A vampires forbidden love: the lies that bind us

by max333

It's been a year since the big battle against the lycan's and now a new war rages within the coven. Deceit and lies wreck havoc as Usagi, Mamoru and those closest to them uncover a new enemy and find that the enemies might be closer than ever imagined.

20. kitchen fiasco leads to implosion

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A vampires forbidden love: the lies that bind us ch.20

Mamoru POV

I finally had the leader of the lycan's on the ropes again. My frustration was mounting. He was beginning to act more evasive than combative towards me now. Like he had no more tricks up his sleeve and was now just dodging me. Now I was starting to know what a cop would feel like chasing a crook. At first I was almost having fun with it, a powerful leading lycan like him afraid of me till it felt more like he was trying to waste my time than flee from me.

I was even getting some of the furniture in the place throw at me from time to time and ducked and dodged to evade them. I had finally managed to stop him from being on the move though just barely. The girls themselves were still fighting with the few soldier we had in the foyer that lead pretty much into the coven itself. The rest of the soldiers were taking care of any lycan's that got thrown outside.

The fight was even beginning to split up into different areas of the coven. For example I had no idea where Rei was at nor could I see Makoto but I could hear them both fighting whereas I saw Minako holding her own against a few lycan's herself. "What are you doing huh?" I demanded of the lycan leader once I turned my attention back to him as he snarled at me. "Trying to waste my time?" I demanded as I went to stab at him again.

He blurred as he detransformed himself, something he was doing more and more often. I wondered what strategy he was playing at to continue to do this or if he was just able to dodge better and be faster when not fully transformed and that's what he was trying to do. Just simply dodge quicker. "Let me ask you something…do you really think she can take on that vampire by herself?" he sounded genuine.

It halted me for a moment. "Hai, she can do anything she puts her mind to." I retorted back fully confident in her abilities to kill Emon. He appeared to stop trying to fight me as he spoke, "He's smarter and more cunning than she is." A direct insult that made me move closer to him only for him to raise his hands up in defense, "Wait!" he yelped. He appeared more tired than anything now. Perhaps he was just trying to dodge and no other plays were in use. "Are you speaking your final words?" I asked him. He put his hands down.

"No, I'm speaking the words you need to hear before her death and yours." The audacity of this guy even now as he faced certain death. However, there might be something in his words that could help me out. "Emon may be a dick but he's been in your home, your coven and knows how she fights, how she moves and what makes her weak." I hated to say it but there were many truths in those words he had but not all of them, he didn't know ALL of her.

"And when he kills her…" my eyes narrowed at him in righteous anger as his seriousness turned into a toothy grin making him look far more sinister and creepy than ever before. His teeth were even gleaming with his shed blood from the many hits he took from me. "We will take over this human world city by city, country by country…" he was sounding as deluded as Emon did when we heard of what he wanted.

He coughed up some blood as he spoke, nearly choking on the words. "As long as it takes till all of those pathetic humans out there are ours to gorge on. Ours to turn as we please and ours to do with what we want." He had fed into and was feeding this pack of lycan's into Emon's own delusions of grandeur. "Whatever play Emon has to try and take over you know will only end in bloodshed…and it wouldn't be the humans." I tell him.

Usagi would ensure of it as we all would. Thing is he couldn't be this unknowing of how things would really go. "You know what the humans would do if word got out that we each existed. That we were real and NOT just mythical beasts of the night." I began, "That the monsters that they were raised to see us as are real." It was an unfortunate truth. People are afraid of what they don't understand.

"They would hunt us down, all of us." I stressed wanting to make it clear we were both on the same side on the matter, "You have to know that this is their world for a good reason. Our elder had a reason to try and tell Emon this." I tried on this one note to reach him. To end the fighting, "You know…" he looked at me pointedly, "There are many more lycan's out there than the vampires know of." That stopped me short as I wondered about them.

How many did we not know of out there? Were they a threat to society or us or were they like us trying to live as normally as possible while trying to prevent our own rogues or members of their species from becoming a threat to our way of life by becoming a danger to us or society by killing and becoming an exposure threat. "We will rule over the humans…it's our only choice for survival going forward." I narrowed my eyes at him.

