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A vampires forbidden love: the lies that bind us ch.21

Mamoru POV

I had only heard her voice for a split few moments and already it was like the clamp that surrounded my heart, that I hadn't even realized attached itself to that beating organ of mine fell away. I actually began to feel light headed with how relieved I was. The anger towards Rei faded away as I was just glad to hear my loves voice. When I had heard Jadeites words and they made me feel like he was playing the devil's advocate by voicing the concern we all thought on but didn't want to verbalize.

So when I heard her voice I felt breath coming back to my body. I hadn't even realized I was holding it in till I heard her sweet voice say my name. The feelings that woman could evoke with just my name on her lips. Crackly as it was I heard her clear as day and it made my day to hear her alive and well. I didn't hear any distress only her voice calling out to mine as I felt myself loose the tension in my body slowly but I did.

I couldn't help but speak her name needing to hear that she was okay, I didn't even care about Emon at that point anymore other than if he were still a threat to her or not. I saw the startled but happy looks on the girl's faces as they, especially Rei, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. I know I shouldn't place blame on her considering we were all in this together but part of me wanted to do so. If it weren't for her blowing up yet another kitchen it wouldn't have destabilized the structure as it did.

However, I knew in the end the coven was going to fall regardless if it was solely on Rei or not, Usagi wouldn't stand to allow it to be a safe haven to our enemies. She'd rather it burn to the ground than to let it stand…even if it was to save her. That woman scared me to death sometimes but I loved her to no end. I also felt however like I'd messed up by NOT asking her to marry me and once more I didn't have the ring on me.

I should have asked. She should be wearing it now, proudly on her ring finger for all those to see it, that beautiful diamond ring I procured for her. I regretted not having done so and hoped feverishly that she would make it out so I could ask her to marry me. I would make sure to do so the first chance I got. First though I wanted to get her out of here and back to our coven safely. I couldn't go on without her as my wife anymore.

I would do everything within my power to make that happen. I wouldn't falter when I asked nor would I let anything else get in the way of it. It was only after a few seconds that I heard a deep intake of breath from her. A painful one at that. I strained my hearing for it but I definitely heard her breathing take a hit as her heart on the other side sped up a bit as if something massively painful had happened to her.

My worry rose up again. The fear that perhaps by hearing me she'd been distracted and had been unable to see an attack coming struck me cold. The very notion made my throat clench up in horror of the possible what ifs that littered themselves across my imagination. I called her name out again, this time in blind worry as I cursed myself for doing it again. What if THAT one had distracted her to? I demanded of myself. The girls I knew had no idea of the internal struggle I had going on in my mind.

I was thankful for that as I didn't need them to second guess me here. Their leader was at the bottom of that hell hole that was still burning in a rage over top of her. The wood pieces caving in as the stone was just barely still standing. I wanted to go back in, to help her but the fires were to fiercely intense to get even near it. I tried getting close, started to run for it till the fires got intense enough to burn the skin from my hands.

I heard her words of handling a thorn and was unsure if she meant more than one or just one and that's when it occurred to me. Like a brick hitting me in the head I stopped and remembered the one other vampire that was presumed to be in there…Naoyuki. My heart beat that much faster wanting to get inside, to save her. The fires were too intense though. I felt my skin burning and the stink of my flesh sizzling was enough to enforce Minako and Makoto to pull me back from it, "The hell are you doing?" Makoto demanded.

"I have to get to her!" it was all I could think about right now, "Those fires are way too intense even for one of us." She stamped in front of me. I tried to shrug her off but then Rei came up to me, "I know you want to make sure she's okay but from how she sounded on the com's she is and from what I know of her she's giving Emon hell. Just have faith in her, cause you're not going to be able to do much if your burnt to a crispy critter." She warned. I wanted to yell at her for the fire but knew it was futile.

She was right, I just hated to feel helpless. I heard more crackling and looked up. The balcony on one of the sides caught fire and began to burn but it hadn't yet reached the biggest balcony up top just yet. It was hard to see up there but not impossible. I tried to communicate back to Usagi to tell her about the balcony, that it wasn't as badly damaged just yet but the com system didn't seem to respond for hers.

