Consumed By Darkness
By KyouXKagura
Chapter Eleven
"How
did she die?" Kyou asked his wife but replied with one word:
"Akito." He gulped slightly, he knew that he wasn't going
to like the answer,
"What does he have to do with it?" Kagura
asked, Kitsume laughed.
"Kitsume found something that was to do
with the curse… a diary of sorts telling secrets." Kagura spoke.
"Or so I've heard from Haru." Kyou was a little angered again
with that, could it have been by anyone else but Haru?
"Well
that's true." Kitsume spoke. "And you two have to pay for what
you're doing. You're stopping our leader from taking over
Kaibara." Kitsume moved and showed Freda or as they would have
thought, Mayura.
Freda smiled as her face looked even more
like Mayura, she knew that Kagura had to give her a second look to
see if she was day-dreaming.
"Hi." Kagura's eyes widened,
was it really her?
"MAYURA!" She yelled harshly as they looked
at them. Kyou looked towards the other girl and yet he was shocked,
this leader of there's looked exactly like his daughter.
"Don't
worry I'm not your daughter, I've just took her body." Freda
hissed. "Besides… you'll have your other daughter here in
three… two… one." And then just like Freda had counted Kaori
and Atlas burst through the doors.
"Mom!" Kaori ran towards
her mother and hugged her. "I was scared when I heard you scream."
Kaori looked down towards Freda. "Onee-chan… is that you?" She
asked but Freda shook her head.
"No Kaori… over there."
Atlas said pointed towards the wall where the darkness and thorns
were engulfing Mayura.
He saw her hand and knew that it would
be only too easy to go over and try to help; they would certainly try
to hurt them. Kagura looked as if she was going to cry but Kyou held
her back in an embrace of sorts. Kaori's hands went towards her
face, just like her mother used to do.
"We've got to help."
She spoke.
"First of all you have to get through this."
Kitsume laughed, her hands sailing up hard up to the sky and soon
enough flowers of different varieties of poisonous flowers and weeds
had started to coil and entwined into one different animal – was it
a chimera? The head and body of a lion, the second head and black
legs of a goat and a snake for a tail, yes it definitely was a
chimera.
The chimera raced towards Atlas and Kaori, Atlas
pushing in front of the female, to make sure she wasn't hurt. Kyou
and Kagura though had other things to worry about, Yarome had yet to
make a move and the male was standing not doing anything, his arms
crossed and his eyes closed.
"Now Now, Mommy and Daddy can't
interfere." Yarome spoke, his lips hardly even moved. Kagura turned
towards her husband, Kyou could see the fear in her eyes, and she
wanted him to help her, not Haru, not anyone else but the one she
truly loved. He grabbed her hand tenderly, something he had never
done in a while by himself. Yarome had gotten Kitsume's attention
while the Sohma couple were talking:
"Whatever happens, love,
we'll face it together." Kyou nodded to what his wife said but it
was when she looked up and screamed he noticed what it was.
A
rope was thrown down on the parents, they were trapped in a net, the
two of them struggled but it caused the net to get tighter and they
knew that if they moved they would soon suffocate.
"Kaori,
Atlas, please save Mayura." Kagura pleaded to her daughter. Kyou
just held Kagura in his arms tenderly with a loving stare. Though
they nodded, they would do anything to get the girl back.
"Atlas!
Please listen carefully, when you can get to the wall that's
captured me and place your hand on the wall… I'll help you as
much as I…. Aah!" Mayura's thoughts in Atlas's head grew
fainter until that scream which was loud, sharp and very worrying.
The brown haired male turned towards the cat's youngest
daughter.
"Do you trust me, Kaori-san?" Atlas asked as she
nodded for a reply. He spoke tenderly as he explained what he wanted
her to do to cause the Chimera to chase her though not hurt her. She
nodded, although scared she had to be brave for her sister and for
her parents.
"Mayura-ai, don't worry I'm coming."
Mayura's body was now completely engulfed by the wall, her body in
a completely dark world which was weakening and she was feeling
completely nothing but her emotions, her body wasn't hers anymore
and she knew this.
"I…" She spoke from her world. "I…
love you." She though knew that Atlas didn't love her, she knew
that Atlas loved Kaori and that she didn't deserve him. "Please
forgive me, Atlas-kun." She felt warmth come through her soul… it
was his hand, he must have heard her and placed his hand on the wall…
it was her last chance for helping them. He had to destroy Freda…
even if that meant destroying her body whilst doing that. She loved
her sister and she loved Atlas but it was by her hand that they were
all going to die and it wouldn't just be them it would be all the
other innocent people in the world.
She felt her body
transfigure into a different shape:
"With my soul and
emotions I give you this soul, trust me and I'm sure you'll win.
It won't be easy but I know that we can win this fight."
Mayura thought as she felt him pull her out of the wall but not in
her shape, in the shape of a fencing sword, she always thought Atlas
was the best fencing opponent she ever had, and not only because she
fancied him. Atlas's eyes looked at the sword, there was a shape on
the handle, a rose with thorns around it, it symbolised Mayura and
the pain that Freda, Kitsume and Yarome had caused her. Kaori yelled
and screamed in a panic as she just jumped out of the way of the
chimera's fire attack.
Yes, Atlas now knew how they could destroy the Chimera and free Kagura and Kyou but she didn't know how to destroy Kitsume, Yarome and Freda without loosing Mayura. It was going to be a struggle and hard, he didn't know how long it would take to do this and he didn't really care. All he knew was that Kaori, Kagura, Kyou, Mayura and even he were all in danger; including all of his friends, his father and the world… they were all in danger of getting killed.
"Prepare to pay for what
you've all done." Atlas spoke almost in a prince-like way as he
drew the sword completely from the wall and swerved it so it was
pointed straight towards Yarome, it was time that the male got what
was coming to him. He should never have led Mayura to this
world.
"Everyone listen, Mayura's signal from the spirit world
is weakening." Yarome spoke to them as if they were a group, as if
they were friends.
"You mean, we could actually loose her?"
Kagura asked shocked as tears fell from her eyes. Yarome only plainly
nodded for an answer and with a smile he got Kyou all riled up. There
was no way they were going to let Mayura die!
