A/N: -sniffles- Bleh. I hate colds! I should be in school right now. Instead I am stuck at home due to a stupid, evil cold! My throat is really, really sore right now. I can barely talk or sing and the only thing I am in the mood for doing is staying in bed and sleeping. But I can't do that either, 'cos my nose is blocked up and preventing me from breathing properly. The end result? Well, I've finally gotten off my lazy ass, hauled myself to the computer and am currently typing Chapter VII of this. You should feel most grateful.
Anyway, not to bore you with extremely long Author's notes. I just finished 'The Shining Light', Chapter V (there's a very interesting plot twist at the end!). And… yeah, that's it.
Songs for the sections are as follows:
In the Depths of Human Hearts – Neon Genesis Evangelion Soundtrack III – Section 1
Depression – Neon Genesis Evangelion Soundtrack III – Section 2
Tanin no Kanshou – End of Evangelion Soundtrack – Section 3
Well, yeah. Let's get things started shall we? I'm hoping to put in some proper action in this, 'cos otherwise it seems rather lifeless, although I'm not great at writing action. You'll just have to put up with how badly its written, right? And here it is! The result of being stuck at home all day with nothing to do; Chapter VII of 'Those who dance with Darkness'!
Those who dance with Darkness
Chapter VII
(1)
He could hear a bell… calling him in the distance. A tiny ring… insuring there was life here in the darkness he had been surrounded by.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" he called into the depths of the darkness. The bell rang louder… pulling him in… drawing him towards it. He unconsciously stepped forward, his eyes suddenly becoming empty orbs without pupils. He walked forward like a zombie… he could hear it calling. Calling for him. It was his bell… his time. His time to slip into the darkness. His time to become one with that darkness.
His soul was elsewhere… far away but not here. He was moving by a greater force than his own will, through this darkness.
Where was this place? He didn't know. But when the hand of darkness had firmly clasped him, he remembered fainting and waking up here. In this darkness.
He had asked his Sensei to show him darkness, and now he was wandering through eternal darkness.
"This is your heart," he heard his Sensei's voice call out "This is what your heart truly looks like,". He gasped. This wasn't true. This wasn't his heart. This couldn't be his heart. He believed in light. His faith was in light.
"It's impossible!" he called out, suddenly regaining control of his body once again.
A laugh.
An evil, menacing laugh that could only belong to his Sensei.
"Your bell is calling. You must follow it through to the end. I told you… didn't I? I told you that all hearts were formed of darkness. This is your heart. The proof that is. All hearts are formed of darkness. Even yours,"
His eyes widened, and he lost control of his body once more. But he could hear himself whispering something back. His lifeless body was whispering something back.
"Yes… even mine Sensei…"
And that body followed the sound of the bell, while it's owner could only watch in horror as it neared a pit of swirling black.
"Step forth. Dive into darkness,"
He tried to scream… to stop himself from doing it. But it was too late.
The body threw itself into the pit of swirling black. Everything went red.
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(2)
He was watching. Watching them all die. Watching them and remembering his first trip into darkness. Watching them and revelling in their pain… their suffering. Loving every moment of watching them squirm and run. Living off their screams, anxieties and pain.
A smirk crept across his face.
They were such foolish mortals… desperately clinging to life and failing miserably. They didn't deserve to exist. They were worthless, pathetic mortals. Not like himself. He was waiting. Waiting for the time when he would have killed enough to become a Dark Knight, just as his Sensei had been. He felt pleasurable chills creep up his spine as he listened to them wail and beg for forgiveness. He heard their pleas to the light… he heard their prayers to the light. But they would go unanswered, he knew.
If the light truly was all powerful, wouldn't it save them? No, because the light was a pathetic belief, created by people to give themselves hope. It was a foolish thought to dream of light, because it would never save anyone.
Their screams satisfied him. He just wanted to go down there and kill them himself.
He resisted the urge, and felt his power grow stronger by the minute. He clutched the sword in his hand ever tighter.
It was almost time.
He could feel it in his heart of darkness.
(3)
The warriors of Anaeria made their way through yet another destroyed town. Except this was not just a destroyed town. This was a town being destroyed. People were screaming everywhere. Eiri Uesugi's men of darkness were killing each and every person they found, making no sacrifices. Any of the men that were out on the battlefield didn't even deserve to be called men anymore. They were inhuman… killing everyone. They didn't stop for a moment. They didn't shake after they'd carried out the deed either. They just continued killing each person.
Shuichi cast his eyes skywards, searching for Eiri's moving castle (A/N: Hehehe! It's almost like Howl's Moving Castle!). But it was nowhere in sight; they must've only just missed him.
"All troops! Attack!" roared Hiro, sending out all forces. He too rushed in, slicing down any enemies fiercely with his blade. Suguru sighed in frustration and dashed in too, casting Black Magic spells at any of Eiri's followers he saw. Shuichi was the last one left standing at the back of the battlefield, frozen suddenly. His eyes widened in fear, watching the bloodshed everywhere. This had to be the worst of the battles he'd ever seen.
"Shuichi! Look out!" yelled Hiro. Shuichi jolted out of his reverie to find one of Eiri's followers heading straight for him, their sword ready to cut him to pieces, an insane smirk on their face. Shuichi couldn't move. His feet were frozen to the ground.
'I'm going to die! I'm going to die! I'm going to die!' he thought, as he watched the follower run forwards at an amazing speed. He ducked to shield himself from the blow, but this was unnecessary. Marks glowed on his body -the marks of a summoner- and from the skies plummeted a grand phoenix, flames engulfing its body. It stood in front of its master to shield him from the blast and then, acting on its own, it struck the follower with a magnificent blaze of fire. Shuichi tried to catch his breath, the phoenix in front of him turning and showing its concern for its master.
Hiro could only look on in absolute astonishment. He knew summoners could summon great beasts of sky, land and sea but he had never seen one this close before. This was this boy's special beast. A phoenix of gold and red, which looked so powerful that he thought no one could beat it.
Suguru was just as surprised. This couldn't be right. That puny little boy hadn't even summoned this beast and it had come to its master's aid. More than that, it was one of the most powerful fire summons he had ever laid eyes on. Just what was this boy?
More followers ran forward to beat the summoner, avenging their fallen comrade. That was when the summoner's eyes snapped open and into action. He stood in front of the phoenix, raised his staff in the air and yelled out a chant.
"Beast of fire! Phoenix of the flames! Inferno! Cast your spell of death upon them! Play the song of fire! Raise the fires of hell! I call to thee now! Hellfire!"
A grand summoner's circle glowed around Shuichi, and the beast wrapped its wings round its master, protecting him. Then it tilted its head backwards, and summoned a huge flame into its mouth, in which it fired out at the followers, the blast splitting into several different ones and striking all the followers down.
A wind swept across the battlefield. All Eiri Uesugi's followers had been defeated.
Fires were burning all around the battlefield where the blasts from that amazing attack had struck. Hiro, Suguru and the other soldiers in the troops watched the summoner in amazement.
Shuichi felt exhausted. He couldn't take the intense heat any more. He fell forward, and everything went black.
The phoenix beside him glowed golden and dissipated.
A/N: I'm sorry! I'd write more but I can't now! I've written enough anyway! It'll have to do for now!
So Shuichi's summon has finally been unleashed. And we just got a look into Eiri's past. Am I good or what: D
Well, that's it from me.
Ja ne! Review soon!
- Hikari-kun -