I looked down to find that the burns had already healed up as my new healing factors took care of it. My clothes were thankfully dark enough to hide the majority of it from the rest of the people here. I wanted so badly to go in but Rei was right and I couldn't even get close. The flames were to much and the heat was just rising and expanding outward. I could only hope that since the basement was more stone than wood that she was relatively unharmed by the heat or anything related to it.

"Sorry Mamoru, we have to boost the signal again." Soren stated as I heard typing on his end, "That's if the com is still on her." I nearly pierced my own skin with my short nails as they dug into my palm at Jadeites words, "Jadeite, not the time." I snapped at him, "Sorry but we have to be realistic here and the reality is she's in the mouth of hell right now." I was so going to punch him when we got back safely. Please Usa…

Usagi POV

My hair was grabbed from behind, and if there was one thing I HATED was a hair puller. It was one thing to have someone you love and care about give a little tug in bed during a pleasing act, when Mamoru did it I enjoyed every aspect of it, but this wasn't even CLOSE to that! It was too reminiscent of a chick fight in my opinion and I don't do chick fights. It was a cheap cope out if you ask me.

Neither Rei nor Minako that I knew of even used them. It was as low down as fish hooking as a fighting move. I settled it at kicking a guy in the balls. That was enough for me. Plus it was funny to watch. Throw a punch I'll take it, kick me I'll take it, I'll kick your ass but I'll take it as an honorable fighting move to make. You grab my hair, bitch please I will cancel your ass out for such a bogus move.

I instinctively went to grab my hair out of the hold when the glimmer of a knife appeared seconds before I barely stopped it from entering my neck. My arm luckily on instinct as well came out and blocked it. He tried to stab me in the neck with the very long thick blade. He was probably aiming for my throat but didn't count on me being able still to stop his motions as I only just caught it.

I hadn't counted on him being down here when Emon and I started to fight to be honest. I hadn't seen him at all nor had I heard or sensed his presence. I could only figure that he had remained hidden and was watching like a demented dutiful father figure as his 'in a sense prodigal son' beat the holy hell out of me till he decided to join in himself. Which puzzled me to no end on till I looked over at Emon.

Why wait till now to try and kill me…unless…as I looked over and saw Emon standing there he gave for the briefest of moments a glimmer into how his was doing bodily. He was getting beaten down. He was beginning to lose the fight he kept bragging he was going to kill me at and he knew it. That's when it struck me. Naoyuki saw it to, he saw that Emon was faltering that tiny little bit and came out to HELP him!

Otherwise why wait till now unless he saw a tiny moment of weakness and couldn't HELP the urge to jump in to aid him. It gave me the renewed strength I needed to push that much harder in this fight to beat him. To beat them both. I could still however feel the tip of the blade grazing my throat, it was that close. My arm was still blocking his wrist as he tried with his might to force the blade closer to my throat.

The tip sliding like a lovers caress against my skin, teasing it gently as the minor pain only served to remind me how fucking close he was to shoving the six inches of steel into my need for breath. My need for life. His breath at my ear as his lips close enough to touch my ear lobe, "You are no match for me even with the blood that runs through you. You cannot best us both." Naoyuki's words were of hate as his hand was trying that much harder to make the blade go deeper than it already was.

I reached behind with my other hand as I focus hard on the blade to avoid dying right now. It was too damned close for comfort and that sick fuck Emon was watching with mute satisfaction at the act. Something told me his need to see me die even if it wasn't by his hands was alright by him as long as I was dead. That would be his downfall cause right now he was to close to kick away but far enough that if he had a knife on him he could throw it and do serious if not life altering damage to me.

Yet his sick and twisted needs were getting in the way of it and giving me a chance. I had been in sticky situations before but not against such strong foes. Suddenly I wished I were facing a dozen lycan's compared to two such powerful vampires. One of which was an elder that had been around the time that my own elder existed as Emon was growing up. Naoyuki was incredibly strong to be honest and dare I say it possibly stronger if not stronger than Emon. And that was saying something considering Emon was the son of one of our oldest elders.

But thinking on it their strengths and weaknesses differed on both mental and physical levels. I mean both hated me but for different and similar reasons. Yes I killed Damon and yes they both hated me for it but Emon and Naoyuki differed after that. Emon wanted me dead for vengeance and to get rid of me to kill the rest of those who were against him in the covens so he could slowly take over whereas Naoyuki, while he hated me it wasn't on as strong of a level as Emon's was, he was more based on his care for Emon.

