll die even before the Battousai reaches me! I'll drop dead! I can't go on…' Vix coughs down a sob. Her arms and legs throb from the cuts and scrapes. They are swollen and oozing blood. Jasmine is in no better shape. If not, she looks even worse than Jasmine. 'He's toying with us! I know he could have caught us by now! How much longer till he's done with his game?' Vix turned to look behind her and her eyes widened in horror as she saw the bamboo parting from the wind created by the speed of the Battousai. 'He's coming! This is the end!'
Another howl and Vix feels something dig into her shoulder. Grab on damn it! Vix opens her eyes to see Kageunsei with his teeth sunk into her shoulder. His golden eyes stare ahead making it appear as he hadn't said a word. Vix swung her legs and used the momentum to pull herself up. Her fingers tangle themselves in the wolf's coarse fur.
Saku has picked up Jasmine just narrowly missing the attach the Battousai had thrown at her.
Jasmine throws up and Vix buries her face into Kageunsei's fur, tears trailing down her face. They head back towards the house at full speed, the Hitokiri still following them, leaping from bamboo to bamboo chute seeming to follow them more then chase them.
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Kurama coughs up blood as Inuyasha nails him in the stomach. 'I can't take much more of this! Even my plants might not be able to stop him!' Tanya sits in the dirt crying and hugging her knees. Kurama's rose whip digs it's thorns into Inuyasha's arm injecting more poison.
The now-demon-hanyou hisses in pain and glares angrily at Kurama, "Why won't you die?!"
Kurama ignores the insult as he controls a few bamboo shuts to latch onto Inuyasha and root him to the ground. Inuyasha tears furiously at his restraints before pausing altogether. 'They won't hold him for long. All I can do is pray for a miracle.'
Tanya lifts her head up and lets out a choked gasp as something catches her eye.
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A blinding white light cloaks the surrounding area. All sound is muffled to nothing. They blink as everything suddenly turns black.
The guns cancel each other out and the two brothers' collapse, their arms returning to normal. They lay there panting and spitting up blood. Their wind pipes clogged.
Kat rushes over and grabs Knive's ebony colored gun in an attempt to keep him from using the angel arm again. She retreats to the wall of the porch while Knives glares at her. Kat suddenly drops the gun and falls to her knees clutching her head, her eyes closed with tears spilling down her cheeks. 'Get out of my head!'
Vash barks and stands, "LEAVE HER OUT OF THIS!"
"She's nothing but a filthy spider who deserves to die!" Knives bellows back as he continues to use his mind to kill her. 'I've never seen a spider use such good mental blocks. Not as if that matters. In a matter of seconds I'll be able to break them!'
Kat's screams of agony can be heard. Something inside Vash snaps. His angel arm transforms of its own free will. It charges as it transforms. He sneers viciously. The wind stirs and ripples the pools of crimson blood. Blood everywhere. Coating the trees and leaves. Flecks on everyone's faces and clothes.
The gun points towards Knives and fires full force tearing a straight path through the ground.
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Vix, Kageunsei, Saku and Jasmine arrive as the third blast from the angel arm is fired. They are blinded and the two girls are torn from the backs of the wolves they are riding. Saku and Kageunsei try to brace themselves against the blast. When the light fades the sight that lay before them was more than shocking.
There was a large creator where the two plants had fired at each other. Inuyasha and Kurama had been knocked out. Knives was sprawled on the ground and whether or not he was alive was impossible to tell. His clothes, which were once partly white, were now completely red. Fragments of bone stuck out from burnt flesh. A white rib flashed in the moonlight. Vash was kneeling in pain on the ground twitching slightly possibly from nerve damage. To say he was in pain was an understatement. There was no word for what the angel was feeling at the moment. Tanya had been knocked back against the wall of the house and had hit her head pretty hard. It was impossible to tell if her skill was cracked with all the blood she was coated in.
Vix caught sight of Kat and ran over. Her friend was attempting to stand but every time she got about two feet off the ground, Kat would cough violently and collapse. Her friend was also coated in blood, dripping it from every limb. It was running in small rivers down her legs and arms. Her hair was matted and it had taken on a bit of a red color from the blood she was coated in. Kat was still carrying Knive's black colt 45. Vix ran attempted to help her up.
"T-th-thanks," Kat barely manages a whisper and coughs weekly.
Kageunsei growls viciously as the Hitokiri appears in the clearing. Golden eyes sweep the area quickly accessing the damage done to the patch of land and its occupants. Kageunsei is unable to move though since he has been hit with one of the large liquid ambers. Saku had been knocked unconscious by one of the large branches and was bleeding badly. Jasmine sits up and blinks a few times.
The Hitokiri spots the perfect target and appears behind her with his sword against her neck, "It's time for you to die."
"K-Kenshin," Kat tries to say. His golden eyes glare at her. "Don't k-kill her," Kat stutters before coughs rack her body again.
The Hitokiri sneers callously, "Why should I listen to you? I've been gone what? Eleven months and you've already found someone else to marry you. Guess they don't call you Knock Out for nothing."
Kat stops coughing, "That's not in the least bit funny Kenshin. You know that those are just my initials."
He continues to taunt her, "But there were two reasons you were called KO weren't there?"
"Stop," she pleads weekly as she sways a bit. Her vision is a bit blurry from the blood running into her eyes. Everything appeared to be tinted red.
"You're foster parents beat you to the point of unconsciousness and you knew just how to knock out every man's heart that you met," he sneered.
"Are you drunk?" Vix asks, "Why would you taunt the woman you love?" 'When did he get his memory back?'
He seemed to read her mind, "I never got my memory back. I just happened to overhear everything you said."
His blade drew closer to Jasmine's neck.
"I'll shoot," Kat says as she aims the gun at him gaining the strength needed to save her friend. She would save her friend if it was the last thing she did.
"Sure you will," he says as he cuts a thin line on Jasmine's throat.
Kat fires the gun. A lock of his hair falls to the ground and a new cut forms from where the bullet grazed his cheek, "NEXT TIME I WON'T MISS!"
She stands, finger shacking against the trigger.
The Battousai continues to taunt her, "You wouldn't shoot me." 'How was she able to shoot from that far away? I must be at least a good five hundred yards from where she is standing.'
He digs the sword deeper into Jasmine's neck to test Kat and she hisses in pain, tears of hatred dripping down her face. Kat continues to hesitate, "Don't make me do this! I love you Kenshin! Surely you can at least remember that!"
"I told you wench! I don't remember anything!" his anger flares and he makes to slice Jasmine's throat when a gun fires.
Knive's gun slips from Kat's hands and as it hits the ground, six bullets fall from the barrel. Kat has tears running down her face now. She turns to see Vash drop his gun as he falls back into a pool of his own blood. Vix pulls Kat into a hug.
Kat shoves her away and runs to Kenshin, "Kenshin! Don't die! Don't die! I can't loose you again…" She pulls him into a hug, tears hitting his face. His eyes return to their normal purple hue, "Happy…H-Halloween…" His head rolls to one side. Kat drops him, "NO! NO! NOOOO!"
Vash recovers somewhat and comes up behind her still fighting with the demon inside him. Kat turns to look up at him, tears mixing with the blood. Her expression filled with so many emotions it is unreadable. Her watch beeps twelve midnight. Vash stands above her, black and silver hair rippling in the breeze. Kat stands up and glares a piercingly at him.
"You shot him," she snarls hatred ringing soundly.
"If I hadn't you would have had to," he callously points out instead of comforting her.
Kat's hand connects with his face. She balls it into a fist from the pain. It felt as if she had just slapped a brick wall. He snatches her hand and latches onto her neck to dangle her in mid air. She begins to sob and choke again. Blood runs down the corners of her mouth and onto Vash's hand. He can feel it as the blood makes its way down his arm to his bicep.
His other side battles fiercely to gain control. His blue eyes continue to glow eerily in the black of the night. Kat began to cough again more violently this time. Another line of blood trickles from the corner of her mouth. The humanoid typhoon drops her in shock. Kat lands on her side which only causes her to cough more violently.
"Stop coughing wench!" he commands when his other half pushes hard against the barriers of their mind. It pissed his other half off when people got hurt but when it was someone he loved getting hurt and when it was HIM that was doing it really sent both halves over the edge. His eyes began to loose their blue tint.
Vash's demonic side fights to regain control and in a last attempt he points his gun to Kat's head.
She feels the cold metal of his gun press against her head. Kat hears the safety click off. 'I can't let him kill me. Not because I'm selfish but because I know this isn't him. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if he killed me.' She manages to stop coughing and stands up. The gun still pointed to her head, she suddenly hugs Vash, "I love you."
He goes stiff before his demonic side collapses never to return again. Parts of his hair return to their normal wheat colored locks but the black on the sides remains to remind him of who he truly is. His eyes begin to loose the blue tint.
Both sides have merged into one, the kinder half dominating. Kat feels his warm arms wrap securely around her. She hears his gun drop to the ground behind her and feels his sobs. With a teary grimace, he startles Kat by falling to his knees, wrapping his arms around her hips, and burying his face in her belly. Warm hiccupping breaths puffed against the material of her bloody shirt, interspersed with pained throaty weeping.
They stand there, on odd sight to behold, both sobbing blood dripping down every inch of their bodies hugging each other as if the world would end.
"Some Halloween…." Vix mutters as she pulls a cigarette out of nowhere and lights it.
(A/N: Definitely the longest chapter I've ever written! This comes to a whopping TEN pages! I hope I didn't confuse you too much with the changing of views! I also apologize for the use of present tense sentences. I even find it annoying… I just couldn't figure out any other way to fix it though… It goes back to normal next chapter. I promise! PLEASE REVIEW!!!)