"The hell is that supposed to mean?" I demanded of him, "You vampires and your fancy coven's as you enjoy your fake and real blood and your lavish decadent lifestyles…" he stood up as he indicated the coven we were inside of now and was beginning to transform again. His anger fueling him, "You think you're so much better than us…" the rage was building slowly. He was tapping into trigger memories to give him strength.

I did not know what they were but they were enough to fuel him forward as he didn't have that look in his eyes beforehand. One that spoke of pain and suffering, "Your kind forced us to live in the shadows…" I watched on as he kept forcing his transformation to take hold. His form was taking its sweet time as he had gotten pretty battered by our fighting causing his transformation to take time as I watched with horrified fascination.

His bones breaking and reforming into that of a lycan. It was sickening to watch in slow motion as he forced his transformation. I was tempted to kill him as he was now but his next words enraged myself as I fought to keep my wits about me and NOT let my anger control me and allow me to make a mistake, "Your no better than her and my only regret is that I will not live long enough to see her suffer by his hands before he kills HER!" he shouted at the end as he roared a massive one to life and came after me.

His rage fueling him now as he came at me with everything he had. His words though hit me. He knew in some form that he wasn't going to make it through this and was willing to die for the cause he believed in so much. "Emon has fed you fault delusions about what will happen if he were to succeed but I can guarantee you that it won't happen." I tell him, as he takes an angry swipe at me.

I jumped backwards just in time to avoid having my mid-section slashed into ribbons by his motion. I grab my own knives out and as he slashes at me I slash right back at him. We were in to close of quarters to use guns at the moment and the fight had definitely landed us both on the stairs going upwards. As he began to gain ground on me, now fully transformed into his lycan form I remarked, "But you were right on one matter."

He goes to hit me again and I just barely dodged it from slicing my stomach open, instead it just cut into my stomach a bit. When I landed I fought him off again only to find that I was backed up against the steps leading upstairs. I stupidly tripped down on them and cursed myself for not seeing that sooner, or rather backing up into them really, as it gave him the direct advantage over me now.

His paw like arm came crashing down. I narrowly avoided it making a dent in my face as dented the stairs even more than they already had been from the previous fight that had just been here, that much I could tell while I had been busy fighting him, as he tried to kill me once more. I couldn't see where my other knife went to that I had used before so I grabbed a new one from my form.

I managed to jam it into his right side and twist it just enough, hoping I was at least hitting a major organ within him. It was just enough to get him to lift up in the pain that he was in as I pushed away at his neck with my other hand. His face and saliva dripping was getting to close for comfort as he tried to bite at my neck like a snapping turtle. He went to break my hold against his neck.

It did break the hold, however, he only managed to move my arm a little bit leaving me just enough to shove my elbow into his neck as now his arm and mine were locked together in a small battle of our own. His trying to break my hold so that he could tear into my neck with his teeth and mine trying to hold him off from accomplishing just that. I briefly heard grunting from the left of me but couldn't look over for even a millisecond to see who it was without breaking my focus and giving him that few second edge.

His mouth was chomping away trying in vain to latch onto my neck as his long ass nails and fingers were digging deeply into my skin. His arm trying to dig into mine to get me to give in before he would. He had one large bare claw like foot digging into my leg to prevent me from getting leverage up on him to shove him off. The nails down there digging in creating further tiny bouts of pain to.

His other hand found the slash wound on my abs and decided to dig in within his nails on that wound to. The pain in my flesh was killing as much as the pain in my leg was. My other leg was trapped beneath him and I had NO leverage there. I pulled the blade out of his side since the pain form that barely did anything more than move him BUT it was enough that I needed for my next and last move.

I slammed it with all that I had left in me at the moment into his neck. All five inches of silver were now sitting inside of his throat. I felt his form weaken over me. His grip loosen on both ends and his chomping teeth finally started to loosen up to as I used the edge our elder gave me to force the blade to the other side of his neck, barely missing my own elbow and part of my arm that was holding him up now as his blood spilled out on top of me. I got coated in seconds as I watched the light begin to drain from his eyes.

