Shade- Sup! Okay, I'm cutting the nice crap. If my readers don't review
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Chapter 8: unlocking dreams Part I
"Why do I have to do it?!" Hiei asked furiously.
"Because Hiei, you're less hurt because you've had the most time to recover, and you're the fastest." Said Kurama as Hiei made an angry face at him for answering.
"Just do it Hiei!" Yelled Yusuke getting angered at the time they were wasting, Karuka could wake up at any moment.
"Hn, fine I'll do it." He answered coldly.
Hiei walked over to Karuka's body. As he bent down to pick her up he was somehow blocked by a force field.
"What's wrong Hiei?" Kurama asked.
"I can't get near her, something is holding me back." He answered.
Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara, who now could stand up, walked over to her only to be stopped as well.
Kurama had his thinking face on and went behind Karuka. He kneeled to the ground and reached his hand to Karuka's gold chain that she was wearing. Then he pulled it off to reveal the shadow amulet.
"Here we are. We couldn't get near her because the shadow amulet's power was holding us back, seeing us as a threat since we were fighting her." He said.
"How could a necklace have energy to hold us back?" Kuwabara asked. He still didn't know full well what the signifigence of the amulet was.
"The spirits and souls of past possessors are trapped inside, they see us as a threat to Karuka, there for, a threat to their people." Hiei answered.
"They use their own power to block outsiders who give trouble to Karuka, though never against her will. Usually, people could hold back their power, but since she's knocked out, her will can't come into play." Kurama finished as Yusuke and Kuwabara slowly started to understand.
"So you mean that a bunch of dead people are still taking care of her?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yes, her ancestors probably did the same with her father." Kurama answered.
"I know this stupid necklace thing is important and all, but if we don't get Karuka back to spirit world she's gonna wake up. And I think she's gonna be pissed to see her one possession that keeps her people alive in the hands of someone who tried to kill her." Yusuke said.
"We weren't trying to kill her Urameshi." Said Kuwabara.
"Do you think she knows that Kuwabara?" Yusuke answered back.
"Yes, usually when a gang of four fighters follow you around until they finally attack you shows someone that they might be trying to be murdered." Hiei put in to the quarrel.
"Then let's just go already, okay?"
"Fine." Hiei bent down and picked Karuka up and held her bridal style (A/N as they do a lot) and ran out of the building into the forest.
*~ forest ~*
The sun shone through the trees as Hiei ran along the forest floor. By now, seeing as the fight took a little while, it was morning.
'I don't see how this baka onna could have beaten me. How could her maneuvers be faster than mine? She stole the sword right out of my hand. I underestimated her.' Hiei thought to himself, pissed that he had to be the one to carry her.
Suddenly Karuka began to stir. Hiei stopped, half wanting her to wake up, for his second shot, and half for her to stay asleep, so he didn't have his second shot.
He looked down at her face and it showed the first, pure trace of horror from her. She had her head against Hiei's chest and he winced a bit, but let it slid. She grabbed onto his cloak as if it was the one thing that could save her from falling into a pool of emotions.
Watching her, Hiei realized that she was having a dream, so he jumped into a tree, laid her against himself, and took off his bandana for the assistance of his Jagan.
*~ Karuka's dream/nightmare/flashback ~* (A/N this won't seem like a dream so... yeah)
The first thing that was seen in the dream was a dojo, beautifully made, and by hand too. There were screams coming from inside, though not of terror, but of pain.
The picture went to inside the dojo. There were four young boys, two being twins, then a man by a bed side and in the bed was a woman having a baby. Soon enough there were screams of a crying child to start where the woman had left off when she ceased in the screaming as the baby had been delivered by the father.
"It's a girl! It's a girl!" The man shouted as the face of the woman lit up with excitement.
"We have a sister!" One of the boys yelled as his and his brothers faces lit up just as bright as their mothers.
"What will you name her?" The man asked as the four boys ran up to the bed to look at the tiny infant.
"Karuka." She answered. She obviously had thought about it.
"That's a beautiful name Ruka." The father answered back.
(A/N Just for the record, I thought of the name Ruka before the whole 'defensive nurse holding back Hiei and Genkai against their will' thing and I didn't want to change the name because of it so the woman is not Ruka from the series)
Hiei noticed that the man was the same from the picture he had seen before in Koenma's office.
