CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
Ran growled venomously. They had recieved a mission that everyone that even lived in their household had to take. "God dammit." he swore.
"I can't believe that we get to go see him!!" Rhelex cheered happily as he, Kraus and Hacker cheered together. "Lares will be sooo happy to see us!"
Gatos grummbled, "I can't believe that I'm forced to go with them to that idiotic Bird clan..." he half-growled, half- hissed to everyone. "I'm apart of their ENEMIES clan, and I'm stuck going with you!" Gatos fingered one of the knives Farfello had given him from his knife collection, he had doubles of this one.
Tatsuya took the knife away from him. "You aren't allowed to play with these." he said, sticking said knife into a pocket in his ceremonial robes. "I won't be blamed like last time when you almost killed Serafi!" he grabbed Gatos' hands and showed the others his fists. "He has 'kiss me' on his right hand and 'kill me' on his left!" he growled.
Farfello grabbed the 'kill me' hand and stared at it. "Wow. I like this, can I do it too?" he asked Crawford.
"No." Ran answered for him. "It's bad enough that you two are already covered in scars."
Rhelex faced Tatsuya, "Well? Gatekeeper, aren't you going to open them for us??" he asked with a grin as Chimera and Centinal rounded a corner and appeared from the darkness.
Chimera gazed at the gate keeper. "I don't believe that you could open one that is such a high level, halfling."
Tatsuya faced Chimera. "I can too."
Chimera raised his hands and his shadows pulled a gate from the darkness. "I too, am a gatekeeper. But, unlike you. I am of the full breed."
Tatsuya seethed. "I will not have you speak to me like a mortal!"
"You aren't mortal though..." Chimera said with a sigh. "You could never be mortal with Holden and Kagetsuya watching over you."
"You dare mention my brother's name??" he seethed with a hiss. "I won't let you speak bad of Kagetsuya!" he waslked forward to Chimera and slapped him on the face. "Take it back!"
Chimera laughed. "He left you to gaurd the gates of hades!"
Rhelex moved infront of Tatsuya and pushed him back away from Chimera. He knelt down and grabbed the purple haired boy by his shoulders and shook him roughly. "Tell me, Chimera."
"Tell you what?!" The boy tried to struggle out of his grip.
"Who is controlling you? Ailebhial? Amara? Aggamedo? Who?" Rhelex asked shaking him harder. "I know someone is controlling you, Chimera!"
"How can you tell?" Chimera asked, sobbing. "I won't tell you. Never! He'll kill me!!"
"It must be Aggamedo. Where is he?" Rhelex craddled the boy in his arms. "Tell me where he is. I have a vendetta against him that exceeds yours."
"H-he killed Amara." he choked. "He killed Amara.. he was using her like she used me!" Chimera pushed away from him, "I can't have any of you go to him. Not after what he did!"
"Wait, Amara's dead?" Ran asked, gritting his teeth together. Ken and Yohji stood by watching in confusion. "Then who are we after??"
"Amara has Ran's sister." Hacker informed Chimera. "Are you sure she's dead?"
"He ate her."
"Ate?" Omi asked, taking a step back.
"He ate her to claim her powers over Ran and you all..." Centinal said with his big smile. "We can't have you leave this house. It's being protected."
"Protected? What do you mean by protected?" Crawford asked, pushing up his glasses. He hadn't had a vision in a long while, and it was starting to annoy him.
"No monsters can come into this house." Chimera said, bowing his head. "My ebony is protecting you all from harm..... I put it in place last night when Kraus-sama came and talked to me."
Kraus was beginning to be bored. "I'm ready to leeeeeeeave." he shouted. "Let's goooooooo."
"Chimmy, if you would do the honors of helping Tatsuya open this gate, if you are so sure that he can't do it alone." Hacker asked, waving his hand towards the gate in question.
Tatsuya placed one of his hands in Chimera's and they recited the scrolls of an era long past. The door opened, and a man with ground length gold hair appeared. "I am sorry. I cannot allow you to enter Lares' domain just yet." the man said.
"Why not, Holden?" Tatsuya asked, taking a step forward.
"You are not supposed to find your answers here." he shifted his gaze around the room. "Clans from across the earth... Why are your representatives here?" he asked.
He golden gaze moved to land on Kraus, who was reclining in the couch. "GawL-sama!" he recited with a bow. "I didn't know you were free!"
Kraus sighed. "I got out on good behavior!"
Holden nodded and turned to leave. "The answers you seek are in the GawL sanctum." he fazed into the darkness as the doors closed with a thud and disappeared.
Tatsuya growled and pulled a key out of his pocket and held it so it faced the new door that appeared. "God dammit, Holden. When I get my hands on your scrawny ass I'm going to soooo kick it."
