I sit in the high tower of Bloody Palace, my domain... That idiot who imprisoned my soul lies dead and decapitated. He deserved. Strangely enough I had nothing to do with the way he treated the one Yukina. I must admit my gratitude for the one call Hiei. He is very much like Hiroshi. But then they are both incarnations of my beloved dragon twins. I laugh at the scene before my cerulean eyes. I can see the one called Hiei cradling the dead girl. I can't help but feel the sadness I felt when the one like her gave her soul to defeat me. She never wanted to fight either, but for Hiroshi? Ch. She would do anything for him...like this one did. Never for me. She loved me to an extent. I dare say I even loved her...
But her devotion to Hiroshi was sickening. Part of me truly despised her for it! That's why I chose to break what innocence Yuka had left.
I run a hand through my golden blonde hair and stand from my chair. The one called Hiei has placed the young girl on the alter. I think of how neither he nor the girl called Yukina could ever understand what went on between the twins and myself. They don't understand why I chose for this to happen this way. To have it done over and over. All they have been told to do is stop me. But I am not the one to be stopped. I'm not the first to have sat on the throne of Bloody Palace. This fortress draws those who seek more into its walls and turn their ambitions into obsessions. My ambition to make Yuka my woman was untainted, pure even. But this little fact made me weak and drew me to this palace of black with its fountains of blood. It holds me captive and I can't release its hold on me. I've become far too obsessed with the power of this place.
Now that my spirit has retrieved its soul I have the power to fulfill my new obsession; the domination of the three worlds...
This is the only ambition I have left. I can't say that it is original or ideal. But in all the three worlds there must be someone who can help bring my beloved Yuka back to me. If not I will not rest until all have suffered the same pain I have suffered for the long centuries.
I turn back to the crystal, which shows the fire youkai. He's battling the level of b class demons. Having the other half of the soul has turned him into a pure S class. This trash is not worthy of his power now... I truly respected Hiroshi as a fighter as I respected Yuka. But I envied and hated him. He surpassed me in everything. Including winning Yuka's affection. This Hiei, the spitting image of the one I loath has done nothing to me...but the fact that he exists can't be ignored. So I wait for him...
I wait for him to end my suffering.... or die trying
We dared to ask for more
But that was long before
The nights began to burn
You would have thought we'd learned
I never felt such power flow through my body. It's extraordinary. Not even my black dragon made me feel this fulfilled. Is this what Kato wanted from us?
Either way I don't care. I can't help but think of my imouto-chan lying dead on that cold alter. All she wanted was to be near me and I only wanted to see her happy...
So did I...
If that were true you would have let us be.
I said the same to Kato...all we did was ask to have each other and we were broken beyond recognition...you'd think we would've learned with all our mishaps...but as siblings we truly needed each other....
I dared to ask for her happiness. She dared to ask for my love and now she's dead....
And so here it is...and we are the same.
You can't make promises
All based upon tomorrow
Happiness, security
Are words we only borrowed
I'm nothing like you.
How so?
Because unlike you...I will end this and she and I will never suffer again. Yukina, I promise I will save you and we'll live together safe. Away from people who wish to break us apart! I promise I'll protect you and make you happy.
Don't make promises of tomorrow that you can't keep. It's the same as lying! Of course I can't promise her anything again...I wonder if the same will happen to of fear...erasure of mortal pain... I want these things for her.... but they're only words...
Exactly...
For is this the answer to our prayers?
Don't promise...don't swear or you'll die here and she will remain in reikai...just pray that you will see her again
But this is not what I wanted! I never wanted it to be this way!
Is this what god has sent?
It makes you wonder...why the gods do this to us...unlike you I can never be with her again...
No matter what the gods have planned, I won't let what happened to you happen to us! Because this isn't what we want.
Please understand this isn't what we meant
This isn't what we were meant for...
The future couldn't last
We nailed it to the past
With every word a trap
That no one can take back
He's talking to Hiroshi in his mind. He's barely pausing through the endless obstacles. The future I planned for Yuka and myself was destroyed by him...but still I admire both his and Hiei's determination to get me...
Regardless of their un-involvement, I can't allow them to have their future. My feelings from the past won't allow it. Every word, every gesture, and every event was based on coming here.... trapping them here...speak of the devil....
From all the architects
Who find their towers leaning
And every prayer we pray at night
Has somehow lost its meaning
I stand in the doorway...physically and mentally exhausted. But the power flowing with in me will not let me rest until I have this blonde's head...
He turns to me and I can see the amusement of my appearance in his eyes. But I see something else...I can't tell. He speaks to me...
"You're a bit early, fire youkai Hiei...none the less I wish to get this over with."
"Funny...I was thinking the same..." I reply. He chuckles and makes a sword of bright gold from his own energy and stalks toward me. I walk forward calling upon my sword of black flames. He dies to day. The palace will fall.
We stare down each other and he makes the first move...
For is this the answer to our prayers?
He's so fast...like Hiroshi but he lacks the strength. He's too tired. But the power within him won't let him stop until I perish. I believe he should know. I refuse to die with him blaming me for all this. This is only between Yuka, Hiroshi, and me yet he blames me for his sister's suffering.