"You were right…" there was a spark of confusion as I explained in the few seconds he had left, "That you would die before you saw it happen…cause it won't. I won't let it and neither will she." I told him as I watch the light fade completely from him. I almost felt bad for him…almost but not quite. I used my freed leg to shove him off of me as his now detransforming body lay on the broken stairs.

I breathed in and out heavily as I spat out any blood that was in my mouth as I saw Makoto with her own kills several feet away near another section of the coven. That's what the other grunting had been. It looked as torn up as the rest of the place was beginning to look. I saw the blood all over her as she did with me. Both of us breathing heavily from the strenuous nature of our fights as a separate.

She looked me up and down, a bit of admiration considering who was dead by my feet. "You good?" she asked, I wiped some blood from my face and knew there was more over the better part of half my front now from his neck. It had flowed out generously as I cut it open. I smelled like him now more than anything. "Yeah…you?" I asked as she pulled out a gun and aimed it at the head of the lycan that was still groaning, "Actually…" she pulled the trigger and the groaning stopped, "Not dead so yeah, I'll count that as a win."

I agreed with her on that one. As she put her gun away she asked, "You know where Usagi is?" I looked towards the basement and saw that it was closed again, "I need to get down there." I muttered as we both tried ran to it to figure out a way to get in there, "Soren can you see what's going on down there?" I asked into the com's, "Been trying to for a minute now." I frowned, "Why what's wrong?" I demanded, feeling weary now.

There was a pregnant pause that filled the air for a few moments, "Soren?" I demanded more sharply than intended but I was worried, "Emon tossed her into the camera system. The crash killed the feed down there." He tossed her?! That damned high? The very thought of it pissed me off. "What's worse is that her com isn't working down there but were trying to strengthen the signal for hers to get a better reception. It's just difficult with all the metal and stone." He admitted to me.

"If it helps she seemed to be holding her own down there pretty well." Jadeite said, "What? I said if it helps!" he defended on their end. "Just please work on that signal. We're going to try and get in through the door here on this side." I tell them, "Be careful the structure of that place from the satellite view is not looking good." He warned. "We have to get to her I don't care if this place falls." I tell them.

"You will if she's in it when it does." I was really beginning to get irritated by that Jadeite. "We will work on it at our end but we need you to still work on that signal." Makoto said trying to keep things calm. As it was my nerves were getting a bit frayed. I knew she could hold her own but with the camera's out how were we going to be able to see her unless Makoto and I got in ourselves? "And this is banking on if the com is even still in her ear, remember she was taking a beating for a sec – what?!" those words froze me over.

Even as I heard a small scuffle ensure over the rei cared not as it was hitting me. No camera and possibly no COM to hear with either. I was beginning to feel panic set it. This was NOT in the plan. I began to kick at the door with all that I had in those few seconds till an explosion nearby caught both Makoto and myself off guard. We both looked around for a moment as she looked to me and asked, "What in the hell was that?" problem was other than an explosion I had no idea and I just HOPED it wasn't where Usagi was.

Rei POV

I was fighting the others off pretty damn well. The fight began as I had to let the girl who let us in go though I would have preferred to kill the lycan where she stood. However, I was also a woman of my word and let her go. It was a good thing I did to otherwise I would have had a difficult time fighting. She had wiggled out just in time as a lycan came rushing at me. Had I tried to stop her I would have lost an arm. Thankfully I didn't and just ended up fighting for survival as more lycan's came pouring in.

I wondered where the sheer number of them came from till I briefly heard what was being said over the com's. It was then that I got tackled from behind into the kitchen area. I just barely gained purchase on my feet again when I then got grabbed and slammed into the side cabinets that I passed on my unceremonious slid on the way in. I barely had the chance to notice the door I came in from and the side door to my back right.

The fine dishes up on display came crashing down with me as I fell to the floor. I put my hands up to block the glass from entering my face. The lycan used this moment to grab me again this time to try and bite me. I deflected its move before it could sink its teeth into me and instead it tossed me against the old stove. The impact against metal wasn't the softest landing I'd had but not the hardest either.

In my anger I grabbed the over door, ripped it off its hinges with my strength and wacked the lycan with it. I think I shocked even it as I started to pound it with the door. The oven itself was now pulled out from the force of my pull as I stood up and repeatedly hit the beast with its now being dented in door. Classy move girl. Real classy…I thought to myself as I even used the side of it to hit the lycan in the neck.