The scene suddenly changed to a few years later. Karuka was in a black kimono watching her brothers practice their fighting with their father. Karuka longed to learn how to fight like them and she actually trained in secret when the rest were sleeping.
The mother, Ruka, was no where to be found, and Karuka felt alone, as she did a lot. One of the boys walked over to Karuka as he saw her.
"Hello Karuka, are you enjoying watching us?" Her brother asked.
Karuka nodded, "Yes I am Tadashi, but I wish I could fight with you." She said.
Tadashi was the only one in the family that really understood her, besides her father and mother.
"But you don't know how to fight." He said back to her tiny child face. Karuka still had her yellow tiger eyes. They would change to her father's green soon enough, like it had done with her four brothers.
"I do too! I've been training Tadi." Karuka said. She had a nickname for him.
"You have?"
She nodded again. Karuka sat down where she was and sighed.
"I wish mom was here." She said.
"Me too, Karuka, me too."
Once again the scene changed, and Karuka was older. She now started her training as a fighter when her father saw that she was still awake and pulverizing a tree into the ground. He knew that since she was his youngest child she had to learn how to fight, even if she was 'daddy's little girl', all for the sake of the shadow race.
Karuka had long enough hair to go into a pony tail that ended at her top back, she still wore black as most shadow demons do. Her brothers looked the same besides their hair being the father's blonde color to Karuka's and her mother's light brown.
Karuka and her four brothers were sitting on the front porch of their dojo with their father waiting for their mother's arrival.
"When is she going to get here?"
"Be patient Rien, she'll be here soon." Answered the oldest brother named Pyro.
"I think I see her!" Cruyo said. Ten eyes darted around everywhere to find the woman but only two prevailed.
"Mom!" Came Karuka's voice breaking any concentration any other had.
"Hello Karuka! How is my little angel?" She asked.
"Reeking havoc on our poor fighting grounds dear." Truyo, the father, said.
"Yeah, she's a natural born fighting machine. So how long can you stay?" Tadashi spoke out, quickly changing the subject from Karuka to their mother.
"Not long I'm afraid. The palace is under dire need of attention." Those simple words broke the hearts of all five children who heard it.
"But we haven't seen you in nearly a year. Why can't the stupid palace just wait while we spend time with our own mother!" Pyro had outbursts like that a lot.
"Or why can't we live with mom in the palace?" Asked Karuka.
That was a very tender subject with the family. The tiger kingdom was very strict with outsiders, even if they had half blood. In the monarchy of felines, you had to be a full fledged tiger demon, otherwise, an outcast.
"Sorry that can't happen Karuka."
"Why not?"
"You'll know when you're older."
Karuka pouted, but couldn't stay mad at her own mother, she rarely got to see her ever. Once every year on average.
"Now," Ruka said trying to break the awkward silence, "who wants to play in the stream?"
Only four hands went up, belonging to Karuka, Rien, Cruyo and Tadashi. Pyro knew why they couldn't live in the palace, it was because they were half shadow demon, and if anyone found out that Ruka the princess of all tigers, heired to the thrown, mated with that of a lowly outsider, Ruka would be killed.
Though, Truyo didn't mind rarely seeing his mate, he loved his children with every fiber of his being, and trusted his eldest son to take care of the rest when he was gone. In fact, he was gone a lot, just like their mother. The kids learned to strive for themselves, which would prove to be a great thing for their future.
"I know why father, it's because we're different." Pyro looked at his father with his equally infatuating green eyes showing him he knew the truth. Truyo was Pyro's biggest role model, and he wished to be just like him one day, but Pyro also knew it was his fathers fault he was different, he was the reason for being shadow.
Another scene change occurred as Hiei let the information sink in, of how she rarely saw her mother, and her father's heritage being the reason she couldn't safely live with her own mother.
Karuka was training with Tadashi. She had orange light covering her finger tips, up until ten, one foot long claws came out of them.
"Okay Karuka, now show me what weapons you can make with those. Use your shadow energy to manipulate them." He told her. She obeyed by nodding.