The son he secretly taught negatively behind our elders back to be the monster he is today. He was fighting in a sense for his son and Emon was fighting his final battle to claim that 'throne' as some would call it over who was going to win and take over. Both were physically stronger than me but only Emon had the training in warfare as I did. Naoyuki had spent more of his last several centuries as an elder and DIDN'T participate in battles.

He was older but not as skilled at that is where I could hurt him at. With that figured out in the few moments that I had I looked on to Emon. He hadn't caught on yet….good. I managed to grasp onto something on Naoyuki's person. I avoided seeming frantic as I found the handle of a sheathed knife on him. I grabbed at it, pulled and jammed it into his leg as he said, "Finish her!" before shoving me away from his person. The knife coming with me as I went forward. Tearing more at his flesh.

I nearly fell to the ground but was glad I was no longer being held captive in his grasp. I breathed heavily as I faced off against Emon, making sure to keep the low down elder in my cross hairs as I made sure to see them both as targets. Naoyuki was a dead man for that little stunt. I whipped the newly acquired blade in my hands as Emon grabbed his own blade and we went after the other with them. It was a deadly knife fight as we used close quarters combat tricks to try and get the other to wane.

I leapt at Emon as he tried to flip me up and over his shoulder as I had done him last time, but as I knew this trick well I let go before he could do the full flip on me and tucked my legs under me before kicking out and kicking him in the back forcing him forward and forcing him to collide with Naoyuki. Granted I landed on my back but I flipped myself back up and Naoyuki shoved him towards to fight.

Having had enough of this as Emon aimed an essentially boorish maneuver at me by trying to grapple me from up top. It was a move of more desperation than actual effort of thought. I ducked the move as he flew over me. Hitting on my knees hard as I watch him barrel over me in a 'what the fuck just happened?' moment, his expression priceless as I was nearly tempted to wink at him in a cocky manner before vaulting myself up and stab Naoyuki's own knife into his own chest.

I land with full force on top of him as he stumbled back onto his own back hard. He looked at me wide eyed with a tiny hint of astonishment. Complete shock took him over before he grabbed me by my neck and threw me hard enough from him that I now hit the brick wall that was nearly across the basement. I could smell the burning stench of wood as this coven I smelt was now burning down to the ground and here I was with two powerful vampires at the fucking bottom of it all. "Great." I muttered.

However my damage was done. I dropped down and watch as he, with a pained expression on his face, pulls the knife out and looks to me with shock. I honestly couldn't tell if there was a tinge of apologetic pride in there that, me the so called vampire 'whore' as he deemed me was able to get such a shot in on him or that he almost died because of a shot I saw and took. I think he was so shocked by it that he let his guard falter down enough to let me see that moment even if only briefly.

Cause as it was seconds later the shock from my hit was wearing off of him. Clearly I had missed since he was able to pull it out and didn't die but considering how stunned and for a brief moment, how scared he was I knew I had nearly killed him. I nearly had his heart and he knew it. He looked at me with a vengeful hatred as he vamped out himself and for a brief flickering moment I thought to myself…I think I poked the bear.

He jumps at me and as strong as I know he is he's to fast to for me to fully stop as he catches me before I can dodge him. My throat in his hands he tries to squeeze my head off it feels like. I feel my throat tightening from the hold he has. His anger at my nearly killing him giving him ample energy to channel into his rage. I can feel my larynx begin to crush under the force and even with the boost of the blood because of all the previous extensive fighting with Emon I'm much weaker than usual.

If I didn't figure something out and soon I was going to die by his hands. I saw the cold and angered look on his face. He wouldn't stand to let me live if he could help it. I had to do something. That's when I see an opening. Its small but I see it. He's so focused on my neck that he leaves his chest wound open for attack and attack I do. I latch on with my hand as both of my hands had been used to prevent him from cutting off my oxygen completely, and dig in with my right hand as deeply and painfully as I can.

I feel my fingers going into the wound as he cries out in pain from it. I know I begin to feel something akin to organ when he then tosses me aside before I can dig deep enough to reach his heart but I was close. I could nearly feel the small pulsing waves beating against my fingers before he tossed me. I gasped for breath as he shot me an enraged look of hate that I once more got close enough to kill him…twice.

