Angel of destruction

Riko wanders through the quiet and dark hallways of the sanctuary until her feet come to a halt outside a dark door which belongs to a certain somebody.

Her hand reaches its doorknob hesitantly, before Riko finds herself retracting it only to let her hand wander forward once again, repeating the same action several times until she takes a deep breath and finally grabs the doorknob to open the door slowly but determined, trying not to cause any noise that could disturb the peace and slumber of the angel resting inside the bedroom.

She peaks her head around the door to take a look at the angel sleeping peacefully inside the bedroom with the moonlight bathing her features.

As she does it, she can't help but lean against the door frame watching the way the moon rays illuminate the mark on the angel's arm, making its ugly black color shine and stand out against them. She lets out a long sigh as she stares sadly at the mark, remembering how it used to have another color and appearance, meaning that Yohane belonged to somebody else, that she belonged to her.

Riko bites her bottom lip trying to hold the tears that threaten to spill out and begins to close the door slowly to go to her own bedroom to rest when she hears her angel mumbling something in her sleep distressed.

- Ri… ri... Riri…

Riko hears her nickname being called in dreams, making her heart flutter at it and a soft smile slowly creep up onto her face, and so, she changes her mind entering the bedroom silently and closing the door behind her gently to approach the angel's bed.

- Riko…

Yohane keeps mumbling her name in dreams, frowning and tossing around in her sleep as if she was having a nightmare, and Riko can't help but bring a hand up to her face to caress it tenderly, trying to shoo the nightmares tormenting her angel away.

- Shhh, it's okay Yocchan, I'm here. Everything is okay.

Riko says calmly, reassuringly as she keeps caressing her face, erasing the frown on the angel's face with her fingers while bringing calm to her with her touch.

She smiles upon seeing Yohane calming down and going back to sleep peacefully once again, sitting beside her on the mattress to make sure she's completely okay before she has to leave.

Riko can't help but let another languid sigh escape her lips.

- You need to rest. Tomorrow is going to be a hard day – she whispers, her hand never ceasing her caresses on the angel's cheek.

Once she's sure Yohane is okay and sleeping peacefully, and much to her great sorrow, Riko carefully stands up from the mattress to leave, only to be stopped by a hand clutching her skirt.

She turns around surprised to find a pair of deep and sharp magenta eyes peering into hers intensely, making her feel as if her breath was stolen with just a single glance.

- Y-Yocchan?

- Stay.

Yohane's deep voice commands her as the angel's hand takes hers to pull her forcefully back to the bed, making the burgundy haired girl fall on top of her.

- B-but Yocchan, you need to rest. Tomorrow-

Riko's complain gets interrupted by a soft finger being gently placed against her lips.

- It's okay Riri – Yohane breathes out, hugging the burgundy haired girl against her body.

Riko's heart flutters once again as she blushes, yet she adopts a comfier position on top of Yohane, allowing the angel to wrap her tightly in the soothing embrace of her arms and wings.

Her gaze accidently focuses on the ugly black mark on the angel's arm shining against the moonlight, and Riko can't help but sigh and graze it with her fingertips, feeling the cold giving off it.

Her sigh comes out heavier, remembering how it used to feel warm against her touch, how it used to be pink. Remembering how it used to be her mark before their Lord claimed Yohane as his.

Ever since then, Riko wasn't allowed to spend more time than the essential with Yohane and only to provide the angel of the conveniences she may need, or for whatever she demanded. Ever since then, the affection the blue haired angel had for her was completely erased and replaced with nothing but indifference and coldness towards her, but Riko knew that a part of her Yocchan was still there, just like is showing right now.

Riko buries her head deeper into Yohane's chest, trying to hold her tears.

If missing her angel wasn't bad enough, now she has to deal with the fear of losing her completely to the whims and experiments of their Lord, who wants to make her more powerful in order to become a true angel of destruction, and the following day will be a vivid proof of his madness.

Their Lord plans to keep hurting the blue haired angel until he takes her to her limit, and obliges her to exceed it in order to gain more power of destruction. He then plans to install in her his stupid gadgets thinking that they will make her invincible, but nothing further from reality.

If something goes wrong, Yohane won't only lose her humanity, along with the memories they've created together and the feelings they labored for one another, but also her life.

The burgundy haired girl shivers at the mere thought of it happening and takes a deep shaky breath, shutting her eyes tightly trying to keep away those nasty thoughts from her mind. But she can't, and the first tears manage to escape and roll down her face until they fall onto Yohane's chest, damping her shirt slightly.

