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!