A.C.: Second to last chapter… -sleeps- Thank you all those who have dared to read this far.
Warnings: Character deaths, oocness, slashy-themes, various english mistakes, kinda sorta not really spoilers, random implications that don't mean a thing and oh, Hao. -runs
Possession: Chapter 11- Owari
The world exploded around them in a maelstrom of light. The everything caught on fire, even the freshly polished gravestones glowing red before combusting into thousand pieces.
Horokeu erected a shield of ice around the others in an attempt to protect them from lashing fire. He didn't need to have though, even if the heat would have gotten to them if they had chosen to stay long, the blazing inferno wouldn't have touched them. No, Hao was focused on Anna and perhaps a kinder fraction of his mind, Yoh he hoped, was attempting to guard them. A poor compensation for Ren's death indeed, no, he shook his head pushing back the locks of icy blue hair that had come down as a result of the missing headband.
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"Ren..." echoed Chocolove as Horokeu froze the burnt right hand that had been on Hao, "he can't be dead..." when the silence of the Ainu, pained half sobs and groans from Ryu, and the furious roar of Asakura Hao offered an answer he covered his eyes with his left arm and wept.
"Fuck..."
Horokeu couldn't agree more.
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Kyoyama Anna was also having problems, she knew that there was a possibility of the necklace breaking but didn't consider that the barrier preventing the usage of oversouls shattering under the surge of furyoku around Hao.
She could only stare as the shards of the barrier and the bead necklace fall around them in a hail of silver rainbow. Then she feels the burning sensation at her neck,
Hao...
'How I have loved you and yet…'
A lightning saber at her neck, the skin below it starting to tingle and boil, she looked on impassively as Hao panted, whatever tears he had shed or had planning to shed wiped away by the inferno that surrounded him.
"Why?" He asked, "Why? Why couldn't you let us be!" Anna shut her eyes,
"Why couldn't you love me!" she shrieked tears overflowing as the blade scratched the surface of her neck creating a searing wound. "Why couldn't you take me in place of that bitch! What did she have that I didn't!" the weeping scratch stained her the neck of her snowy white robe pink. "I thought you loved me..." she sobbed collapsing onto her knees.
Hao sighed softly and gazed apathetically at her.
"Not in that way... never..." with a flick of his wrist the grave marker underneath her gave away, split in half. "Never..." everyone within hearing distance shivered at the amount of venom carried in those words. "But you have what you want now don't you? My parents and grandparents will take good care of you I believe..."
Anna looked up horrified at him, Hao turned back to face his friends... no Yoh's friends as they struggled to stay alive just barely staying alive.
"I'm sorry..."
Neither could tell which of them had said it.
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"We're too late ne Lyserg?" smiled Jeanne as the green haired X-Law stared dismayed at the battleground spread before him. Behind him Marco gave a grunt, approval or not he couldn't tell but he found himself running through the carnage towards the center where Hao... Yoh? A combination of both standing into the middle surrounded by bodies in state of semi-consciousness.
"HAO!" even in a state of despair, hatred was something not to be forgotten. The said fire shaman leaped over the crystal quite easily staring morosely down at them all when he landed with a soft thump on a still burning tree.
"Horohoro, Ryu, Chocolove, Anna, Are you alright!" shouted Lyserg frantically as the crystal rebounded back, sliding itself back in the launcher. The green haired British knelt down by Ryu's side probing for wounds and drawing back immediately when he was rewarded it a pained yelp.
"Looks like the show's over..." said a drifty voice as it came out of the shadows. Faust had come back, too late to make a difference but early enough to save the others. He went to work immediately on Ryu's crushed ribs as Lyserg pushed Horohoro and Chocolove into sitting positions.
The gray haired maiden however had other ideas. Seemingly untouched by the bloodbath around her she literally glowed as she approached the body of one who was still immobile, followed by the much taller blonde as he clicked his tongue pushing his glasses up.
Mysteriously, Jeanne knelt down hands skimming the broken neck before traveling to the vacant eyes and closing them. Hao hissed in response but she paid no heed,
"He's dead Hao..." Marco moved, too quick to be expected of such tall frame.
The saber smashed against the gun momentarily fading before pushing the X-Laws back. Jeanne moved over towards where Lyserg was, how Faust tried to keep the fallen shamans in the lands of living. But in her eyes they were gone beyond the point of return to tainted to remain alive in this world.
