The Angel of Black Wings Chapter 6 - Confession
Me: I've missed the Author Commentary section, so I'm gonna keep it in this!
Sakura: So does that mean we actually get to talk like the Sonic and Megaman.EXE cast? And, I mean OUTSIDE the story?
Me: Whaddya
reckon yer doin' now?
Sakura: Point made.
Syaoron: #Kicks him off his chair#
Me: WHAT WAS THAT FOR!
Syaoron: #Looms over him# SIX, MONTHS! You haven't touched this story in SIX MONTHS!
Meilin: We were starting to wonder if you'd just plain forgotten about us!
Me: Hey, you're not even IN this, can it Pigtails!
Others: #Watch as a merciless beating of the author at the hands of a high-strung Chinese girl gets under way#
Yue: My money's on Meilin.
Kero: Same.
Tomoyo: Can we please get on with this...?
Me: START THE CHAPTER, START THE CHAPTER!
Guidelines for reading : Italics are thoughts, Bold puts strong emphasis on words and phrases, ALL CAPS IS YELLING, and Bold and Italics are Ominous
Death, Syaoron, Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero all gazed upon their assailant. Death narrowed his eyes, focusing his gaze upon the Card Captor. "Alright, I'll at least cut a deal with you. You let me outta this mess, I'll do what I can to try and get something done about this, AND I'll explain everything."
Syaoron narrowed his eyes, bringing the tip of the blade right up to Death's face. "How can we trust you...? You attacked Sakura and I, and you're trying to take the Clow Cards just because some ass in another dimension paid you to. I don't really see why we don't just throw you to this thing."
Death winced a bit at this. The boy had a point he couldn't deny. "Valid point... But I can give you two damned good reasons why. One, THAT little Ahriman demon, yes, you heard right, Ahriman DEMON, is just a child that doesn't even know it's most lethal technique yet. Two, if you DON'T let me go, then I promise you, this little fella lyin' in the corner with a concussion is gonna be the LEAST of your worries!"
Sakura crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow at the would-be thief. "You can't do anything like that, didn't we already go over this...?"
Death growled as he began to thrash wildly within the bindings. "DAMMIT ALL I WASN'T TALKIN' 'BOUT ME BEIN' THE ONE YA HAD TO WORRY ABOUT!"
Tomoyo leaned over towards Sakura, whispering softly into her ear. "He certainly does have a short temper, doesn't he...?" Sakura responded with a brief nod of the head.
Death sighed a bit, just letting his head hang as he murmured to himself. "I really... really need think before I say something stupid..."
Syaoron just stood there, sighing a bit. He looked to Sakura. "... Let him go."
Sakura blinked a bit, her gaze shifting to her fiancé. "Hoe? Are you sure, Syaoron?"
The Chinese boy nodded, keeping his gaze fixated on Death. "Be warned, though... double-cross us, and WE'LL be the ones you have to worry about, not this thing and whatever else follows after it..."
Death was caught off guard by this sudden generosity. He couldn't help but snicker a bit. "Keheheheheh... Yeah, I hear ya loud and clear, Syaoron... You've got yourself a deal." Death was taken aback as Shadow and Windy seemed to just ooze right off of his form, seeping onto the floor.
Once the two cards had returned to their original forms, ACTUAL cards, their Mistress made her way past Death and began to gather them up all up.
With a single sigh, Death made his way to the window sill, taking it upon himself to sit on it. "So, where would you like me to start?"
Syaoron knelt down, picking up the cards alongside Sakura as he began to speak. "For one, where did you get those powers...?"
Death diverted his gaze to the corner where the little Ahriman lie unconscious as this question arose. "Huh, I don't see why you're asking. You figured out a decent half of it... What, that I'm 'Pure evil' and I can speak in a Demonic Tongue. That's what you guys said, correct?"
The four winced simultaneously as they heard this. Tomoyo's hands moved behind her back, grasping one another at the wrist out of anxiety. "How did you..."
Death shrugged softly, not even paying any attention to the Ebony-haired young lady currently fidgeting with her own hands. "Well, spying on you guys when you leave your window wide open isn't exactly a problem... I heard every last word, ya know..."
Sakura felt a twinge of guilt in her chest as she heard him say this, which was clear on the expression across her face.
Death waved his left hand nonchalantly through the air as he saw Sakura's face contort with regret. "Forget about it, Kinomoto. It's You were just tryin' to figure out your enemy. I give you some credit for that, so don't start getting' remorseful on me here. Anyhow..." He sighed softly, shifting so he could lay his back against the side of the window sill, averting his gaze to the morning sky. "... I'm not just any Half-Demon. I'm something that should never have been conceived, a creature that belongs in neither Heaven, nor Hell. Come to think of it, I shouldn't even be on this planet... You see, my mother, she was a Succubus, a Demoness that fed off the souls of mortal men. My father, though... he was an Angel."
If there were any eyes in the room that weren't on him before he spoke those words, there weren't anymore. This single comment brought the attention of the other four in the room right to him, accompanied by looks of shock and disbelief
Kero was totally baffled by what he heard, just floating slowly to the ground before he came to rest on the floor. "You have GOT to be pulling our legs..."