She feels Yohane exhaling heavily before she wraps her wings tighter around her body and her fingers grab her face gently, obliging her to look at her intense deep and sharp eyes.

Soon enough and without any notice, Riko feels a pair of lips on hers kissing her gently. She closes her eyes and relaxes into the kiss, deepening it, not noticing how the ugly black mark on Yohane's arm is replaced by a beautiful and different pink mark making Yohane be hers again.

- It'll be okay – Yohane says with deep voice upon having sensed her distress – It doesn't matter what crazy things our Lord puts me through, they won't prevent me from coming back to you, nor forget about you, my love.

Riko smiles at her reassuring words and cries in relief, hugging her angel tightly while Yohane wraps her tighter in her embrace, making her feel at peace once again and erase from her mind any worry about the following day's experiments.

And like that, they fall asleep.

The following morning comes sooner than what Riko would have wanted.

She opens her eyes hoping to find her beloved angel beneath her, wrapping her arms and wings safely around her, but instead of that, she finds herself tightly tucked inside the blankets of Yohane's bed, lying on an empty and lukewarm bed.

Riko sighs, burying her nose in the sheets to smell Yohane's calming scent before she gets out of bed, trying to become aware of what awaits for her throughout the day at the same time she tries to stay positive thinking that everything will go well.

She intakes a deep breath of Yohane's scent to calm down and leaves the angel's bedroom and the sanctuary to head towards the laboratory.

The red light of the on-going experiments illuminates the laboratory as soon as she steps in, forming a knot in her stomach.

- You're late – the stern voice of her Lord greets her.

- I-I'm sorry, I-I had to take care of some matters – she apologizes quietly while bowing in respect, earning a grunt from her Lord due to her answer, before she notices his eyes glued to the sight in front of him, ignoring her completely.

- Whatever – he grunts once again without losing any detail of what's happening in front of them.

Riko can only follow his line of vision to find her beloved angel behind the window pane of the experimentation room.

Yohane is hanging in the air with her body only hold by wires while her wings are completely spread out. And if it wouldn't be because of the amount of tubes, wires and the rest of strange gadgets attached to her body piercing it, aside of the trickle of blood sputtering out her mouth, her raged breathing and the painful expression on her face, Riko would think she looks truly beautiful and majestic.

But she can't even contemplate that crazy thought. She can only see and feel her angel's pain, the lump in her throat obliging her to avert her gaze to not cry at the painful sight in front of her, and bite her lips to not puke.

Riko hears Yohane's screams and can only bite her lips harder, drawing blood out of them trying to keep her tears at a bay, wishing Yohane's suffering will stop soon before the blue haired angel ends up with severe damage or even worst.

Luckily her wishes come true before the last and fateful experiment can even start: a fusion that will erase any trace of Yohane's humanity and all the memories she has of them together.

Before that can happens, several explosions interrupt said fusion damaging the machines and the installations.

The fire caused by the explosions quickly starts to spread everywhere, the smoke complicates escaping the laboratory restricting the exits at the same time a green and sticky liquid almost corrosive begins to flood the floor and disintegrate it.

Riko covers her mouth, tears pricking her eyes as her lungs burn with the gases and she begins to take tentative steps backwards, the floor beneath her shaking as more explosions detonate.

She hears the piercing yelling of her Lord, lifting her gaze just in time to see a grotesque figure over his decapitate body. Her eyes widen in fear as the creature lock eyes with her and she starts to run away as fast as her feet allow her to.

In her run away, the wall next to her explodes and the crystals of the window close by shatters, cutting her slightly before her body ends slammed against a still intact wall due to the explosion and Riko ends up falling to the floor.

Riko breathes raggedly, trying to stand up to keep running, before the creature catches up with her and its strong claw closes around her neck to lift her up, gripping her forcefully.

She can feel the creature's claws piercing her skin as the grip around her neck tightens and she tries to fight against it, but the creature in front of her only smiles sadistically at her fruitless efforts.

- Y-Yo…cchan…

She cries out breathlessly her angel's nickname as a cry for help, and soon enough, the grip around her neck loosens, making her fall to the floor.

She finds herself gasping for air desperately, her vision turning a bit blurry due to the lack of oxygen, but even so, she still can clearly discern the deep magenta eyes and the pair of majestic wings of her beloved angel as she fights against the creature that had tried to kill her just seconds ago.

The sound of blades clashing and of grunts reverberating across the laboratory's ruins attracts more creatures to their spot. Riko doesn't know anything about what those creatures are or what do they want from them, but she's sure of one thing: they're enemies.

