Aori tsuki gets Fuji, whose name means "Wisteria"! Congratulations, Mizu-chan!
I just realized...how hard it was to make Binetsu TRULY evil. Unlike Netami, there HAD to be a reason for Binetsu going over to the Dark Side. (o.o Okay, toooo much Star Wars there...) In fact, I feel sorry for the bad guy of this story...for once. I'll just have to make the bad guy in Kikyoku EEEEVIL. That shouldn't be too hard, ne?
Okay, last chapter, we learned why Binetsu became evil. And now she's ready and willing to destroy the cure for revenge purposes or something...my apologies if this is a short chapter...I'm not very good at battle scenes. Stupid orcs are blocking my inspiration. STUPID ORCS. STUPID DENETHOR. O.o whoa, wait, how did Denethor end up in there?
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"Binetsu," Kia said, in a very reasonable tone...or so she hoped. "Please, think about this. Can't you just forgive Suzuki? I'm pretty sure he's sorry..."
"Really now." The child stared at her, obviously not believing a word of it. "Tell me, did he ever mention me at ALL?"
Taken by surprise, the girl hesitated. "Ah..."
"No. He didn't." Binetsu began to glow purple, her aura tinged with black. "He doesn't DESERVE forgiveness!" She raised her right arm and pointed at the Mirror Holders.
"Get down!" Chuu practically knocked the girls off the bed, as a bolt of violet lightning struck the mattress, disintegrating it in mere seconds.
Kia found herself facedown on the carpet, pressed firmly there by Chuu's arm. "Mmprh..."
"Gomen." He obligingly lifted the restraint so that the brunette could breathe.
"Duck for cover!!" Kelsey yelped, diving under what was left of the charred bed...which then decided to collapse on top of her in a smoky heap. Whoever said inanimate objects weren't spiteful?
The muscular drunkard and the other Mirror Holder stared, before Kia crawled over to the mess and tried lifting up large and splintery pieces of what had once been a bed. "Damn it all, astringent pomite fruit, and all that's good and holy!" She panted, not liking this sickness at all. It drained her even to pick up a broken BOARD!
"Very colorful." Two pale and slender, but strong hands grasped the headboard and pulled it off, flinging it away with a careless motion. Kia blinked, and looked up.
Mukuro knelt beside her, the right side of her face covered in rags once more. She turned to the smaller girl. "Save your strength, Hiketsu's reincarnation. I'll get her out." Before Kia could ask how she had known that, she cast her gaze about the room. It settled on Rinku. "You!" She barked, like a stern general. The simile wasn't that far off. "Guard them!"
Surprised, the boy pointed to himself. "ME??"
"YES, you!"
Rinku cringed when another bolt shattered the window, glass hitting the carpet in a sharp and deadly shower. "But-"
"The lady an' I can handle it," Chuu assured him, standing up and ambling towards Binetsu, cracking his knuckles as he went. "You just watch the girls..."
Mukuro finally succeeded in drawing Kelsey out from the bottom of the pile, slightly blackened from her brief stay in there. "Stay down," she advised. "This won't take long."
In silence, both girls watched as the demon lord rose, suddenly looking very forbidding...and very dangerous.
"I warned you that if you attempted to harm the Mirror Holders or destroy the cure, you would die," she said quietly, looking down at Binetsu. "It's time to make good on that."
"Hey," Kelsey suddenly whispered. "Doesn't Mukuro have the cure? She could've just given it to us..."
"Which would have given Binetsu a better reason to kill us," Kia pointed out. "The cure is probably the first thing on her mind right now. So, if she destroys it, we won't have much of a chance. She'll probably go after Mukuro first."
Sure enough, Binetsu launched an all-out attack on the powerful youkai Kelsey had dubbed "the boss lady". Mukuro merely deflected the bolts with her fists, charged with her own energy, and then struck back at the child, with a face like stone.
Rinku scooted over to the girls, his faithful yo-yos at the ready. "Don't worry, I'll protect you." Now if only he looked as confident as he sounded...