"To close for comfort huh?" I mocked him, gasping for breath still. I fought the wave of dizziness that threatened to consume me and made sure to take deep breaths in to allow my body to revitalize. "Would you kill this bitch already!" he snapped at Emon as I looked over to find him getting up himself. Apparently when I dodged his attack he ended up hitting the stone wall and was dazed for a few moments. I wish Naoyuki hadn't been here, I might have been able to kill Emon then.

On second thought though had he not been there who knows what would have happened. He got up however and sensing something he spoke only a few words to him in an ancient language even I had never learned. Latin. I knew a variety of languages, most of which I used but Latin was dead language and rarely spoken these days. It irked me that they communicated something in this language. Initially Naoyuki declined but eventually nodded and remarked, "Till next time." Before taking off.

It pissed me off to no end that he was getting away as I couldn't stop an elder right when I had to kill the son of my elder at the same time. "This way now no matter what happens here he will succeed our plans." Emon tells me. "No he will be stopped." I assure him then touch the com in my ear, "Guys I don't know if you can hear me but Naoyuki is headed your way." I say as Emon comes at me once more.

Mamoru POV

It was Rei who first alerted us to the danger that came out of the fire. He shot out like a shadow in the dark, or true to form like a bat out of hell from the fiery wreck. From where there was an exit in there was beyond me, but it didn't change the fact that she spotted him or that he was now out. He was so fast I finally got where that term must have come from cause damn that was a fast as hell exit.

Rei barely caught sight of him herself, I myself saw a wisp of something but barely anything he was that fast. Must be from being an elder for so longer. I think the only reason why we even saw him because he was somehow slowed down. It piqued my curiosity on why he was though and I became hopeful once more. Seeing him exit though made me wonder what the hell had happened to cause him to run for his life and I HOPED it meant that Usagi was beating Emon and he took of out of fear himself.

I saw near his direct that the sky was starting to look a tinge bit orange and red in hue. Signs that the first rays of sun would be coming up soon. It made me more inclined to risk being burned to death just to get closer to Usagi. If I was going to go out I wanted it to be as close to her as possible. "You guys don't have much longer out there. The sun will be up soon." Soren warned, unaware of what or rather whom we had just spotted.

"Give us a sec we don't have time to worry about that. Have someone to deal with." I told him as Rei took off after Naoyuki first being the closest to him. He saw her and us and his condemning looks were filled with disgust and dirt towards us. Clearly he thought himself better than all of us put together. I had a strange sinking feeling when he was a human all those centuries ago that he was one of those wealthy land owner types that tormented his workers for sport.

"Such maggots." He deflected two of Rei's swings without barely even touching her before grabbing her by the face and tossing her like a baseball into the fiery inferno. It left a very bloodied part of his chest exposed after he tossed her. It was trying to heal but the depth of it from where I was running towards told me it was too deep to heal in a few minutes. Somehow I knew, I just KNEW it HAD to be from Usagi. The thought made me smile. She sent an ELDER of all vampires running for the hills in fear.

Pride shot through me along with hope that she was winning the fight down below. Rei's less than effective technique made me curious another thing. It made me wonder how the hell Usagi managed to make that wound on his chest cause I knew I just KNEW she did. However the way he tossed Rei away showed me a true testament to how strong he was when she landed in the damned fire of the coven.

Her cries of pain spurred me on as I blurred to go get her out before she burned to death alive and that was a death I wouldn't wish upon her. It was something I knew Usagi would do for her in a second if she could. I heard gun fire with the guards trying to take him down as I barely managed to pull her to safety without getting severely burned myself. The heat of the inferno was getting intense enough to weaken the metal around the coven.

Not good. By the time I finally got her out her hair was nearly singed off towards the scalp as her burn wounds were already healing but not completely. She appeared as if she were a fourth degree burn victim in the ICU but was healing decently enough to grant me the time to see where Naoyuki had run off to. He was currently shoving the guards out of the way and beating on them pretty easily. They were combat proficient, but he was much stronger than them. I knew I had to help them. However I could also smell the scent of her burnt flesh.

