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Shinigami
(Last time)
"Stop."
Denis' flame went out. Angrily his eyes narrowed as he tried to call the flames back. Nothing happened. "Who said that?" He snarled, trying to figure out what happened.
"I did."
A woman with long ash-blond hair pulled into a ponytail appeared in the middle of the room, standing opposite Denis. She was wearing all black, and her eyes were glowing violet.
"My name is Ferrana, and I have come on behalf of my people, the Shinigami. I have come to kill you."
(Now…)
Duo stared at the woman. One minute, Denis was hucking fire balls at them, the next a woman dressed in black with glowing violet eyes who said she was part of a group that killed people was stopping him.
This was getting really weird.
It was the eyes that captivated Duo. They were the exact shade of violet that his were.
He had never met someone with eyes the same color as his.
Duo heard someone shout from the door. "You are meddling in Preventer business! Please back away from the suspect!"
"Backup's arrived." He heard Wufei snort through the W-T. "And they've decided no help is better than non-Preventer help."
"Yeah, well I could shoot the backup right now. Any help is better than no help." Duo muttered back.
"I agree. Especially help that seems to know what she's doing." Trowa kicked in.
"I think Heero agrees with us." Quatre chuckled. "He's giving the Preventer who said that the Glare of Death."
"I really don't think she cares, actually." Trowa murmured. "As she seamed to be ignoring us and the Preventers completely."
Duo had to agree that this was the case, as she continued to speak to DD as though she hadn't been interrupted in the first place.
"You must have seen the warnings." She said. "You had to have known that you could not get away with what you were doing. You had to know what we would do. So why?"
Denis laughed. "The other three you killed were weak. I did research – I'm much stronger than they ever were. Even now, the spell you originally cast is breaking, and I will call the fires back!" Something snapped, and Denis flung his hand up into the air, gathering fire, and flung it at Ferrana.
She dogged, and snapped her wrist out. A whip materialized in her hands. Denis again attempted to throw fire at her, but she snapped the whip at it, and it disappeared. She began to advance.
"She's good." came Quatre's voice.
Denis' eyes grew fearful. Then the evil glint came back though. He held his hand up and began to gather more energy.
"Why is he doing that? He knows it won't work." Duo barely even heard Trowa's whisper, but he agreed. Something wasn't right.
Denis grinned, and Ferrana stopped where she was, frowning. Denis threw the fire.
At Duo.
Who didn't even have time to realize that he had just become target number one, never mind dodge a ball of flame.
Suddenly everything around Duo went dark.
He felt… warm, safe. Like someone had him in a warm embrace. But other than that, he saw and felt nothing. Not even the flames.
Duo began to wonder if he had died on impact.
But then the darkness parted, as did the warm and safe feeling. He was on the ground, looking at a off Denis and a shaken Ferrana. He turned around.
A man about half a foot taller than he was stood there, shoulder-length brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, the glow from violet eyes fading.
Large black wings the same color as ebony were unfolded behind him.
(change point of view)
This… idiot… was, for all his talk, by no means the strongest fool Ferrana had faced. The mortal – Denis? – was actually one of the weaker ones she had fought. His strength wasn't very high, and he depended almost exclusively on his fireballs, which was a remarkably easy spell to block. Yeah, so he had almost singed her, but everyone had some luck.
And then he had thrown one at Duo.
She had been unable to do anything because she was too far away, but Alan, who had been providing backup for her, had seen the danger and had prevented it by forming a sort of shield around the both of them with his wings, then phasing to the ground below. Duo was safe.
She felt a surge of fury in the back of her mind, and an all to familiar presence materialize behind her, shrieking.
"HOW DARE YOU!"
Ferrana winced. This guy's not going to be around for much longer, she thought. The Eldest is here. He doesn't stand a chance. Not against her.
"How dare you!" The Lady snarled again.
This – wasn't going to be pretty.
(change point of view)
Before Duo even got a chance to open his mouth to ask why this guy had wings, he heard a shriek from behind him.
"HOW DARE YOU!"
He snapped around, and saw a woman who was not the first nearly hissing with rage. Long brown hair was pulled into a braid, and blue eyes glowed with anger. Black wings tinged with purple were unfurled behind her. She was wearing all black, right down to the knee-high boots. She was the first of these Shinigami that did not have purple eyes.
