Aaahhh hontou ni gomen nasai!! I really really felt dead alot lately with absolutely zero inspiration and alot of laziness. Thanks for all the very nice reviews jerjonji, gentleness28, Angel, Youkari Youkai and Kya77. Im really sorry for such a late update. I do hope you will all read this. Please do review to let me know what you think and please feel free to point out any loopholes if you encounter them.
Please be warned that this chapter is not for the light hearted. I tend to describe battles alot. No, its not that gory. .
P.s. Kya, half right! XD
In the previous chapter : Kei went into a depression when his dreams of entering SquareEnix were shattered. To make it worse, his "friends" insulted him by telling him he was incapable of anything, but he realised the difference between friend and foe and managed to shatter the illusion. Now the evil entity has more for the rest of the knights.
"Rise and shine my little pawns!" The chilling voice called out. The older knights blinked their eyes open. As their eyes became accustomed to the lack of light they began to take in their surroundings and realised that they were in the garden of the Awayuki mansion. As the knights glanced around they noted that each was okay, just badly shaken up.
"Where are Shin, Mannen and Hajime?" Kei asked. "Oh, you'll see them soon enough. For now, I have a little present for you." The voice responded, amused.
They looked around again. Everything seemed normal. The key word being 'seemed'. Then they heard a loud splash.
Suddenly, Hayate gasped and froze in shock. Kei, Go and Sasame turned towards where he was looking. Half floating in the fountain was the still and badly battered body of Himeno. The group ran towards her and quickly, Hayate lifted the cold body from the red stained water. Shaking her lightly to wake her up he began assessing her wounds. The damage seemed familiar...Almost as if it was inflicted by them.
"Himeno.." He called out. There was no response. "Himeno!!! HIMENO!!!" He began shaking her harder. The other knights snapped out of their shock and restrained him. "Its okay Hayate, it will all be okay... We'll get to the bottom of this and find out what happened. This cannot be as it seems. Himeno is stronger than this. It will be alright." Kei reasoned, denial present in his slightly shaky voice.
"HOW COULD IT BE ALRIGHT?! Himeno.. Himeno's..-"
"Dead? Deceased? Annihilated? Absolutely breathless? Gone?" The evil voice was back once more, cackling at her own stupid joke. Slowly she began to materialize a few feet infront of them and for the first time they saw her form.
She looked like she came from midieval England, with a large off white dress, pearls on her fair neck and gold clips in her long red curly hair. She smiled and her red lips pursed into a cynical grin as her hazel eyes glinted with evil mischief. Hayate looked up at her with absolute resent. Without prior warning, he lunged up at her calling forth a strong gust of wind.
What happened next almost looked like as if it were in slow motion. Hayate's attacked almost reached the woman when suddenly it looked like as if the attack had passed through a barrier and was just a small droplet of water causing ripples in a pond. The next thing they knew, the attacked had destroyed a good part of the garden behind the evil woman. They looked at her in shock, they were pretty sure she hadn't dodged, or did she? Its wasn't possible that the attack simply passed through her.
She began laughing again. Go scrunched his face in anger. "That's getting to be VERY irritating you know!" He shouted as he launched an attack of his own, but just like with Hayate, the same thing happened.
"My, my, still fooling around are we? Your little princess is dead anyway, you're all probably powerless little insects without her."
"What have you done to her?" Kei asked coldly.
"Well I thought it be rather obvious." She said with a flick of her hand, suggesting that they were asking something very ridiculous. "I killed her." She stated simply.
Hayate was about to launch another attack but Kei stopped him. "Ok that was obvious, now why did you do it?"
"To prove how absolutely useless you are. Once you're all gone, I'll just keep destroying more and more lives..."
"Why?"
"For fun."
"Ugh.." Was all Kei could manage to express his extreme anger and disgust at this woman. Quickly, he began thinking of ways to wipe her off the face of the planet. It was evident that she was in another realm. How else could she bypass all the attacks? What they needed to do now was to find a doorway into that realm and destroy her before it was too late. Motioning for the other knights to come closer to him, he leaned inwards and whispered his plans.
"The only way she could've dodged those attacks is if she-" Kei got cut off halfway.
"Was in another realm." Sasame finished.
"So what we need to do now is to-"
"Find the door to the realm, enter it and kill her." Go finished this time. Kei sighed.
"So Hayate should go and find this door while we-"
"Distract her." Hayate finished this time. All of them nodded in agreement and Kei, Go and Sasame turned to face her as Hayate laid Himeno's lifeless body down, scanning the area for anything that could be a door or anything that didn't quite fit in with the surroundings.