He twisted the key in the air and shouted, "GawL Sanctum!"
The doors opened again and a beautiful room with an evey more beautiful statue rested inside of it. He led the way through it so the others knew it wasn't dangerous.
His heels clacked against the tile that lined the floor and the walls. Tatsuya bent low to his knees, as did Chimera, when they approached the statue that was in the middle of the large room.
The statue had hair like freshly spun silver. But, the eyes were golden, as if they could see into your soul. The statue's hands were folded and resting on his chest.
The long silver locks were held up by a clasp in the man's hair on top of his head. He was wearing a deep black kimono with cherry-blossom leaves circling it. "Platima..." Kraus mumbled, edging closer to the statue.
His eyes locked with the statue's. "It's been a long while, my kin." The statue muttered with a small smile.
Platima stepped off of the podium he had been standing on, causing the other's to jump in suprise. "What? Did you really think I would let myself become petrified?" he asked with a small hiss. "I am no weakling." he hissed.
Rhelex smiled at the being that was his great-great-great-extremely great grandfather. "Platima-sama." he said a bit under his breath as he stood next to his father and brother, who had moved up as well. "It's wonderful too see you after all these years."
"Illumisna?" Platima asked, cocking his head to the side. "No... You are Kraus' son..."
Platima's gaze fixed itself on Hacker. "And you are as well... How many years has it been since I stepped out of this place, Kraus?" he asked, raising his hand to the window that looked out over the kingdom that Kraus had helped create.
"... over five centuries. I believe." he said, downcasting his eyes away. "Our family has missed your presense at the council meetings..."
Platima laughed. "Even Marianna? Isn't that her name? Your wife... I mean."
"Yes. That is Mama's name." Hacker said, gazing at Platima directly. Unlike his brother and Father.
"Don't look him in the eyes!" came another voice from behind Platima. "You have no right what-so-ever to look GawL-sama in the eyes, scoundrel!"
A short girl with deep brown hair and big blue eyes ran into the room with a scythe in her small hands. "Get out of here, this instant, before I call the royal gaurds on you!"
Kraus laughed and walked up to her. "You insult me with your mockery of my court?!" he slapped her across the face. "I rule this kingdom now, with the help of my leader, Platima!" he hissed at her. Kraus had bent to her eye level. "I will not tolerate your disobediance anymore. Get out of my families' chambers!"
"You caused this beast to move. It is your fault that our world will be destroyed!" she screamed.
"You're mad." Rhelex hissed, stepping forward.
"And you are no GawL!"
Rhelex growled with his brother. "I will not tell you again!" Kraus hissed with venom laced in his voice. "I have had an extremely long century!" he grabbed her by her neck and pulled her close. "I have lost my wife. My sons probably don't even recognize me! My kingdom is taken over by the mortals." he squeezed her neck a bit more as horns sprouted from behind his ears, which grew about a foot long and pointed out.
Two bat-like wings erupted out of his back and destroyed his shirt and tail broke trough the back of his pants and his feet and hands grew into claws. "If I ever see you again, you will be sorry!"
"K-Kraus!!" she shrieked as she backed up against the window and fell out.
Ran moved to Kraus. "You killed her."
"I know." Kraus muttered angrilly as he saw some of his kin picking up the remains of her body from above. "She shouldn't have disobeyed me."
"So you'll kill everything that doesn't follow under you?!" Omi yelled at the taller man.
"If I must."
"The last time I went easy on the humans my wife and I were kidnapped. I won't let that happen to me ever again." he hissed at the boy, revealing the fangs that had grown even longer.
Platima laughed deeply and clapped his hands together. "This is absolutely wonderful!" he cooed. "I haven't had this much fun in ages!"
The silver haired dragon walked over to Omi and hugged him. "You are an angel!" he said with another laugh. "But, angel's shouldn't be heard among mortals!"
"Who ever said that we were mortals?" Gatos hissed.
"Ah! So the hybrid is back, eh?" Platima asked. "I gave you my blessings once. Do you want anything more?"
"Allow the gatekeepers to rise."
Platima looked back at the bowing Tatsuya and Chimera. "Oh... oops." he laughed. He raised his hands and said that they could. "So, what does a wolf/dragon (Gatos), two birds (King and Bree), a butterfly (Luc), a sphynix (Ran), two angels (Omi and Nagi), a fox (Raven), two gatekeepers (Tatsuya and Chimera), an illusionist (Centinal), a vampire (Farfello)," he sighed before continueing, "and the rest of you are mortals."
Platima waved his hand towards the door, "Let us go to the dining hall, I bet you all are very hungry."
END CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
Ran growled venomously. They had recieved a mission that everyone that even lived in their household had to take. "God dammit." he swore.
"I can't believe that we get to go see him!!" Rhelex cheered happily as he, Kraus and Hacker cheered together. "Lares will be sooo happy to see us!"
Gatos grummbled, "I can't believe that I'm forced to go with them to that idiotic Bird clan..." he half-growled, half- hissed to everyone. "I'm apart of their ENEMIES clan, and I'm stuck going with you!" Gatos fingered one of the knives Farfello had given him from his knife collection, he had doubles of this one.
Tatsuya took the knife away from him. "You aren't allowed to play with these." he said, sticking said knife into a pocket in his ceremonial robes. "I won't be blamed like last time when you almost killed Serafi!" he grabbed Gatos' hands and showed the others his fists. "He has 'kiss me' on his right hand and 'kill me' on his left!" he growled.
Farfello grabbed the 'kill me' hand and stared at it. "Wow. I like this, can I do it too?" he asked Crawford.
"No." Ran answered for him. "It's bad enough that you two are already covered in scars."
Rhelex faced Tatsuya, "Well? Gatekeeper, aren't you going to open them for us??" he asked with a grin as Chimera and Centinal rounded a corner and appeared from the darkness.
Chimera gazed at the gate keeper. "I don't believe that you could open one that is such a high level, halfling."
Tatsuya faced Chimera. "I can too."
Chimera raised his hands and his shadows pulled a gate from the darkness. "I too, am a gatekeeper. But, unlike you. I am of the full breed."
Tatsuya seethed. "I will not have you speak to me like a mortal!"
"You aren't mortal though..." Chimera said with a sigh. "You could never be mortal with Holden and Kagetsuya watching over you."
"You dare mention my brother's name??" he seethed with a hiss. "I won't let you speak bad of Kagetsuya!" he waslked forward to Chimera and slapped him on the face. "Take it back!"
Chimera laughed. "He left you to gaurd the gates of hades!"
Rhelex moved infront of Tatsuya and pushed him back away from Chimera. He knelt down and grabbed the purple haired boy by his shoulders and shook him roughly. "Tell me, Chimera."
"Tell you what?!" The boy tried to struggle out of his grip.
"Who is controlling you? Ailebhial? Amara? Aggamedo? Who?" Rhelex asked shaking him harder. "I know someone is controlling you, Chimera!"
"How can you tell?" Chimera asked, sobbing. "I won't tell you. Never! He'll kill me!!"
"It must be Aggamedo. Where is he?" Rhelex craddled the boy in his arms. "Tell me where he is. I have a vendetta against him that exceeds yours."
"H-he killed Amara." he choked. "He killed Amara.. he was using her like she used me!" Chimera pushed away from him, "I can't have any of you go to him. Not after what he did!"
"Wait, Amara's dead?" Ran asked, gritting his teeth together. Ken and Yohji stood by watching in confusion. "Then who are we after??"
"Amara has Ran's sister." Hacker informed Chimera. "Are you sure she's dead?"
"He ate her."
"Ate?" Omi asked, taking a step back.
"He ate her to claim her powers over Ran and you all..." Centinal said with his big smile. "We can't have you leave this house. It's being protected."
"Protected? What do you mean by protected?" Crawford asked, pushing up his glasses. He hadn't had a vision in a long while, and it was starting to annoy him.
"No monsters can come into this house." Chimera said, bowing his head. "My ebony is protecting you all from harm..... I put it in place last night when Kraus-sama came and talked to me."
Kraus was beginning to be bored. "I'm ready to leeeeeeeave." he shouted. "Let's goooooooo."
"Chimmy, if you would do the honors of helping Tatsuya open this gate, if you are so sure that he can't do it alone." Hacker asked, waving his hand towards the gate in question.
Tatsuya placed one of his hands in Chimera's and they recited the scrolls of an era long past. The door opened, and a man with ground length gold hair appeared. "I am sorry. I cannot allow you to enter Lares' domain just yet." the man said.
"Why not, Holden?" Tatsuya asked, taking a step forward.
"You are not supposed to find your answers here." he shifted his gaze around the room. "Clans from across the earth... Why are your representatives here?" he asked.
He golden gaze moved to land on Kraus, who was reclining in the couch. "GawL-sama!" he recited with a bow. "I didn't know you were free!"
Kraus sighed. "I got out on good behavior!"
Holden nodded and turned to leave. "The answers you seek are in the GawL sanctum." he fazed into the darkness as the doors closed with a thud and disappeared.
Tatsuya growled and pulled a key out of his pocket and held it so it faced the new door that appeared. "God dammit, Holden. When I get my hands on your scrawny ass I'm going to soooo kick it."