On her left hand she made a spear, a dagger, an arrow, a bow and a bomb. On her right hand she made a whip, a throwing star, a club, an ax and kept one claw normal because that could be used as a weapon too.
"Good, but when did you learn how to make that?" He asked, pointing to the sphere shaped bomb.
"About a week ago." She answered.
"What does it do?" He asked again, not knowing its purpose and about to poke it with Karuka's spear.
"Don't!" She yelled, holding his arm back.
"It's a bomb Tadi! That could have blown us both up!"
"Hehe, oops." He said, while rubbing the back of his head smiling.
"How good of a bomb is it?" He asked wanting to know its power.
"I don't know, I haven't found a good place to set it off without starting a big trouble."
"Oh." Tadashi said, confirming that he understood.
"Where are the other ones?" He asked.
Karuka held out her right hand and two balls seemed to come out of the palm of her hand to sit with each other.
"I kept them with me so no one else would find them. I'm afraid of what they might do, if they go off it could show that we are here and blow mom's cover." Those words sat with Tadashi for a few moments, letting him know how Karuka was dealing with the situation with their rarely seen mother.
He wished that she could just be truthful, and be proud that her mate was a shadow demon and that her children were of his decent too. Sadly, that would never happen.
The final change went from training with Tadashi and Karuka to watching a master of shadow at work, their father.
"Dad's been acting weird lately." Said Rien to Cruyo as Karuka walked up behind them.
"Doesn't he have a shadow fight tonight?" She asked.
"Yeah sis, but he's never taken one this seriously, even though he should." Answered Cruyo.
"I wonder what's up." Rien said.
"Maybe we should follow him and find out." Pyro had startled them a bit as he walked to stand next to Rien.
"Dad always told us NEVER to follow him to a shadow fight." Rien said.
"Yeah, after what happened last time." Cruyo put in.
"I know, but Karuka hasn't seen one before, and unless we get another baby brother or sister she gonna have to know what one is like once she gets the amulet." Pyro said changing the minds of them all.
"I guess you're right. Let's go tell Tadi." Karuka said, using Tadashi's nick-name in front of them.
They laughed a little at the name, even though they all had nick-names from Karuka too. Pyro's was Py-ry (Pie-rye), Rien's was Ray, and Cruyo's was Cro (Crow).
*~ late at night ~*
The five shadow tigers pretended to sleep as they could hear their father getting ready to leave. To their surprise, he actually started to talk to them.
"Good bye my sweet children. Do not cause the world to much pain. I leave here now as your father, your mentor and your ally." The sliding door made an opening sound, and then a closed one.
Pyro sat up wondering what his father had meant. Pyro saw his father as being invincible and didn't see that true hero's can fall at any moment.
The rest of the kids got out of bed all ready to go. They had heard what he said and wondered the same thing as their brother.
"Come on. Let's go." Pyro said before they could discuss what their father had said.
Pyro and the rest walked out of the dojo and followed their father. They went so far that Truyo had led them out of the palace forest. They had only been outside of the forest twice before, and their memories of it began to come back to them.
"Keep quiet you guys. We don't want dad to know we're following him." Pyro said.
They all kept walking along the asphalt ground which they had forgotten about. They saw their father walk into an old worn out warehouse. They ran up to the dirty window and peered inside to see their father standing tall and another demon, about their father's height, standing on the other side.
"I'm here, so let's get started." Truyo had an angered face on.
"Wait, wait wait. Before we get started, let me ask you the risks here okay?" The slender demon asked.
Truyo only huffed.
"If I win, I get the precious shadow amulet," he sort of drooled when he said that, "and you are forced to die, and if you win, you keep the necklace and I die, correct?"
Truyo, again refraining to speak, nodded to his question.
"Then let's begin, shall we?" He said.
"That's weird." Rien said.
"What is it Ray?" Karuka asked.
"Well Karuk," he said with the nick-name the boys gave her, "This isn't a traditional shadow fight. The demon father is fighting against must not know the true way to battle." Rien answered.
"What a wet towel, dad can beat this guy easily." Pyro put in.
"Well, you won't get to see what a real shadow fight looks like, but you do get to see dad kick this guy's butt." Tadashi said.
