Chapter 8
"It's a thing?"
"Well," I started, backtracking. "I know it's not really doing anything now. It's just in your memory, not what you know. What I'm guessing is that it's there to learn more about you and the way you fight. That way, when it leaves your body, it'll be easy to beat you up." I paused, thinking it over more. If I had gotten to fight it, I might have been able to destroy it too.
chaos, as if he were reading my mind, lowered his eyes as if to say that if I fought it and I got hurt, he'd never forgive himself. "Sumina," he told me softly, placing his hand on mine. "I'm glad you didn't fight it there."
"Why didn't you let me, though?" I asked confused.
"What about Fayte's conscious? If you were to miss and hit a part of his mind, he would be injured," chaos told me, staring at Fayte. "I understand that he means a lot to you, so I wouldn't want him getting hurt now."
I gasped, shaking my head. Immense guilt filled me, and I felt chaos squeeze my hand slightly. "I almost forgot. There was more to it then. Forgive me, Onii-chan. I almost took a shot at it. If I would've missed, the memory… it would've gone."
He smiled and ruffled my hair, and I instantly felt better. Quietly, he said, "Well, that would be alright. I would, at least, know you were trying to help me. Don't worry over it too much, alright?"
I nodded and smiled happily. "Alright, Onii-chan!"
Everyone, other than me, got up and walked out of my room abruptly. I lowered my eyes and told myself the willing truth that no one else would. Onii-chan did care. He didn't want my mind and his to become one. He, like everyone else, likes privacy in their own minds. I felt something rip at me, the pain getting stronger and stronger and I looked up. The pain ceased. No one was there, but my wings… they came out, feathers flying about. And purple blood covered my hands and was mixing with my own cursed color of blood, black.
What the heck was going on?
I found myself in the middle of a town. I had wiped the blood on my jeans before I had gone. No one paid attention to me as I walked down the road. I saw Onii-chan and Ta walking past and I waved, calling out their names. They seemed to not be able to hear me; they didn't even look up. I screamed out their names, waiting for them to turn and smile as usual. But they didn't.
What the heck was going on?
Suddenly, they shrank into the shadows of a building and I followed. I was ambushed by two gnosis, similar to the ones who had attacked me back inside the hotel room with chaos.
I stared past the gnosis after I had dodged a quick attack. Onii-chan and Ta stood at the end of the alley; their bodies ripped open and blood spurting out. I felt myself throw up from the awful sight. I glared at the gnosis. What the heck did they do to them? Eat them? I charged ahead, not caring what happened to me anymore. I killed both of the gnosis. The gnosis lay dead ahead of me, their purple blood covered my hands and mixing with my own cursed color of blood, black. I wiped the blood on my pants and ran to the middle of town.
I paused. How weird I felt like I had already done something like that. I shook my head, but everyone disappeared. I found myself walking, now, in a wide plain of dead people, a scythe in my hand.
I wore a black robe and walked past. No one could defeat me. For I was death, and death never loses. I found many spirits begging to be alive another day. I ignored them.
There was a flash and I saw Albedo, laughing maniacally. But, what else was new? He pointed at me and I felt incredibly weak and powerless. I heard an ear-splitting scream and covered my ears to stop the noise.
"Ma petite, don't tell me you want to give up now," he said. "I just started to toy with you. We'll have lots of fun together, ma petite."
I shot up and screamed, my night black, leather demon wings flying out by instinct. Everyone suddenly ran into the room and looked at me like I had just destroyed Tokyo Tower. I didn't need to know why; they saw my wings. I also found myself drenched in black and purple blood. "What the heck happened…?"
"That's what we'd like to know," chaos replied, observing everything. "You fell asleep and what happened next what only you know."
"I remember… having blood on me… purple and black. I saw my wings come out… Onii-chan and Ta died by the gnosis… defeating the gnosis… screaming and…" I shut my eyes in anger. I think… I think, he knew where we were now. If not, he wouldn't have come into my dreams. We were in big trouble now. "Albedo."
End of Chapter 8
Author's Note: I will try and find what Sumina's words meant... which means I gotta go look around my site. Hope you don't mind. I'll post it up in her thread once I find it.