Half-heartedly, Satoshi listened to the teacher droned on in front. But his mind kept trailing away from the lesson and he found himself pushing his glasses up once before he turned to look out the window by his left. He looked up and stared at the clear blue sky before pulling his gaze away. Turning his gaze towards the huge mansion, a frown creased his brow almost immediately.
Many days and nights had passed but not once had Riku awakened from her aftermath sleep. He knew that Gabrielle and Danielle were looking after her and the master at the same time, but, still, he could not help feeling worried. Even his counterpart. Suddenly, he felt somebody was watching him. Turning around, he found a pair of red eyes staring at him. He watched as Daisuke's red eyes widened slightly before turning away guiltily. He sighed out loud, not caring if he interrupted the class.
With a sudden, the dismissal bell rang and the others began getting ready to go home. Standing up, he began to do the same, impatient to get back to the mansion. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the red-haired began to make a move towards him but decided to change his mind. Ignoring Daisuke, he walked towards the door made his way out of the building and out of the school in silence.
Dark looked out of the window, his face unusually serious and thoughtful. His dark wings were folded as he stood near the window, gazing thoughtfully at the shining yellow moon. He then closed his eyes and folded his arms at chest-level. After a few long silent minutes, he opened his eyes, unfolded his arms and pushed the window. He climbed out of the window after making sure no one had seen him and unfolded his wings out and took flight.
He gazed down at the sleeping peaceful face of his mistress before looking outside the window at the glowing yellow moon. A week had now passed and Riku was still in her deep sleep, never moving. Many of the villagers had questions about her untimely absence as he recalled the past days when many had bravely climbed to the mansion in the day. Fortunately, the sisters were able to come up with a logical excuse of the mistress being on the journey to the other countries.
With a sudden, one of the full-length windows opened with a gentle push of the wind. Pulling himself to his feet, he made his way towards the opened window and was about to close it when a dark shadow landed on the outside balcony. The tips of its dark wings touched the ground slightly before being folded back. The moonlight shifted to reveal a serious Dark gazing back at him. He frowned at the unwelcome sight of the dark angel and exited to the balcony as he closed the window behind him with a soft click.
"What are you doing here?" he asked. The violet-haired angel looked at him, his amethyst eyes strangely gleaming.
"I came to visit your friend," he simply answered with an unreadable smile. This made the blue-haired guardian frowned even more.
"You came to fulfil your mission," Satoshi said with a soft voice, as he gently pushed his glasses. The dark angel stiffened but was silent. This, he assumed to be correct. "I will not allow anyone take her away from us." At those words, Satoshi transformed into the golden-haired guardian in an instant. "Especially Hellsing dogs," the golden-haired guardian said in a near growl.
"Don't make this any more difficult for us either. We have every right to take her away so that she will not do any harm to anyone," the dark angel said in a severely tensed tone.
"What harm! She has not done anything for these past days! If you and those ignorant fools had not delayed our return back here, the ancient one wouldn't have taken over and she wouldn't be like this!"
With those final words, Krad's huge white wings flared out with the finality of his voice.
She saw darkness surrounding her. "Where am I?" Riku wondered. Suddenly, a sound caught her attention and she whipped her head back. As she turned, she saw a small bunny doll laying on its sides. Walking towards the doll, she lowered herself to her knees and stared at the doll. Images of her and Satoshi flashed through her head as she picked up the doll.
"Why do you still care for these mortals? Especially him?" a voice whispered in her ear. Without looking back, she knew just who it was. "You are so much his better. Why do you stoop to their level? Join me and my brother."
"No," she said, clutching the doll tightly.
"Why not! You are me and I am you! We are one!" the voice nearly screeched in her ear. Suddenly, an image of Krad bloodied appeared before her. Upon seeing the image of her golden-haired guardian, she smiled. She watched as herself, a small girl of ten, walked towards Krad whose wings seemed to flutter restlessly. His golden eyes, no longer cold, scanned her small frame, almost fearful. Silence was around her now as she and her other self watched the little girl picked up Krad's bloodied hand.