They looked in once more to the fight now in progress. It looked like Truyo had the upper hand, but the truth was that he was being strung along, and he knew it. He just couldn't do anything about it.
As the fighting time passed the one hour mark, the children looked confident in their father. But that all changed when a shrill, menacing laugh drew louder from the limp body of the opponent.
He stood and began an attack so fiercely careless that it is unexplainable to comment on, all you can do is watch, and dear god hope whoever's on the other end of it has the least painless death that you can.
The whole warehouse grew dark, then BURST with flames all around them! The technique was the demons own, made by his very soul which he gave up to conquer opposing truths and do-gooders. The name he spoke didn't suit the attack at all, but that was to be expected, for what can something so horrible be put under a single name.
'Souls of the enslaved damned in the fire of chaotic hearts'
The five onlookers stared and cried to watch their role model and hero slowly and painfully die on the concrete ground as his very soul was being sucked out of his body.
His screams could be heard for miles, but the only listeners that mattered were watching the whole ordeal through a half broken window that concealed their cries of terror from their dying father's ears.
Great lights grew from below to overtake Truyo's body and take him down to hell. All that was left behind was the shadow amulet. The demon walked over as the fires of hell died down and he picked it up.
"Finally, you are mine. I shall be known as the greatest shadow demon of all time for beating an original family possessor of the shadow amulet." The nasty little grin the demon had on fell to the floor as the amulet seemingly disappeared.
Outside, Karuka's large green eyes grew white as she had watched the death of her father. She did not notice the formation of the shadow amulet around her neck. She cried out the word 'father' but only got out 'fath' as she felt Pyro's hand cover her mouth and her body being picked up. Her eyes stayed wide and didn't close till she was back at the dojo as she started to ball out for her father back.
She tilted her head to one side and saw the scared faces of Cruyo, Rien and Tadashi. She looked to the other side and saw the meanest most real face on Pyro's, that of hate, and disgust. She paid no attention to them and kept crying till she fell asleep where she knelt.
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Shade- Really long, I know, but it could have been longer! I'll finish the dream/flashback in the next chapter cuz it's so long. Karuka's life really sucked huh?
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Chapter 8: unlocking dreams Part I
"Why do I have to do it?!" Hiei asked furiously.
"Because Hiei, you're less hurt because you've had the most time to recover, and you're the fastest." Said Kurama as Hiei made an angry face at him for answering.
"Just do it Hiei!" Yelled Yusuke getting angered at the time they were wasting, Karuka could wake up at any moment.
"Hn, fine I'll do it." He answered coldly.
Hiei walked over to Karuka's body. As he bent down to pick her up he was somehow blocked by a force field.
"What's wrong Hiei?" Kurama asked.
"I can't get near her, something is holding me back." He answered.
Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara, who now could stand up, walked over to her only to be stopped as well.
Kurama had his thinking face on and went behind Karuka. He kneeled to the ground and reached his hand to Karuka's gold chain that she was wearing. Then he pulled it off to reveal the shadow amulet.
"Here we are. We couldn't get near her because the shadow amulet's power was holding us back, seeing us as a threat since we were fighting her." He said.
"How could a necklace have energy to hold us back?" Kuwabara asked. He still didn't know full well what the signifigence of the amulet was.
"The spirits and souls of past possessors are trapped inside, they see us as a threat to Karuka, there for, a threat to their people." Hiei answered.
"They use their own power to block outsiders who give trouble to Karuka, though never against her will. Usually, people could hold back their power, but since she's knocked out, her will can't come into play." Kurama finished as Yusuke and Kuwabara slowly started to understand.
"So you mean that a bunch of dead people are still taking care of her?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yes, her ancestors probably did the same with her father." Kurama answered.
"I know this stupid necklace thing is important and all, but if we don't get Karuka back to spirit world she's gonna wake up. And I think she's gonna be pissed to see her one possession that keeps her people alive in the hands of someone who tried to kill her." Yusuke said.
"We weren't trying to kill her Urameshi." Said Kuwabara.
"Do you think she knows that Kuwabara?" Yusuke answered back.
"Yes, usually when a gang of four fighters follow you around until they finally attack you shows someone that they might be trying to be murdered." Hiei put in to the quarrel.