All three winced when Binetsu flung Chuu into a wall, merely by grasping his arms, and flipping him over her head as he charged her. The impact made a very impressive dent.
"...Ouch," Kelsey remarked, sneezing.
They heard a frantic pounding at the door. "Mukuro-sama? MUKURO-SAMA! IS EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT IN THERE?!"
"Oh, for..." The girl heaved a sigh of absolute disgust. "Your boss lady's fighting an evil brat who wants to kill us all!" She yelled in reply. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK?!"
"I think that you are-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHH, NOOOOOOOOOO!!"
"...What was THAT?" Kia turned her head to look at the closed door, cupping her hands over her ears to spare them any further damage. Mukuro, Binetsu, and Chuu, engrossed in their fight, seemed not to notice.
"Prune juice took effect?" Kelsey quipped. Both Rinku and Kia looked at her, and she shrugged. "Okay, I'll shut up now..."
"No..." Rinku whispered, bright eyes filled with trepidation. "Something..."
He was rudely interrupted when the door fell forward, free of its hinges, and hit the ground with a resounding crash. A booted foot placed itself on the fallen wood, then another, and a brown-haired man leapt lightly into the room.
"Who's that?" Both girls said at once. NOW what? Was he working for Mukuro or Binetsu?
That was answered rather promptly, as the man, spotting the three fighters, yelled, "Kodoma-sama!" and tackled Chuu.
"Boku!" The little girl cried out, evidently shocked. "What are YOU doing here! I told you to stay-"
"I know, Kodoma-sama, but I couldn't leave you to deal with these nasty people all by yourself!" He got to his feet.
Kelsey bristled. "NASTY? I'll show you NASTY!" She lunged at this "Boku" character, but Kia grabbed her arm, yanking her back.
"Kelsey, don't! We don't know what kind of powers he has-"
"We can take him! Let me go!"
"Stop being stubborn! You're going to get yourself killed!"
"Oh, YOU'RE one to talk!"
"Your friend has good reason to be cautious, little one," the man chuckled. His voice had deepened, and he held his left hand up, clutching something that neither girl could see. And then he released it.
A sudden, silent explosion smacked into the Mirror Holders and Rinku. The youkai boy hit the mirror, shattering it. Youko Kurama let out a mournful wail at its destruction. Kelsey smacked into the same wall that Chuu had previously hit, and fell to the floor. And Kia flew out the now-open window.
"SHIMATTA!" Chuu pushed past Boku and raced for the window, hoping against hope that the girl had somehow survived.
"Oh, no, you don't!" Binetsu's lapdog jumped him, and the two went down in a yelling tangle of muscled arms and legs.
Rinku sat up, shaking shards of glass out of his brown hair and plunking his cap back on his head before hurrying over to Kelsey. He shook her shoulder. "Kelsey! Are you okay?"
The girl groaned. "I've had better days." Suddenly, her gray eyes went wide, and she sat up quickly. "Kia! Where-"
The boy silently pointed to the window.
"No..." Kelsey whispered, hardly daring to breathe. "She can't be...I won't believe it!"
"Well, that's one Mirror Holder down," Binetsu said, with a smile of immense satisfaction. "I can pull the Half out of her broken body later."
"You've forgotten that you won't be ALIVE long enough to accomplish anything!" Mukuro was definitely angry now.
"Kia..." The blonde, still stricken with horror, stared numbly at the empty window. And then, she blinked.
A slender hand clutched at the sill, knuckles white.
Rinku and Kelsey rushed to the window, peering over...and met the frightened brown eyes of a certain cookie-sheet wielding Mirror Holder.
"You're alive!" Kelsey yelled happily. "You baka, how the hell did you survive?"
"I held on," Kia said wryly. "I held on for dear life. But my arm hurts...so can SOMEONE PLEASE PULL ME UP??" It seemed that she'd flipped as she'd gone through the window, and had managed to catch hold of the sill before she plunged to her death. Lucky girl.
