Chapter 13: Busted


Manic Reality

Darkness lingers

Shadows awake

For in the Darkness

Lies Eternity

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Stalking faces

Haunting eyes

Amber orbs

Like pits of Hell

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Canines glisten

Dripping blood

A bite mark remains

Of this maniacal dream

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Raging fury

Wistful greed

The Devil's quest

Is near complete

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Lust and Love

Twists His heart

Wings of an Angel

Are tainted by His deeds

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The tainted Angel

Shall give Him strength

And He will reign

Beware the Night

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The Madness will end

The Dark Prince reigns

And in the Insanity

The Angel surrenders complete.

By Ice Angel Kaoru (A/N: Thank you so much! ^_^)


Eyes flickering open, the vampire groaned as she felt her body ache all over after she woke up from her earlier ministration with her past and new lover. Her mind causing the room to swirl as she sat up on her left elbow. Eyes adjusting to the dark night easily, she looked around the room and noticed that she was on the now green and blue mixed bed sheets and walls alone; her naked body wrapped up neatly in the bed sheets. Sitting up quickly when she realized that her new mate wasn't with her, she began to look around in panic hoping that she hadn't been dreaming.

"Aoshi?" asked Misao, her throat dry.

Moving a hand to her neck as she realized how croaky her voice sounded when she spoke, she knew that needed something to quench her growing thirst.

"Lord Aoshi?" asked the new vampire as she placed her feet on the edge of the bed, her hand holding tightly onto the blanket. Still a bit dizzy and out of from before, her legs barely managed to support her as she walked and felt warm and powerful arms wrap around her waist as she was about to fall on the floor.

Eyes fluttering up, she smiled as her eyes met warm blue ones as her love helped her to stand up. Hugging the now clothed vampire, she happily allowed him to pick her up bridal style and place her back on the bed.

"I thought it was just a dream," whispered Misao as she blushed, her face heating as Aoshi kissed her forehead and led a trail to her rosy lips and shook his head.

"Something that wonderful couldn't have been a dream," reassured the older creature as he moved a few strands of hair from her face. His hands moving through her long locks as the silky ebony material ran through his hands like water.

Misao could feel her face warm but was certain that her face wasn't red for one could never really tell if a vampire blushed due to the fact that they were the damned. Meaning they were basically dead but still living like humans.

"You need to rest koibito; you've had a rough night. I promise to make it up to you," said Aoshi as he moved the blanket over her lithe form and smiled at her. Which caused the girl to cry in happiness at being able to finally see the one that she had loved for more than a lifetime smile and claim her as his own.

Clawed hands wiped her tears away tenderly before leaving her face and facing the door.

"Where are you going?" asked Misao as she moved to sit up, but only gained a disapproving look from the vampire when he faced her again.

"Anji is about to come and I need to speak with him about what's happened at the Temple. You just rest here koibito and I'll be back as soon as I am allowed," said Aoshi comfortingly. He kissed her forehead before leaving the room; sliding doors opening as the man stepped out of the sound barrier room.

Sighing, the new vampire leisurely closed her eyes as she curled up into a ball; her mind replaying the events earlier that night.

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The angry battle cries began to grow as lightning streaked the sky; roars from creatures of the shadows collided and with the thunder. Pouring rain bounced off the ground as it soaked the occupants of the night. Washing the red liquid on the ground as a great power pulsed through the night. The feel of the power growing stronger coursed through their veins, making them all shudder from the incredible ki.

"What's happening?" shouted a loud voice.

"I don't know, but I don't think I like it at all! Whatever's happening, it's affecting us all," said a vampire with sapphire orbs. His once smiling face becoming deadly serious.

"It's like the birth of some new power!" yelled Shura as she looked through the rain towards their Lord's office.

The other vampires, zombies, and werewolves that were fighting stopped and stared at the violet glow and began to race towards it. They could all hear the mighty cry of the power that was located in the building, could feel the power and wanted to capture it for their own benefits. Letting greed take over, they ignored their true purpose for being just outside of Kyoto in the first place and battled one another to get to the power first.

"We have to get there before they do!" shouted Sanosuke's loud voice. The vampires all nodded and pushed their way through the growing crowd of monsters; they didn't know why they were all attracted to the power but they knew that their Lord was going to need their help for his presence in the building was all too noticeable.

As the rain slowed them all down it caused many to fall and trip; the winds roared making it hard for the shadow beings to see where they were going. It were as if nature itself didn't want anyone to interrupt what was going on in downtown Metallic Kyoto. The impact that the many bodies created as they scrambled towards the energy source caused many to lose oxygen and collapse making those behind them lose their balance. It was as if they were starved creatures finally being able to eat; no one cared about anyone but themselves as they fought to get to the front and be able to race for the new power. The fighting got more out hand than when it was six to over two thousand rebellious creatures.