"Then let's just go already, okay?"
"Fine." Hiei bent down and picked Karuka up and held her bridal style (A/N as they do a lot) and ran out of the building into the forest.
*~ forest ~*
The sun shone through the trees as Hiei ran along the forest floor. By now, seeing as the fight took a little while, it was morning.
'I don't see how this baka onna could have beaten me. How could her maneuvers be faster than mine? She stole the sword right out of my hand. I underestimated her.' Hiei thought to himself, pissed that he had to be the one to carry her.
Suddenly Karuka began to stir. Hiei stopped, half wanting her to wake up, for his second shot, and half for her to stay asleep, so he didn't have his second shot.
He looked down at her face and it showed the first, pure trace of horror from her. She had her head against Hiei's chest and he winced a bit, but let it slid. She grabbed onto his cloak as if it was the one thing that could save her from falling into a pool of emotions.
Watching her, Hiei realized that she was having a dream, so he jumped into a tree, laid her against himself, and took off his bandana for the assistance of his Jagan.
*~ Karuka's dream/nightmare/flashback ~* (A/N this won't seem like a dream so... yeah)
The first thing that was seen in the dream was a dojo, beautifully made, and by hand too. There were screams coming from inside, though not of terror, but of pain.
The picture went to inside the dojo. There were four young boys, two being twins, then a man by a bed side and in the bed was a woman having a baby. Soon enough there were screams of a crying child to start where the woman had left off when she ceased in the screaming as the baby had been delivered by the father.
"It's a girl! It's a girl!" The man shouted as the face of the woman lit up with excitement.
"We have a sister!" One of the boys yelled as his and his brothers faces lit up just as bright as their mothers.
"What will you name her?" The man asked as the four boys ran up to the bed to look at the tiny infant.
"Karuka." She answered. She obviously had thought about it.
"That's a beautiful name Ruka." The father answered back.
(A/N Just for the record, I thought of the name Ruka before the whole 'defensive nurse holding back Hiei and Genkai against their will' thing and I didn't want to change the name because of it so the woman is not Ruka from the series)
Hiei noticed that the man was the same from the picture he had seen before in Koenma's office.
The scene suddenly changed to a few years later. Karuka was in a black kimono watching her brothers practice their fighting with their father. Karuka longed to learn how to fight like them and she actually trained in secret when the rest were sleeping.
The mother, Ruka, was no where to be found, and Karuka felt alone, as she did a lot. One of the boys walked over to Karuka as he saw her.
"Hello Karuka, are you enjoying watching us?" Her brother asked.
Karuka nodded, "Yes I am Tadashi, but I wish I could fight with you." She said.
Tadashi was the only one in the family that really understood her, besides her father and mother.
"But you don't know how to fight." He said back to her tiny child face. Karuka still had her yellow tiger eyes. They would change to her father's green soon enough, like it had done with her four brothers.
"I do too! I've been training Tadi." Karuka said. She had a nickname for him.
"You have?"
She nodded again. Karuka sat down where she was and sighed.
"I wish mom was here." She said.
"Me too, Karuka, me too."
Once again the scene changed, and Karuka was older. She now started her training as a fighter when her father saw that she was still awake and pulverizing a tree into the ground. He knew that since she was his youngest child she had to learn how to fight, even if she was 'daddy's little girl', all for the sake of the shadow race.
Karuka had long enough hair to go into a pony tail that ended at her top back, she still wore black as most shadow demons do. Her brothers looked the same besides their hair being the father's blonde color to Karuka's and her mother's light brown.
Karuka and her four brothers were sitting on the front porch of their dojo with their father waiting for their mother's arrival.
"When is she going to get here?"
"Be patient Rien, she'll be here soon." Answered the oldest brother named Pyro.
"I think I see her!" Cruyo said. Ten eyes darted around everywhere to find the woman but only two prevailed.
"Mom!" Came Karuka's voice breaking any concentration any other had.
"Hello Karuka! How is my little angel?" She asked.
"Reeking havoc on our poor fighting grounds dear." Truyo, the father, said.
"Yeah, she's a natural born fighting machine. So how long can you stay?" Tadashi spoke out, quickly changing the subject from Karuka to their mother.