It went to punch me when I used it as a shield. The first one worked as a defense but the second punch went straight through it as I barely dodged the hit as glass went into different directions behind me. I then used the broken in glass door to capture its now bloodied up arm and twist it making the lycan cry out in pain as I bent the door as far back as I could, trying to breaks its arm while still stuck in the door. The handle perfect to grip onto as I slammed my other arms elbow into its back from behind.

I only release the door handle from my grip when it went to go try and slam me into a wall with it. The lycan wound up throwing the door off its arm but not without cutting its arm to ribbons in the process, "You might want to get that looked at." I spat sarcastically. Happy with my work on it. This was the fourth lycan to take down and it seemed like there was more than what we previously knew about in here. I ducked its now slow moving arm and kicked at the back of its leg forcing it down as I knocked my elbow into the back of its neck now.

It swung around and used its other arm to smash me into the cabinet again only this time the lycan brought whole thing down on top of me. The weight of it pinning me temporarily in place as the lycan even stomped down on it with one foot in an attempt to crush me to death underneath it. Not that it was going to I was more resourceful than that but still it wasn't pleasant to be under it.

I reached out and grabbed a piece of broken dish and on one of the few seconds that he lycan released the stomp to back down again, I stabbed it in its sturdy foot with the broken dish. It howled like the lycan it was as I jammed it in deep into its foot, forcing the beast to crumble backwards as it was now unbalanced and give me a enough time to crawl out from under the broken cabinet.

"Asshole." I muttered as its foot bleed out. I threw the glass at it only for the lycan to dodge it and for it to get embedded in the tile wall behind it. "Damn." I muttered as it tried to grab at me again. I wasn't getting tossed around again. Instead I used its momentum with my own to vault me up and over it while grabbing a set of knives from my person and upon landing slashed out and hit the Achilles heel of both feet causing it to stumble terribly.

It fell to its knees and swiped out at me again as it still tried in vain to get to me. I backed up towards the stove and saw the gas line. It roared at me as I grabbed for the line only to get another lycan that came in after me. It grabbed at my neck and pinned me in place against the wall. I was losing breath but had been in jams similar before. I swung my feet up and angled my foot to jam the stiletto end of my boot into its neck.

It was struggling to still breath even with the heel in its neck before I pulled my boot free and grabbed the knife on me and grabbed it by the hair on its neck, now getting saturated by the blood and jammed the knife into its head right behind the eyes as it slumped forward onto me. I grunted in irritation as the dead lycan was now detransforming. Its form slowly weighing less and less as I pushed it off of me.

However, once I got it removed the other lycan got back up and attacked me. Its heels slowing it down but not stopping it as it tried to bite at me. "Wasn't really in the mood to neck." I struggled to get out as it grabbed onto me. Pinning against the tile wall my right arm that held the wet from blood blade. It was trying to force me to release it as I struggled to reach for the stove line in the back, the angle just to hard to get to.

Realizing I was to far away I relented and leaned forward as fast as I could to head slam the lycan. It went back from the force I put into it which hurt me a little bit to but I was able to get my boot in between and kick it in the face to shove it even further back. Only then was I able to break the hold on my arm to slash the knife at it which it caught the blade of the knife through its hand. It cried out from the pain but kept trying to hit at me.

I pushed the blade as far forward as I could till I pushed it at the lycan's chest. Noticing this it used its other arm to go to hit me. I lifted up my other foot up and slammed it into its wrist and pinned it to the stoves edge. We were now locked in a death grip that it didn't look like either of us would escape from. It started to try and nip at me again as I knew I had to get out of this jam and kill it.

I looked up at the stove and saw that the button to click it on was also next to my boot. I hit the rotating dial on it and the flame popped up. It was hot enough for the hand pinned near it to singe its hand forcing it to back off. Strange what a little bit of fire could do to ones extremities. I smirked as I then kick it further away this time and got up. I then took the few seconds that I had to slam its head against the metal of the stove a few times before pulling it back and slamming it head first into the oven portion.

