Chapter 4

BOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"NO!!!!!! Kyo!!!!!"Izumi screamed. Yuki was holding her back from running to the door and where Kyo would have been. Yuki just turned his head trying not to look at what was left. Yume covered her mouth in horror. "Nooo.... its got to be a joke right? Right Yuki?" Izumi looked over at Yuki's face. It told her that all this was real. "Noo... Its not true! It can't be! NOOO!!!!!" Izumi was struggling to get out of Yuki's arms. "Release me you rat!" Izumi yelled.

"Izumi! Don't take this out on Yuki! He had nothing to do with it!" Yume said defending Yuki.

"Has nothing to do with it huh?! Then why the hell didn't he save him huh? Huh sister?! It was his plan all along! He wanted to kill Kyo so bad he had Akito come and do it for him! What a wimp! You don't deserve to be called a rat! You're worse that a rat! You're yellow! A chicken! Let me go!!!"

Yume just stared in amazement. Yuki slowly let go of Izumi and she fell to the ground. Yuki tried to help her up but she slapped his hand away.

"Don't ever touch me again." Izumi said looking away from him. The smoke started to clear and as soon as it did and they saw that the door was still standing, they started shooting and throwing bombs. "Stop!!!!" Izumi ran over to Akito and pleaded for him to stop. "He could still be alive!!! Stop this now! You are destroying our lair! Our home!"

"Who cares? There is no way that freak cat is still alive. Its over Izumi. He's gone. And I killed him. Hm. How Ironic." Akito said snickering.

Izumi was swelling up with anger. She was about to explode. Unfortunatly... she did.

"Damn you Akito!!!" Izumi punched Akito in the face and then in the stomach. He fell over to the ground. The guards seased fire and went to help him.

"Damn you wench! How dare you punch him like that? Have you no respect for the one who is keeping you all alive?!" The woman said.

"Keeping us alive?! He just killed one of us right in front of us!! How do you call that keeping us alive?!"

The two went on fighting and the smoke started to clear.

Yume interupted the fight, "Izumi look!" Everyone turned their heads to see Kyo, a red light around him, standing there looking at them as if nothing happened.

"Kyo?" Izumi shuddered.

"What are you waiting for?! You fools! Shoot him!" Akito said from the ground. All of them were too suprised to shoot or to move even. "Fine then I'll do it myself!" Akito got up, took a gun and aimed at Kyo.

"NOOO!!!!" Right as Akito shot the gun, Izumi ran out to save Kyo. She was hit and fell to the ground. Blood was everywhere. Yume and Yuki ran over to make sure that she was alright. Some of the maids came over too. Kyo took one final look and walked through the door.

"Damn you woman! You should've stayed out of my way! He's going to save her now is that what you want?!" Akito screamed, pointing the gun at her.

"What do you care? You don't give a damn about what I want. All you care about is you. But I will say this. All I want is for him to be happy. If saving her makes him happy, then thats how it is." She looked up at him, her eyes fierce. "You see its a little emotion us humans like to call love... But you wouldn't understand it now would you?" She said challenging him.

He snickered.

BLAAAMMM!!!!

Huh? Where am I? Kyo wondered. He looked around. He was in a place full of red light. It was a place from his past that he recognized. It was Sohma house. He watched all the horrible things happen to him back then. His mother not loving him, his mother dying. His other form being discovered by Akito, being outcasted like a fox in a house full of hounds. He couldn't watch anymore of those horrible images. He couldn't take it. He heard a girl laugh and looked up to see Tohru's smiling face. It wasn't the real Tohru, it was an image with sound. Like his whole memory was replaying itself. He saw how happy they all looked together. Even that damn rat. He couldn't help but smile. Then suddenly, the images were gone and he fell into a dark cave.

"Ow!" Kyo exclaimed as he fell on his butt. "Dammit that hurt. Where am I?" When Kyo tried to get up he touched something. He looked over and saw a pirate skeleton. "EEEEEKKKK!!!" He jumped from the ground in a heartbeat. Okay... pirate skeletons? Does that mean I'm in the maze? "Tohru!" Kyo ran from where was standing and started calling out her name. "Tohru?! Tohru!" He could not find her. It was too dark to see anything. He ran into a wall and landed flat on the floor. "Ow." He sat up quickly enough.

Okay... If I am where Tohru is and she can't hear or answer me then my best bet is to keep walking around until I find her. But what am I going to do when I do? How will we get out of here?

