Chapter 5

"Huh?" It was Akito's voice first. "What the-"

"Ohmigod." Yume said. Her hands were slowly uncovering her mouth. "It... It can't be... Can it?"

"It is..." Yuki said looking at Yume.

The guards were all speechless and some had passed out from all of the events that had happened. Akito had shot the gun, it was aimed at Izumi's head, even though all of that happened...

"Yes that's right Akito... I'm alive..." Izumi said. She was standing up and had a red light surrounding her.

"How?! How can you still be alive?! What is that thing?!"

"This thing, is what saved my life... Kyo... just saved me..."

Nobody said anything. Everyone was in shock.

"K-kyo... saved you?" Yume asked, afraid of what the answer might be.

"Yes."

"Do you really think that I'm that stupid?! It's all a lie!"

"Is it really, Akito?" Yuki asked. Akito spun his head to his direction. "You saw the same light we saw come out of Kyo."

"It's a lie! I don't believe you! That freak cat isn't even here anymore! He entered that cursed maze and he won't be back, ever!"

"If you truly believe that then why are you shaking, Akito? No... It couldn't be that you're..." Izumi let her words trail off for a second then finished the thought. "...Afraid..."

Akito slapped her. "Who the hell do you think I am?! Me? Afraid? Of that freak cat?! Never!"

"It sounds like fear to me."

"Yeah... It does to me too." Yume said. "I mean, why would you want to kill him right then if you weren't afraid of him? You could kill him anytime you wanted."

"That's right sister. But also notice that Kyo is the only member of the Zodiac that he wants gone. If he hates us all..."

"Why not kill us all. Now even... No witnesses really, no motive, nothing."

Akito was looking at all of them. And in unison they all said, "It's the perfect crime."

"Sh-shut up!"

"We've finally figured you out Akito... Maybe you are human after all." Yuki said.

"Even if he may seem human though..." Yume started.

"It does not give him the right to call himself one." Izumi finished.

"Damnnit!" Akito pulled out a tiny pistol. "Damn you all!"

"And third is what exactly?" Tohru asked.

Aya closed her eyes and just stood there for a while as if it were impossible to do.

"Oh would you cut the dramatics already? I'm dyin over here!" Kyo yelled.

"Third is you have to have two other people who have power and can link with you..."

"Huh?" Kyo said with a very confused look on his face.

"In other words, you have to have two other people to help you out and you have to be compatible?" Tohru asked.

"Yes, basically."

"Since when did you become so smart?" Kyo asked Tohru. Tohru had a very blank expression on her face. "Nevermind, I don't want to know."

"Oh! But how can we do that if only the two of us are here? I don't really know you so the only person we can link with is each other."

"Yes that may be true but you can pick another to come help you. You can transport him just like you did Kyo."

"Huh?" Tohru said.

"So you transported me into this maze cave huh?"

"What?! What are you talking about? I didn't do anything, I don't have the power to do anything!"

"You have power or else you wouldn't have been able to come in here in the first place. You just didn't know that you had it. Speaking of which, if you didn't know that, then I guess you didn't know that you are actually the witch goddess named Elocin."

Tohru's system shut down. Kyo kept looking between Tohru and Aya.

Finally Kyo said, "Tohru?" When he did, Tohru fell backwards and fainted.

"Oh dear... Maybe I shouldn't have told her."

"Ya think?!" Kyo said as he went to make sure she was alright.

"But there is more I need to tell her. I will just tell you instead of her. You, Kyo, are one of her most loyal watchers. There are three loyal watchers to guard her. Then there are watchers that are not as close to her who are under you. If you are a loyal watcher, you have powers too."

"I have powers?" Kyo said pointing at himself.

"Yes. How else do you think that you got in here? She is not strong enough to transport you on her own. It was her unhappiness and your determined self that transported you have. But, you need two loyal watchers in here to transport everyone out and I don't think she can do it again. She might not have enough strength to do it."

"Well if she can't bring another here by herself then I will help her." Kyo said determined.

"You can't help her. Its a test she must pass by herself."

"Well maybe we don't need another person. Maybe we can do this with only two people!"

"Sorry, afraid it doesn't work that way. If she does not pass it then she will stay here for eternity. She is the second person to go through this trial."

"Second? She's the second to go through this trial?! What about Yume and Izumi?" Kyo asked confused.