The fire went out as I ripped away at the gas line behind. I was initially thinking just to stab it in the head but then I saw the other lycan's outside the kitchen door and knew it would only be a matter of time like the last one before another would come in here to help its comrade out and I couldn't have that. At least if a few came I could take care of a few birds with one stone. The problem was I didn't have a lighter on me. I checked my person but nothing. That's when I saw the other lycan's notice me.

Three of them to be precise and noticing me with two of their comrades down for the count around me. "You kidding me?" I muttered as they prepared to descend upon me. I tore away at the kitchen drawers looking for anything to ignite when I saw a lighter with very little fluid left in it fall to the floor of the kitchen. The drawer I pulled out dropping it as I yanked. I saw the lycan's coming in and remarked, "What is it with me and exploding kitchens?!" I hit the lighter ignite button.

It doesn't initially ignite which makes me become slight frantic as the lycan's rush me. "Now is NOT the time for a dramatic movie moment!" I snap as it finally caught fire. I toss the lighter towards the open gas line as it continues to hiss out the aroma of its odor. I use the stoves edge as a boost as I blur shove and leap my ass as fast out of the kitchens side door as possible. The lycan's just barely miss me as I leap out of the way.

In fact I was pretty sure I got cut in the process as the lycan tried to claw at me as it jumped for me as well. The fire ignited and sent a very large boom of an explosive rippling through the area I was in. the concussive blast would have knocked out any ordinary human and left them out of it for a few moments. Me…I got back up, now blown away a bit to by an extra several feet and in the dining room area and dusting myself off.

I looked back at the kitchen as its still on fire pretty heavily so but all the lycan's that were in there were now dead and burnt up. The head of the one in the oven was blackened it was so chard up. "lovely." I muttered. I rose a brow to the chard lycan remains inside and walked forward just a little bit seeing the extent of the damage I had done to the inside of the small time old ass kitchen.

The flames I now saw were getting worse. They were even coming out of said kitchen and starting to attack the rest of the area. I watched as they began to lick at the ceiling and the frame work of the kitchen going into the dining room. "Well…" I looked around making sure I wouldn't get ambushed, "Another kitchen bites the dust." And took off. I needed to see if anyone else needed help.

I managed to find Makoto and Minako as they were making their own kills, "Where the hell is Usagi?" I asked as Mamoru seemed to be kicking a dead man in the gut. Letting some anger out I presumed, "That the leader?" I asked him. He looked at me with rage in his features and a hint of worry beneath their depths, "Formerly. Now deceased." He commented. I nodded as the coven itself seemed to be groaning as if in pain.

"That isn't creepy at all." Makoto muttered. The smoke started to billow out from the kitchen area as the smell of burning flesh followed it, "That's not good." Minako commented as the flames were now beginning to lick at the surrounding parts of the coven's insides. Catching onto the curtains and anything else that could be used as kindle. There were very few of our own soldier's dead and most of them being lycan deaths.

"Many of the lycan's that tried to get out were taken down by our guys outside." Minako mentioned. It was only a few moments later when more groaning was heard, "Was that the coven or someone else in here that were not aware of?" Makoto asked. I listened around and heard very few heart beats and none were upstairs so that only left one possible option, "It's the coven." I looked from where the fire started and frowned.

"It's from the fire." Makoto looked at me, "How did that happen anyways?" she asked. I looked at them all, "Not my fault, I got pinned in there." I defended. There was several lycan's I had to do it. "So you blew up the kitchen? Again?" Minako demanded, stunned herself. I went to yell back at her when the fire caught on to another portion of the living room area and ate it up pretty damned fast.

"The fire is spreading like this place is made of matches!" Minako chimed in as I saw a few lycan that were left running out the back. I spoke in to the com, "Team send a few out back we have some lycan using the back door entrance to escape." It was when one of them asked, "Where's Usagi?" that I didn't know what to say. I turned around and looked to the others as they didn't know what to say either.

I then looked to a struggling with himself Mamoru as he was trying to figure something out, "We need to get to her." He seemed ignorant to what was going on. I needed to get his attention before the others noticed and began to falter from it themselves or saw doubt within him as their leaders second in command, "Mamoru." I got his attention as he realized he was the next in line really to give orders.

