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A vampires forbidden love: the lies that bind us ch.22
Usagi POV
I heard the com begin to give me static interference which was shockingly good news. It meant that the others could possibly hear me again. However it also meant that there was a problem going on above to give me signal back again. I realized that the floors above us were giving way as soon as the many scents and sounds gave us the indication that his coven was falling apart above our heads.
Both Emon and I were beaten down pretty badly by obviously the other. It was one of the worst fights I had ever been in in my life and that counted the one against Yamamoro. I don't think he counted on getting his ass kicked as badly as it obviously was. Both of us were breathing in heavily as smoke started to fill in down where we were at. The ceiling was high up enough to give us more time to focus but it was starting to thicken.
I looked at him as I felt my own body as I moved it around a bit. We both had contusions, bruises every – fucking – where from the opposing hits and shots taken and dodged and I knew I had some cracked if not some broken ribs on me as he did on him. He had a healing puncture wound in his shoulder, mirroring the only that Mamoru had had thanks to the leader of those lycan's above.
The amount of blood on the floor was so much that we had both lost in all of the fighting we had done against the other that it was enough to give anyone who came in here the appearance of a horror movie set. One would think that someone had in fact died down here there was so much blood lose from us both combined. The slash marks across each-others skins that were between healing and still open were a testament to how close we had come to killing the other and getting killed ourselves.
I spat out the blood that filled my mouth as he heaved more breath into his body. Plus I was pretty sure the only reason at this point that we were both still alive was because to get as close as we needed to get for a kill shot against the other made us realize that we ourselves had to make our bodies vulnerable enough to be open to be on the receiving end of a kill shot as well, it was something both our bodies were trained to avoid doing.
We were both dirty as hell, bloodied up beyond recognition, covered in scratches, bruises and the visible parts of our skin had turned purple, black and blue with yellow tinges in it. It wasn't till he went to try to go after me with his sword as we had them back in our hands now, having retrieved them just a few moments prior, his original in mine hands and his own in his, as his pace was getting slower than before from all the extensive fighting, that a portion of the basement caved in.
It stunned us both as we stopped and shoved the other away. It fell onto the broken walls in the basement and gave way to an excessive amount of flames and stronger smoke than the other entry point was giving us. Apparently due to all the fighting the coven was coming down around us and we were at the bottom of the pile. He seemed to get this and said, "Ja ne!" before he jumped up to the top of the staircase and slammed the door in place.
I rolled my eyes and jumped up in place to before I used my own strength to ripe the door off the frame no longer caring about where it was flung to as I ran across the burning coven. The heat was all consuming as I ran after him. I was stunned by the level of heat that was in here. My own skin was beginning to burn from it. The exposed skin anyways. I was only grateful that I didn't see any familiar bodies on the ground.
The stairs were falling apart as the entryway was filled to the brim with lycan bodies. The stench of their flesh hit my nose as I followed the sounds of Emon racing towards the top. The path he was on breaking bit by bit as he went up as high as he could. I saw him climbing up what he could of the parts of stairs that were still somewhat in tact and used them to vault himself up towards the roof from what I could tell. It would make sense to head up there so that he could try and get a clear shot out of the falling coven.
I had to stop him though. I dodged different fire pits as the structure came falling down around me. Trying to avoid stepping into a heat trap that would come apart beneath my feet and drop me back down again. The smoke was getting horrific in its thickness as I climbed and jumped my way around to get up top. Emon wasn't getting away. Not from me. I finally landed on the top floor and began to make my way towards where I had heard him go towards before.
The carpets were producing the most smoke ever and were even getting bad enough to blind me with how thick it was granting him a chance to kick me in the gut as he swung out from what seemed like nowhere. I got flung back and was lucky enough to be able to grab onto a piece of the broken and still burning floor as he took off. I swung on the end and used the momentum to hoisted myself back up as he took off for the roof. The static began to clear up even more as I dare I say it heard voices.
