Chapter Five: Tears that Burnt The Soul
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Summary: Finally getting to a good part...some one close dies a vicious death. Bring Tissues cos its really sad for all you who tend to get broken hearts easy. REVIEW LOTS!
"Come in we've been waiting."
Look cautiously at each other, the trio thought the worst as they entered the dark room where the dark presence was at this peak.
There was no light in the room but Jai could see everything. She guessed it was due to her necromancer eyes. Jai quickly looked around
the room and saw her friends unmoving in the corner, their mouths bound but their eyes flitted around in fear, the look in their eyes told
her that she shouldn't have come. The other girl Akuma was with them and she looked completely terrified which in a way pleased Jai,
but she didn't see Kosuke in the group. She looked behind her shoulder to Hakel and Lucifer who were doing well in the dark. As she
heard another sound she spun around to see figures in the shadows moving and a muffled scream come from there. Suddenly a blaze of
blue light filled the room as Hakel illuminated the room. Jai gasped as she saw five angelic figures with hair black as night and black
wings to accompany them cloaked so that their faces were hidden. Though she didn't know what they were, Lucifer did to a point. In
his mind he ran through the facts about black angels, they were angels born with black hair and black wings and were cursed with
another half. But that was all he could recollect. Kosuke was hovering a foot off the ground in the grasp of one of the angels, a female.
"What do you want?" Jai demanded in a superior tone.
"Ah that is a question that we will not answer. You have eluded us for such a long time Scion. You will pay for the troubles you
have caused us with the lives of your friends unless you give yourself up to us." One of the angels replied his voice flowed off his tongue.
"Why should she? What has she ever done to you?" Hakel raised the question but he would soon regret it.
"She ran away from us long ago and killed off our best. She is the key to our survival and our total control. One such as you would
not understand such complicated things." The angel replied as he took a step toward Jai but Lucifer and Hakel got in his way. "Step
aside. Do not interfere in things that do not concern you." As he lifted his hands to make a sign in the air.
Lucifer and Hakel were suddenly immobile. No matter how hard they tried to move they couldn't only their eyes could move
around as they watched the angel advance of their friend.
"Think about this child…if you don't come with us your friend will pay. I don't think you want that now do you?" the angel got
right up in Jai's face.
"Why should I care about what you'll do to me? You don't seem that threatening to me and trust me I've seen it all." She replied
looking into the blue eyes of the angel before her unworried.
"Well you don't remember getting you powers though I see that you got them back. Here let me show your forgotten past." The angel said as he reached forward and placed his hand on Jai's head. Memories of the night she was created and the life she lived
through flowed through her mind. The blood, pain, screams, death, and rebirth caused her to cry out as they passed through her mind.
Things she wanted to forget scarred her memory as the man let go. She crumpled to the floor shaking as the memories flashed through
her mind. "You see this is what you did how YOU wronged us and how you became what you are. You cannot deny that you are the
scion and it seems that you want to suffer before you come to grips with the reality that is your fate. I hope you enjoy." The angel knelt
beside the girl as he forced her look into his eyes. Suddenly she couldn't move as he forced her to stand before him looking at Kosuke.
"Since you have decided to wrong us again, torment us again, you will now pay for it with something you hold dear to you heart. Now
let me introduce my self so you know whom you have wronged and who will make you pay the price. I am Yelhasha…now let the fun
begin."
Yelhasha motioned to the female who held the twelve-year-old boy in her hands to come forward. One of the black angels
attempted to knock the boy out the woman's hand but Yelhasha knocked him to the ground not caring to help him back up. All the
while the other black angels all concentrated their powers on the in front of them. They forced him to spread his arm out and legs as well
as he hovered in the air. The bond on his mouth fell off as he began screaming his head off. But no one could do anything. It caused
everyone so much pain to see their youngest friend hang in midair at the mercy of these people they didn't know, plus the fact that no
one could move to help Kosuke was probably the worst due to the fact that no one other than the angels knew what was going to
happen to the boy.