Especially since Usagi was unable to direct anyone considering where she was at and the lack of communication available to her right now. I disliked that they wouldn't really listen to me, but I wasn't second in command here. He was and he needed to act like it. He nodded, "Listen up, Usagi is dealing with Emon right now, so until communications are back up where she's at follow my lead." They listened as did we.

"I want at least three of you to go around back and stop the lycan's from escaping. At the very least tag them to keep track of them. The way the leader was talking is there are more lycan's than we are aware of out there. We need to see if the lycan's that attempt to escape or actually escape end up going to them. If so, we need to be able to identify and track them as we always do." He ordered. Three took off with a nod without even blinking and disappeared into the night, blurring as the vampires they were.

If I didn't have a thing for the blonde vampire Jadeite back at the coven, I'd have seen more of what Usagi saw in him. His demanding side was a bit of something I liked. "I want you two to go up and guard the main points up there. If there are more lycan's that come out of hiding we need to see if they can be tracked as well." Two more guards left out. he turned to us, "You three I need to stay here with me to keep guard if Naoyuki comes out."

His words of the elder left us determined as did his purposeful leave out of Usagi and Emon, "Usagi has Emon and won't let him out unless its in death." He finished. "You heard the man." I stated and two guards take off towards the front parts as asked. More of the coven's interior started to fall on the inside. It was getting incredibly thick with smoke even a bit much for us to handle to be truthful.

Humans at this rate would be either dying from the heat or from the smoke intoxication it was getting that bad. We might still be standing but it wouldn't be for long. We were not immune to getting killed we were just much more resilient to it was all. "When Emon built this place up, he must have not figured or counted on the fact that the interior couldn't take the damage from a large-scale fight like ours." Minako surveyed. "Or that we'd take the fight to them and cause the damage to begin with." Makoto began.

That's when Makoto seem to make a startling discovery, "Without the right efforts and materials this place will go down and fast." It was as if it was waiting to be acknowledged as several wooden beam structures started to come down. I barely dodged one as the place groaned louder and even the flames could be heard getting louder. The crackling and the heat rising in the place drastically as we were beginning to get corner in the foyer.

"We need to get out of here." Minako chimed in as we all began to back out through the front doors. The lycans bodies littered the area as we had to jump through the piles of them as we began to make our way out the front door. We barely make it there when another large piece of wood falls then what looked to be a railing from upstairs fell to. "The fire is spreading guys we need to bail now." Makoto yelled.

Our voices needing to rise to get over the loud sounds of the fire spreading and the wood that was being burned. "You guys go I'll find Usagi. She's in the basement I just need to get to her." Mamoru spoke up ready to leave for her. I grasped onto his arm, "Are you nuts you need to come with us." I told him and started to drag him along. However he was much stronger than before and it stunned me.

He broke my hold from him in seconds, "I'm NOT leaving her!" he was incredibly fierce and protective of her. He actually had me wanting to gulp at how fearsome he appeared to me right now. Here it was, me older than him and yet he struck fear in me at how much he wanted to stay and protect Usagi. It also made me a tad envious that she had someone so willing to put their own lives at risk just to ensure she was safe that she meant that much to him that he didn't want to be without her in his life.

Granted friends do that to but he so badly didn't want anything to happen to her that he was striking fear in an older vampire. Then I saw the fear in his eyes near the anger in them. He didn't want to be without her. He couldn't be without her. We all knew he loved her, and she loved him, but it seemed this love was much more intense than perhaps any of us really thought it was at the end.

The love in those depths for her that I saw made my heart cry out for her as well. Not just as a friend but as a sister. Before I could say anything more Minako grasped onto his shoulder tightly and snapped, "Mamoru!" it got his attention as he shifted his angry and slightly fearful eyes towards her, "She's a big girl and can handle herself and she's been doing it since before you were born." True on that one, "But if we don't leave now we won't be able to save her if she is already out. That's not the only way out of the basement remember?"

With all of us insisting on it we managed to convince him though not thoroughly to leave the insides of the coven. I was sure she'd gotten out somehow. Usagi was nothing if not incredibly resourceful. When we managed to get outside Mamoru was looking around for her frantically, his every action that of a worried husband rather than a worried passing boyfriend. His worry was beginning to mount to.

