The wind rustled her hair and touched her wings softly. She closed her eyes and just glided. She missed her old life dearly. She opened her eyes and looked at the ground. Ryann saw the beautiful lush green coloring of the treetops, which stopped at clearing… She saw the ruins of her old house. She circled the clearing and she slowly started picking up the little toad like demons slowly removing the debris. Her brows furrowed and she spiraled down toward the ground slowly.
"By whose order do you remove this debris?" She asked in a loud voice that would command the attention of a room.
"By Lord Sesshomaru's!" called one.
"Sesshomaru…."
Chapter 6: Secrets
She stopped circling and just hovered in midair.
Sesshomaru killed her father…. so he could have her land.
Bastard!
Oh, no…
She flew towards another clearing at top speed. She knew it would be void of any sort of creature. The only thing she's ever met there was Lord Griffin, which was just by chance, and it would never happen again.
The brilliant orange of the sun was still barely visible over the horizon and it's grip kept slipping farther and faster.
C'mon Ryann… make it!
Her hair was wind whipping her face and her dark brown eyes were frantic with fear.
She came above the clearing just as the sun disappeared.
Ryann let out a scream and plummeted to the ground, her change began.
It was always terribly painful to her and she had been the first and only being on this Earth to have this curse. Her dad was completely baffled by it but she understood why she underwent these changes. It was like any other half demon, and since she was also half angel, hers were a bit different…
Her body convulsed into a ball first. Then her wings' white feathers turned a sinister black and then after that an ebony leather climbed on them, it starting from her back and grew outward, which made her let out another ear-piercing scream and her back arched. The pain made her eyes water and there was spots in her vision. She prayed to the gods that this would be over soon. Out of the leathery wings came red lining making them look like ornate bat wings. She grew fangs and long, lustrous black claws. Her ears grew into a point and her hair grew out to her waist and turned the same dark color as her claws. Her skin changed from a healthy peach color to a disturbing, sickly gray color, yelling out again in agonizing pain; it felt like someone squeezed her entire body. Finally, just as the moon glowed and rose to its familiar position in the sky, she opened menacing but seductive red eyes.
She stood up, stretched herself and wings, and let out a yawn.
Nice to finally be free…The other half of her conscience was dormant. The transformed Ryann cackled.
You did not successfully remove those toad things from my memory and how they were mutilating our territory. They will die.
With that, she flew off into the night, preparing herself for the hunt.
Kamaru ate dinner already, acting perturbed about how that bitch was missing. Everyone knew what was happening between Ryann and Kamaru so they all started searching the grounds for her, easily letting him disappear into the night.
Kamaru...over here…He stopped in his tracks.
"Lord?" Kamaru called over his shoulder quietly.
Shut up you twit! What did you see? The voice was unmistakably young like his own but had a certain air of arrogance and not as much emotion as the sentence deserved.
Wings... Kamaru smiled darkly.
Good. Job well done. Continue with the plan and don't let on about anything or you know what will happen, letting the threat linger wordlessly.
His smile disappeared instantly. Yes, Lord Sesshomaru.
Kamaru wiped sweat from his brow and continued his trek toward Lord Griffin's room. Griffin and him were best friends-or at least Lord Griffin thought so- so Kamaru would be welcome.
He walked through the dark alone in the night. The moon was overhead; would've been romantic if Kamaru was that type of guy, which he wasn't by far. He looked up at the stars and started picturing himself finally killing the wench.
He looked at the garden in the center of the courtyard expecting to find an empty bench but instead found the lord sitting there. Easier to find, less distance to walk. My lucky day.
"My lord?" he asked questioningly.
"Come and sit Kamaru," the lord's deep voice answered.
"Yes, My lord."
Once he and the lord were close enough where no one else could here their conversation he said quietly, "Cut the 'my lord' crap out."
"Yeah well if I don't address you by that Griff the rest of the guard could have my head," he answered smiling.
The lord let out a wry chuckle. "We haven't talked lately Kamaru. Where have you been and what has kept you busy of late?"
Kamaru's smiled widened, "I've found a fox to hunt and a hunt she is."
Griffin looked over at him seriously, "Who's the lucky fox?"
"Lady Ryann."
His heart stopped. "Good luck to you but she doesn't seem that hard to woo to me."
"You've barely said 10 words to her," Kamaru said jokingly, unknowing of the few conversations they had alone.
"Yeah whatever," the youthfulness coming back into the lord's voice that was a rare find in his speech.
"Well anyway, she's the reason I searched you out," Kamaru put his hand up on Griffin's shoulder. "She's disappeared, but I think I know where she is."
"What?" Griffin's young voice was retaken over by the serious lord everyone perceived him as.
"She's in the forest, I know where, and I know why she's there. Please Griff, let me go get her. I know I'll get her then," he said winking.
Griffin looked into Kamaru's brown eyes. Something was amiss but he didn't know what. He passed it off as a little lust that almost all men had in their eye when they thought about their 'hunt'. "Sure, but check in with me when you get everything… done…"
If it was at all possible, the guard's grin widened. "Thanks! I'll be back 'round dawn."
"Dawn?" Griffin asked incredulously.
"Yeah…" Kamaru said standing up. "Is that a problem?"
"No, I was just wondering what in the hell you could be doing until dawn in the woods," knowing full well what Kamaru was planning to do but trying to stop him for an unexplainable reason.
The hell are you doing?
I don't know!