"They may have power and all, but, they are not the special ones who can save us from our curse. Most people in our family have power, they just don't know it or can't use it. It doesn't mean that they can save us from our curse. Since this child is even able to see me, I believe that she can save us from our curse."

"Can she? But wait, she'll stay here for eternity? The person before her didn't pass either or else we wouldn't have a curse so..." a thought hit Kyo, "Aya? Are you...?"

"Yes, I was the person before her, and as you can see I failed."

"But I thought that you had to be outside of the Sohma family line or curse to save us from the curse itself."

"Well, I was outside the Sohma family line, but when I failed, I became a Sohma and was cursed until the next was to arrive." Aya said with a sad expression.

"What? THAT CAN'T BE!!!!" Kyo thought for a second. "Is that whats gonna happen to Tohru if..." Kyo couldn't finish the sentence.

Aya nodded her head. Kyo's eyes went blank.

If she can't bring the other person in here by herself, she'll stay here for eternity... all alone... like Aya had. She'll become a Sohma and live with the family curse too. How can all this happen to the most unselfish girl in the world?

"Kyo?" Tohru had finally woken up from her fainting state. "Kyo?!" She sat up staright as a nail and looked to her right. There he was. Kyo was sitting right next to her looking very concerned. "You're here! It wasn't a dream!" Tohru threw her arms around Kyo and sobbed. Kyo transformed and Tohru held him in her arms anyways.

Kyo was suprised and all he could do was comfort her. She reluctantly let go when she saw Aya. She stared at her as if she knew something evil about her. Just then when she was about to talk, Kyo changed back and she ran across the room screaming.

"I didn't see! I didn't see!" Tohru repeated over and over on the other side of the room.

"You can look now. I'm done changing." Kyo said with a sigh.

"Um, yeah, okay." Tohru nervously said twittling her thumbs and walking back to where the other two were standing.

"Okay now that we have that done, lets get out of here." Kyo said enthusiastically.

"You can't without the knowing who the other person is and having them come in here." Aya said. Kyo was shot down.

"Thanks for reminding me of the bad news."

"Welcome! Now, who else is really close to you Tohru?"

"Close to... me?" Tohru said in thought.

Yuki...

"Huh?" Yuki said to himself.

Was that Miss Honda I just heard?

Yuki....

It is her! But where? Where is this voice coming from?

Yuki turned around and looked at the maze.

The maze of course!

Yuki had turned his back on Akito and started slowly walkin towards the maze door. Akito saw this and pointed the gun at him.

"Yuki, you shall be the first to die." Akito aimed right for Yuki's head.

"Noooo!!!!" Yume ran out in front of the gun Akito had. He shot the gun and Yume was shot in the arm.

"Yume!!!" Izumi screamed as she ran over to her sister. Her arm was spurting a lot of blood. Izumi ripped her clothing and tied around her sister's arm to make it stop bleeding until they could properly take care of it. All the nurses and maids were afraid to come out and were in hiding until Akito and his guards went away. During all this, Yuki barely even took a glance backwards.

"Why? Why didn't he save me like Kyo saved you?" Yume asked, feverish.

"Why? Maybe he can't..." That's what Izumi said but what she was thinking was that he was a coward and didn't care what happened to her sister and for that she could not forgive him.

Yume picked up on this and said, "He is not a coward and he has enough power. I just wonder why. Maybe he thought that I wouldn't step in the way." Yume said.

"Maybe your right." Izumi said.

"Maybe I need to puke!" Akito gagged. "Well, you can't save him this time." He shot the gun again, it was as if it was in slow motion. Yuki was almost to the maze door and the bullet was coming. Yume screamed and cried at the same time and then a big flash of light occured. Once it grew dimmer, you saw Yuki in the light of green.

"Do not mock me you vermin," he said. Then he entered the maze door with no struggle at all.

"Dammit. He may be enemies but I know he's going to help that freak cat out of there and that girl will come with them. Damn, Damn, Damn!"

"Akito, what do you have against them? They have done nothing to them. And yet you are a great source of fear for all three of them."

"It only means they respected me, unlike you girls who will soon die."

What was left of Akito's guards surrounded the girls with guns and knives.

"This is the end girls. Any last words?" The chief general said. It was silent. "Good."

SHHIIIIKKK

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