Suddenly, in a flash all of them were airborn. Kei, Go and Sasame readied an attack on the woman while Hayate darted around looking for the door. Just as the the former launched their attack, the woman raised a long fingered hand and grinned up at them.
"I...ugh I can't move!" Go said in frustration. "Neither can I." Kei said. "Me too." The Knight of Sound added.
The woman tilted her head in the direction of Hayate. "You think your little friends could distract me from you? All of you should be punished for that." She dramatised. Kei felt sick to his stomach.
With a flick of her wrist she sent the knights plummeting to the ground at a great speed. The four of them landed with a loud thud, followed by the sound of bones breaking.
She looked with satisfaction at the pain she had caused each of the knights who were all just struggling to recover, agony etched over each of their faces.
"Giving up already?" She asked coyly.
"...You..wish.." Go said, shakily trying to stand while holding his rib area and breathing hard.
"..Don't..underestimate us." Sasame said, wincing at the pain in his leg.
"That..was just ..a measly fall." Kei said, holding his arm which was now bent in an awkward position.
"...We're going to pay you back..much more." Hayate said, as a fire of extreme hate burned deep in his eyes.
"I like that look Hayate. Its very...becoming of you." The woman said as she laughed. "If you wish to play so much why don't you have fun with my minions?"
Suddenly a dark portal opened before them with swirls of ebony and out stepped three large monsters with black slime dripping off their bodies. They had ten claws on each hand and large dark sockets with small yellow and black beady eyes suspended by flesh right in the middle of their gruesome faces that looked like the bark of a rotting tree. Their bodies were large in the abdomen area and were supported by skinny bonish legs encased in what seemed like metal armour. Their tongues were sharp pointed set in mouths with at least three rows of teeth.
Hideous was not the word. They were beyond that.
With a deep eerie sounding war cry they lunged out of their portal, rather fast for their size, at the four knights.
Tilting his head, Kei looked right at one of the monsters. Inside its stomach it looked like there was someone trapped there. He looked closer and gasped. The figure had platinum hair and a lean frame.
It was Mannen.
In the next chapter : How can the knights fight if they know that the younger ones are encased in those horrors? Does this mean the self destruction of all the knights?
Ah that was another chapter for you. Thank you all for getting my creative juices flowing again, I must admit, they kinda ran dry for quite a bit. A great thank you to all who have read so far, I do hope you will continue. Please do review. Take care everyone!!! The next chapter will be up soon!
Please be warned that this chapter is not for the light hearted. I tend to describe battles alot. No, its not that gory. .
P.s. Kya, half right! XD
In the previous chapter : Kei went into a depression when his dreams of entering SquareEnix were shattered. To make it worse, his "friends" insulted him by telling him he was incapable of anything, but he realised the difference between friend and foe and managed to shatter the illusion. Now the evil entity has more for the rest of the knights.
"Rise and shine my little pawns!" The chilling voice called out. The older knights blinked their eyes open. As their eyes became accustomed to the lack of light they began to take in their surroundings and realised that they were in the garden of the Awayuki mansion. As the knights glanced around they noted that each was okay, just badly shaken up.
"Where are Shin, Mannen and Hajime?" Kei asked. "Oh, you'll see them soon enough. For now, I have a little present for you." The voice responded, amused.
They looked around again. Everything seemed normal. The key word being 'seemed'. Then they heard a loud splash.
Suddenly, Hayate gasped and froze in shock. Kei, Go and Sasame turned towards where he was looking. Half floating in the fountain was the still and badly battered body of Himeno. The group ran towards her and quickly, Hayate lifted the cold body from the red stained water. Shaking her lightly to wake her up he began assessing her wounds. The damage seemed familiar...Almost as if it was inflicted by them.
"Himeno.." He called out. There was no response. "Himeno!!! HIMENO!!!" He began shaking her harder. The other knights snapped out of their shock and restrained him. "Its okay Hayate, it will all be okay... We'll get to the bottom of this and find out what happened. This cannot be as it seems. Himeno is stronger than this. It will be alright." Kei reasoned, denial present in his slightly shaky voice.
"HOW COULD IT BE ALRIGHT?! Himeno.. Himeno's..-"
"Dead? Deceased? Annihilated? Absolutely breathless? Gone?" The evil voice was back once more, cackling at her own stupid joke. Slowly she began to materialize a few feet infront of them and for the first time they saw her form.
