Destiny's Magic
ch 20
"Everything's in place," Taea said while he and Oni watched them from the shadows. "Do you think that you can get them there?"
Oni gave a slight laugh, "don't you worry, I'll get them there, you just be ready." Taea gave a slight nod and then vanished.
"So, where do we go from here?" Cye asked with a slight frown looking around at the rest of them.
"The only place to go, Dark Lighter's lair." Rowen replied with confident tone. The sound of cackling suddenly enveloped around them. They looked around quickly to see where it was coming from.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" Ryo demanded angrily drawing out his katanas.
"Easy there Wildfire, there's no need to be hostile." Oni replied sitting down on a bolder and facing them.
"No need...Look, our friends were taken by the demon lord and his priestess back to their lair! Doing who knows what to them, and you say there's no need to be hostile!" Ryo shot back growling with his eyes narrowing at him.
"I already know that, so does every demon that's around." Oni replied not budging from where he was.
"So then why are you here?!" Sage asked glaring at Oni.
"Since every demon and his brethren already know that the last two Rei Faun slayers have been captured. They'll all go to the demon lord's lair and witness their execution." Oni replied nonchalantly.
"Executed!" Cye exclaimed in horror, "no, we can't let that happen!"
"We won't Cye," Ryo replied sheathing his katanas. "We're going to storm the lair and get them out."
Oni just laughed at what he said, "you still don't get it. The capture of any slayer is quite the festivity to the demon kind. As long as there are slayers, demons won't be able to freely walk the Earth."
"No, you don't understand, they are our friends, and we're not going to let them get away with executing them! We'll stop Dark Lighter, no matter what the cost!" Rowen seethed angrily.
"Since the four of you are so, how to put it, gun ho about this, I suppose that I can help you get inside." Oni replied standing up.
"Why should we trust you? You're a demon for crying out loud! For all we know, you could be leading us into a trap of some kind!" Cye exclaimed angrily glaring at him.
"I could be, or I could just actually think that you Ronins have a chance to free them." Oni replied jumping off of the bolder. "I guess, we'll never know. So, I'll just be on my way." Oni started walking away from them.
"Oni, wait," Rowen called out to him.
"Rowen, are you crazy?!" Ryo asked angrily glaring at him as he put a hand on his shoulder and quickly turned him around.
"Ryo, we can't exactly walk in the front door, there has to be another way in. They'll more in likely be expecting us." Rowen replied trying to rationalize the situation.
Sage frowned deeply, "Ryo, Rowen's right, as much as I don't trust this demon as far as I can throw him, we don't exactly have a choice." Ryo glared at Sage, he couldn't believe that they're depending upon a demon to help them get their friends back.
"Alright, fine, we'll follow you inside, but if you even think about betraying us..."
Oni laughed as he turned his head and looked at them. "I wouldn't dream of it. Now, let's get going, we're wasting time just standing here talking." The Ronins looked around at each other with deep frowns, and then followed the demon.
At the demon lord's lair, hundreds upon hundreds of demons were coming as soon as they got word that two slayers have been captured. Demons from every shape, size, and power were gathering for the festivity, getting anxious for the ceremony to begin. "My demons, the time has come! Soon we'll be able to walk top side, no longer will we have to hide underground! The portals shall remain open, so you'll be able to travel between your realms and the realm of Earth! There will be no one to stop us from taking over the human world, and making it our own!" Dark Lighter cackled as his eyes gleamed in excitement. The demons cheered and chanted, wanting to see the last two slayers. "Nara, lower them down."
"Of course, my lord." Nara replied with a bow. She then pulled a lever; Kento and Kaye were slowly lowered into the center of the room, hanging from chains that were bounded around their wrists. Demons were jumping up, and trying to claw at them, but they were just out of reach.
"There they are, and it looks like Dark Lighter and his priestess are about ready for the execution." Oni reported whispering.
"NO!" Ryo exclaimed angrily as he was about ready to charge out of their hiding place.
