Shattered Soul

Chapter seven

Thoughts

When you find a piece of the past,

What will you do with it?

When an old creature awakes,

Will you put it back to sleep, or will you let it be awake?

Memories of the past can sometimes both, hurt and heal,

What will you choose?

What will you do when you find out that you are only a part of the past…

A near hysterical Hinagiku who told her stories of strange ghosts that seemed to wander through this old place filled Keiko later in what had happened to her childhood friend meanwhile she was dreaming this strange dream.

Or… was it a memory?

The young woman was not longer sure, this place, this temple holds an old story of many things that happened into the past. Keiko was sure; somehow it also holds the kea to their current war. But she did not know how.

But she knew one thing; the stab the statue was holding, was important! And Keiko needed to have it.

Groaning the former girlfriend of one of the dangerous beings in the three worlds hold her head and tried to make sense out of the information's she just got.

Her gaze went suddenly back to the statue she was just about to clean when everything happened to her. Something was with this stab! The woman got to her feet and after a moment of hesitating, she took it from the statue.

To Hinagiku and Keiko's utter surprise, the statue lowered her arms after Keiko got the stab and remained still after it. Both looked stunning at each other; what was happening here?

Outside the barrier, the eyes of a silent watcher snapped open suddenly.

He had felt a jolt of pure power running through his entire system and it was a familiar one at that!

So, he thought; she had found the stab! Well, that is something I have not foreseen, could it be that Keiko is the one? Maybe, he added into his mind after lot thinking, she could be her counterpart in this time. It would be no surprise. Iriealeiji´s followers and priestesses had many shapes.

It could be…

The dark figure moved slowly deeper into the shadows around him to blend into them completely, right before two Reikei warriors land in front of the barrier; they made no move to try to enter again. It was apparent that they where here to watch and observe. Both concentrated for awhile then they went back to their home realm in order to bring their news to a certain avatar there.

The figure knew all along what they would tell him; someone inside this old place had Iriealeiji´s stab.

He remembered all to well how powerful this simple looking staff, made out of old wood really was! It was no mystery to him that the barrier was still intact, the souls watched over the holy artefact and not over this place.

The being had seen its power more then one time in its long live, that it shared now with this young demon in order to live.

Countless masters had tried to summon it, countless others had tried to get it under their control, and not only one of them was able to understand the creature really and had died a painful death in its fangs, made out of black flames!

But this little yokai was an exception; he had at first made the same mistakes as the others and had tried to subdue it.

But then he found somehow his way to its realm into the deepness of the abyss. The demon tried to understand the creature after this, tried to find consent with the ancient being that once was called a dragon.

Their both wills had fought a pointless war at first, but after the young demon understand what really rode on his right arm he had tried to change the path of his former plans in order to get power and wisdom.

All the others before had refused to let the dragon share their live, the consequence was death.

But the yokai named Hiei was different he seem not to have any problems with that, he wanted to learn, not only to control!

And he learned allot from the former black dragon; after the following years these two found a quite consent in their strange relationship and meld slowly to one being together.

The forbidden child was born with the ability to control the black flames of the dragon, he was a mix breed of fire and ice; a forbidden fruit of two elements.

It was a wonder to the dragon that he lived!

But somehow the little yokai had managed to stay alive long enough to meet it and the two sides of the black flames found each other.

Not even only one of the people in the stadium at that time knew really what happened to him after the dragon consumed him for some minutes!

It could have killed the other youkai without any problem in every second it wished it to do so, but it choose instead that his momentary host had to know what he summoned and shoved him exactly; that.

Its summoned had to make a decision, now!

And to the endless delight of the ancient creature Hiei choose all too willingly to be a part of it.

Hiei did not want to enslave the dragon only; he was wise enough to see the enormous potential behind its wish to be part of him.

And so they both came back instead of only the yokai, not even the avatar in their middle knew this back then. He failed to see what really happened to the demon. Had he known it; the dragon part of Hiei was sure, Koenma would have tried to kill them both instantly!

The dragon part of him knew about the silent attraction of his counterpart to the single human girl; it thought long about it.

Silently wondering what she did to catch the interest of this aloof and solitary yokai. But then after some thinking, it decided it liked this girl too. Why, it could not say, but there was something on her that drove the dragon to the girl.

Now it knew what.

They both had a past together.

After the try of the Reikei to get a hold on the yokai race, it knew that this all would end into chaos. It was the same so many times ago.

The only difference to there and now was that the former beast knew what would happen when she used the stab!

The old priestess had failed to use it.

She had not found the brave to kill her former lover with it before it was too late.

And so, it all ended in chaos and death.

But she had made sure her followers hided the cursed thing from the grip of the avatars that had caused the last war!

Now here was a new priestess, and with her a new chance to open the portal.

Maybe, if they both could get her long enough to hear out of all what happened, maybe she would listen to them.

And just maybe, she would use it…

But first Hiei had to find a way inside the barrier to speak with her.

Before the other players in this old game found one, and told her only lies!

Suryallee

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