Then stop it! You should be happy for him! He's your best friend. If you were in opposite shoes, he would practically be shoving you out to go find her.
…
You know I'm right. After all, after Kalina you swore you'd have nothing to do with women.
Yeah..so?
So WHY IN THE HELL are you trying to stop Kamaru from…doing things with Ryann!
I DO NOT KNOW DAMNIT!
"You know…" he said winking.
Griffin fought to keep the grimace off his face, "I see…well be nice."
Kamaru laughed a bit and mocked him, "Yeah whatever."
The lord had to crack a smile at that.
"You better get going huh?"
"I suppose," Kamaru's smile never faltered.
"Check in with me when you get back, both of you."
"Uh, Griff, I'm not so sure she'll want to see anyone," he looked slightly alarmed.
Griffin's look hardened, "I don't care. I want both of you to check in."
Kamaru mirrored his look, "Fine."
Griffin stood up at watched Kamaru as he stormed off in to the black, which they called the night.
Bastard…
What the FUCK is your damn PROBLEM!
Griffin paced back to his room angrily and slung the door shut behind him. He sat down at his desk and began going over war strategies by candlelight.
His room was done it deep red with black accents. The room was large, twice as big as Lady Ryann's room but planned in about the same manor. The bed mat sat in the middle of the left wall from the doorway. It was extravagantly designed with, instead of the normal bamboo thatched mat there was a king sized blanket that was made out of heavily quilted red fabric with black stitching. He had a black down pillows with a red sheet that had the crest of his family embroidered on it. The crest consisted of the yin-yang symbol with a full moon right below it. The walls where done in red with black trim and ceiling. Across from the bed, the right of the doorway, hung shields of every shape and material imaginable and above the bed, there was a sword hung sideways with the point facing the wall with the door on it. It was an old katana that was battle worn but still fightable. The hilt's wrappings where coming undone and frayed. Inscribed but barely legible was written 'valor.' Across the doorway in the corner was a desk with scattered papers and a candle melted down for the most part. It emitted a yellowed light that bounced off the mirror next to the door. There was a small collection of red and black pottery down the wall from the desk.
His eyes moved listlessly down the page, thinking only about what Kamaru was about to do. His face staying scowled. Just then, a quick, light rap came at the door.
"Who is it?" he barked.
"Izayoi, may I come in brother?"
The woman circled the navy sky; clouds clung in patches, a few strung across a full moon.
They WILL be mine….
She dropped out of the sky as an eagle over prey and a yell was emitted over the black quietness of the night.
A toad demon in the middle of the wreckage flew in different directions in pieces. The assassin smiled evilly as she landed in a crouch on the ground, folding her wings behind her.
The other small toad demons didn't move as they stood frozen in place by shock and revulsion.
"Playtime."
She attacked one after another, slaughtering them. Laughing as she did, enjoying the feeling of blood beneath her claws.
She cornered the last one against a tree as he quivered.
"I will let you live if you tell your master something," she said dangerously.
"W-W-What is it my l-l-lady?" the toad demon stuttered through chattering teeth.
She bent down, put her arm on one side of his head, and whispered in the opposite ear, "Tell him he should not take what does not belong to him."
She smiled in a sinister way as she backed away from him.
"Go, before I change my mind."
And with that, she kicked off the ground and flew up into the sky, laughing.
Bravely the toad demon called up, "Whom shall I say this is from?"
She paused for a second and called back over her shoulder, "Kariluna."
Kariluna flew towards the clearing from which she changed; she knew the consequences of not changing back at the right location could have dire consequences.
flashback
"Who do you think she is?"
Ryann opened her eyes to find two strange human men staring at her.
"Em hello…"
"She speaks! Uhhh Hi." The other one said.
She sat up and found herself leaning back against the tree as the men pulled spears.
"Maybe there has been a misunderstanding?" she offered.
"No you are a demon and there for we must kill you." Her vision was clearing away the sleepiness and realized she was near her home and the two men pointing spears at her were very young. Maybe three of four years older than her 13 year old self.
"Demon?" she asked. No human ever knew she was a part demon unless her wings were showing…
"Yeah, humans don't exactly carry feathered wings around with them on their back."
"Listen I'm not evil. I am a half-demon. My father is the lord near by. Please will you let me go?" she asked.
"No it is by order of the Lady that we kill all demons, part or full, on sight."
"Please?" she sat up a bit.
" No," they answered in unison, pointing their spears even closer to her neck.
Ryann sighed. "Fine." She drop kicked them and flew away as she called back ,"Sorry!"
End Flashback
She smelt a familiar scent.
Kamaru…
She smiled; she had at least an hour till sunrise.
She detoured to the left, glided to the ground, and landed in a tree. She waited for her pray to walk closer. His scent was different though, it smelt demon, dog demon…
Damnit Ryann…what the hell have you gotten us into?
"Hello," a smooth voice greeted her.
She looked up and found a man or demon rather. He was tall with long blond hair streaked with black in a loose braid. His eyes were playfully dangerous ice green that sent chills down other's spines, and he had pointed ears. He had a white fighting kimono with a broad sword dangling at his hip. In other words, totally sexy in Kariluna's eyes.
"Why hello there," she greeted back smiling, bearing her fangs.
ahhh school starts Wednesday! AHH (today is sunday night) T.T i dont wanna go to school T.T well i hope yall are enjoying this...trust me it will get more inu storyline involved in a bit haha bye bye!