"Tell me Hiei is this what you wanted?"
Is this what god has sent?
"What are you talking about?!" I block his blows.
"You didn't want this. Neither did I!"
Don't listen, Hiei!
I can't stop listening. I want to hear what he means.
Please understand this isn't what we meant
"I was in love with Yuka... I never wanted to cause her pain...I never wanted Bloody Palace's strangled hold on me. This was not what I meant.
I stare. He continues still launching his assault on me. I block and listen.
"Yuka loved me and I loved her. But that wasn't enough because the larger portion of her affection lay with Hiroshi. But, Hiroshi always left her behind!"
Yukina: I'm so mad at him because he's leaving me behind
My eyes widen as I hear Yukina's voice replaying in my head. Things she said and things she thought.
Yukina: It's not enough!
"Always abandoning her to fight!"
Yukina: I'm scared he won't comeback at all!
"She just didn't want to be left alone."
Yukina: I won't be alright unless you're here! I don't like being alone!
"She hated being weak. Too weak to be with him."
Yukina: You just won't let me because I'm too weak to stay with you!
"she just wanted to stay with him regardless of what happened. She wanted their own paradise where he wouldn't have to kill!"
Yukina: a place where we're together and no one can bother us
" She wanted to be needed by him! She couldn't see that I needed her more than he!"
Yukina: I need you but I also want you to need me.
I'm thrown against the wall. What's this feeling I have...pain...no guilt. All this time the message has been clear to me. I just never saw it. She just didn't want to be alone...she didn't want to be without me. She didn't want me to be without her...
"You see it now don't you. So all this time...I was not the cause of Yuka or Yukina's suffering...it was you and Hiroshi!!!" he screams slashing a deep cut across my chest.
I can't believe it. He's right.
Yukina: Aniki!!!
The way she called me brother...
Yukina: I curse myself for being week
She was only trying to prove she could be beside me.
Yukina: its not enough!
I left her alone. I'm not good enough to be her brother. I stand up. I have to end this. I want to tell her that she doesn't have to kill. She doesn't have to prove anything to me. She's my sister and no one else.
A long time ago when the world was pretty
I watched as he stands with his sword in hand. I smile he understands that every bit of it is his fault. But he won't win. Not as he is. He may kill my physical form now but his mind won't be able to take the stress of bloody palace. He'll die...and this will continue. Hiroshi couldn't take it and I don't believe for a second that Hiei will do any better.
"Now you're ready to kill me. Then go ahead. If you kill me I can be with my beloved Yuka again."
"So that you can apologize...?" he asks coldly. "The only place you're going is straight to hell!"
"Good. End this and send bloody palace back the depths of hell where it came from...that is if you aren't too week."
Standing right here in a different city
I feel another surge of energy. The room around us disappears into nothing. It turns into just space. I see Kato standing there with strange gold tinted wings. A false angel...
I grunt when I feel something push at my back. My shoulder blades burn with intense pain and I double over. I cry out as something tears through my skin and extends outwards. Wings...very odd black feathered wings. They weren't normal wings. The way they were shaped it was almost like dragon wings but still they were feathered.
"The final form of a true dragon master. Now come and send me to hell as you promised. But I will not be easy on you now!" Kato shouted laughing.
I'm not coming back anymore
I flex these large wings. Strange how I naturally know how to use them. I glide upwards across from Kato and my sword flares bright. We battle once again. Now I clearly have the advantage. These wings make me faster than him and they make up for my fatigue. I slice through one of those gold tinted wings. But I don't get away in time to keep him from cutting through one of my own. I wince and hold the new appendage, the blood seeping through my hands.
Not coming back anymore!
I can barely stay floating. Neither can Hiei, but he won't give up until either he or I are in pieces. That indomitable spirit I admire in both twins. If he can kill me I will be content with my death. If he can't the worlds are mine. Either way I get what I want!
Kato bodes me to continue this fight. I can barely see straight but I charge anyway. I disappear and then I'm above him bringing my sword down upon him. He brings his sword up at me. It goes through my heart as my fiery blade slices him in half and burns him to death. The last thing I see before he fades away is a smile of gratitude.
"Now you will know what suffering is. But I cannot say that I am not grateful to you for cutting me down...but I ask that you survive the final test and rid the worlds of bloody palace.
Is this the answer to our prayers?
The pain I feel becomes numb and I feel myself fading away again. But not into death...where then?
Is this what god has sent?
Gods, what the hell do you want with me now? I let the darkness take me. I feel it isn't over.
Please understand this isn't what we meant
Aniki...I promised I'd save you...let me save you...
A/N I'm sry this took so long but there are two more chapters then on to the sequel. School has been killing me! Anyway I hope that didn't suck too bad I haven't been thinking to well because of homework :cringe: anyway this was called This Isn't What We Meant by Savatage. You guys should look into it. it's a good song. Next up is a Japanese song. Turn Back Time from The End Of Evangeleon. So enjoy!