He twisted the key in the air and shouted, "GawL Sanctum!"
The doors opened again and a beautiful room with an evey more beautiful statue rested inside of it. He led the way through it so the others knew it wasn't dangerous.
His heels clacked against the tile that lined the floor and the walls. Tatsuya bent low to his knees, as did Chimera, when they approached the statue that was in the middle of the large room.
The statue had hair like freshly spun silver. But, the eyes were golden, as if they could see into your soul. The statue's hands were folded and resting on his chest.
The long silver locks were held up by a clasp in the man's hair on top of his head. He was wearing a deep black kimono with cherry-blossom leaves circling it. "Platima..." Kraus mumbled, edging closer to the statue.
His eyes locked with the statue's. "It's been a long while, my kin." The statue muttered with a small smile.
Platima stepped off of the podium he had been standing on, causing the other's to jump in suprise. "What? Did you really think I would let myself become petrified?" he asked with a small hiss. "I am no weakling." he hissed.
Rhelex smiled at the being that was his great-great-great-extremely great grandfather. "Platima-sama." he said a bit under his breath as he stood next to his father and brother, who had moved up as well. "It's wonderful too see you after all these years."
"Illumisna?" Platima asked, cocking his head to the side. "No... You are Kraus' son..."
Platima's gaze fixed itself on Hacker. "And you are as well... How many years has it been since I stepped out of this place, Kraus?" he asked, raising his hand to the window that looked out over the kingdom that Kraus had helped create.
"... over five centuries. I believe." he said, downcasting his eyes away. "Our family has missed your presense at the council meetings..."
Platima laughed. "Even Marianna? Isn't that her name? Your wife... I mean."
"Yes. That is Mama's name." Hacker said, gazing at Platima directly. Unlike his brother and Father.
"Don't look him in the eyes!" came another voice from behind Platima. "You have no right what-so-ever to look GawL-sama in the eyes, scoundrel!"
A short girl with deep brown hair and big blue eyes ran into the room with a scythe in her small hands. "Get out of here, this instant, before I call the royal gaurds on you!"
Kraus laughed and walked up to her. "You insult me with your mockery of my court?!" he slapped her across the face. "I rule this kingdom now, with the help of my leader, Platima!" he hissed at her. Kraus had bent to her eye level. "I will not tolerate your disobediance anymore. Get out of my families' chambers!"
"You caused this beast to move. It is your fault that our world will be destroyed!" she screamed.
"You're mad." Rhelex hissed, stepping forward.
"And you are no GawL!"
Rhelex growled with his brother. "I will not tell you again!" Kraus hissed with venom laced in his voice. "I have had an extremely long century!" he grabbed her by her neck and pulled her close. "I have lost my wife. My sons probably don't even recognize me! My kingdom is taken over by the mortals." he squeezed her neck a bit more as horns sprouted from behind his ears, which grew about a foot long and pointed out.
Two bat-like wings erupted out of his back and destroyed his shirt and tail broke trough the back of his pants and his feet and hands grew into claws. "If I ever see you again, you will be sorry!"
"K-Kraus!!" she shrieked as she backed up against the window and fell out.
Ran moved to Kraus. "You killed her."
"I know." Kraus muttered angrilly as he saw some of his kin picking up the remains of her body from above. "She shouldn't have disobeyed me."
"So you'll kill everything that doesn't follow under you?!" Omi yelled at the taller man.
"If I must."
"The last time I went easy on the humans my wife and I were kidnapped. I won't let that happen to me ever again." he hissed at the boy, revealing the fangs that had grown even longer.
Platima laughed deeply and clapped his hands together. "This is absolutely wonderful!" he cooed. "I haven't had this much fun in ages!"
The silver haired dragon walked over to Omi and hugged him. "You are an angel!" he said with another laugh. "But, angel's shouldn't be heard among mortals!"
"Who ever said that we were mortals?" Gatos hissed.
"Ah! So the hybrid is back, eh?" Platima asked. "I gave you my blessings once. Do you want anything more?"
"Allow the gatekeepers to rise."
Platima looked back at the bowing Tatsuya and Chimera. "Oh... oops." he laughed. He raised his hands and said that they could. "So, what does a wolf/dragon (Gatos), two birds (King and Bree), a butterfly (Luc), a sphynix (Ran), two angels (Omi and Nagi), a fox (Raven), two gatekeepers (Tatsuya and Chimera), an illusionist (Centinal), a vampire (Farfello)," he sighed before continueing, "and the rest of you are mortals."
Platima waved his hand towards the door, "Let us go to the dining hall, I bet you all are very hungry."
END CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN