Chapter 9

Star loses, Katrina wins.

Katrina lied on her back, thinking of the time Star was there in here room, showing her what Kirin had done, but she couldn't believe it, Kirin made her promise…that's it! The Promise!

"Kirin made me promise that I'd never leave his side, so he promised himself that he wouldn't leave mine either! I think Star might have been pulling on my emotions…time to teach that bitch to not take my vulpine away!"

Katrina lifted herself up from her bed, putting on her jacket and was out the door, heading towards Kirin's house, she knew Star had done something, she did say that she would have Kirin, Katrina cracked her knuckles, telling anything that looked at her that she was pissed, and very much indeed.

Mccloud residence

"Come on Kirin, let her go…she didn't want you."

"No…she wouldn't turn her back on me…I know her."

"I showed you what she did, why can't you understand?"

Kirin looked away, choking on breaths, he couldn't hold in his sadness for long, Star was just picking at him like a scab, and she was enjoying his suffering.

"Come on dammit! Remove Katrina from your mind and be mine!""

Kirin remembered the false Event, Kirin looked at Star…and pushed her away, running outside, away from Star, away from his pain…away from his home. He wanted to be alone, but ran into Katrina.

"Kirin! I came by to…"

"Katrina please tell me you didn't!"

"What are you talking about?"

"You with those other Vulpine's! Please tell me it's a lie!"

"Tell me you having sex with Star was a lie!"

Kirin was confused, he was hypnotized into having sex with Star, why didn't Katrina know that?

"And I didn't have sex with other Vulpine's."

"You don't know how much that makes me happy."

"But what about you, you had sex with Star."

"No…she hypnotized me, didn't you know that?"

"No I didn't."

Kirin looked down and clenched his paws, Star was playing with his Emotions, Kirin walked along the street with Katrina back to his house, Star's jaw dropped, She lost Kirin again.

"Oh fuck it! I'll just kill him and that pathetic Katrina and find myself a new mate, Kirin won't come quietly, so it's time to find another, but before I go…I'll destroy Corneria, and make sure that they'll remember me in hell!"

As Kirin entered his house to face Star, she had disappeared, Kirin punched the wall, cracking it.

"Dammit! How could I let her get away?"

Katrina placed her paws on Kirin's shoulders.

"Don't worry, we'll find her."

Kirin withdrew his paw from the wall and looked at Katrina with a smile.

"Well…do you still want to go out for dinner?"

Katrina smiled and took Kirin's paw into her paw.

"I be delighted."

The two smiled as they walked out of the house, heading towards a restaurant that could bring them a night of being together.

Spirit world

"My god…if I knew Gray Fang would get me here, I would just give up on the demonic arts…now I have to listen to all these dead Animals because I'm dead!"

Ariaz walked amongst the glowing roads which that are apart of the spirit world, getting looks of friends and looks of enemies coming his way.

"They best back off, I have Ascalon, I still have this god blade and I'm not afraid to kill anyone that attacks me."

Ariaz finally made it to the park of which the spirit world was famous for having about thousands among thousands of parks, their majestic beauty of flowing water, the sound they made, Araiz enjoyed this sound, he never wanted it to end.

"This land flows with beauty, I can't stop listening to these wonderful sounds, like they know the tunes that I want to hear."

Ariaz closed his eyes, the fountain calmed him with its slow flowing, quiet enough to put even the toughest thing to slumber.

"Excuse me, are you alright?"

Ariaz opened eyes in excitement, pulling his Ascalon and pointing it at the talker, but he lowered the Ascalon away from the spirit, it was a Vixen, Purple fur, white stomach fur, black shorts, and a black work-out bra.

"Uh…Hi…whoa, sorry, didn't mean to raise Ascalonat you."

"No problem, I can see you enjoy the spirit world."

Ariaz looked back over the ledge, lands upon lands were below, never ending with water.

"Yeah…it's wonderful, I never seen something so magnificent in my life."

The Vixen looked away, walking slowly away from Ariaz, this caught his attention.

"Hey…where you going?"

"(Sigh) No body in the spirit world cares about me, unwanted spirits are sent away into hell if they are unnoticed in the Spirit world."

Ariaz looked sad and lowered his head, that was awful to him, unnoticed spirits sent away, he brought his head up and placed his hand on the spirits shoulder.

"They can't be like that…I'm not like that."

The Vixen turned to Ariaz with a sad look in her face, her sapphire eyes reminded him so much of when he was alive.

"How can I trust you, how can I trust a Human?"

Kirin brought the Vixen close to him for a hug, looking down at her face while she looked up at his.

"I know this place is magnificent, but I never said beautiful, and I do believe that you are the only thing I find beautiful in this world."