Oni pulled Ryo down hard next to him. "Are you out of your mind?! You can't just charge in there! In case you didn't notice, you're vastly out numbered."
"I don't care! I'm not going to sit here and wait for an opening! The longer we wait, the less of a chance we'll get to.." Ryo replied in a very angry whisper.
While the two of them were arguing, Sage took a look around their surroundings. "Ryo, we're going to need the Inferno."
"What?! Sage, did you get any brain damage during the fight with Nara? You saw what happened the last time!" Ryo exclaimed in disbelief glancing back at him.
"I know, but if anyone is going to even come close in surviving, you have to call it!" Sage shot back.
"Look, as much as I would love to see you two fight it out, I'd suggest that you make a decision, because we have company." Oni pointed out as a demon horde was coming straight for them. Without another word, Oni leapt right into battle, leaving the rest of the Ronins behind.
"Kento, you're armor, it's glowing!" Kaye pointed out looking at him.
"That means the guys are here, but where are they?" Kento asked while they looked around trying to find them.
"It doesn't matter, you're time is up! Now say goodbye!" Dark Lighter replied taking aim at them. Kento and Kaye started to frantically struggle from their chains. During their fight with the other demons, Rowen took a glance up and saw that Dark Lighter was about to execute his victims. His eyes went wide, "NO!" Rowen quickly pulled back onto his arrow and prayed to whatever deity that was listening to guide his shot. "Come on, come on..."
"Rowen, watch your back!" Cye warned bringing his yari up and slashing a couple of demons that were about to jump him. Rowen glanced back and gave a short thankful nod. Cye nodded back and resumed fighting. Rowen looked back to where his arrow should have hit, but when he did neither of them were there. "Kento, Kaye!"
"Rowen, what's wrong?!" Sage called out to him slashing a couple of demons.
"Kento and Kaye, they were there a second ago, and then I turned around, then they're gone...Did I miss? No, I couldn't..." Rowen replied as his eyes widened in disbelief.
"Hey Rowen!" A voice called out to him.
"Ken...Kento?!" Rowen called back as his heart came close in skipping a beat.
"Yeah, who else? Hey, next time watch where you shoot! I didn't need a hair cut!" Kento joked with a smirk on his face while he and Kaye were trying to fight their way to them. Rowen laughed in relief and then resumed fighting their way to their friends. While all of this was going on, Oni and Taea finally met up with each other.
"Are you ready?" Oni asked while watching the fight.
"Yeah, I have our two weapons in position, all we need now is for that fool Wildfire to call upon the Inferno and then the rest will be history." Taea replied with a cruel smile.
"Alright, I'm going to call the Inferno!" Ryo said. The others gave a quick nod and sent their powers to him. In a blink of an eye, Ryo was standing in the Inferno armor. "Cye, Rowen, try and get to Kento and Kaye. Sage, I want you to look for an exit! Go, now, I'll take care of Dark Lighter and his priestess."
"Watch yourself Ryo." Cye called back as he and Rowen started fighting their way to them.
"Dark Lighter!" Ryo challenged angrily facing him with the Fervor swords ready.
"You're a fool to think that you even stand a chance against me with that armor! But you're more than welcome to try!" Dark Lighter laughed with a dangerous gleam in his eyes. Ryo growled angrily, and then started to call upon his attack. Here is where everyone stood, Kento and Kaye fighting the demons from where they fell in the center of the lair. Dark Lighter and Nara were standing on a platform that was behind those two. Ryo was in front of them, more than ready to call upon his attack. Cye and Rowen were getting closer to their friends. Sage was standing on a cliff over looking that lead to an exit. Oni was standing next to Taea and two girls. One was looking downward with a mirror on her chest, and another girl with wings. The girl with the mirror on her chest changed into an exact replica of Ryo with the Inferno, they were on the left side of Kento and Kaye, waiting in the shadows for their opportunity. At exactly the same time that Ryo called upon the Inferno's attack, the girl with wings duplicated his voice and the same attack came from the girl that changed into Ryo. Both attacks were headed straight for Kento, Kaye, Nara, and the Dark Lighter.