"Go I'll be fine." She shoved me off to go help fight him. I watched as I ran to help out. Makoto kicks Naoyuki in the gut when he fends off attacks from the guards as he spouts off words of anger towards them. He stumbles back but barely. She then kicks him in the side before she back hands him across the face. He looks back at her like 'did you just backhand ME?' seeing this she spins a kick at him once hitting him in the face but the second kick he counters.

He moved forward forcing her leg to loop around his shoulder then flips her over his shoulder and uses it to toss her like a rag doll towards the downed guards. An image of a bowling ball hitting a bunch of pins came to mind as I saw that. She tried to kick out at his legs, but he moved far enough away to avoid the kick, "Pathetic vampire trash." He muttered as he kicked at her instead, hitting her in the face.

Minako tries herself, nailing him with her knee in his gut after he flipped and tossed Makoto away. The guards I see prep the vervain weapon for him as Naoyuki is officially on the ropes. I needed to work to keep him on the ropes so that they could inject him with enough to slow him down for a take down. A team effort if you will. Minako gets two more hits on him as I round up on them blurring as I can since I'm already having lost some steam from my own earlier fight with the lycan leader.

She manages to gain for a split second the upper hand as she grabs onto his shoulders and swings her upper body up and around using her legs to wrap around his neck in the front before locking them there. She starts slamming her elbows down hard upon his head as another guard tries to come up and jab him with the vervain as he sees the opportunity with her blocking his view. She gets two to three good hits in just as I get up there.

His one hand finally finds its way around her body, reaches up and grabs at her neck forcing her to lose power over him as he tries to squeeze the life from her. The guard goes to jam the vervain only to get stopped by Naoyuki. I was in disbelief over what I was seeing till the guard fell since I couldn't see that particular view point. The vervain falling from his now lifeless hands as Minako I could barely tell watched his body fall.

Naoyuki looked at me with distain once I reached them, "Never leave yourself wide open for an attack. Especially against an elder such as myself. I could snap your neck in a heartbeat." I looked down to the guard and back up at him as he aimed to crush her neck. It was when he pulled her in closer that I heard his next words, "Neither of you will be anything more than someone's whore."

She used the last of her energy before he would have crushed her wind pipe to kick at him hard in the face as I dove for the vervain. The move lost her, her own advantage but freed her from his wrath on her neck. Grabbing it I hear her cry out in pain. I look over to see him dislocating her shoulder and kicking her away from him. she clutched at it in pain. "And what are you going to do…boy?" he asked.

I refrained from gulping at his slightly towering form and stated, "Something." I know it wasn't much in the way of comeback lines but I wasn't really aiming for something deep or original but just something to give him pause. He did look at me oddly though, "Tell me, what is it about that little bitch that makes you all so willing to die for her?" he asked, "That bitch has a name." I shot back. "Ah yes, Usagi. The preferred whore of the coven." His voice was that of disgust and revulsion and I hated it.

"The way you talk you'd think she had a choice in the matter. She didn't. but that doesn't matter to you, does it." I near questioned but we both knew it wasn't one to be answered, "Your right it doesn't…however her position now will be over with soon enough. Once Emon - " I cut him off, "Emon wont do shit!" I shouted. "We both know that IF Emon were to be winning that battle you would have wanted to see her death and he would have been with you coming out, but he WASN'T. She is winning and we both damn well know it."

My words made him grow angrier with me. Apparently, he wasn't one to be called out for his own shit. I made an attempt and faked him out as I used my extra boost of strength and speed to deflect a hit aimed at my head and get right up behind him. I jabbed the vervain into his neck on contact with a known vein and pressed for as long as I could, trying to squeeze as much as possible out and into him in those few seconds.

As it turns out for as long as I could was for only two to three seconds before he grabbed at my form and roar out his hatred, before he ripped me away. I held on for as long as I could but he was definitely much stronger than I was. That and I was still weakened form my earlier fight with that lycan leader. Throwing me next to Minako's form as he reached back and yanked the vervain out.

He turned his shocked face to me as I got right back up. He eyed me up and down as if he sensed something different within me. I had to try again with it, slow him down, anything at this point. I had to. While Minako worked to relocate her shoulder I combated the elder. The dick head that thought he was holier than thou. He went to hit me one, twice. I only took one of the hits as they hurt like hell.

