(Disclaimer: I do not own YST nor RW, they are owned by Sunrise. Neither do I own the characters of the original series.)
(Author's Notes: Please, DON'T BLAME ME if some of the details are insufficient, since I had never seen the entire series before. I'm just fascinated over the series, that's why. Some of the characters added are of my own and not related to other anime, in short, ORIGINAL. So please, enjoy reading and review it! This is my first taste of writing fanfiction, and I'm not too good at English, so please BEAR WITH ME...)
SAMURAI PHANTOM REKKA: CHAPTER ONE
Episode Fourteen: The Big Trap
Suddenly the mysterious man felt something from the opposite side... or even, someone.
He looked at his east side. He believed that he felt something from there. But instead of being alarmed, he just smiled with great confidence.
"I see..." he said to himself, "Finally, he came. I knew it.... Who could possibly thought that this day will came for a phantom like me?..."
And with his magic, he opened the opposite window and came in without anyone noticed, not even the owls, nor the full moon...
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Phantom Rekka and Byakkouen have managed to enter immediately through the window opened by the cat's magic. As expected, the whole second floor housed all the most beautiful and the rarest paintings collected from various parts of the world. As they entered...
"Man, this is so COOL!" Rekka exclaimed as he roamed around the big hall seeing all the paintings, "They're seem so... real!"
Bu Byakkouen didn't enjoy the exhibit at all. "I'm just reminding you that we are here in this museum NOT to make a sight-seeing trip BUT for our mission..."
"Oh, c'mon, Kitty, don't be a killjoy! It's just a once-of-a-lifetime experience, y'know? I've never been in a museum before, so... Damn! Just think how lucky I am!" still feasting his eyes on some works of art.
"Lucky because you are already a Samurai Phantom... AHA! So that's your reason why you accept your destiny that easy!"
"It's not! Of course, I'm a PROFESSIONAL!"
"Oh, Really?" the cat sneered, "Now I know why you are not that CULTURED at all..."
"Do you want me to eat you???" he threatened. But upon coming across something more important, he stopped and turned wide-eyed.
"Hey! Did you see something?" Byakkouen assured. He, too, stopped and his brown eyed were shocked on something that Rekka was feasting on...
...'The Goddess of the River'.
He stood still looking at the painting as if he was enchanted by the woman bathing in beautiful clear waters. His eyes only fixed on her angelic face, as seen obviously in his blushing face. "It's... beautiful..."
But then his amazement cut short when he saw something from the river in the painting... Four poor faces of men drowning. He then remembered about what he had heard from the radio this morning and what he had discovered in his mind-reading session. And in pale face...
"These faces... they were the missing men!"
Byakkouen noticed Rekka who seemed to have fallen in love with the woman in the painting. "Hey!" he called, "Hold your emotions, Rekka! Remember your mission!"
He was finally awake, "W-what?" then checking himself, "Oh, yeah, right, the oni!" Then, trying to forget the beauty and the horridness of the painting for the sake of saving the people, "Sorry, lady!" he said, wielding his swords, "But it's part of my job and I hafta..."
"Too late for you..." the woman suddenly spoke! And it immediately turned into her original form to get him!
"Rekka, WATCH OUT!!!" but too late for him, as the woman said. For he didn't noticed it on time, the witch of the painting sucessfully grabbed him with her pale claws!
Rekka struggled to free himself, but with no avail. Six pale hands came out and seized him: two on his arms, his torso and on his head, forcing him to be pulled in. With so much struggle, Rekka accidentally dropped one of his katanas, thus Byakkouen went meowing and meowing with much worry.
"I...can't...move...!" Rekka complained in pain.
"Hang on there!" Byakkouen was planning to save him! He attacked one on the oni's hands and bit into it deeply (surely it didn't taste good, but he has no other choice...). The oni screamed in pain. With rage, one of its free hands slapped the poor little cat so hard that he flew away and bumped on the wall, leaving him almost unconscious!
"BYAKKOUEN!!!" Rekka became too furious on what the oni did to the cat. "Why you..." he continued to force himself to be released but the oni is quite strong it was still pulling him so hard, making him shout with pain.
Rekka was still trying his guts to get out of the oni's grasp but it was holding him so tight he barely couldn't breathe easily.
Suddenly...
"HELP ME!!!"
He froze a bit. Someone's calling for help.
"HELP ME!!! LET ME OUT OF HERE, I'M BEGGING YOU!!!"
He recognized the voice. It's the voice of the museum guard!
Then an idea came into his mind. It might be very hard for him and for Byakkouen, but he thought that nothing will happen unless he don't give it a try. Is he trying to sacrifice himself in order to save the man?
He finally made up his mind, though not sure on what will happen after this. So he tried to call the cat from the outside, "Byakkouen! Kitty! Can you hear me???"
Meanwhile Byakkouen tried to get up despite of the pain upon hearing Rekka's voice, and he shook his head vigorously. "Re...Rekka?" he called, "Rekka? Is that you? Are you all right?"
"Yeah, I'm fine!" he responded.
"Good!" and he tried to go near the wildened oni, "I'll get you out of there, just hang on!"
"Kitty! Listen to me!"
"What?"
"Try to wait there! I'll go inside!"
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND???"
"I've finally decided to go! I hafta save the men inside before they turn into this oni's foodstuff!"
"But... how about you?"
"Don't worry about me, Kitty! Remember: I'M A NINJA!"
"But..."
"Man, don't you TRUST me???"
The cat, then, didn't respond. But his emotionless face could determine that what Rekka will do is probably, for him, a BIG mistake.
"Ok! I'm goin' now!"
"Rekka!"
"Don't worry! I'll come back with the men! Wait there, 'kay?"
"But, Rekka!"
But Rekka didn't hear the cat's plea. With willingness to save the victims of the oni, his forehead kanji of JIN glowed in brightly red, ready to be swallowed in the oni's lair. And as the pale, ghastly hands slowly pulled him inside, his image slowly disappears, too, in the black hole made in the painting. So was his voice. Not even a little whisper was heard from him.
And the hole in the painting is starting to close slowly. The evil energy is fading away, until in just a few minutes, the dimensional gate was finally closed...
And Rekka was no more.
Byakkouen was the only one left behind in the pitch-dark hall of the second floor of the museum. Only the moon provides a little soft light that evening, where only the howls of the spooky owl and the domestic dogs can be heard.
The cat finally felt loneliness in the room. And shock. Grief. Anger. As his shrill catvoice chorused with the owls and dogs...
"REKKA, YOU STUPID!!!!!!!"
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(Onward to Episode Fifteen! Please keep on R&R! Few episodes left to finish!)