"What's...What's going on?! I can't seem to call off my attack!" Ryo said in a panic. Cye and Rowen stopped dead in their tracks, Sage's eyes widen in horror, a bright silver and golden light came out of nowhere and blended into the attacks of the two Inferno armors. A huge explosion of power hit directly in the center of the lair, and then there was nothing but dead silence...
"No...NO!" Ryo's eyes widened in extreme horror as his armor somehow called itself away.
"Ryo, what..?!" Cye asked him in concern, but when he didn't get a reply, he looked over and saw what Ryo was staring so horrified at. "NO!" Tears ran from Cye's eyes as he hurriedly ran over to the two bodies that were laying close to each other. Sage quickly jumped off of the cliff and ran over to them, Rowen was in a shock state as well.
"This can't be happening! It can't..." Ryo said getting hysterical, and then he looks widely at Sage. "Sage, heal them, you have to heal them!"
"We have to get them above ground, it's not safe here the whole place will come down on us any minute!" Rowen replied with a deep frown picking up Kento's body.
Cye nodded with tears in his eyes as he picked up Kaye's body. As soon as they got a hold of them, Sage lead them to the exit that he found on the cliff. On the climb, he glanced back and saw that Dark Lighter and Nara were both incinerated beyond recognition. He closed his eyes, and then turned his head up and opened them resuming his climb.
During their climb, the Ronins didn't even notice that Taea and Oni were watching them from below. "I can't believe that your plan actually worked. It got rid of Dark Lighter, his priestess, and the two Rei Fauns. I'm impressed Taea." Oni said with a grin.
"You were in doubt?" Taea asked with a raised eyebrow.
"In the beginning, but then once I saw that it actually worked," Oni replied, and then his eyes glowed red and his claws plunged deep into Taea's heart. Oni twisted it a couple of times before he jerked it out and tossed it aside.
Taea gasped in surprise, "why. Why, did you betray me Oni?" asking in his dying breath.
Oni just looked at the dead body of the last line of the Tsungs family. "I told you before...You know nothing about demons, you're a worthless demon slayer, just like your uncle. You should have known, never and I repeat, never strike a bargain with a demon." Oni replied with an evil laugh as he vanished while the demon lord's lair collapsed, burying it completely. When they finally made it outside, Rowen and Cye laid Kento's and Kaye's bodies down on the ground. Sage went between them to see what he could do.
They couldn't believe what or even how it happened. "Ryo..." Cye started to say turning around and facing him. "What happened!?"
"I...I don't know." Ryo replied in extreme confusion.
"You don't know! Ryo, our friends are dead!" Cye yelled at him angrily about ready to charge him.
"Cye, don't!" Rowen said grabbing onto his arm.
"Rowen..." Cye shouted at him as he yanked his arm away.
"Ryo, do you have any idea..?" Sage asked as he kept on trying to heal them.
"All I know, is that I was totally focused on destroying Dark Lighter and his priestess that I...I, God, it's my fault...It's my fault!" Ryo yelled at the top of his lungs angrily. Ryo balled his fists so tight that his knuckles were turning white. He started to pound trees, boulders, anything solid that got in his way.
"Sage?" Cye asked hopefully.
"I'm sorry Cye, I did everything that I could, they're....They're dead." Sage replied as he let his tears flow freely down his face.
"No. NO!" Cye exclaimed falling down onto his knees by Kento's body. "Kento, come on, you can't die..." Rowen sadly walked over towards Kaye's body and slowly fell to his knees.
"They're actually gone, I don't believe it." Rowen said quietly as his tears and everyone else's tears flowed like a broken dam. Each of them morning for their lost friends, past memories flooded their minds, while their feelings flooded over their hearts.
ch 20
"Everything's in place," Taea said while he and Oni watched them from the shadows. "Do you think that you can get them there?"
Oni gave a slight laugh, "don't you worry, I'll get them there, you just be ready." Taea gave a slight nod and then vanished.
"So, where do we go from here?" Cye asked with a slight frown looking around at the rest of them.
"The only place to go, Dark Lighter's lair." Rowen replied with confident tone. The sound of cackling suddenly enveloped around them. They looked around quickly to see where it was coming from.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" Ryo demanded angrily drawing out his katanas.
"Easy there Wildfire, there's no need to be hostile." Oni replied sitting down on a bolder and facing them.
"No need...Look, our friends were taken by the demon lord and his priestess back to their lair! Doing who knows what to them, and you say there's no need to be hostile!" Ryo shot back growling with his eyes narrowing at him.
"I already know that, so does every demon that's around." Oni replied not budging from where he was.
"So then why are you here?!" Sage asked glaring at Oni.
"Since every demon and his brethren already know that the last two Rei Faun slayers have been captured. They'll all go to the demon lord's lair and witness their execution." Oni replied nonchalantly.
"Executed!" Cye exclaimed in horror, "no, we can't let that happen!"
"We won't Cye," Ryo replied sheathing his katanas. "We're going to storm the lair and get them out."
Oni just laughed at what he said, "you still don't get it. The capture of any slayer is quite the festivity to the demon kind. As long as there are slayers, demons won't be able to freely walk the Earth."
"No, you don't understand, they are our friends, and we're not going to let them get away with executing them! We'll stop Dark Lighter, no matter what the cost!" Rowen seethed angrily.
"Since the four of you are so, how to put it, gun ho about this, I suppose that I can help you get inside." Oni replied standing up.
"Why should we trust you? You're a demon for crying out loud! For all we know, you could be leading us into a trap of some kind!" Cye exclaimed angrily glaring at him.
"I could be, or I could just actually think that you Ronins have a chance to free them." Oni replied jumping off of the bolder. "I guess, we'll never know. So, I'll just be on my way." Oni started walking away from them.
"Oni, wait," Rowen called out to him.
"Rowen, are you crazy?!" Ryo asked angrily glaring at him as he put a hand on his shoulder and quickly turned him around.
"Ryo, we can't exactly walk in the front door, there has to be another way in. They'll more in likely be expecting us." Rowen replied trying to rationalize the situation.
Sage frowned deeply, "Ryo, Rowen's right, as much as I don't trust this demon as far as I can throw him, we don't exactly have a choice." Ryo glared at Sage, he couldn't believe that they're depending upon a demon to help them get their friends back.
"Alright, fine, we'll follow you inside, but if you even think about betraying us..."
Oni laughed as he turned his head and looked at them. "I wouldn't dream of it. Now, let's get going, we're wasting time just standing here talking." The Ronins looked around at each other with deep frowns, and then followed the demon.
At the demon lord's lair, hundreds upon hundreds of demons were coming as soon as they got word that two slayers have been captured. Demons from every shape, size, and power were gathering for the festivity, getting anxious for the ceremony to begin. "My demons, the time has come! Soon we'll be able to walk top side, no longer will we have to hide underground! The portals shall remain open, so you'll be able to travel between your realms and the realm of Earth! There will be no one to stop us from taking over the human world, and making it our own!" Dark Lighter cackled as his eyes gleamed in excitement. The demons cheered and chanted, wanting to see the last two slayers. "Nara, lower them down."
"Of course, my lord." Nara replied with a bow. She then pulled a lever; Kento and Kaye were slowly lowered into the center of the room, hanging from chains that were bounded around their wrists. Demons were jumping up, and trying to claw at them, but they were just out of reach.
"There they are, and it looks like Dark Lighter and his priestess are about ready for the execution." Oni reported whispering.
"NO!" Ryo exclaimed angrily as he was about ready to charge out of their hiding place.