Kyo heard a soft growl or something from a little in front of him. He followed the noise and to his suprise he found her. Tohru Honda. She was in a sleeping position so he couldn't see her face. But it was Tohru.

"Tohru? Tohru wake up." He reached out his hand to shake her and wake her up but when he did she only got up on her hands and knees. Her hair was covering her face. "Tohru? Are you okay? Ya gonna hurl or something?"

Silence...

"Tohru are you even listening to me?" Kyo was going to turn her to him but she did it herself. "Y-you're not Tohru!"

"No I'm not. I am here to bring you doom."

Tohru was on the ground in a lit room. It was lit by candles and torches mostly. A huge witch pot with fire coming out was the greatest sorce of light in the room. Tohru awoke to the crackle and pop of the flames.

"Where am I? What am I doing here?"

She observed the room and found that there were a lot of flowers. Tullips and Roses some other ones she had never seen before. The room smelled like strawberries and cream. She let her eyes wonder some more and saw a throne. It had the four elements (earth, water, fire, and sky) on it.

"This room is amazing..."

"Thank you." said a voice from behind her. She turned around and saw a beautiful woman with long black hair that reached the floor.

"Um... Who are you?"Tohru asked. The lady smiled. "Oh! I'm so sorry! I haven't even introduced myself! Why would you tell me if I haven't told you!"

"No... Its quite alright dear. I know who you are. You are Miss Tohru Honda right?"

"Yes, how did you know my name? Do I know you?" The lady giggled.

"From long, long, ago. My name is Princess Aya Akari Sohma. You may call me Aya."

"YOU'RE A PRINCESS?!?!?!?!"

"Yes. I am. I have been trapped here for centuries not able to die. I am part of the zodiac."

"But how is that possible? There are thirteen in all. If you are a part of the zodiac that means there are fourteen."

"There are fourteen. I am the zodiac member that everyone has forgotten. I am the bear. No one has ever put me in the chinese zodiac and no one remembers me so I was cursed to live in this cave until I can find someone who has enough magic to save me."

"Save you? From what?"

"Hmm... You already know that there is a person who carries the full weight of the zodiac curse correct? Well that person has to be strong enough to let me out of here. So far all of them have been very weak. I need someone with a lot of power. The person with enough power will become the new master when the current one dies. The person with enough magic can only be a girl but she has two guardians who are boys. It could be any girl in this whole part of Japan. But it has to be someone related to the Sohmas in some way. Then if she is not already a zodiac member, she will make up a new one and become that."

"Really?! Wow!"

"Yes but if she is not strong enough then I will stay in here. And she must pass one final test before she becomes the new master of us all."

"That is so amazing-"

"Highness. I have brought him like you told me to. What should I do with him now?"

"Him?" Tohru said. She turned around and found Kyo was hovering over the lady. "Kyo! Oh my gosh Kyo!"

"You know him ma'am?"

"Yes I do! Please put him down."

The lady exchanged glances with the princess. "As you wish." Kyo floated down to the ground. Tohru was by his side in a flash.

"Kyo? Kyo?! Can you hear me? Please answer me!"

"Ughh..." was his response.

"Kyo!" She was going to fling out her arms to hug him even if he did change but she was suddenly aware that her arms were tied behind her back. She tried to brake free but to no avail. Kyo started to wake up and she decided to just forget about the rope. "Kyo? Are you okay? How did you get in here?"

"To-Tohru?" He was pinching her cheeks a second later to make sure it was her this time.

"Ow! What did I do?"

"Tohru... It really is you! Are you okay? Did they hurt you?"

"Who hurt who? I would not harm a girl I do not know." the princess said.

"You pray that she doesn't have one hair out of place!"

"Kyo... They didn't do anything. We were sitting here talking for a while when that lady brought you here."

"Then why are your hands tied behind your back?"

"It was a safety precaution. Just in case she was an intruder. See?"

She waved her hands and the ropes disappeared. "I was just protecting myself."

"The hell you were..."

"Um... Princess-"

"Ah ah ah! Just Aya."

"Oh so sorry! Um... Aya... Do you know how to get out of here?"

"Yes but it won't be simple. You have to do many things before you get out of here. First of all you have to have magic. Second you have to be able to use it and third..."

TO BE CONTINUED

Hi! its me... the writer. i know u r all mad about me ending it this way but i have exams and recently my computer broke down so im really sorry. anyway the next one will be out soon so just wait a little while.