"Not long I'm afraid. The palace is under dire need of attention." Those simple words broke the hearts of all five children who heard it.
"But we haven't seen you in nearly a year. Why can't the stupid palace just wait while we spend time with our own mother!" Pyro had outbursts like that a lot.
"Or why can't we live with mom in the palace?" Asked Karuka.
That was a very tender subject with the family. The tiger kingdom was very strict with outsiders, even if they had half blood. In the monarchy of felines, you had to be a full fledged tiger demon, otherwise, an outcast.
"Sorry that can't happen Karuka."
"Why not?"
"You'll know when you're older."
Karuka pouted, but couldn't stay mad at her own mother, she rarely got to see her ever. Once every year on average.
"Now," Ruka said trying to break the awkward silence, "who wants to play in the stream?"
Only four hands went up, belonging to Karuka, Rien, Cruyo and Tadashi. Pyro knew why they couldn't live in the palace, it was because they were half shadow demon, and if anyone found out that Ruka the princess of all tigers, heired to the thrown, mated with that of a lowly outsider, Ruka would be killed.
Though, Truyo didn't mind rarely seeing his mate, he loved his children with every fiber of his being, and trusted his eldest son to take care of the rest when he was gone. In fact, he was gone a lot, just like their mother. The kids learned to strive for themselves, which would prove to be a great thing for their future.
"I know why father, it's because we're different." Pyro looked at his father with his equally infatuating green eyes showing him he knew the truth. Truyo was Pyro's biggest role model, and he wished to be just like him one day, but Pyro also knew it was his fathers fault he was different, he was the reason for being shadow.
Another scene change occurred as Hiei let the information sink in, of how she rarely saw her mother, and her father's heritage being the reason she couldn't safely live with her own mother.
Karuka was training with Tadashi. She had orange light covering her finger tips, up until ten, one foot long claws came out of them.
"Okay Karuka, now show me what weapons you can make with those. Use your shadow energy to manipulate them." He told her. She obeyed by nodding.
On her left hand she made a spear, a dagger, an arrow, a bow and a bomb. On her right hand she made a whip, a throwing star, a club, an ax and kept one claw normal because that could be used as a weapon too.
"Good, but when did you learn how to make that?" He asked, pointing to the sphere shaped bomb.
"About a week ago." She answered.
"What does it do?" He asked again, not knowing its purpose and about to poke it with Karuka's spear.
"Don't!" She yelled, holding his arm back.
"It's a bomb Tadi! That could have blown us both up!"
"Hehe, oops." He said, while rubbing the back of his head smiling.
"How good of a bomb is it?" He asked wanting to know its power.
"I don't know, I haven't found a good place to set it off without starting a big trouble."
"Oh." Tadashi said, confirming that he understood.
"Where are the other ones?" He asked.
Karuka held out her right hand and two balls seemed to come out of the palm of her hand to sit with each other.
"I kept them with me so no one else would find them. I'm afraid of what they might do, if they go off it could show that we are here and blow mom's cover." Those words sat with Tadashi for a few moments, letting him know how Karuka was dealing with the situation with their rarely seen mother.
He wished that she could just be truthful, and be proud that her mate was a shadow demon and that her children were of his decent too. Sadly, that would never happen.
The final change went from training with Tadashi and Karuka to watching a master of shadow at work, their father.
"Dad's been acting weird lately." Said Rien to Cruyo as Karuka walked up behind them.
"Doesn't he have a shadow fight tonight?" She asked.
"Yeah sis, but he's never taken one this seriously, even though he should." Answered Cruyo.
"I wonder what's up." Rien said.
"Maybe we should follow him and find out." Pyro had startled them a bit as he walked to stand next to Rien.
"Dad always told us NEVER to follow him to a shadow fight." Rien said.
"Yeah, after what happened last time." Cruyo put in.
"I know, but Karuka hasn't seen one before, and unless we get another baby brother or sister she gonna have to know what one is like once she gets the amulet." Pyro said changing the minds of them all.
"I guess you're right. Let's go tell Tadi." Karuka said, using Tadashi's nick-name in front of them.