His eyes seemed to scan every inch available to him, "USAGI!" he yelled looking for her. his voice loud yet no louder than the fire that had taken over the coven. It was much louder as it was raging on beyond control. I suddenly felt that perhaps I should have in hindsight done something to stop it…yet even with an endless life one cannot play it in reverse. Two of our guards were out here, "The lycan's have been cleared out and those that got away were tagged." They reported to him.

I truly did feel bad for him. They were looking to him for more orders as he was her second in command yet he was trying to AVOID having a mental melt down that she wasn't out here safe and sound with Emon's head in her hands. I had a horrible sinking feeling that I knew EXACTLY where she still was and he wasn't going to like it. I went to speak when he said, "Good…Soren anything yet?" he demanded harshly.

I felt bad for Soren at this point but even he knew how much Mamoru and Usagi loved each other. "Sorry but the signal strength began to weaken after the fire started." He looked to me trying NOT to be upset yet I knew he held a great deal of anger in him towards me right now. I knew I did what I had to do as he did too, but it didn't take away from the factor that the fire that I started was consuming the coven and our leader was still inside of it.

Part of me was fearful on what he would do IF something did truly happen to her on the inside and it was my fault. Even if the fire started was necessary at the time it was causing the structure to lose its final leg of stability and bring it down to the ground, "However since it also weakened some of the structure inside the coven the signal is getting back inside and give us strength to get her com working again. There we go." we heard him typing as he then said, "The thing is…" he paused giving us concern.

"What?" Mamoru asked. It was then that the entrance way to get in crumbled inwards preventing anyone that wasn't fire proof from getting back inside. It wasn't even Soren that answered it was Jadeite, "Just tell him." he sounded like someone hit him over there at some point, "What gravity is a bitch and last we knew she was at the fucking bottom." His words sparked the images of what we all knew deep down inside but DIDN'T want to voice out. She was in the basement of a wood, brick and stone coven that would cave in before it would crumble outwards.

His implications of her being buried alive, if she was lucky, or being crushed to death, more than likely, with Emon down there with her made Mamoru so mad that his eyes looked like they went black with rage. His hands were griping so tightly that his fists were losing their color. He was seething with his anger to the point where we all unconsciously backed up a step at the amount of rage we saw simmering in those depths of his.

I looked over at Minako and Makoto as we each looked wearily at one another before looking at him. He was barely containing his own rage at the predicament we were in and here we were the ones that convinced him to leave the coven and that she was OUTSIDE. I wondered what would cause him to finally snap and who would pay the price at this point. I had a sinking feeling on it till static was heard through the com's. It ignited a spark of hope in everyone that heard it and Usagi's voice came over with one word, "Mamoru?!"

Usagi POV

I had had enough of getting my face smashed into the walls, well my whole body to be exact as I was feeling the toll my body was taking on the fight. The many bruises, near breaks, the cracks to my ribs, the fact that he nearly did kill me with a sword a few times even though I had nearly done the same didn't bode well for either of us. Both swords eventually got embedded into the walls around us.

Neither were willing right yet to risk turning out backs on the other long enough to go and retrieve them. I had to admit fighting my father figures last blood related child that wanted me dead with a hate filled passion wasn't even close to easy. I had been in rough fights before, several over the centuries, but none encompassed how seriously pissed off I was or how badly hurt I was getting in this one.

There was a reason why Chikao made it a stressful point that this fight would be difficult and worse than any before it. Sure my fight with Yamamoro was bad being who he was and how old he was but this was worse in its own way. I barely dodged another hit as my nose was still bleeding from the hit I took to it earlier. His fist with the sword in his palm before I knocked it away did its damage to me just as I hit him hard enough with mine to knock some real sense into him on how good I was till he did the same.

He had to admit that I was good now and that I wasn't going away so easily as he thought I would. Emon knew my fighting style to differing degrees and it gave him a huge advantage that I DIDN'T have over him. I knew his psychology well but that wasn't a move I could physically make against him. We were both in the fight of our lives and we both now knew it. I hadn't wanted to admit it before that I could go out but I had to now and so did he. Both of us were exhausting the other making it that much more difficult to continue fighting.