Suddenly the female angel who was holding Kosuke threw back her cloak and let it fall to the floor, her long black hair covering
her face until she looked up with a malevolent look in her eye as she stared straight into Jai's golden eyes. She walked up behind the boy
and placed her hands on his temple and slowly merged her body into his. It was an agonizingly slow process that hurt the one who was
being possessed in this case was Kosuke. He thrashed and strained against the bonds as the woman slowly melded her mind with that
of the child's. Kosuke's eyes, which were closed up until now, flew open as the female vanished from sight and fully possessed the boy.
Now the struggle was in the in the child's mind and was clearly visible to the people around him. Kosuke knew that his friends saw the
torture that he was going through and wanted to seem brave so he stayed quiet and bit his lip until it bled down this chin. He was having
a battle in his mind with the female, who held him captive the first time and he wanted to show her up, but he was failing miserably and
everyone outside of his mind could see. As the mental battle raged on in Kosuke's head, his friends were seeing the physical toll outside
his body. Bones snapped, blood ran, and the little boys frame convulsed in the magical grips of the black angels and they seemed to
soak up the pain, and sorrow as if it brought them joy. And the torment went until either the boy was either physically or mentally
drained of all will power, or the female decided that she had enough fun for one night. But either way the female exited the boy's boy
and the black angels released their hold on the boy as he crumpled to the ground in the pool that had been created from his own blood.
Yelhasha lightly stepped over the quivering body of the boy as he knelt beside him and dipped his pale hand in the crimson blood. The
then he walked over to Jai and looked straight into her eyes.
"This is what will happen if you don't come back to us. Your friends will pay the price every time you resist coming with us. It's
you fate to be our sacrifice but as long as you deny that truth pain will always follow you. Next time it will be even worse." the angel said
as he whispered in her ear. He put the hand that was covered in Kosuke's blood on her cheek and trailed it down to leave five bloody
marks. She flinched as the blood dripped down her face. "You see I will do this every time as well just to see your reaction…just to see
the glimmer of sadness in you eye's and know that I caused it. It brings such warmth to my heart." the man said. "I will leave you to
watch your dying friend. Like I said it was so much fun."
As the angel laughed he began to disappear along with the others in a cloud of black. And just as quickly as the black angels were
gone, the paralysis spell was broken and Jai rushed over the broken form of her little friend. The other gathered around her as they
watched the life flicker in their small friend's jade eyes. His body shook in Jai's warm embrace while his blood flowed unchecked over
her arms dying them crimson red. He looked into everyone's eyes in turn as he slowly turned his head. Kosuke even managed to give a
weak smile…he knew it was only a matter of time before he died so he might as well enjoy it while he lasted.
Jai let the tears run unchecked down her face as they dropped onto the boy's face. She knew that he wouldn't last long and there
was nothing she could do for him. His body was too ruined to even possibly conceive the idea that he would be able to survive so she
did the one thing she could think of…. help him to die happy.
"You did…so well Kou. You did everything that I…I taught you." The black haired girl sobbed as she made a frail attempt at
smiling. "You...you sure gave that bitch a …run for her money."
Kosuke laughed in her arms, though it was just a slight chuckle and caused him to wince, it was still a laugh. "I know… I wanted
to make you proud. I wanted…wanted to be brave… like you…and Ken…an' Hakel." The boy whispered as he looked at each
person in turn with this pain filled eyes. Everything was getting blurry he couldn't tell who anyone was except Jai but he knew everyone
was there. He also knew that Lucifer was there and that his time was coming…at least he was with his friends. As the life finally faded
from his eye Kosuke said one last thing. "I promise I will always be there beside you…I'll be waiting." And with that his chest rose for
the last time as his once glee filled eyes closed for the last time.
"Kosuke...Kou? Don't leave me Kosuke!" Jai cried out in anguish as she hugged the lifeless body of her friend close to her as she
rocked back and forth. Jai knew that her friend was gone and it was all because she couldn't do anything to stop the inevitable.
