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TITLE: Silver Dragon

AUTHOR: kitsune_no_baka

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CHAPTER I:

IN THE MEMORY

I can feel the frosty wind around my head. It surrounded me, transforming
itself into mist that froze me in time. It was dark and cold again. The
atrocious darkness rose beneath the millennium eternity. The eclipse
embraced the uneven skies digging its claws, shattering reality.

Pain.

Anger

My blood flowed dangerously to my veins. I can feel myself slowly drowning. My right arm hung high in the water and my left hand held my katana.. 'just in case'. I was drowning, I was suffocating. I closed my eyes hoping that I will submerge, bleeding on the surface, breathing on the surface. I hoped.
I even prayed, but nothing happened. 'K'so.I could never die drowning. I
wouldn't allow such thing. I, the Jaganshi, the Forbidden Child, the Koorime. The Black Dragon himself. will never die'. My body was going numb
again. I couldn't feel, but I needed to. I have to. I must survive. Fear
came crashing down on me.

'Why?'

'Baka, Why?'

'Me? Afraid'

'No'

'Am I too afraid to admit fear'. I don't want any one knowing it existed in me, even myself. Maybe I was too afraid to know. to know. it still existed within me. No. Does it still exist? Does it still live? I wanted questions
to be answered. But to find out is to take the risk. I opened my eyes
slowly and found nothing but a faint figure of the horizon. It was beautiful. The hypnotizing scene uncovered its true beauty. The sky beside
it shone like gems of sapphire and below it was a reflection of the
cerulean paradise.

'Where am I?'

I stood in the edge of a cliff staring at the sky. 'Where'd all the water
go? Is it possible that my prayers were answered?'
"Hey you!" a voice called breaking my train of thoughts. I held my Katana ready to make a move. I turned around slowly and silently. My eyes widened. It was the kitsune. His silver tresses were moving in unison with the wind. The enchantment in his splendor was taking my breath away. His silver eyes
were gazing into my crimson ones enticing me to approach him. He reached
out his hand. I moved forward and slowly reached for it. We held each
others hands. He looked at me once more and grabbed me. He held me close, embracing me. My eyes widened when scenes started flooding my mind. It was
digging a buried memory behind my head.

[Memory]

It was a rainy night. Hiding under the caves, I made fire to warm myself
up. Rejection. The only emotion living inside me. The only emotion living
within me. It was raining hard. I had to hide. To take shelter. To run
away. Run away. Just like the hunted. The voice was right. I was nothing but a thief. A hungry assassin, paid, laid and made. I couldn't stop myself
from lying, stealing and cheating myself. I watched the smoke flowing to
the heavens. Black smoke covered the city. I destroyed it. I didn't mean
to. I was just after the youkai who took my tear gem. And I used my Kokuryuha. I knew I couldn't destroy him. I knew I was still weak. I sensed
my defeat. I had no choice.
[FLASHBACK] "Before you use it, you must be strong and powerful. You must intimidate it
and make it obey you." Shigure warned. "Don't be such a hard headed fool,
or else it'll cost your life."
'Don't be such a hard headed fool.'
'It'll cost your life.'
"Cost your life'
'your life'
'your life Jaganshi..'
"Hn. So what?"
"So what?!"
"It's useless without me."
'Yes.. It's useless without you..'
'But without it. you're useless too'
"K'so.."
'Remember your sister..'
"My sister?"
"Yukina."
"I still have to find her."
"I can't give up now.."
"I must see her once again.."
"Once again"
[END OF FLASHBACK]
A smile crossed my features. I knew it would be a suicide but it was the
only way. I could either die here in defeat or kill this ugly bastard and
continue my journey. "Hn.. You can't take me down. Not until I find my
sister." I whispered.
"JAOU-EN-SATSU-KOKU-RYU-HAAA!!!"
Ebony smoke started forming in my right arm. Electricity waves started to move from my shoulders to my palms. Lightning and thunder joined the ritual I was inflicting. Purple flames came out and a jolt of pain was stabbing my heart. The black fire wrapped around the youkai. I could see the creatures
slowly melting in vain. The dragon held him tightly like a snake who
finally caught its prey.
'Eat him.'
'Destroy him.' The dragon's crimson eyes stared at me with unrevealing emotions. It looked
like it was looking at me from head to toe. It let a loud cry escape from
its chest and it uncontrollably flew around. Black fire sprung around the
building, destroying it until fire rushed through the houses connected to
it. 'No.'
[End of Memory]