She looked like she came from midieval England, with a large off white dress, pearls on her fair neck and gold clips in her long red curly hair. She smiled and her red lips pursed into a cynical grin as her hazel eyes glinted with evil mischief. Hayate looked up at her with absolute resent. Without prior warning, he lunged up at her calling forth a strong gust of wind.
What happened next almost looked like as if it were in slow motion. Hayate's attacked almost reached the woman when suddenly it looked like as if the attack had passed through a barrier and was just a small droplet of water causing ripples in a pond. The next thing they knew, the attacked had destroyed a good part of the garden behind the evil woman. They looked at her in shock, they were pretty sure she hadn't dodged, or did she? Its wasn't possible that the attack simply passed through her.
She began laughing again. Go scrunched his face in anger. "That's getting to be VERY irritating you know!" He shouted as he launched an attack of his own, but just like with Hayate, the same thing happened.
"My, my, still fooling around are we? Your little princess is dead anyway, you're all probably powerless little insects without her."
"What have you done to her?" Kei asked coldly.
"Well I thought it be rather obvious." She said with a flick of her hand, suggesting that they were asking something very ridiculous. "I killed her." She stated simply.
Hayate was about to launch another attack but Kei stopped him. "Ok that was obvious, now why did you do it?"
"To prove how absolutely useless you are. Once you're all gone, I'll just keep destroying more and more lives..."
"Why?"
"For fun."
"Ugh.." Was all Kei could manage to express his extreme anger and disgust at this woman. Quickly, he began thinking of ways to wipe her off the face of the planet. It was evident that she was in another realm. How else could she bypass all the attacks? What they needed to do now was to find a doorway into that realm and destroy her before it was too late. Motioning for the other knights to come closer to him, he leaned inwards and whispered his plans.
"The only way she could've dodged those attacks is if she-" Kei got cut off halfway.
"Was in another realm." Sasame finished.
"So what we need to do now is to-"
"Find the door to the realm, enter it and kill her." Go finished this time. Kei sighed.
"So Hayate should go and find this door while we-"
"Distract her." Hayate finished this time. All of them nodded in agreement and Kei, Go and Sasame turned to face her as Hayate laid Himeno's lifeless body down, scanning the area for anything that could be a door or anything that didn't quite fit in with the surroundings.
Suddenly, in a flash all of them were airborn. Kei, Go and Sasame readied an attack on the woman while Hayate darted around looking for the door. Just as the the former launched their attack, the woman raised a long fingered hand and grinned up at them.
"I...ugh I can't move!" Go said in frustration. "Neither can I." Kei said. "Me too." The Knight of Sound added.
The woman tilted her head in the direction of Hayate. "You think your little friends could distract me from you? All of you should be punished for that." She dramatised. Kei felt sick to his stomach.
With a flick of her wrist she sent the knights plummeting to the ground at a great speed. The four of them landed with a loud thud, followed by the sound of bones breaking.
She looked with satisfaction at the pain she had caused each of the knights who were all just struggling to recover, agony etched over each of their faces.
"Giving up already?" She asked coyly.
"...You..wish.." Go said, shakily trying to stand while holding his rib area and breathing hard.
"..Don't..underestimate us." Sasame said, wincing at the pain in his leg.
"That..was just ..a measly fall." Kei said, holding his arm which was now bent in an awkward position.
"...We're going to pay you back..much more." Hayate said, as a fire of extreme hate burned deep in his eyes.
"I like that look Hayate. Its very...becoming of you." The woman said as she laughed. "If you wish to play so much why don't you have fun with my minions?"
Suddenly a dark portal opened before them with swirls of ebony and out stepped three large monsters with black slime dripping off their bodies. They had ten claws on each hand and large dark sockets with small yellow and black beady eyes suspended by flesh right in the middle of their gruesome faces that looked like the bark of a rotting tree. Their bodies were large in the abdomen area and were supported by skinny bonish legs encased in what seemed like metal armour. Their tongues were sharp pointed set in mouths with at least three rows of teeth.
Hideous was not the word. They were beyond that.
With a deep eerie sounding war cry they lunged out of their portal, rather fast for their size, at the four knights.
Tilting his head, Kei looked right at one of the monsters. Inside its stomach it looked like there was someone trapped there. He looked closer and gasped. The figure had platinum hair and a lean frame.
It was Mannen.
In the next chapter : How can the knights fight if they know that the younger ones are encased in those horrors? Does this mean the self destruction of all the knights?
Ah that was another chapter for you. Thank you all for getting my creative juices flowing again, I must admit, they kinda ran dry for quite a bit. A great thank you to all who have read so far, I do hope you will continue. Please do review. Take care everyone!!! The next chapter will be up soon!