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Holding the only being that was able to hold his heart and take his blood for centuries, the most powerful being in the world lifted the new vampire in his arms as he made his way towards his desk to place her on the comfortable chair. As if lightning had struck through him, his eyes changed from amber to amethyst and back to red. Shaking his head from the odd feeling, the vampire lord moved to place the girl down when the room began to glow a brighter violet as the shades of blue and red blended together from the ki within the swords. The ki within his red sword set shined a deadly blood red as he remembered how he had used his katana to kill his enemy and loved one. Guilt washing over him, he narrowed his eyes as his sword grew brighter and brighter as if calling for him to hold his weapon once again and shed blood like it was made to do.

"Battousai..." whispered Kirei's soft voice, her head leaning against his chest causing the tension to leave his body as he looked back down at his love.

As if the weapons were jealous that the two were with each other and not using them properly, the sets of swords began to pulsate dangerously causing the nuclear power of the room to flicker on and off crazily as well as the lights of the other building in Metallic Kyoto.

"What's going on?" asked the woman in his arms. Red eyes met his own ruby ones and then stared at the katana and wakizashi that were glowing a deadly flaming sapphire.

"I don't know, but they've never reacted this way," said Battousai. His mate jumped out of his hold and walked towards the weapons and in seconds he was by her side.

"They were ours, don't you think that we should to take them back?" asked Kirei as she grinned at her love.

"Weren't you just angry at me?" mocked Battousai with a grin as Kirei playfully growled at him.

Before Kirei could move a hand on the weapons the wakizashi and katana that were on her hips fell to the floor and shattered. The couple jumped back when Battousai's own set did the same thing.

"What just happened?" asked Kirei as she looked at Battousai for an answer.

"Our old weapons' power must have disintegrated our newer ones," said Battousai. He didn't know how his weapons were doing such a thing but he was certain that he didn't like how it was affecting the things around them.

Kirei stepped forward but was grabbed back by Battousai's clawed hand on her elbow, he didn't want her to get hurt again by the same weapon that was used on her before.

"Don't worry about it, this time it'll be different," reassured Kirei as she smiled at him and moved a hand over his own so that he loosened his grip and followed her towards the weapons.

Just before the couple was able to reach the weapons the windows of the building crashed and fell to the ground as the glass surrounded them. Covering them with his cape, Battousai growled when they turned back and saw a group of vampires hissing at them angrily as they tried to jump for the weapons. Not wanting to get his mate injured like before, Battousai pushed Kirei behind him protectively as he instinctively took the closest weapon to him and that just happened to the red katana. Moving the weapon to his hip, he took the wakizashi as well.

Unsheathing the weapons before any of the vampires could move he charged towards the disobeying creatures and slit their throats. He then moved to cut out their hearts so that they couldn't come back. His eyes went wide as he saw the vampires squirm on the ground as blood escaped their body until there was no blood left and their bodies vanished.

"That's not suppose to happen, they're not suppose to die until they're heart or brain is destroyed, how did they die like humans?" asked Kirei as she shook her head in disbelief at what she just saw. Something was wrong and it was messing with their vampire nature; terrified crimson eyes met blood lust ones.

"I feel stronger," said Battousai as he held both weapons in his hands and laughed as they pulsed with new power, the blood in the swords seemed to be sucked in as the weapons aura and the vampire's grew.

Kirei only shook her head as she backed away; it was as if her love had been possessed by the weapons. She couldn't believe her eyes as she moved back towards the window, and screamed as the windows crashed and the glass tore at her back as she ducked to the ground so as not to get cut. Before she could use her own martial arts technique to kill the vampire that managed to enter the building, the ringing of metal on flesh raced through her head. Wide eyes watched as Battousai's sword went into the creature's chest and horrified saw the sword suck up the blood from the vampire until there was nothing left and the body became ash.

Moving away from the vampire before her, she stopped when her back made contact with something. Turning around she saw the blue pulsing weapons that were calling out to her to use them the same way as her mate. But she wasn't going to use them, not if she could help it. She wasn't going to become a blood lust monster, she was going to remain normal and not power crazy. Eyes flickering to its normal blue, Kaoru ran towards the window but stopped when a dark looming stepped in front of her.

"Please don't Battousai... It's me Kaoru," said the frightened vampire as she took a few steps back unconsciously, a hand to her chest.

"Take the weapons dear, with it you'll become stronger and we won't have to ever be afraid of losing each other. We can rule the world...together," said the vampire as he advanced on her, his movements confident as the blades of his swords gleamed red in the night, the blood vanishing as quickly as it touched the sword.