The Vixen lied her head on Ariaz's Chest while Ariaz relaxed his head on top of her head.

"Thank you."

"Hey don't mention it…whatever your name is."

"My name is Carol."

"Carol…that's a nice name."

Carol looked up at Ariaz again, about to kiss him, but then something was wrong, the fountain stopped, the majestic music became dead…and spirits of killed monsters started to attack Spirits. Ariaz moved away from Carol, pulling out his Ascalon and looked at his Vixen friend.

"Carol! Run!"

"But What will you do?"

"I'll hold them here, just find a safe hiding spot! Now go!"

Carol ran off, leaving her Friend behind, Ariaz held the Ascalon in his hand, prepared to destroy anything that leaped at him. He was surrounded by the group of dead creatures.

"Alright, come on, there's plenty of me to go around."

One Creature leaped out and attacked Ariaz, but he stepped backwards and swung his blade downward, crashing the creature into the ground. It was dispersed.

"Alright, one down , five to go."

Ariaz held his Ascalon in both hands, charging at the remaining creatures, only hacking four of them as they dispersed. Ariaz looked at the last creature, as it was filled with horror.

"Just you and me now."

Ariaz smiled, holding the Ascalon in front of him, the creature had to attack, it was all or nothing to it now…and apparently it became nothing, The Creature took a swift blow to the neck and dispersed. Ariaz sheathed his Ascalon and looked around for Carol.

"Hey, Carol! I did it, they're dead!"

Carol appeared from behind a bench, along with every other Spirit hiding in different places, looking at the Human spirit. Everything was silent, then and entire crowed cheered for their savior.

"I didn't know that a spirit would have courage to stand up to these things, they love to feed on Spirits."

"Where did they come from?"

"They came from a Soul Edge wielder named Star, she's been sending these things in after us to make her powerful, but now that they are dead, I pray that this will be the last of them."

Ariaz removed his hand from Ascalon and rubbed the back of his head, during the fight he hit himself on the head with the blade. The fountains flowed again, the music he sought returned and traveled around his head with it's notes of beauty, he loved this sound.

"Is this Star person dead?"

"No…she's a spirit mage."

"And they?"

"Steal souls from the Spirit world to fuel their power, those creatures you fought are called retrievers, they devour souls and deliver the power to the Spirit mage."

"That's awful!"

"Yes…and I think if she gets you then the world above will join us."

Ariaz couldn't do anything in the Spirit world to help the mortal world, he was dead, how could he help…and did he even want to help, knowing Kirin was up there.

Diamond Palm Restaurant

Kirin and Katrina were seated at a table close to the beach, the Diamond Palm was a place for couples to be together, it was located near a beach, balconies for dancing under the stars, violin music, this place was very special to Katrina, especially that Kirin had brought her here.

"Kirin, this is so romantic, how did you afford this table?"

"Well…lets just say I have my ways.

20 minutes before

"Thanks Kirin, I couldn't cut into these fish without the Soul Edge."

"No problem, you might want to sharpen your knives."

The Chef nodded his head, and got a perfect idea to repay Kirin.

"Say, how about a free table near the balconies?"

"Sure!"

Present time

Katrina looked in the menu, and noticed behind Kirin was his parents at their table, Katrina poked Kirin in the arm.

"What?"

"Your parents are here…right behind you."

Kirin looked back, and quickly turned back to Katrina, he just shrugged off the thoughts of what would happen to him. He stared at Katrina and her black dress, Kirin smiled of how she looked so beautiful. The waiter walked up to the teens.

"Are you ready to order?"

"Yes, I'll have the lobster along with salad and Mango fruit juice."

"And you sir?"

"The same, except the Mango fruit Juice, not really thirsty."

The waiter walked off, Kirin looked at Katrina with a confused look in his eyes.

"Lobster? You eat fish?"

"Of course! These nine years with my family gave me the taste for fish."

Other table

"Fox…isn't that Kirin?"

Fox turned his head, he was wondering what his son was doing here, and how he afforded that table.

"He must be here with Katrina."

Fox just smiled, looking at Krystal, she just giggled.

"What Fox?"

"Remember our first date here?"

"Of course. I never forgot that day."

"I still remembered what you wore, that blue gown, Silk, and lined with gold."

Krystal stood up and grabbed Fox my the arm, pulling him towards the balcony close to them. Krystal danced with Fox, Kirin winked at his mother, she winked back.

"Thanks mom."

"Don't mention it."

"Wait…how the hell did you…"

"I'm telepathic Kirin, I knew you'd forget."

"…oh yeah that's right."

Kirin looked back at Katrina, they could enjoy their evening without any disruptions, they could finally be together.