Definitely a harder hit than the lycan leader. In fact I was pretty sure if I DIDN'T have the upgrade our elder gave me my neck might have already snapped it was that hard. No wonder the guard went down as hard as he did. I blocked two more hits before using the last block to punch him back, left, right, left, right at least twice more a piece. Just enough to knock him back to gain those few seconds needed to get the vervain into him again.

I slammed once more my fist into his face and blurred as fast as I could for the vervain and blurred back again, using the last of what I had for the moment and went to stab him with it. I figured a straight shot to the neck, under his chin and I could hit the vein that would be his pulse point. I was literally centimeters away when he caught the attack. The needle point grazing his skin I was getting so fucking close.

I pushed as hard as I could at the needle to enter his skin, but my earlier fighting and his obvious lack of having been fighting definitely gave him the advantage over me. That and he was a very old elder. He grabbed the capsule and crushed the rest of the vervain that was inside of it, getting it on his hand. I watched as it burned into his skin but other than flinching he barely seemed to register the pain.

He then grabbed onto my neck as I now struggled for breath. However he did seem to notice that I was stronger than I should be from the last time we were in the same room together, "Interesting." He stated, though his sounded more like 'there's definitely something new about you'. "So nice to have a fan." I gasped as he prepared to crush my throat now. "Looks like that bitch of yours wasn't the only one that was given a boost."

He pulled me in ready to crush my larynx as more of the coven could be heard caving in making him flinch towards it. Whether it was because he was naturally reacting to a big massive sound of things breaking or he actually felt sorry for Emon inside of it I was unsure of. I only knew I had an opening to free myself from his death gripping hold on my neck. He surely was stronger than I thought he was.

I use the few seconds to spare to locate the blood on his chest and reaching in to dig my fingers in, trying in vain to place him in enough pain to release me. I was a bit to close to use Minako's leg maneuver. His hold was too damned good to try and break with enough time to be able to breathe again. He grunted and vamped out from the pain of it and tossed me like a rag doll myself into Minako who cried out from the pain of that.

"Seriously! You and that bitch both going after the same wound!" he snapped, "Are you fucking soul bonded?!" he demanded till one of the soldiers tried to slash at him again. he didn't even bother hitting the soldier as he simply blurred away. I was stunned as he took off so fast that I was barely able to tell which direction he went into. "Soren…" I choked out getting my own breath back from that encounter.

"Oh thank the kami's you're okay." He breathed in relief on the other end, "Naoyuki got away, didn't get enough vervain into him to do a whole lot but he should still be slowed down a bit." I tell him, trying to get my breathing back under control. "On it, we'll get a tracking team on it that's been approved by the elder." Soren replied. "What about Usagi?" Minako voiced, I turned to see her. "If he took off then it HAS to mean that Emon is losing the fight and he left out while he could." I told her, told them.

"Or it could be that both Emon and Usagi are gone inside of that place and he took off to avoid getting – owww what?!" I was beyond pissed now. Even if Soren or one of the others over there was trying to silence him I was pissed that this douche bag seemed to have so little confidence within her that he was willingly downgrading her abilities to do her job and complete the task the our own elders set out for her to accomplish.

That and with my own personal growing fear of the possibility that he was in fact RIGHT, that Emon had in fact killed her and Naoyuki escaped to save his own ass combined with Jadeite's way LESS than helpful comments had me at the break point of wanting to kill Jadeite and not in a joking manner. I suddenly wished Naoyuki was back here so I could beat him down and take my anger out on him.

I had a feeling that the anger I had in me now would have helped me a great deal in getting more vervain into him. which also made me wonder on that for a bit. "How in the hell has anything you've said in the last 20 minutes been helpful?!" I yelled at Jadeite through the com's. "All I said was what could be." he defended himself. I wanted to hit something badly but there was nothing to hit.

"Don't get angry with me for speaking the truth, I'm the dream killer for a reason, I insert the true possible scenario's." he stated and I hated to admit it but he had a point. It WAS a possibility I just refused to believe in THAT possibility. "Be that is it may let's try to focus positively here. Any way we can track Naoyuki here? he took off towards the city." I recanted to Soren as I heard him typing.