Rinku smiled, very relieved. "Take my hand..." He leaned down, and Kia reached up with her other hand and a bit of effort. Kelsey grasped her other hand, and between the two, they were able to pull her up and back into the room, where they all collapsed, panting.
Mukuro, Binetsu, Boku, and Chuu were all staring at them, and Youko Kurama scurried over to give Kia a hug, having mourned the departure of the mirror by then.
"Just how lucky ARE YOU??" The child inventor asked disbelievingly.
Mukuro was chuckling. "Lucky enough. Luck and a bit of determination, I'd say."
"I'm glad she's alive and all, but can we get back to the fight?" Chuu didn't wait for an answer and returned to punching Boku with a gleeful grin. He obviously enjoyed a good fight...or a chance to break some legs.
"My, my...you certainly do have your excitement, don't you?" Kyattsuai stood on the door, golden eyes surveying the chaos with an air of calm. "And I thought getting past a bunch of guards with broken legs was entertaining enough."
"Here comes the cavalry," Kelsey muttered. "A bit late, but still..."
The neko youkai grinned and flipped off the door and into the room, neatly kicking Binetsu away from Mukuro. And the fight raged on. Kyattsuai's fighting skills were impressive; he seemed to have a strong grasp of the martial arts and punched, kicked, flipped, and basically caused a lot of damage to the other side. And Mukuro showed why she was one of the three demon lords of Makai...her energy and control of her powers was incredible.
"Are we winning?" Kia asked, retreating behind the other, still-whole bed with Youko Kurama, Rinku, and Kelsey.
Her friend shrugged. "I hope so."
"Kelsey!" Mukuro suddenly called out. Blinking, the girl peered over the edge of the bed. The woman was holding up the jar containing the cure. Binetsu was busy fending off Kyattsuai, and Chuu was wrestling with Boku. "Catch!" And she lobbed the glass container across the room.
Kelsey scrambled to her feet, reaching up to catch it, while Kia, Rinku, and Kurama watched with bated breath.
At that moment, Binetsu looked up, ducking under the cat demon's kick. Her eyes locked on the soaring object, and she let out a shrill scream of fury, gesturing.
What happened next seemed to be in slow motion. A thin streak of amethyst lightning hit the jar...it shattered...and the liquid sprayed everywhere, drenching the Mirror Holders, Youko Kurama, Rinku, Chuu, Boku, Binetsu, Kyattsuai, and Mukuro. Upon contact with whatever it touched, it disappeared, having sunk into it.
For a very long moment, all nine of them merely stood and stared at each other. Then, Binetsu started to laugh. "It's gone! IT'S GONE! Now no one will survive!" She glanced at the girls. "Well, except for you two and Kurama, but I'll be killing you anyway, so it doesn't really matter."
Neither girl replied. They couldn't. Kia felt as if her insides had turned into ice. She couldn't feel anything...nothing. Not shock, not anger, not despair, just...nothing.
The cure had been entirely destroyed. All of it. And now all of their friends in the Ningenkai were doomed.
*OOC*
o.o That's just sad...and horrible...poor Mirror Holders. Just when it seemed that there was hope, the cure was destroyed. *sniffle* I'm so mean to them...Anyway...please review. Next chapter...
* Kelsey completely loses it! Can Kia prevent her from killing Binetsu? SHOULD Kia prevent her from killing Binetsu?
* Binetsu isn't satisfied yet...now she only has to kill the Mirror Holders...uh-oh...
* Betrayal abounds! What will happen now? And just how much more can the girls take?
And now, our fifth ferrygirl, Chuurippu! (Rippu, for short, her name's somewhat easy...)
Name: Chuurippu
Age: 154 (died at age 13)
Birthday: February 13
Clothing: Bright blue kimono, yellow obi, pink kimono underneath
Hair Color/Style: Long and pale pink, wears it in two high pigtails.
Eye Color: Bright blue
Height: 4'9 1/2''
Weight: 102 lbs.