"You already do," said Kaoru as she backed away, hoping to stall him long enough for another distraction.

"I might be the strongest, but now no one can threaten me by using you. I can make sure that everyone listens and there shall be no more rebellious creatures, there shall be no one to go against our orders," said Battousai his eyes flickering from amethyst, red, amber, amethyst and then back to a bloody red.

"You've gone power hungry and it's all the sword's fault! You should have destroyed them before! The sword is taking over your mind, you've got to get rid of it!" yelled Kaoru as she stopped and pointed to the swords.

She knew that the blood of Shishio and all of the others that they had killed in their last battle together had soaked into the katana, knew that from all those years that the swords were together the old blood on all four of the weapons had caused the swords to change. It was like when a creature was exposed to a toxin for too long and it wasn't filtered out of their body; the creature would evolve for the better or worse. Kaoru knew that the weapons were never cleaned and realized when she saw that Battousai's sword was shinning clean when he unsheathed it; that the blood had to go somewhere and that was within the weapons themselves. The swords had evolved to be like vampires; draining a being so that they can become stronger.

"Don't act like this Kaoru. Join me. You know that you don't want to leave me alone. Don't leave me in this darkness for all of eternity," said the soft voice that belonged to Kenshin, as she was greeted by gentle amethyst eyes.

"Kenshin..."

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The magical sound of bells rang through the white temple as the priest and priestesses all joined together in prayer in the center of the Temple of Six Arches as they always did at exactly midnight. As they joined hands together around the statue and the two twins in the center who were still praying on the tatami mats, the sword that was before the twins began to glow a holy white. With closed eyes, their words that they seemed to chant became a sweet melody that echoed through the entire temple; lighting the whole place.

"That's not supposed to happen," whispered Megumi as she watched the sword that held Shishio's inner soul and power glow brightly.

"Do you think it's because of the twins?" suggested Tae as the two stared from the right; Dr. Genzai standing with a proud smile at the twins to their right.

"Most likely, they are the offspring of the oldest and purist vampires," said Megumi as she watched the show.

"And of two of the strongest as well," added a light yet serious voice from behind them.

Turning around the two vampires bowed to the male and female that walked in silently; they smiled at Tokio in her white dress and nodded to Saitou in his dark blue outfit.

"Anji said that you'd come here," said Tae.

"He should be arriving at the mansion soon, if he doesn't get distracted," said the wolf like vampire as his amber orbs remained fixated on the twins.

"Why would he?" asked Megumi a bit confused at his words.

"When we arrived, we felt a strange change in Lord Battousai's ki and there were thousands of other creatures on the roads tonight," said Tokio grimly as she looked at the ritual that was being performed before them.

"And we ordered him to pick up the two brats," said Saitou.

"You mean Tsubame and Yahiko?" asked Tae, getting a nod from the couple, their attention else where.

"I almost forgot about them!" said Megumi in shock as she moved a hand over her mouth.

"That's why we ordered him to pick up the two; we knew that you knuckle heads wouldn't remember," said Saitou.

Ignoring the glares that he was receiving, his molten orbs fell on the pulsating sword in the center.

"That's the exact replica of Lord Battousai's katana," noted Tokio as she looked at the weapon closer than she had when she came here before.

"Those two weapons were formed from the same person and created so that the two held a connection. So that if one was destroyed the other would take its place. Something must be happening with the other ancient blade," stated Saitou as he seemed to be in deep thought; the white sword before them seemed to be changing for some reason.

"Do you think that something could have happened to Lord Battousai?" asked Tae as she heard their conversation.

"I highly doubt it, but something must have happened to this one's twin," said Saitou as he looked at Shishio's soul's prison.

"But what?" asked Megumi as the group fell silent as they thought about it.

"You don't think that...." began Tokio as she looked at her mate.

"Let's pray to the heavens that that isn't the reason," said Saitou as his face hardened and he became deadly serious.

"What?" asked the other two vampires at the same time, the sound of the prayers enveloping them as Tokio answered their question.

"The swords have transformed, just like Prophecy said," said Tokio.

"What Prophecy?" questioned Tae confused.

"The one that was made by the Eldest Vampire before his death; the one that no one cared to think twice about. 'As shadows fall upon the night and the light has become again, the transformation of a powerful being will take way. If this light is taken away, darkness shall come forever more with a pool of red.' No one has ever been able to understand what it meant, but now... Now it's all becoming clear," said Tokio as she looked up at the male vampire.

"The Prophecy has begun."


A/N: That's it for now, I hope that you all enjoyed it!