Only one of us would be making it out of this coven alive and he was finally aware of that. Of course he knew that but now he realized that I wasn't going down unless he put me down and while he had no problem with that he now realized what a challenge that was going to be for him. I narrowly avoided getting kicked in the gut as I instead elbowed him in the face. His nose busted open as blood came pouring out.

My own had a similar spray incident not to long ago. I shoved mine back into place for it to heal and by now the bone had barely reformed back in place. I was thankful to the new blood in me for that one or else that would have taken hours. Once I elbowed him I spun as fast as I could in the short amount of space I needed and delivered another blow to the back of his head as he met the concrete.

I kicked him in the gut as hard as I could and sent him into the brick wall near the other side. The lesser broken down side that is. I walked up to it as he slowly rose back up. Both of us feeling the hits of the other and losing energy from it. He was feeling it to and both of us knew it. He just didn't want to accept it. "You know this is ridiculous right?" he asked of me. I narrowed my eyes at him and found even THAT act to be slightly painful.

I deducted that it was from having been hit in the face so much that even the slightest muscle movements were beginning to protest it. "What the fact that you still think your right in this or the fact that you think your going to win this?" I retorted back. He smiled, "No cause I am right and you will die a painful death." I rolled my eyes at the notion, "Then please do share with me what is so ridiculous." I egged him on.

"What's ridiculous is the fact that you hold love and feelings of morality for others. It puts you at a severe disadvantage. Yet you believe in it." He smiled. He made my blood boil on the inside and I felt a slight feeling building up within me. "Actually…" I smiled back at him making him lose his smile just a bit, "It just gives me more power and reason to fight harder!" not liking that he comes at me full force as I barely catch it and use the momentum and his own weight to fling him up hard enough over my shoulder and fast enough to throw him into a piece of rebar that is sticking out from the upper portion of the broken wall.

His scream of agony and pain as he hangs from it gives me a tinge of satisfaction especially considering who he at one point, because of his own malicious attacks, even if it wasn't him personally, caused on my mate. "Painful isn't it?" I mock asked as compressed his lips together realizing the vindicated justice of that particular move and what it meant to me. So when his eyes flashed dangerously towards me he remarked, "And if history is proven correct…" he pulls himself off of the rebar and drops down to the ground.

I was momentarily stunned by this till he body slams me into the stairs nearby making me groan from the pain of it. He grips me by the fabric on my chest and states as if in mocking disapproval of my views and who I am, "Then morality never truly wins…" I try to break his hold, but he won't budge. "And love doesn't triumph over evil…because there is no evil or good, there's just the powerful and the weak…and you my dear are WEAK!" I slam my face as hard as I can into his as our forehead clash hard against the other.

He backs up from the shocking force as I see my com and dive for it as I had lost it a bit earlier in the fight. I manage to grab it as he tries to stop the bought of bleeding so he can talk without blood gushing. I shove it back into my ear as I hear static in the receiving end. I take a shot, "Mamoru?!" its his relief and fearful filled, "Usagi?!" that gives me relief that I needed to hear in the moment.

I feel motivated once more and I knew that while some might see it foolish to feel so motivated by hearing someone say your name but when that person means as much to you as Mamoru does to me then that person can understand just how much I know I need to do what needs to be done next. Emon needs to die so that I can get the hell out of this hell hole and see the man I love again. I need to.

I just hadn't anticipated one thing though. The one thing I should have seen coming. The one thing that I didn't see coming at all. It was my own fault really. I was so focused on Emon I didn't think about Naoyuki being down here yet I should have. My slight error in this might possibly lead to my downfall. He had taken Emon's sword as I saw mine in the distance, and slashed at my back with it.

I couldn't help the cry of pain that came with the slice as I felt the wetness of my own blood coat my clothing and even seep its way into the straps on me. Mamoru must have heard my reaction to it as I hear his voice now panicked, "Usagi?!" I want to reassure him right away that I'm fine, but I need a moment to collect myself. Thent hat odd build up I felt before comes to the forefront and I feel my own body reacting to it as I say, "See you on the outside, I've got a thorn to take care of…" the final portion of this battle is about to begin.