Personality: Hyperactive.
^^ Good luck with this one...
I just realized...how hard it was to make Binetsu TRULY evil. Unlike Netami, there HAD to be a reason for Binetsu going over to the Dark Side. (o.o Okay, toooo much Star Wars there...) In fact, I feel sorry for the bad guy of this story...for once. I'll just have to make the bad guy in Kikyoku EEEEVIL. That shouldn't be too hard, ne?
Okay, last chapter, we learned why Binetsu became evil. And now she's ready and willing to destroy the cure for revenge purposes or something...my apologies if this is a short chapter...I'm not very good at battle scenes. Stupid orcs are blocking my inspiration. STUPID ORCS. STUPID DENETHOR. O.o whoa, wait, how did Denethor end up in there?
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"Binetsu," Kia said, in a very reasonable tone...or so she hoped. "Please, think about this. Can't you just forgive Suzuki? I'm pretty sure he's sorry..."
"Really now." The child stared at her, obviously not believing a word of it. "Tell me, did he ever mention me at ALL?"
Taken by surprise, the girl hesitated. "Ah..."
"No. He didn't." Binetsu began to glow purple, her aura tinged with black. "He doesn't DESERVE forgiveness!" She raised her right arm and pointed at the Mirror Holders.
"Get down!" Chuu practically knocked the girls off the bed, as a bolt of violet lightning struck the mattress, disintegrating it in mere seconds.
Kia found herself facedown on the carpet, pressed firmly there by Chuu's arm. "Mmprh..."
"Gomen." He obligingly lifted the restraint so that the brunette could breathe.
"Duck for cover!!" Kelsey yelped, diving under what was left of the charred bed...which then decided to collapse on top of her in a smoky heap. Whoever said inanimate objects weren't spiteful?
The muscular drunkard and the other Mirror Holder stared, before Kia crawled over to the mess and tried lifting up large and splintery pieces of what had once been a bed. "Damn it all, astringent pomite fruit, and all that's good and holy!" She panted, not liking this sickness at all. It drained her even to pick up a broken BOARD!
"Very colorful." Two pale and slender, but strong hands grasped the headboard and pulled it off, flinging it away with a careless motion. Kia blinked, and looked up.
Mukuro knelt beside her, the right side of her face covered in rags once more. She turned to the smaller girl. "Save your strength, Hiketsu's reincarnation. I'll get her out." Before Kia could ask how she had known that, she cast her gaze about the room. It settled on Rinku. "You!" She barked, like a stern general. The simile wasn't that far off. "Guard them!"
Surprised, the boy pointed to himself. "ME??"
"YES, you!"
Rinku cringed when another bolt shattered the window, glass hitting the carpet in a sharp and deadly shower. "But-"
"The lady an' I can handle it," Chuu assured him, standing up and ambling towards Binetsu, cracking his knuckles as he went. "You just watch the girls..."
Mukuro finally succeeded in drawing Kelsey out from the bottom of the pile, slightly blackened from her brief stay in there. "Stay down," she advised. "This won't take long."
In silence, both girls watched as the demon lord rose, suddenly looking very forbidding...and very dangerous.
"I warned you that if you attempted to harm the Mirror Holders or destroy the cure, you would die," she said quietly, looking down at Binetsu. "It's time to make good on that."
"Hey," Kelsey suddenly whispered. "Doesn't Mukuro have the cure? She could've just given it to us..."
"Which would have given Binetsu a better reason to kill us," Kia pointed out. "The cure is probably the first thing on her mind right now. So, if she destroys it, we won't have much of a chance. She'll probably go after Mukuro first."
Sure enough, Binetsu launched an all-out attack on the powerful youkai Kelsey had dubbed "the boss lady". Mukuro merely deflected the bolts with her fists, charged with her own energy, and then struck back at the child, with a face like stone.
Rinku scooted over to the girls, his faithful yo-yos at the ready. "Don't worry, I'll protect you." Now if only he looked as confident as he sounded...