"We might be able to lock in on something in that area. Though I will state that we've never tracked an elder before. There's never truly been a reason to." everyone understood that so this was a bit of uncharted territory for all of us involved. "True, but we still have to do what we can and make sure to be prepared for what may come of it." I explained. "Besides with a chest wound AND a bit of vervain in him he should be somewhat slowed down." I explained to them as I heard more typing.

"That's definitely good on the vervain part. The chest wound?" Soren asked, "I'm damned positive that Usagi got a good hit on him with it before attacked it out here." that pride I had came back up again. "It should take a bit for that wound to close then. It could help us out." Soren stated. I refocused myself now, "Can you get a lock in on Usagi's com again?" I begrudgingly asked him.

I took Minako's arm and helped her realign it as her shoulder. She accepted the help since I had been in the hospital field before all of this. One of the guards gave her something to bite down on as I pushed and popped the joint back in place. She let out a grunt of thanks before giving the biting tool back to the guard, "I've actually been trying that for a minute now but the com is…" he sighed. I grew worried again. "Hai…?" I asked, "I'm not saying it he doesn't want to hear from me." Jadeite complained.

"What is it?" I asked them irritated as well as worried. Minako looked worried herself now as Rie was even beginning to show her irritation. Makoto was just silent as she'd been the whole time during this slight heated exchange of words, "Its Usagi's com…" Soren began, "It went completely offline a few minutes ago." I narrowed my eyes as I looked towards the still burning to the ground coven.

The whole place would be going down soon and she was still inside and probably still at the bottom of the kami-forsaken place. This WASN'T THE PLAN. "Meaning?" I asked, my heart beginning to pound in my chest. Fear was beginning to grip me as I tried to NOT let Jadeite's earlier words get to me. "Meaning that her com is so badly damaged from her ongoing fight with Emon that she can't hear us or us to her or…" there's another 'or'?

I wasn't sure if that 'or' was good or bad but he needed to tell me so I could see what options there were going forward. There was always an option I just needed to know what it was, "Just tell him Soren." Rei snapped irritably herself with this whole thing now. "Sorry Mamoru but it could also be destroyed from the fight she's been engaged in it for such an extended amount of time and worse yet is we can't tell if she's even alive down there." He told me.

Once again everyone looked to me on what to do and I was scrambling for what we could do next. I had to think of something, a way to convince them to believe in her and what she could do with Emon that she was alive. "As an idea at the very least since I know you DON'T want to hear it but NEEDS to be said, she probably took Emon down with her in the fight and is no longer fighting him."

Rei turned her head not wanting it to be true as Minako looked on at the coven as if it were hell itself and Makoto was upset to. The guards seemed to be refusing to accept what Jadeite was saying or wanted us to do as was I. "I really am sorry guys. We can look for what's left of them when the sun sets tomorrow evening and clean it up then but for right now..." Jadeite began and left unsaid and open on the other end.

I didn't even want to consider that as an option and was ready to yell at him again as it seemed that he was always ready to relay what could go wrong when what we needed to hear was what could go right and how to MAKE that happen. "She will do more than take him out, she'll make it out herself." Rei snapped back towards him through her com. She was looking no worse for the wearer but at least she was healing up.

Her burns looked second degree in nature now so she was definitely healing up. Her hair though was still burnt off. I nodded as she looked to me with a confirmed look of confidence. She knew Usagi to and knew of her fire, her tenacity, her stubborn will to not give up. "Usagi will make it out of there and alive." She made sure to shot everyone there a look that NO ONE would leave till we confirmed she was alive and well. It was a far cry from the girl who used to hate her for being the favorite and now they were like sisters.

I looked at the rest of who was there to as no one made a move to move, "Usagi is alive and I'll be damned if I abandon her when she needs us to help her on this side of the fence…so to speak. If the rest of you want to leave, leave." I ordered. Not one guard left. They stood stone still as if they couldn't even be pushed. Before I could smile in gratitude for her there was a slight static like sound on the com's.

"I mean think about it - " Jadeite started off again before I cut him off again, "Shut up and listen." I ordered as everyone got dead silent on the com's. those of us that were there looked at the raging inferno waiting to see some hint of a sign that she was alive. Then the static started to clear up as I swore I saw movement within the coven. The broken windows giving glimpses that one needed to strain to see but it was clear…there was movement.