Thank you everyone! Here's the next chapter…sorry everyone but I'll have to stop updating this story for quite sometime because I've been neglecting my other fic "Us After This" and homework is killing me! High School is terrible…argh!!!
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By: S3r3nity
Previous Chapter
"Not much time…I'll have to do it…" Kaoru said and ran up the endless stairs.
She reached the top and kicked the door open; dust flew from throughout the room making her cough violently. Kaoru began to look around the room, there was only one window, in the corner sat a brown blanket covering something. Kaoru slowly made way to the blanket and lifted it away. Her eyes shot open as she let out a blood-curling scream.
Kaoru screamed with all the voice she had left as she stared at the dead body sitting in front of her. The body was ancient, it was covered in dust, had white hair, and pieces of skin were attached to it. The skeleton was wearing an old fashion dress preferably like the French dresses and a necklace that was held by one of its hands. Kaoru continued to scream and took a step backward where the floor immediately collapsed. She fell through each floor screaming with dust and cobwebs covering her. Kaoru felt as if the fall was endless as her body collided with each floor she fell through. She finally reached the bottom floor and slammed violently onto the dusty floor.
"What do you see Misao?" Aoshi asked with concern as he saw Misao's eyes widen. He shook Misao a few times until she finally replied.
"Kaoru," she whimpered. Suddenly the calm tension in the air snapped. .
"What!?" Sano cried aloud and ran to Misao's side.
The fire finally revealed a small bloody body of a female who has dark black hair tied up into a ponytail, wearing white tank top, has blue eyes, and blue jeans. And the middle part of the body, a sword stabbed through it.
"KAORU!" everyone shouted with concern except for Misao who was filled with fear.
Kaoru recovered from unconsciousness and began to stir.
"Aww man…what just happened?" she said to herself, "OUCH!"
Kaoru reached over to her left arm, the elbow has twisted out of place. Her breath began to panic as she realized where she is.
'I just fell down through a flight of rooms and I survived. But where am I?' Kaoru thought to herself as she looked around the room.
Kaoru stood up and stumbled back to the floor.
"Great…I got a broken ankle, how lucky I just barely landed in the corner of the room…" Kaoru murmured sarcastically as she attempted to get up again and succeeded to do so.
She looked around to get familiar with her surroundings. The only light provided to see is the one she created from her fall, the floors were covered with dust, so was the room, and the room seemed to be useless since there were nothing in it. Kaoru was just about to sit down until she saw something in gold flashed in front of her eyes from the center of the room.
Aoshi teleported immediately down the long stairs in front of the Lotus Temple searching for Kaoru.
"Found her yet?" Aoshi yelled up the stairs to Misao who was levitating cautiously in the air.
"NO!" Misao cried back down as she heave a loud sigh, "Oh wait…I see someone!" Misao jumped from the air and landed on the limping figure.
"Ouch! Watch it bitch or I'll…" the man snarled but immediately shut up when he saw Megumi, Aoshi, and Sano approaching. He immediately turned away and attempted to run until Aoshi teleported in front of him.
"Get away from me you freak!" the man screamed.
"Tell us where the girl is?" Sano asked with a deadly tone.
"What are you talking about?" the frightened man asked.
"You know exactly who I'm talking about, the girl you encountered earlier…" Sano replied with a deadly tone as he began to form a fireball with his hand.
The man eyes opened wide as terror struck him hard.
"I saw her run over there!" he pointed up the street.
The whole group turned their heads around and turned back to the man, only to notice that he was no longer there and was running down the street.
"I knew demons like him couldn't be trusted…" Sano replied with a sigh as he hurled a fireball directly at the man, showering him in flames, and a while later it turned into a pile of ash.
The whole group headed sadly towards the ash to see a small gem engraved into it. Megumi crouched down and took the gem into her hand.
"It's too bad he couldn't…" Megumi was interrupted by a gasp. She dropped the gem to the floor and looked directly at Misao, a premonition just hit her.
"What did you see Megumi?" Misao asked.
"I saw Kaoru…"
"Where is she?" Sano asked.
"The tower…" Megumi whispered out, "I saw her being chased by men and she ran away to the Dark Tower…"
"Damnit! I thought I told her to stay away from there!" Aoshi shouted angrily, clenching his fists.
"She was being chased by evil looking men, how could she not run away? She doesn't have powers like us! Going to somewhere scary is exactly what I'd do first to get away from freaky looking men!" Megumi defended..
"She's right Aoshi…and besides it's our fault to not let her stay around…maybe we could've protected her then…" Misao replied sadly.
"Okay…let's just put the past with the past and save Kaoru! Kaoru's life is in danger right now! So let's go!" Sano shouted to the whole group.
Aoshi stood up and nodded then teleported away. Misao gave Sano a smile and levitated quickly into the air and fade away. Sano was about to run until Megumi interrupted him.
"How did you know that man saw Kaoru?" she asked.
"Heh…I didn't know at all…I was just trying to get something out of him since I sensed that he was a demon and it worked…" Sano replied stupidly with a smile.
Megumi sweat dropped, "Oh jeez…" and ran up the hill to the Dark Tower.
"What?" Sano shouted and chased after her, "It worked though!"
Kaoru saw something gold flashed in the middle of the dark room, she picked up a fallen lumber on the floor and threw it towards the side of the golden item. A small crash was heard and a large stand fell down revealing a torch. Kaoru reached down into her pocket and pulled out a match.
"Thank you for free matches at Aoshi's temple!" she said gratefully as she lighted the torch and picked it up to see to what was in front of her.
"Oh my gosh…" Kaoru whispered out as she saw what was standing in front of her. She picked up the fallen stand from the floor and put the torch on top of it. She finally limped her way to something that looked like a music stand for music sheets, but instead of music sheets, on top of it was an old book. 'This book is ancient, the colors were probably red with gold outlines but time has obviously caught up to it…but why is it in here of all places?'
"Let's see what's here," she murmured quietly as she brushed off heavy layers of dust off the book. She began to read the cover, "Battousai…" she said quietly and put some thoughts to herself. 'That name is VERY familiar…too familiar…where have I heard that name before?'
Kaoru snapped out of her thoughts and flipped the book open. "Battousai was a blood thirsty killer…however, he was the bodyguard for the Princess of the chaotic world so he was considered as an ally of the queen…" Kaoru read out loud, "Okay, so what else is in here?"
Kaoru flipped through more pages until she flipped to a page outlined with gold colors. She slowly began to chant out the words slowly without thinking, "To replace what was taken from this world and to banish darkness from now on, oh, come out now to put this world back to where it belongs. Come out now I call to thee, I call upon the heavens to set you free."
The candle immediately blew out and left Kaoru in the darkness, she began to breathe heavily as she felt a pair of eyes watching her. Kaoru closes the book and slowly turned around to the darkness and saw glowing amber eyes staring at her.
"AHHHH!!!"
"Are you sure we should go up the stairs? I mean we're only after a puny girl." the thin man whined while putting one foot on top of the Dark Towers staircase.
"Our boss said so, therefore, we are going to!" a second chubby man replied harshly.
"Aww…but…" the thin man was interrupted by a loud scream.
"AHHHH!"
"Where'd that come from?" he asked while cowering behind the fat man.
"Behind here…" he pointed with his meaty fingers towards the side of the staircase.
He was pointing an ancient dusty old grandfather clock, then both men smirked.
The thin man stopped shivering and grabbed his dagger out, "That little wench is going to get it now…" he said with a deadly tone.
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