All three winced when Binetsu flung Chuu into a wall, merely by grasping his arms, and flipping him over her head as he charged her. The impact made a very impressive dent.
"...Ouch," Kelsey remarked, sneezing.
They heard a frantic pounding at the door. "Mukuro-sama? MUKURO-SAMA! IS EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT IN THERE?!"
"Oh, for..." The girl heaved a sigh of absolute disgust. "Your boss lady's fighting an evil brat who wants to kill us all!" She yelled in reply. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK?!"
"I think that you are-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHH, NOOOOOOOOOO!!"
"...What was THAT?" Kia turned her head to look at the closed door, cupping her hands over her ears to spare them any further damage. Mukuro, Binetsu, and Chuu, engrossed in their fight, seemed not to notice.
"Prune juice took effect?" Kelsey quipped. Both Rinku and Kia looked at her, and she shrugged. "Okay, I'll shut up now..."
"No..." Rinku whispered, bright eyes filled with trepidation. "Something..."
He was rudely interrupted when the door fell forward, free of its hinges, and hit the ground with a resounding crash. A booted foot placed itself on the fallen wood, then another, and a brown-haired man leapt lightly into the room.
"Who's that?" Both girls said at once. NOW what? Was he working for Mukuro or Binetsu?
That was answered rather promptly, as the man, spotting the three fighters, yelled, "Kodoma-sama!" and tackled Chuu.
"Boku!" The little girl cried out, evidently shocked. "What are YOU doing here! I told you to stay-"
"I know, Kodoma-sama, but I couldn't leave you to deal with these nasty people all by yourself!" He got to his feet.
Kelsey bristled. "NASTY? I'll show you NASTY!" She lunged at this "Boku" character, but Kia grabbed her arm, yanking her back.
"Kelsey, don't! We don't know what kind of powers he has-"
"We can take him! Let me go!"
"Stop being stubborn! You're going to get yourself killed!"
"Oh, YOU'RE one to talk!"
"Your friend has good reason to be cautious, little one," the man chuckled. His voice had deepened, and he held his left hand up, clutching something that neither girl could see. And then he released it.
A sudden, silent explosion smacked into the Mirror Holders and Rinku. The youkai boy hit the mirror, shattering it. Youko Kurama let out a mournful wail at its destruction. Kelsey smacked into the same wall that Chuu had previously hit, and fell to the floor. And Kia flew out the now-open window.
"SHIMATTA!" Chuu pushed past Boku and raced for the window, hoping against hope that the girl had somehow survived.
"Oh, no, you don't!" Binetsu's lapdog jumped him, and the two went down in a yelling tangle of muscled arms and legs.
Rinku sat up, shaking shards of glass out of his brown hair and plunking his cap back on his head before hurrying over to Kelsey. He shook her shoulder. "Kelsey! Are you okay?"
The girl groaned. "I've had better days." Suddenly, her gray eyes went wide, and she sat up quickly. "Kia! Where-"
The boy silently pointed to the window.
"No..." Kelsey whispered, hardly daring to breathe. "She can't be...I won't believe it!"
"Well, that's one Mirror Holder down," Binetsu said, with a smile of immense satisfaction. "I can pull the Half out of her broken body later."
"You've forgotten that you won't be ALIVE long enough to accomplish anything!" Mukuro was definitely angry now.
"Kia..." The blonde, still stricken with horror, stared numbly at the empty window. And then, she blinked.
A slender hand clutched at the sill, knuckles white.
Rinku and Kelsey rushed to the window, peering over...and met the frightened brown eyes of a certain cookie-sheet wielding Mirror Holder.
"You're alive!" Kelsey yelled happily. "You baka, how the hell did you survive?"
"I held on," Kia said wryly. "I held on for dear life. But my arm hurts...so can SOMEONE PLEASE PULL ME UP??" It seemed that she'd flipped as she'd gone through the window, and had managed to catch hold of the sill before she plunged to her death. Lucky girl.