So she starts to crawl backwards leaving room to Yohane to fight without having to worry about her as more creatures approach them.

Yohane barely ended killing one of them when another creature lunges at her.

- Yocchan careful! – Riko yells at her angel with all her might, warning Yohane about the new creature appearing behind her, but Yohane reacts too late.

Yohane can only grunt, feeling the creature's blade piercing her side, making her sputter blood out of her mouth before she quickly delivers the creature a mortal and well-aimed stab in its heart with her own sword, killing the creature immediately. She then quickly turns around, her hand flashing a ray of pink energy to the other creatures' chests.

Riko watches stunned how the creatures' bodies fall lifeless one by one to the floor with a loud thud, before she takes a look at the holes in their chests.

She gasps, shocked at Yohane's new power and strength before she looks back at her angel wiping out the rest of creatures approaching them menacingly with her new power.

She's so busy making sure Yohane isn't attacked nor hurt that she doesn't realize that there's a creature behind her until it takes her as a hostage.

- Yocchan! – Riko yells the angel's name as the blade of the creature's sword presses against her neck, cutting her skin.

Yohane's magenta eyes glows in the dark menacingly, blazing in rage as she sees Riko's blood running down her neck, before she growls furiously, gripping her sword tighter to lunge at them.

Riko sees Yohane running their way before the angel in front of them vanishes into the dark briefly. She feels the blade pressing her neck cutting her deeper before its pressure alleviates and fades.

Riko breathes in relief as her legs giving in and she falls to the floor, then, she feels gentle fingers reaching her neck to press her cut and stroke it softly.

- Are you okay? – Yohane asks her, and Riko can only nod at her weakly.

She hears a heavy sigh escaping Yohane's lips, before she feels something wet licking her deep cut, and Riko can't help but blush at the contact of Yohane's tongue against her cut, licking the blood off to heal the wound.

- Better.

She hears Yohane whispering against her neck, leaving a light kiss on the cut while making her blush more, before the angel stares into her eyes with a teasing glint in her deep magenta eyes and a smirk on her face. Riko blushes even harder if possible and lowers her head in embarrassment, making Yohane laugh.

Suddenly, a pair of wings wraps her tightly while strong arms lift her up to carry her.

- Y-Yocchan?

- Let's go back home – Yohane says sharply.

- B-but…

Riko trails off, peering past Yohane to make sure no more creatures appear or come their way.

- Don't worry, I've killed them all – Yohane says solemnly upon having guessed her worries.

Riko shivers at it yet breathes out in relief and holds onto Yohane tightly yet carefully, not wanting to worsen her wounds as they take off to their home, to their sanctuary.

Yohane's flight is turbulent but she still manages to get them home safe before she ends up falling into their lake, sinking them into its curative water, only to come back up to the surface after a while.

- Yocchan!? – Riko yells, swimming closer to her to take the injured angel in her arms and keep her afloat.

- It's okay Riri.

- It isn't okay, idiot! You're bleeding and your wounds aren't healing even in the curative water! – Riko exclaims sternly, her hands stained with Yohane's blood.

- Ugh, I've told you it's okay Riko. They'll eventually heal – Yohane grunts stubbornly, trying to get away from Riko's embrace but the burgundy haired girl doesn't let her, she only groans exasperated and pulls the angel closer to her body to prevent her from going anywhere before she crashes their lips together.

The pink mark on Yohane's arm glows brightly as a pink light envelopes her, them, helping her wounds to slowly heal.

Yohane can only give in, deepening the kiss yet trying to not consume Riko's energy completely, before they pull away due to the lack of air.

- I've told you it was okay Riri – Yohane says stubbornly yet softly, caressing Riko's face who just smiles at her tiredly.

- You're so stubborn that I had to do it – Riko whispers against her lips, kissing her once again, and Yohane can't help but sigh deeply, kissing her back before they pull away and she leaves a kiss on Riko's forehead to then gather the burgundy haired girl in her arms to get out of the lake and carry her to their sanctuary and home to get some rest and recover.

- I love you – Riko mumbles, snuggling up more into Yohane's embrace as they reach the angel's bedroom to finally lay down on her bed and rest.

- I love you too, now rest – Yohane says, leaving a fleeting kiss on Riko's lips before she wraps her protectively in her arms and wings, closing her eyes to sleep.

They don't know what the future has stored for them or if they'll be attacked by those grotesque creatures once again, but one thing is sure, there won't be more experiments and they won't be apart one another anymore. Yohane's is Riko's, and Riko's is Yohane's once again as it should have always been.