Fruits Basket:

Consumed By Darkness

Chapter Eight:

Fruits Basket
©
Originally By: Natsuki Takaya
(Hakusensha)
"Hana to Yume"
Planning Of The Anime By: TV Tokyo, ASATSU – DK STUDIO DEEN, Fruba Project
Reversioned By: FUNimation Productions

Mayura Sohma, Kaori Sohma, Atlas Sohma:
©
By: Debbie-Elizabeth Cochrane
aka: KyouXKagura

-- Adult Feactures will be appearing in this chapter but not as bad as the previous chapters… It also seems a little dark! --


"It seems that your body and urges have done the job, Mayura." The woman's voice called as we see Mayura, tied up – her arms and legs by thorns which pierced into her causing her blood to slide down her naked body. She called out in pain as she struggled the thorns went in deeper and the vines wrapped tighter around her as she squirmed. It was only a few minutes after that that Mayura became face-to-face with her body which was something she didn't want to have to face… it was then that she held out her hand and pressed it to the spirit's forehead to where she merged into one but still she was wrapped around the wall of vines and thorns. She was also still naked, the blood thick and she was loosing a lot. Her hair which because of what happened a previously was still drenched in sweat and that didn't help at all as she was moving and the ivy was attracted to the sweat and wrapped around nearly every section of her curled hair. She was suddenly clamped tight against the wall that she was held onto. She tried to scream out but it didn't work seeing as she was so harshly held that she couldn't move at all, and not to mention she was finding it hard to breath!

Sure Hatsuharu was in for a shock when he entered his living room which stank of sweat and sex. He took one look of Atlas sleeping on the coach wearing nothing but a white sheet covering him but it was obvious what he had been up to and of course it wasn't the fact that he had done what he had done in his house it was the fact that Mayura was missing and that was what was on his son's mind… of course Haru wasn't to know that it was actually Mayura who was the missing party of what his son had been doing. Haru couldn't bring himself to wake Atlas up as he just made his way up to his bedroom – he had spent hours and hours comforting Kagura that he was actually pretty tired. Actually he was utterly exhausted to put it in better terms.
"You are okay aren't you, Kagura?" He remembered the last thing he asked before she nodded and urged him to leave. Not only had that but Haru seen the look on Kyo's face. Kyou was completely jealous of Haru's relationship with Kagura. At times that would be something that Haru would take advantage of or be smug – but not when Mayura was missing and it was causing so much pain. It was the only thing that made him leave though, the fact that Kagura had asked him – it was strange for him because the only other person able to calm him down was his ex-wife…

Kaori slide down the wall of the bedroom after just getting up early the next morning, her head in her hands she cried, she still cried. Not only for Mayura but for the fact that she still let her sister down and had to take the blame for everything that was going on. She felt like she was the one that was going to be neglected now, the one that was going to be pushed aside because of what she had done – the one that was going to live the rest of her life lonely because she was so lonely. Kaori ducked her head of orange hair down lower as she cowered slightly with images of her dream going around in her head. The darkness had transformed and she had seen that the rose that was being hurt was being hurt by deadly nightshade and other things… it was horrid and the blood flow was worse and thicker. If only she knew what the dream meant and what the rose symbolised because only in the last five minutes of her dream had the rose lost one red petal…

"That's it… Mayura's life is being sucked out of her body and inverted into Freda, one lifeline has been destroyed… and still her sister hasn't realised what her dream has meant… She's still upset over Mayura's disappearance. The sisters are so much like each other that they don't see it themselves… poor thick headed humans that's all I can say." Whatever was consuming Mayura had covered most of her body, all that was showing was her face, her hands and a few strands of hair. It was obvious that the darkness was eating her up slowly and soon she would be lost. Freda would come back and help destroy the world… To that Atlas awoke with a start. One word caught in his breath as he looked sharply out the window with his eyes wide:
"Mayura…" What was his dream to mean? He didn't realise that Mayura was being destroyed but he had to go and see Kaori fast or else if this was what was going on in real life then he had to stop it before Mayura was killed… it took last night for him to realise how much Mayura really did need him. Mayura was such a strong person it was hard to believe that this would happen to her so easily.

She let up her guard, that was the answer and it was what was going through Mayura's mind as the darkness began to seep into her brain, consuming her happy thoughts and her dreams leaving her with pain, sorrow and all her fears and nightmares. With each and every thing that this monster did to her she knew that she was going to end up dying – fading away - without telling everyone how sorry she was. She really wished she could… but how could she? Without anything or anyone to fight for, what could she do? She didn't even get the chance to tell Atlas herself how much she loved him – her urges took advantage when she said she loved him, he told her that he loved her… but it wasn't truly her. Mayura cried… but her tears were mixed in with blood merging from her wounds on her hands cutting down which were above her head. She was too weak to call out for help. If only she could have found a way to contact her sister… though she could somehow find a contact with Atlas…

If only it would work… she closed her eyes, the pain creeping up her almost consumed back as she mentally called to him:

'Atlas… Atlas-kun… can you hear me?'