She walked tentatively towards the golden-haired stranger whose hands were covered in blood. Silently, she stood before him as his golden eyes scanned her small frame. Leaning forward, she clasped her hand with one of his bloodied hands. Somehow, she knew that the golden-haired stranger meant her no harm and that he was Satoshi. Her toffe-colored eyes turned glossy as unshed tears filled her eyes.
Closing them, she lightly brought the hand up to her cheek. His palm curved around her cheek as she opened her eyes and gazed upon him. His eyes were no longer golden; they had reverted back to the calm ice-blue that she was used to and his hair was no longer long and golden as well. Wings that had appeared behind him now disappeared without any trace of them ever being there. She watched as Satoshi blinked in astonishment, his palm still on her cheek.
"..when one accept you as who you are now, the pain of the transformation will be lifted.." a whispering voice surrounded them. Paying no attention to the voice, she watched as her blue-haired friend looked around for the voice in wonder. Only when it disappeared, did he looked at her again, but with a smile.
"You are my friend. No matter what," she said.
Eyes closed, she smiled as she listened to her younger self spoke those words. Suddenly, the atmosphere around her turned calm and then tense. Suddenly, loud clashing sounds surrounded her. She looked up and around, trying to figure out the sounds.
"No one will take her away! We are her guardians and are sworn to protect her from any harm!" Recognising the voice, she knew that he was in trouble.
Then, with a sudden, a darker version of her appeared before her. Sneering at her, the darker Riku placed a hand upon her hip almost lazily. "Can you hear the wonderful sounds of pain emitting from your precious Satoshi?" she asked in a haughty tone. She laughed an evil laughter that caused a chill down Riku's spine. Suddenly, her demeanor changed and Dark Riku looked at her with serious alert eyes. "A Hellsing has come to take me away again," she said, her eyes narrowing in annoyance. "It would seem that we have to fight yet again." She then relaxed her features and gave a haughty smile. "But never think for a second that I am helping out of the goodness of my heart. I am, after all, protecting the body which I am in and I have yet to reunite with my brother," she said with that same haughty tone again.
"Thank you," Riku thanked her other self nevertheless. Palm to palm, they begin to merge together.
He gasped as he stared at the golden-haired guardian who panted as well. He narrowed his eyes as he struggled to regain his strength.
"We should stop this. Dark," he heard his counterpart argued. His wings flapped restlessly as he continued to stare at the other angel. "We can't stop now. Our mission is to capture the vampire," he countered. His counterpart sputtered, trying to reason with him. "Please Dark, weshould stop. Ms Harada-,""I'm sorry Daisuke. But we have to do this," he said, closing his eyes. With that, his wings flared up.
"He is strong," the golden-haired angel coughed as he held a hand up gently to cradle his chest, the blood staining the white cloth of his uniform. He could feel the pain concentrating around that area but he did not care. He watched as the dark angel flared up his black wings and millions of black feathers shot out towards him in lightning speed.
Moonlight gleamed upon them as they came speeding towards him. Both Krad and Satoshi then closed their eyes simultaneously as though in resignation.
"No!" a scream came out. With a sudden, a huge black shadowy phoenix appeared out of nowhere and flew towards the golden-haired guardian. With a huge flap of wings, it descended down behind the golden-haired angel and folded its dark wings around him just as soon as the black feathers reached him. Amazingly, the shadow bird absorbed the feathers without any harm. When it was over, the bird raised its head and its glittering red orb-like eyes stared at the dark angel. The shadow bird pulled back its wings slightly, the tips of the wings touched the ground, to reveal the unscathed golden angel inside. The golden-haired guardian opened his eyes and stared at the darkly beautiful bird with mixed feelings. He frowned at the presence of the ancient one's energy signature.
A movement at the side of one of the wings caught his attention and he turned. His golden eyes widened with surprise when he found the mistress standing there, fully awake. But something about her was different. Her shoulder-length auburn hair seemed to glow darkly while her toffee-colored eyes were black with strange swirls of darkness. Two elongated gleaming canine teeth jutted out slightly, giving her the regal appearance of an ethereal princess.
"Mistress?" Krad whispered. "Riku?" Satoshi called out at the same time.
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