Rinku smiled, very relieved. "Take my hand..." He leaned down, and Kia reached up with her other hand and a bit of effort. Kelsey grasped her other hand, and between the two, they were able to pull her up and back into the room, where they all collapsed, panting.
Mukuro, Binetsu, Boku, and Chuu were all staring at them, and Youko Kurama scurried over to give Kia a hug, having mourned the departure of the mirror by then.
"Just how lucky ARE YOU??" The child inventor asked disbelievingly.
Mukuro was chuckling. "Lucky enough. Luck and a bit of determination, I'd say."
"I'm glad she's alive and all, but can we get back to the fight?" Chuu didn't wait for an answer and returned to punching Boku with a gleeful grin. He obviously enjoyed a good fight...or a chance to break some legs.
"My, my...you certainly do have your excitement, don't you?" Kyattsuai stood on the door, golden eyes surveying the chaos with an air of calm. "And I thought getting past a bunch of guards with broken legs was entertaining enough."
"Here comes the cavalry," Kelsey muttered. "A bit late, but still..."
The neko youkai grinned and flipped off the door and into the room, neatly kicking Binetsu away from Mukuro. And the fight raged on. Kyattsuai's fighting skills were impressive; he seemed to have a strong grasp of the martial arts and punched, kicked, flipped, and basically caused a lot of damage to the other side. And Mukuro showed why she was one of the three demon lords of Makai...her energy and control of her powers was incredible.
"Are we winning?" Kia asked, retreating behind the other, still-whole bed with Youko Kurama, Rinku, and Kelsey.
Her friend shrugged. "I hope so."
"Kelsey!" Mukuro suddenly called out. Blinking, the girl peered over the edge of the bed. The woman was holding up the jar containing the cure. Binetsu was busy fending off Kyattsuai, and Chuu was wrestling with Boku. "Catch!" And she lobbed the glass container across the room.
Kelsey scrambled to her feet, reaching up to catch it, while Kia, Rinku, and Kurama watched with bated breath.
At that moment, Binetsu looked up, ducking under the cat demon's kick. Her eyes locked on the soaring object, and she let out a shrill scream of fury, gesturing.
What happened next seemed to be in slow motion. A thin streak of amethyst lightning hit the jar...it shattered...and the liquid sprayed everywhere, drenching the Mirror Holders, Youko Kurama, Rinku, Chuu, Boku, Binetsu, Kyattsuai, and Mukuro. Upon contact with whatever it touched, it disappeared, having sunk into it.
For a very long moment, all nine of them merely stood and stared at each other. Then, Binetsu started to laugh. "It's gone! IT'S GONE! Now no one will survive!" She glanced at the girls. "Well, except for you two and Kurama, but I'll be killing you anyway, so it doesn't really matter."
Neither girl replied. They couldn't. Kia felt as if her insides had turned into ice. She couldn't feel anything...nothing. Not shock, not anger, not despair, just...nothing.
The cure had been entirely destroyed. All of it. And now all of their friends in the Ningenkai were doomed.
*OOC*
o.o That's just sad...and horrible...poor Mirror Holders. Just when it seemed that there was hope, the cure was destroyed. *sniffle* I'm so mean to them...Anyway...please review. Next chapter...
* Kelsey completely loses it! Can Kia prevent her from killing Binetsu? SHOULD Kia prevent her from killing Binetsu?
* Binetsu isn't satisfied yet...now she only has to kill the Mirror Holders...uh-oh...
* Betrayal abounds! What will happen now? And just how much more can the girls take?
And now, our fifth ferrygirl, Chuurippu! (Rippu, for short, her name's somewhat easy...)
Name: Chuurippu
Age: 154 (died at age 13)
Birthday: February 13
Clothing: Bright blue kimono, yellow obi, pink kimono underneath
Hair Color/Style: Long and pale pink, wears it in two high pigtails.
Eye Color: Bright blue
Height: 4'9 1/2''
Weight: 102 lbs.
Personality: Hyperactive.
^^ Good luck with this one...