Death turned his head to gaze at the Guardian, a great sadness apparent in his eyes. "Kero, I more than anyone wish that I could say I was just kidding with you, but the reality is, I'm not... I know... I shouldn't exist. You're probably all thinking, 'How could a creature of Light and another of Darkness possibly come to breed?', or, 'How could any child like that survive when bred from creatures who's powers are meant to destroy one another?'. I honestly wish I could answer that, but I really, really don't know... I do know that I wasn't an only child. I had a younger sister named Rina, but in the end, that's really all I know about her. I don't know whether that means I'm meant to be alive, or that there were just two really big flukes the days we were born..."
Sakura took a seat on the bed, slightly irritated at Death's regard to his birth as 'a fluke'. "It's not a fluke that anyone's alive... If you were born, then there has to be a reason. You can't just put yourself down because of what runs through your blood..."
Death raised his head, gazing at the Card Mistress silently only for a moment or two. A weak grin then suddenly slipped across his lips. "Heheh... It's too bad not everyone can see it like you do, Kinomoto... the problem is, I've been hunted since I was a child... My sister... it's not likely that she's alive right now... When I was only 5, the residents of the village I was born and raised in were totally slaughtered. I was the only survivor because my parents stowed me away in some rubble and told me to stay put until it was safe... I didn't know at the time, but they were after me and my sister. I became an assassin a couple years later. My work was really sloppy at first, but as time went on, it cleaned up, and I was getting job offers from clients throughout multiple Realms. That's when those freaks who're after my head learned I was still alive. I couldn't keep up in that business anymore, so I became a mercenary. Can't say it got them to leave me alone, but at least I wasn't stationed at one place until I got an assignment..."
Syaoron got up from his position on the floor, his sword still held firmly within his grasp "So, that thing...?"
Death gave a solemn nod, his ponytail slipping over his shoulder and over the front of his body. "Yep. But it's too young to do any real damage. It probably just slipped in with the rest of the guys trying to kill me by mistake. The group of hunters who're after my head is no doubt made of hundreds of full grown Demons. Some of them are hundreds of years old, others in their thousands. They loathe the fact that I exist, and want me destroyed at any cost. Countless lives have been lost to these creatures in every Realm I stopped at solely because I was there to begin with... I can't fight them all by myself, though, so all I can do is run to another Realm. Normally, it takes them a while to track me down, but this time…" He cocked his head back and shut his eyes, balling his hands up into fists out of frustration and concern. "... They found me way too quickly..."
Sakura stood from her bed and walked up alongside Syaoron, interlacing the fingers of her right hand with those of the Chinese boy's left. "So, why don't you just go now...? I mean, you could throw them off, right...?"
Death sighed, his head lowered. "... I'm not sure... They found me so quickly this time I'm beginning to think it may just be pointless to even continue running away. Besides, even if I did run, they'd probably just destroy this city for kicks..." With one final sigh, he stood up off the window sill, gazing at the others.
Syaoron, Sakura, Tomoyo, Kero, all of them were lost in thought. It all just seemed so hopeless by this point. For a moment, it seemed like the only faint chance Tomoeda would have at remaining in one piece would be for Death to be turned in. Syaoron then looked up to Death, a solemn expression on his face. "Hey... you can travel through Dimensions, right?" Death nodded a bit, crossing his arms nonchalantly. "Yeah, how d'ya think I've been able to keep myself alive for this long? If I were only to run from one city to another, they'd track me down in no time and slaughter me. That kind of travel was my only chance for survival."
Syaoron tightened the grip on his sword further, his eyes deadlocked on Death's. "Well, why not ask someone from one of those other Dimensions for help? I'm sure they've probably got armies in at least one other out there that can handle this kind of problem."
Death let this thought process for a moment. Out of nowhere, he smiled, nodding a few times. "Yeah... y'know, I like where yer goin' with this, Syaoron. But there's one liiiiittle problem..."
Kero blinked a bit, his tail shifting back and forth idly as he looked up to Death from his position on the floor. "And what might that be?"
Death's newfound smile quickly shifted into a cynical look, his arms falling to his sides. "The problem is that I don't know WHAT Dimension would have said capabilities of dealing with this problem. There are probably millions of Dimensions out there, and any one of them could have what I'd be looking for. The REAL problem is that I don't have time to search them all myself."
All five of them sighed in unison, their heads sulking towards the ground as they lost themselves within the worlds of their own thoughts, trying to think of something that may keep Tomoeda from being totally obliterated.
Kero came from his thoughts before the others, gazing to Death sternly. "You know... I think I know someone who may be able to help with this. But you'll have to pay a high price, alright?"
Death looked silently at Kero for a moment with great intensity in his eyes. With a grin, the young man shifted his attention out the window he'd just been sitting in not a few moments ago. "If it helps me get rid of these pests once and for all, then I will. No price can be higher than what all of Tomoeda, possibly your World, will pay if we don't do something..."
Kero gave a swift nod as he looked to his three companions. "Guys, get ready, we're going on a road trip!"
Me: I've only had this chapter sitting here for the past 6 months...
Sakura: #Sighs# So it took as little effort as possible to fix up...
Me: EXACTLY!
Syaoron: No wonder the Megaman.EXE cast has no respect for you...
Me: Hey, they got PLENTY of respect for me. Ain't that right guys!
Roll.EXE: Um, about that...
Me: … #Sulks in a corner#
Roll.EXE: See what you made me do? I'm not even supposed to be in this story!
Syaoron: #Hands her a Megaman plushie#
Roll.EXE: Call me again any time! #Skitters off with the plushie in a vice grip#
Sakura: Well, the author'll pull himself together soon enough. See you all in the next chapter!
Me: Nobody loves me... #Draws in the dirt with a stick#