They laughed a little at the name, even though they all had nick-names from Karuka too. Pyro's was Py-ry (Pie-rye), Rien's was Ray, and Cruyo's was Cro (Crow).
*~ late at night ~*
The five shadow tigers pretended to sleep as they could hear their father getting ready to leave. To their surprise, he actually started to talk to them.
"Good bye my sweet children. Do not cause the world to much pain. I leave here now as your father, your mentor and your ally." The sliding door made an opening sound, and then a closed one.
Pyro sat up wondering what his father had meant. Pyro saw his father as being invincible and didn't see that true hero's can fall at any moment.
The rest of the kids got out of bed all ready to go. They had heard what he said and wondered the same thing as their brother.
"Come on. Let's go." Pyro said before they could discuss what their father had said.
Pyro and the rest walked out of the dojo and followed their father. They went so far that Truyo had led them out of the palace forest. They had only been outside of the forest twice before, and their memories of it began to come back to them.
"Keep quiet you guys. We don't want dad to know we're following him." Pyro said.
They all kept walking along the asphalt ground which they had forgotten about. They saw their father walk into an old worn out warehouse. They ran up to the dirty window and peered inside to see their father standing tall and another demon, about their father's height, standing on the other side.
"I'm here, so let's get started." Truyo had an angered face on.
"Wait, wait wait. Before we get started, let me ask you the risks here okay?" The slender demon asked.
Truyo only huffed.
"If I win, I get the precious shadow amulet," he sort of drooled when he said that, "and you are forced to die, and if you win, you keep the necklace and I die, correct?"
Truyo, again refraining to speak, nodded to his question.
"Then let's begin, shall we?" He said.
"That's weird." Rien said.
"What is it Ray?" Karuka asked.
"Well Karuk," he said with the nick-name the boys gave her, "This isn't a traditional shadow fight. The demon father is fighting against must not know the true way to battle." Rien answered.
"What a wet towel, dad can beat this guy easily." Pyro put in.
"Well, you won't get to see what a real shadow fight looks like, but you do get to see dad kick this guy's butt." Tadashi said.
They looked in once more to the fight now in progress. It looked like Truyo had the upper hand, but the truth was that he was being strung along, and he knew it. He just couldn't do anything about it.
As the fighting time passed the one hour mark, the children looked confident in their father. But that all changed when a shrill, menacing laugh drew louder from the limp body of the opponent.
He stood and began an attack so fiercely careless that it is unexplainable to comment on, all you can do is watch, and dear god hope whoever's on the other end of it has the least painless death that you can.
The whole warehouse grew dark, then BURST with flames all around them! The technique was the demons own, made by his very soul which he gave up to conquer opposing truths and do-gooders. The name he spoke didn't suit the attack at all, but that was to be expected, for what can something so horrible be put under a single name.
'Souls of the enslaved damned in the fire of chaotic hearts'
The five onlookers stared and cried to watch their role model and hero slowly and painfully die on the concrete ground as his very soul was being sucked out of his body.
His screams could be heard for miles, but the only listeners that mattered were watching the whole ordeal through a half broken window that concealed their cries of terror from their dying father's ears.
Great lights grew from below to overtake Truyo's body and take him down to hell. All that was left behind was the shadow amulet. The demon walked over as the fires of hell died down and he picked it up.
"Finally, you are mine. I shall be known as the greatest shadow demon of all time for beating an original family possessor of the shadow amulet." The nasty little grin the demon had on fell to the floor as the amulet seemingly disappeared.
Outside, Karuka's large green eyes grew white as she had watched the death of her father. She did not notice the formation of the shadow amulet around her neck. She cried out the word 'father' but only got out 'fath' as she felt Pyro's hand cover her mouth and her body being picked up. Her eyes stayed wide and didn't close till she was back at the dojo as she started to ball out for her father back.
She tilted her head to one side and saw the scared faces of Cruyo, Rien and Tadashi. She looked to the other side and saw the meanest most real face on Pyro's, that of hate, and disgust. She paid no attention to them and kept crying till she fell asleep where she knelt.
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Shade- Really long, I know, but it could have been longer! I'll finish the dream/flashback in the next chapter cuz it's so long. Karuka's life really sucked huh?
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