Pushing the violet eyed doctor back, the silver haired maiden touched Ryu's face watching it light up before fading. She gently put her hands around his neck and with a quiet flare of furyoku snapped the neck as easily as Hao had snapped Ren's.
Lyserg watched in horror as life faded away from the large body and the soul became imprisoned in the curve of her hands before being released.
"Jeanne-sama, what are you doing!" but she paid him no heed as she began approaching the surely doomed American and the Ainu.
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Up in the air Marco was faring no better than Ryu had against Jeanne's hands. He was flung like a wasp in the air before Hao turned his attention towards the ground. He struck, the bullet missing barely by an inch, conquering few strands of HaoYoh's silky hair before imbedding itself upon the ground. Marco allowed himself a small smirk before being thrown in the air.
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The green haired woman girl watched as the shadowed flames told the steadily unfolding story. Ran had looked away when Ren had fallen on the ground, his neck bent in an impossible angle for those who were living but Jun pressed herself to look on. Look on at her brother's friend, tormentor, rival, enemy... lover?
Tears seeped mutely from her blue eyes as the rest watched on, awaiting the conclusion of the newest arrival would bring.
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Horokeu looked away as the leader of the X-Laws approached, his wolf fading as fast as it had come slinking off to the darkness of his heart leaving him with an aching hollowness in both body and mind. He briefly squeezed Chocolove's hands reassuringly. It was fitting... in a rather morbid way... how a shaman would die in a graveyard.
Kororo danced around his vision like a hyperactive two year old assuring her shaman that she would protect him. Mick joined in trying to urge his shaman to get up and fight, make her laugh, or even crack a stupid joke. A sign that they would be alright.
The light footsteps were almost unnoticeable, almost. She frowned semi-apologetically at them all before reaching out to touch the dark skin.
A gloved hand wrenched her away from the two shamans; Faust's eyes were smouldering in fury as Eliza floated ominously behind him.
"Stay away from them..." he hissed letting her go. She seemed aloof and rather amused by all this,
"You wanted no part of this, why the change?" she asked her voice chiming in their heads. "you were the one who abandoned them but now you want to help, why?" she gave him no time to answer however as a angel appeared between them and pushed him back.
Lyserg ran up to her,
"Jeanne-sama please, why are you killing them!" Jeanne smiled kindly at him, patting his head as to assure a frightened child.
"Do not worry, I am simply saving them from a worse fate." Lyserg became glued to the spot as Kororo and Mick flung themselves at the silver tressed shamaness only to pass through her as she continued on.
She cupped Horohoro's battered face in her right hand as her left edged for his heart. The wolf in him began to growl uneasily as the edges of jagged ice began to grow around him. She gave him a chaste kiss on the cheeks before pressing her hand against where his heart should be. Long before the pain began Horokeu heard the howls reverberating off the chambers of his heart. His last view was of the iron maiden's crimson eyes as Marco and Hao fought in the background.
In a way, it was a strangely beautiful scene as the blood came off in ashes from the maiden's hands.
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In Hokkaido Pirika suddenly began to weep as she stared out the window watching the rising sun.
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"Horohoro...?" breathed Chocolove, straining open one bruised eye as the ice shaman breathed his last. "HOROHORO!" but Jeanne, for her delicate frame was too much for him as she bore down on him pressing their foreheads against each other's as she wove their fingers together...
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It was as if someone had taken his heart out and broken it into multiple fragments. He gave a surprised gasp and didn't bother looking around when a bullet lodged itself in his back. Spirit of Fire consumed Raphael in an instant along with Marco, himself bursting into flames like the phoenix of the mythologies down on to the horrified Anna below.
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Iron maiden Jeanne allowed herself another smile.
Not batting an eye at the loss of perhaps her most powerful follower she smiled placidly at Anna her hands rubbing the blonde's lower belly affectionately.
"Are you going to kill me too?" the deadened voice asked, Jeanne got up and freed Lyserg of his paralysis. Lyserg fell to his knees weeping and hitting the ground with his fists. Faust watched on in sorrow clenching and unclenching his hands repeatedly.
"No Anna, but take good care of the child... it bares no marks of the sins its father inflicted upon this world." Without a word Anna looked away as Lyserg and Jeanne left leaving only her, Faust and his wife Eliza on the devastated cemetery.
Anna closed her eyes hugging her lower stomach protectively.
Faust didn't blame her as he retraced the footsteps the others had taken.
A.C.: I bet this didn't end the way you thought it would. But there's an epilogue coming up so don't go away.