She was in no way, shape, or form happy.
"How dare you!" She snarled at Denis, who had gone completely white. He looked like a man who had been sentenced to death and had just now realized it. "How DARE you touch him? Die!" She raised a scythe above her head and charged Denis.
"She's fast!" Wufei shouted.
Denis didn't have a chance.
She cleaved him in two.
Then she pulled back, drew her right hand up in front of her face, second and third fingers up.
What was left of Denis exploded. The body was completely obliterated. There wasn't even any blood.
The new lady smiled smugly.
"Alright!" It's that damned Preventer again! Why won't he shut up? Duo thought. "You are all under arrest for murder and for interfering in Preventer business!"
Heero cut him off as the other pilots came out of hiding. "Oh, just shut up. Haven't you done enough today?" He snapped at the man.
The Preventer wilted under Heero's glare.
"It's alright." The blue-eyed woman snorted. "I highly doubt that he could hold even one of us against our will anyway." She continued dryly. Ferrana and the guy who had saved Duo both nodded in agreement.
For several long moments, Heero and the lady regarded each other. Then Heero nodded once, and she smiled.
"I am the Lady Shina. This is Ferrana Nadrey, and this is Alan Tegrar." She indicated the other two. "We are Shinigami."
"How are you going to write your bloody message now?" Wufei snapped from where he was sitting.
"There are people here who can hear our message and pass it on to others. Perhaps now that people hear it directly from us, they will take heed." Alan stated.
"And if there hadn't been people here?" Trowa asked quietly.
"Then thing would have turned out quite differently." Ferrana answered, glancing at Shina, who nodded.
"Yes, things would have been very different." The Lady murmured quietly. Then she smiled again. "But things did not turn out differently, so we shall simply give our message to all of you. The Shinigami are the guardians of certain – forces – that are probably beyond your understanding. You would probably call them 'magic.' It is our job to send those who misuse these forces to await justice from Death. This means death for anyone who uses these powers wrongly."
"How do we know that you're not lying?" Wufei asked. You could simply want these powers for yourselves."
"Good point." Shina answered. "But I am not capable of lying, and all other Shinigami take oaths to prevent them from lying out of respect for me."
"What makes you so special?" The annoying Preventer snapped. Good grief, Duo thought, someone really needs to shoot that man.
"She's the Eldest, the first Shinigami, the Lady." Ferrana sounded shocked and slightly offended. "She is like a mother to us all. She's our leader and she is the only one of us with blue eyes." She pointed to her own. "All of our eyes are this violet."
Dead silence.
"Duo's eyes are that same exact color." Heero pointed out, sounding a bit surprised. Which for him, probably meant that he was in shock.
"Yes, they are." Shina said sadly. Something about the way she said it seemed off… Duo went to speak, but was cut off by Heero.
"Something about this has to do with Duo." It wasn't a question. "1, DD attacked him, 2, Alan protected him, 3, You – Lady – were absolutely furious and killed Denis for so much as 'daring to touch him', and 4, Duo's eyes are the same exact shade of violet that your underlings are. And even though you say you can't lie, that doesn't mean that your not."
"True." Shina admitted. She let her eyes wander across the group, finally resting on Quatre. "Well, little Empath? Am I lying?"
All eyes turned to Quatre, who blinked in surprise, and must have said the first thing on his mind.
"How do you know I'm an Empath?"
She smiled kindly. "Two reasons. 1, you've been using your gift to read everyone in the vicinity since this whole thing started, and 2, you had a run in with a friend of mine at a mall recently."
Quatre frowned. "No, she's not ly- hey! You know Damar!"
"Is he a Shinigami?" Duo interjected.
"No, he's not." She paused. "But – he was here today, sort of."
They all stared at her, un-comprehending.
It was Ferrana who saved them. "Damar. 'Death' in Varilian. The man you met isn't really a man at all."
"More like a living concept." Alan put in.
Shina smiled slightly, but then her eyes unfocused, as though she was talking to someone else, far away. "We have to go." She said finally. "Now."
"Yes, Lady." Both Ferrana and Alan said in unison, bowing slightly to her, before disappearing.
Shina turned and looked at Duo. "Stay safe, brother." She whispered, so only Duo could hear it, then she, to, was gone.
They left no trace that they had ever been there.
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