Oni pulled Ryo down hard next to him. "Are you out of your mind?! You can't just charge in there! In case you didn't notice, you're vastly out numbered."
"I don't care! I'm not going to sit here and wait for an opening! The longer we wait, the less of a chance we'll get to.." Ryo replied in a very angry whisper.
While the two of them were arguing, Sage took a look around their surroundings. "Ryo, we're going to need the Inferno."
"What?! Sage, did you get any brain damage during the fight with Nara? You saw what happened the last time!" Ryo exclaimed in disbelief glancing back at him.
"I know, but if anyone is going to even come close in surviving, you have to call it!" Sage shot back.
"Look, as much as I would love to see you two fight it out, I'd suggest that you make a decision, because we have company." Oni pointed out as a demon horde was coming straight for them. Without another word, Oni leapt right into battle, leaving the rest of the Ronins behind.
"Kento, you're armor, it's glowing!" Kaye pointed out looking at him.
"That means the guys are here, but where are they?" Kento asked while they looked around trying to find them.
"It doesn't matter, you're time is up! Now say goodbye!" Dark Lighter replied taking aim at them. Kento and Kaye started to frantically struggle from their chains. During their fight with the other demons, Rowen took a glance up and saw that Dark Lighter was about to execute his victims. His eyes went wide, "NO!" Rowen quickly pulled back onto his arrow and prayed to whatever deity that was listening to guide his shot. "Come on, come on..."
"Rowen, watch your back!" Cye warned bringing his yari up and slashing a couple of demons that were about to jump him. Rowen glanced back and gave a short thankful nod. Cye nodded back and resumed fighting. Rowen looked back to where his arrow should have hit, but when he did neither of them were there. "Kento, Kaye!"
"Rowen, what's wrong?!" Sage called out to him slashing a couple of demons.
"Kento and Kaye, they were there a second ago, and then I turned around, then they're gone...Did I miss? No, I couldn't..." Rowen replied as his eyes widened in disbelief.
"Hey Rowen!" A voice called out to him.
"Ken...Kento?!" Rowen called back as his heart came close in skipping a beat.
"Yeah, who else? Hey, next time watch where you shoot! I didn't need a hair cut!" Kento joked with a smirk on his face while he and Kaye were trying to fight their way to them. Rowen laughed in relief and then resumed fighting their way to their friends. While all of this was going on, Oni and Taea finally met up with each other.
"Are you ready?" Oni asked while watching the fight.
"Yeah, I have our two weapons in position, all we need now is for that fool Wildfire to call upon the Inferno and then the rest will be history." Taea replied with a cruel smile.
"Alright, I'm going to call the Inferno!" Ryo said. The others gave a quick nod and sent their powers to him. In a blink of an eye, Ryo was standing in the Inferno armor. "Cye, Rowen, try and get to Kento and Kaye. Sage, I want you to look for an exit! Go, now, I'll take care of Dark Lighter and his priestess."
"Watch yourself Ryo." Cye called back as he and Rowen started fighting their way to them.
"Dark Lighter!" Ryo challenged angrily facing him with the Fervor swords ready.
"You're a fool to think that you even stand a chance against me with that armor! But you're more than welcome to try!" Dark Lighter laughed with a dangerous gleam in his eyes. Ryo growled angrily, and then started to call upon his attack. Here is where everyone stood, Kento and Kaye fighting the demons from where they fell in the center of the lair. Dark Lighter and Nara were standing on a platform that was behind those two. Ryo was in front of them, more than ready to call upon his attack. Cye and Rowen were getting closer to their friends. Sage was standing on a cliff over looking that lead to an exit. Oni was standing next to Taea and two girls. One was looking downward with a mirror on her chest, and another girl with wings. The girl with the mirror on her chest changed into an exact replica of Ryo with the Inferno, they were on the left side of Kento and Kaye, waiting in the shadows for their opportunity. At exactly the same time that Ryo called upon the Inferno's attack, the girl with wings duplicated his voice and the same attack came from the girl that changed into Ryo. Both attacks were headed straight for Kento, Kaye, Nara, and the Dark Lighter.
