Consumed By Darkness

By KyouXKagura

Chapter Thirteen

Freda's body melted to the ground and Atlas dropped the sword, he was dripping in sweat and had to wonder, what was he going to do now that they had destroyed them, Mayura was still no where to be seen, although Maehara Flower Shop's basement looked back to normal.
"Is that it?" Kagura asked as she looked around frantically to her husband who nodded his head, the problem was, where was their older daughter?
"Onee-chan?" It was Kaori that spoke next as she pointed towards the melted remains of Freda's body and the sword… she wondered what was happening as the sword started to glow a different colour and merge into another body, Mayura was left in the remains, completely naked and still the blood was weeping from her wounds the rose had caused.
"Mayura!" Both her mother and father yelled as they ran towards her, though they were surprised as she wasn't moving, she was breathing and her eyes were open but her eyes were really wide and in distress:
"Atlas…" She spoke only his name over and over again, her hair sticking to blood coming from the wounds from her shoulders. "Atlas…"
"I'm here." And sure, soon enough he was leaning over her, his eyes soft.
"Oh Atlas…" She smiled as she reached up and touched his face… he was looking at her…

He had never looked at her, he had only looked at her in a friend way, but now he was looking at her in a loving way.
"I love you." He whispered to the girl who shook her head, painfully. The blood stained the ground. Kagura grabbed her coat off of her and placed it over Mayura.
"No… Atlas, I do love you but you're not mine." She coughed, she pointed towards Kaori. "You belong to my… sister…. She truly loves you." Kaori's eyes widened… did Mayura just call her, her sister? She had never really done that before, and she could tell that Mayura meant it. Kagura's hands went to her face, covering her mouth as she gasped, she could see from the look from Mayura's face that something was wrong.
"No, Mayura…" But she cut the male off with placing her fingers on his lips. He looked towards Kaori, her hair was sleek around her waist, covered in sweat, her eyes gentle and looking at him with a new look, not the way Mayura looked at him that day, a loving look that warmed him inside and he thought, maybe Mayura was right. "Is it true, Kao?" He asked her catching Kaori off surprise. "Do you love me?" Well of course, being the age she was, Kaori blushed and nodded.
"See I told you." Mayura coughed once more.

Atlas walked over to Kaori and placed his hands on her face. Looking into her gentle eyes, she had her mother's eyes definitely soft and caring but they were caring for him… were holding that soft look for him. He didn't know if he really did love her but there was only one way for him to see if he did… he leaned down, used his grip on her chin to move her head up so they would catch each other's lips in a gentle kiss. Kyou had to hold Kagura back as Mayura tried to stand up, she was in pain and her hands were grasping her shoulder as her eyes were shut tightly as she buckled in pain. Mayura knew that she was dying, she could feel it… it was sore… her insides were sore…. But she couldn't give up… It was then that Atlas pulled away from Kaori as he brushed her hair away from her face with a smile.

Somehow he found it weird, suddenly everything had fallen into place and he wouldn't have noticed it if it wasn't for Mayura, the one he thought he loved and had been calling to because of false love but he did know that Mayura was the one he had sex with, her body but his problem was it wasn't her soul so it didn't mean anything… did it? Well either way he turned towards Mayura:
"Thank…" He trailed off, his eyes widened as he saw her limp body fall down to the ground hard. "MAYURA!" He yelled as both he and the others ran towards the daughter and sister who had fallen, she was finding it hard to breathe, sweating even more and grasping the ground hard… Kagura grabbed her daughter's hand and with her free hand placed it under her fringe, to feel her forehead -
"Oh no, she's burning up." Kagura gasped as she pulled away from the burning sensation in her hand.

Mayura's body jumped slightly, in a fit as her hands went towards her throat, she was able to get up a minute ago now she felt like she couldn't move… why did this have to happen? She was feeling better too, getting up must have been what triggered it, especially when she knew her heart was packing in… she knew she was dying but she had been dying since she was born, how could this happen. Kaori screamed as she saw how pale her sister had quickly become.
"No, onee-chan… please, don't – no don't fall to sleep." She said as she grabbed her sister's shoulders. "Wake up! Please you can't leave me…" It was too late…

"MAYURA!" They all cried as the eldest daughter of Kyo and Kagura Sohma's family had given up her life to save theirs, it was true, she had died… Kagura and Kaori cried, the males held on to them. It was unfair, how could she die? Why did she die? Why did she think her life was more important than theirs…? Kagura would have most definitely given up her life instead of her daughters… Kyou had to pull his wife away from their dead daughter, finding it hard to look at her because of how beautiful she looked – even though she was gone.
"She's gone, Kyou-kun, our little girl is gone." She screamed into his embrace, It had happened so suddenly. Kaori though was distressed; her eyes were soulless as she looked over Atlas's shoulder towards the corpse. Why did it have to be Mayura and why did Mayura give Atlas to her and not die knowing that she would have had him to herself… she never knew Mayura could be so… selfish.

If only Mayura wasn't… if she hadn't then she would still be here… if only she wasn't:

Consumed by darkness.


Officially completed on 08/04/06 at 15:47