Lucifer knelt beside Jai as he chanted the spell for the boy's soul to help it pass on. He placed on the teenaged girl's shoulder as it
quivered beneath his hand. The girl just sat and rocked back and forth holding the dead boys body as if trying to will life back into his
body. Kai was crying in Ken's arms at the fact that the little boy was gone while Ken let the tears run shamelessly down his face. Hakel
had fallen to his knees next to Jai in a state of shock and as reality finally hit him he broke down and let hot tears fall down his face as
well. Lucifer was the only one who didn't cry but then again he only cried on the inside and at the current time he was crying for
everyone. Understanding that Jai wanted to be left alone so he ushered everyone outside. Hakel hesitated as he went back and placed a
comforting hand on Jai's shoulder and forcing her to look at him. Even though his eyes betrayed him and showed complete and total
sadness he gave a reassuring smile to tell Jai that everything was going to be ok. She looked straight at him with tear streaked face, her
eyeliner smudged into black lines down her face, and the look in her eyes showed that it was all her fault and that she needed to be
alone for a while. Hakel nodded and quietly said.
"I'll be here…when your ready to talk." and with that he and everyone left Jai in the pool of Kosuke's blood with his body lying
plaint in her arms in the dark. She stayed in that position until her legs became numb and darkness began to fall. She gingerly picked up
the young boy's body and carried it out of the room and to his own after she washed the blood of the body. Jai then set the broke bones
back in place, with ever snap she felt it in her own body like a shooting pain wrenching her heart, and bound the wounds although they
weren't bleeding. She wanted his to be like he wanted to be brave with bandages showing the battle scars and no more. With much
regret she left the body…they would properly burn the boy's body on a pyre over looking the valley. Her heart clenched as she left the
room to sit on the roof and contemplate all that had occurred in the past days. Akuma had left that day... she had to get on the road
again. Though she didn't want to leave her newfound friends but she had to get out…sooner or later that man named Yelhasha would
be coming to get her so she left with remorse. She promised that if they needed anything she would be right there. No matter what.
Jai never washed the blood off of her arms that night. She just sat alone on the roof as the wind whipped around her. The night sky
was clouded and no insects made a noise. It was as if the world itself was mourning the loss of Kosuke. The girl sat with her knees
drawn up to her chest, her pants, sleeves, bandages, arms, and face encrusted with the undersized boy's blood. In her sorrow she just
sat reliving the entire scene wondering if there was anything she could've done to save the boy…but she could find none. She kept
seeing memories flash through her mind. Memories of blood, pain and want…desire to be something else. Jai quickly thought of
something she wanted to do in and quickly changed the powers she used. Her eyes changed to a deep purple color as she summoned
the minerals from the air. She brought them all together and created a crystalline bird, a phoenix. She breathed on her creation as it
came to life and flew over the house.
"Watch over this place. In memory of the one I couldn't save. I call you Kosuke." Jai said in a velvety rich voice as the bird cried
out, landed on Jai's arm, keened and flew off. She watched as the great bird circled around the house watching over everyone and
everything keeping it under its protection before breaking down and crying.
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Hakel and Lucifer watched the bird circle over the house and they understood immediately what had just occurred as they heard a
distinct sob come from both the roof and the room where Kai and Ken were. Looking at each other they decided to spilt up and try to
help everyone at once. Lucifer went and attempted to comfort Ken and Kai while Hakel climbed out of the window to join Jai on the
roof. Nothing needed to be said between the two because they could feel each other's pain without even talking. Just one look at both
of them allowed their feelings to be said. Jai was still covered in blood that was crusting over and Hakel knew why but he didn't want to
think about it. So instead he just put his arm around the girl and she leaned into his body resting her head on his shoulder. Tear fell down
Hakel's cheek because he could literally feel the pain that was bottled up in the girl and the pain he felt was just as much. He didn't care
if anyone saw him crying but then again they all were. Tears fell down Jai's face and pooled on Hakel's shirt as one thought ran through
her mind.
'It's all my fault.'
The two stayed that way for the entire night, neither being able to sleep due to the tragedy and the memories that were popping up
unexpectedly. Both knew that the next day would bring even more heartbreak because they would have to burn the body of their
youngest friends all because the world ran on the pain of others and the death of loved ones.
SOrry about killing off that lil kid :'( But they will all be reunited in the end again I promise. Keep on reviewing whe you guys get the chance. All these chapters were posted in one night so yeah...still review