Chapter 12: Darker then hell

::Kyo slowly stood up his head still lowered as he held onto his sword and slowly looked up at Clair with a faint smile on his face as he spoke:: "….Clair…I'm glad your alright." ::she nodded and smiled at him:: "so am I…heh when I fell out of the pouch I woke up. I guess I had a concussion. You should let me heal you wounds Kyo." ::kyo then shook his head:: "I'm fine. I think you should just rest and let your powers fully recover." ::She smiled slightly and nodded and flew over to his shoulder and sat down gently. He held onto his sword tightly with his left hand after he had yanked it out of the wall and sheathed his dagger he walked up the stairs in the main hall. He closed his eyes and sighing heavily as he walked down the left hall holding onto his sword tightly. He could hear footsteps running rapidly it was only one person. He could tell by the sound of it. They where getting closer and closer he quickly got into his stance holding his sword with both hands he was at the corner of the hallway he then heard the steps right next to him and swung his sword and saw it was rose stopping the blade right at her shoulder and his eyes widened as so did hers as she gasped and fell to her rear looking up at him in fear.:: "kyo!" ::Kyo quickly sheathed his sword and pulled her up:: "Rose what the hell happened here…where's Cade!" ::She shook her head and slowly stood up:: "he…he died along with most of the other knights. I don't' know how many are left…I don't know what happened but people just started acting weird and attacking the castle and everything's just going crazy everywhere…it's as if they are all possessed." ::Kyo then nodded:: "that's because they are." ::Rose blinked several times she was already shaking badly but now it was worse:: "who could be strong enough to posses this many people at once?" "…some bitch named Rachelle. I don't know much about her except that she's trying to get all of the demon stones to make an empire." ::suddenly there was a loud explosion like sound outside in the town. Kyo blinked several times facing in that direction:: "come on let's get out of here…hopefully we can get to a horse and get out of here." ::She nodded as he took her hand and began walking down the stairs. Rose looked at Clair as they both smiled at each other gently then looked back down ahead of themselves. Kyo got to the gate lever seeing that all of the people clawing at the gate before where gone and blinked several times and began twisting the gate lever as the gate slowly arose. Kyo and Rose walked out as Kyo unsheathed his sword looking around wearily.

::Kyo looked up at the sky as it was filled with a blood red haze and the sky was pitch black…without any clouds. Kyo looked back to the bloodstained streets filled with limbs and corpses of the innocent. Weapons scattered around, the ground cracked, buildings crippled, and glass scattered about. Kyo walked slowly around the hectic streets. Screams could be heard off in the distance, the sounds of groaning and crying could be heard he slowly started walking towards. Before long he walked around the corner seeing a huge crater. It had to of been at least three hundred feet deep. He could see half of a corpse that was next to the crater. "wh…what could've done this" ::Rose shook her head and backed up a bit as a cold hand clasped her shoulder squeezing tightly. She squealed in fear as Kyo quickly turning around seeing a man covered in a black cloak with his face covered by the hood. The only thing visible was his mouth. Kyo knew instantly who it was spotting the huge sword sheathed on his back:: "…Blaze…" ::Kyo was then filled with fear. Rose heard the name. She knew who it was from the stories and started shaking badly as she closed her eyes tightly. As Blaze spoke with his quiet voice:: "…I thought you where dead." ::Kyo slowly shook his head holding out his sword ready to defend himself:: "I'm not here for you…where is Rachelle…I heard already what she has been doing. Manipulating us…I'm here to kill her." ::Kyo shook his head slowly:: "I don't' know…" ::Blaze sighed heavily:: "tch…figures" ::Blaze looks over to the Crater but his eye can't be seen:: "…I wonder what did that" ::Kyo's eyes widened and suddenly his heart began racing again as he was filled with pain and dropped his sword falling to his knees clutching his chest. He closed his eyes tightly and started grinding his teeth. Blaze looked at Kyo questionably.:: "are the demons finally becoming to much for you?"