"What's...What's going on?! I can't seem to call off my attack!" Ryo said in a panic. Cye and Rowen stopped dead in their tracks, Sage's eyes widen in horror, a bright silver and golden light came out of nowhere and blended into the attacks of the two Inferno armors. A huge explosion of power hit directly in the center of the lair, and then there was nothing but dead silence...
"No...NO!" Ryo's eyes widened in extreme horror as his armor somehow called itself away.
"Ryo, what..?!" Cye asked him in concern, but when he didn't get a reply, he looked over and saw what Ryo was staring so horrified at. "NO!" Tears ran from Cye's eyes as he hurriedly ran over to the two bodies that were laying close to each other. Sage quickly jumped off of the cliff and ran over to them, Rowen was in a shock state as well.
"This can't be happening! It can't..." Ryo said getting hysterical, and then he looks widely at Sage. "Sage, heal them, you have to heal them!"
"We have to get them above ground, it's not safe here the whole place will come down on us any minute!" Rowen replied with a deep frown picking up Kento's body.
Cye nodded with tears in his eyes as he picked up Kaye's body. As soon as they got a hold of them, Sage lead them to the exit that he found on the cliff. On the climb, he glanced back and saw that Dark Lighter and Nara were both incinerated beyond recognition. He closed his eyes, and then turned his head up and opened them resuming his climb.
During their climb, the Ronins didn't even notice that Taea and Oni were watching them from below. "I can't believe that your plan actually worked. It got rid of Dark Lighter, his priestess, and the two Rei Fauns. I'm impressed Taea." Oni said with a grin.
"You were in doubt?" Taea asked with a raised eyebrow.
"In the beginning, but then once I saw that it actually worked," Oni replied, and then his eyes glowed red and his claws plunged deep into Taea's heart. Oni twisted it a couple of times before he jerked it out and tossed it aside.
Taea gasped in surprise, "why. Why, did you betray me Oni?" asking in his dying breath.
Oni just looked at the dead body of the last line of the Tsungs family. "I told you before...You know nothing about demons, you're a worthless demon slayer, just like your uncle. You should have known, never and I repeat, never strike a bargain with a demon." Oni replied with an evil laugh as he vanished while the demon lord's lair collapsed, burying it completely. When they finally made it outside, Rowen and Cye laid Kento's and Kaye's bodies down on the ground. Sage went between them to see what he could do.
They couldn't believe what or even how it happened. "Ryo..." Cye started to say turning around and facing him. "What happened!?"
"I...I don't know." Ryo replied in extreme confusion.
"You don't know! Ryo, our friends are dead!" Cye yelled at him angrily about ready to charge him.
"Cye, don't!" Rowen said grabbing onto his arm.
"Rowen..." Cye shouted at him as he yanked his arm away.
"Ryo, do you have any idea..?" Sage asked as he kept on trying to heal them.
"All I know, is that I was totally focused on destroying Dark Lighter and his priestess that I...I, God, it's my fault...It's my fault!" Ryo yelled at the top of his lungs angrily. Ryo balled his fists so tight that his knuckles were turning white. He started to pound trees, boulders, anything solid that got in his way.
"Sage?" Cye asked hopefully.
"I'm sorry Cye, I did everything that I could, they're....They're dead." Sage replied as he let his tears flow freely down his face.
"No. NO!" Cye exclaimed falling down onto his knees by Kento's body. "Kento, come on, you can't die..." Rowen sadly walked over towards Kaye's body and slowly fell to his knees.
"They're actually gone, I don't believe it." Rowen said quietly as his tears and everyone else's tears flowed like a broken dam. Each of them morning for their lost friends, past memories flooded their minds, while their feelings flooded over their hearts.