::Kyo groaned out in pain as he fell to his side and then suddenly he felt his body going limp he couldn't control himself. He saw his body being covered in blood red mist and pain started flowing threw his body. He held out his right hand and could feel could blood slowly coming out of the palm of his hand. Rose slowly opened her eyes watching and screamed:: "Kyo!" ::Suddenly a hole was torn threw Kyo's glove and the blood slowly started forming a puddle next to Kyo's hand…as if it where moving. Then his wound closed and the blood slowly formed into a red gem and laid there. Blaze quickly unsheathed his sword clutching it tightly as he let go of Rose he fell to her knees and scampered to Kyo. With Clair hovering over him Clair aimed a hand at Kyo as Blaze then spoke:: "I wouldn't heal him just yet…the magic might cause an opposite effect on him right now since his bodies going ballistic from the over surge of energy. So if you do that you might risk killing him" ::Clair opened her mouth partially then slowly closed it and floated down and sat on Kyo's chest looking up at him as so did Rose who was sitting beside him. Blaze looked up in the air seeing Rachelle on a building as she held a hand out muttering a spell and the stone started flying up to her blaze swung his sword cutting the gem in half. Her eyes then went wide as a red mist flew out of the gem and flew up into the air. Rachelle then screamed down at Blaze:: "you bastard! Do you know what you just did! You fu" ::suddenly her eyes widened as she looked down seeing a long curved blade sticking threw her gut. She tried to speak but all that came out was a bubble full of blood that she spit out all over herself. And then went limp as blood began to fall down from her wound. Behind her was a man wearing a brown cloak his hood down showing his short black hair and a bandage over one of his eyes. With a devilish smirk on his face. He kicked the corpse off of his sword as it fell to the ground. He looked down at Blaze who glared up at non other then Ferverus. Rose's eyes widened and began shaking Kyo:: "wake up kyo wake up!" ::Kyo's eyes slowly fluttered open::

::Kyo leaned up looking at Ferverus and quickly stood up grabbing his sword and sheathing it as Clair whispered into his ear:: "hurry Kyo let's go…" ::Kyo nodded and backed up and started running suddenly his body was covered in a purple mist and his eyes slowly closed and fell face first into the ground dropping the sword again as he passed out again. He felt as if all the power he had was just dropped and gone. But he could still feel a powerful presence in his body. But it wasn't like the other ones. This one wasn't trying to control him and wasn't giving him power either…was it the demon of azriel?:: "KYO WAKE UP!" ::Rose began screaming in his ear and slowly got up looking at her:: "sorry…" ::He got up as they began running again. The sword of metal clashing was in the distance. Kyo got to the stable and turned around seeing fire scorching the sky. Rose slowly spoke:: "Kyo…do Blaze and Ferverus fight?" ::Kyo looked at Rose:: "Because…if I can remember from the stories I heard…their the same person…Ferverus was a drone that was made from Blaze's blood. From a powerful sorcerer…known as Crashion. Ferverus used to work for Crashion who was just one of Rachelle's puppets." ::Rose frowned:: "this is all confusing…and now Rachelle is dead and I heard that Crashion was killed as spread quickly" ::She said the last part quietly as Kyo nodded as Rose continued to speak:: "but why does Blaze with to kill Ferverus and why does Ferverus with to kill Blaze though…" ::Kyo then began to speak again:: "well because…Ferverus was told to kill Blaze since he refused to work for Rachelle and Crashion. So Blaze wants to kill Ferverus since it's a clone of himself that's being used to do someone else's work…and I guess he doesn't want that." ::Rose then walked over to a horse and began untied it from the post:: "but why did Ferverus kill Rachelle?" ::Kyo shook his head and shrugged:: "…what I'm guessing is that he found out she was using him…but I thought he was possessed….I really don't know what's going on." ::Kyo then looked over to Rose who was looking at him. His eyes widened as he looked at the horse she was untying as it started rotting his flesh started decaying as it fell to the ground along with the horse beside him he then ran out along with rose from the stench:: "great! How are we supposed to get out of here now!" ::Suddenly there was a low groan that wasn't very far from them. It sounded as if it where behind them down the street a little ways…and the sound of the clashing had stopped. Kyo turned around and so did Rose. Clair quickly flew onto Kyo's shoulder sitting down. He saw Blaze sitting there on his knees with his left hand on his stomach where a deep slash was. Then he turned his body his right hand holding onto his huge blade tightly as Ferverus lunged at him he swung his blade upward as it slashed right threw Ferverus's legs. Kyo's eyes widened as Rose quickly turned around closing her eyes tightly. Ferverus' eyes widened as both of his legs where cut off. While in mid air Blaze swung his blade again cutting right threw the top of Ferverus' head. Blaze dropped the his sword as Ferveruses corpse fell to the ground. Blaze began panting and breathing heavily as a small mist from above slowly began floating down. Kyo's eyes widened as it began to enter threw his mouth and nose Kyo then shouted:: "no!" ::Rose turned around looking at Kyo as so did Clair then looked at Blaze who looked at Kyo dumfounded:: "what's wrong with you kid" ::Kyo started breathing heavily:: "…the berserker…just….went inside you……" ::Blaze's eyes widened looking at Kyo. As thoughts rushed threw Kyo's head …he already kills enough as it is…but now…he'll have no control over how many he kills…or who he kills…this isn't good:: "…Kyo…I don't want to die" ::Rose clutched onto Kyo's arm tightly her eyes watery as Clair just sat there quietly. Kyo clutched is blade shakily as he looked at Blaze who had just closed his eyes his breathing calming as he just sat there…and then spoke:: "….kid…" ::Blaze them smirked looking up at Kyo his eyes now blood red as a black shadow loomed behind him. It was death behind him holding the war scythe:: "…Death can't help you now."