I knew my com had to have gotten damaged with how many shots I took so I knew I had to get high just to get better reception in this hell hole. I realized that as I got close enough to the roof top myself the better the quality was for the com's. I hoped they heard my next words, "Hey anyone miss me?" I called out. I heard breathy reliefs all around and was glad that I could hear everyone again.
Knowing that my com went down when I was in the basement did not bode well for me and realizing it got damaged during the fight didn't help either so this was a welcome relief. "Where the hell are you?" Rei demanded. I knew she was only scared for me so I didn't bother to say much other than, "Heading to the roof top. Emon is on his way there and I'm NOT letting him leave here alive."
That's when the floor below me began to cave in a bit more. "This place is beginning to go up like a Christmas tree." I muttered, "Just get out of there!" Minako snapped, fear evident in her voice as well. The smoke I admit did slow me down a little bit as it acted as a blanket to my sights but I was still able to get past most of the fire in my way. My skin burning but my healing factors in place granting me more chances to push through and ignore it.
"Working on it." I explained as I found a broken in door that lead into a study that I could only guess was an office area as I saw the double doors that lead to the little balcony area. I took off for it before the door I came through caught fire itself. The room getting torched soon afterwards as the wall hangings light up and fell down to the ground. The heat was intense and was licking at my skin.
I came out on it and felt the cool air of the beginning to of the new day hit me. It was a huge stark contrast to the flames of hell that were in a roaring inferno behind me. "I guess this is what happens when you burn the original to the ground and don't bother to get the right people or tools to make it better. The structure support is going to be gone in a matter of minutes and the foundation - " Makoto began through the com before she stopped.
That's when I looked down and just beyond the roaring flames I saw them all. Mamoru, Makoto, Minako, Rei and the rest of the guards we had with us. They were stuck down there unable to get up as I only had one way down but that was AFTER I killed him. "Usagi?" Rei asked, her voice stunned, "Yup…I'm up here." I answer her unspoken question in her voice. "We have to try and get up there." I heard Mamoru.
"You can't." I replied spotting Emon, "She's right. If you try to go up there now your added weight and the crushing impact against where they are at could end up causing more harm than good to her, it'll destabilize the whole thing. Listen I know you want to help her but your help right now is to trust in her." Rei gently ordered him. I was glad she had such faith in me and that as much as he trusted me couldn't help but still want to be there and protect me as my mate, it gave me comfort.
"Just trust me." I tell them. I saw that Emon was getting to the edge of it himself. While we had had our showdown in the basement this seemed more final now. He looked back to me as he saw my back up down below. I decided against saying that clichéd veiled threat of 'give it up, its over' and decided on the truth instead, cause at the end of the day I was pretty sure that he would NEVER give up even though it was truly over.
"You know your brother was a fucking prick." I commented, making him stop in his movements to try and get down. He turned back slowly towards me. His head only at first. The hatred in his eyes was beyond anything I had seen before. I seriously had a hard time seeing him as Damon's brother at times and at others the relation was unmistakable. It was strange how two siblings can be so alike and so unalike on so many different levels.
However in the end both siblings would be in the same place before the sun rose on the beginning of a whole new day. That much they could have in common in this life. "He treated me like a piece of property, a puppet to do his carnal bidding yet even after everything he did to me it doesn't even compare to the things you've done to others, to your own family no less." I vented in a sense but really slowly moved myself just a tiny bit closer.
He smirked at my words, "Sounds like you've got issues." His remark was a bit scathing. I knew he had something planned I just didn't know what it was. "True…but my issues are NOTHING compared to yours…after all…" I indicate this now falling coven, "All of this is just one great big temper tantrum against dear old dad from centuries before." I smirked now as he dropped a bit of his bite. "You think I don't know Emon?" my ire grew.
Then I decided to mock. I had to get him off his game and what better way that to shove the truth at him and agitate him. In a tried and true mocking fashion of acting out a bit I responded, "Oh daddy wanted to tell me what to do, daddy wanted to make me a better vampire, to be a better leader for the rest of the vampires in my coven and be able to handle the world on my own so yeah…" my voice grew louder and darker as I went on.
My own anger for what he did rising up the level of my voice along with making it deeper in a sense, "Let me go ahead and plan an assassination attempt against him, my own father, cause I don't want to own up to my own shit!" I shot out. I wanted to see him falter and crumble before me in a sense before I finished completely. That way he would lose his control and come after me which is what I needed.
His smirk dropped completely at those words, but I was only getting started. "I don't want to play by the rules as everyone else has and work with others that helped me out in my youth." I went on, "No I want to see others get hurt and killed cause I'm a sick twisted fuck that needs to feed on others misery and pain to feel happy." He began to vamp out just a bit in his anger. Good cause I wasn't done telling him off yet. I wanted to say this earlier but Naoyuki came in and yeah shit happened.
"I want to instead try to kill my loving father cause he didn't want to rule the world but instead do the right thing, but oh yeah, I don't want to acknowledge that it's a fruitless dream and that I'm living in a fantasy world." He got angrier, "Cause let's be honest, living a regular immortal life isn't enough for me. I have to have it all at everyone else's expense." Truth did hurt and it was about to bite him in the ass.
"But once again I don't care nor give a damn cause oh yeah…" the final nail in his coffin as I stepped forward, "I'm a beyond selfish, self-absorbed, obsessive, murderous psychotic prick who didn't deserve the life that has been granted me as I've done nothing to benefit those around me and only did what I could for ME." I essentially finished. "Sorry Emon but life doesn't work that way!" I snapped the rest out against him heaving out my words.
He seemed to be trying to avoid letting his emotions get the better of him as he seethed against me, "You know nothing about me and my family." He turned fully towards me, the fury in his words as he spat towards the end he was so beyond enraged had me ready for whatever he threw at me. His need to flee over powered by his need to kill me once again. "You took my father as your own…" I would have gone on record at that point to state that it sounded like there was a tinge of jealousy in his voice on those words before he covered it.
"Though as this rate you can have his pathetic human weakness…" yeah a nice cover indeed, "Then you killed my only brother!" his voice rose, "Stealing him from me to!" he began to grow angry with me, well angrier than he had been before. It seems tapping into his 'daddy and psychotic fantasy issues' worked well. "You don't deserve to have the purest blood of vampires running through your veins!" he snapped as his voice rose above the flames.
"And soon enough…" I saw that he was about to make a move but didn't budge to avoid him noticing that I saw the slightest of movements behind him. "I will spill the rest of what was given to you on the grounds we stand on and relish in it as I kill you and toss your pathetic heart onto the ground in front of your mate and watch him break down knowing his love is dead." I narrowed my eyes at the words. To bring Mamoru into this when he never had anything to do with this was unnecessary.
I lower my sword just a little bit again. Having made sure to bring it up with me, attached to my back as I did to bring it into the coven to begin with. "You know we all have our issues but after everything I heard about what you did to your own coven no less…" I glared at him as he seemed to pause. I guess he wondered what all I had been told about what he did to them all, "Is that your father…" I smiled, wanting to see the look on his face when I told him, "Made the right call." He looked confused.
"Made the right call on what?" he growled. He was trying to act as if he didn't care when reality was he did. I smirked, "Oh you didn't know…? Naoyuki DIDN'T tell you?" I asked sounding shocked. Making it sound as if he knew what I was about to tell him which at this point I couldn't recall if he did. Didn't matter though. He got more agitated, "What?" he demanded of me his eyes turning at the very though that his so called mentor DIDN'T tell him something vital regarding what he father did.
I felt it was a tad bit of poetic justice really. I honestly hoped to that it would break their bond in a sense and give way to animosity. "On erasing your mere presence and memory from not only the history books but from your brother's memory to." it was a gambit move that I knew gave him only a moment to freeze. The shock entering him at the words, "Why would I want to listen to a sermon of your lies?" he demanded.
That's when I responded, "Well can you answer me this then, why else didn't your brother seek you out all those years? It was hundreds of years Emon and NOT ONCE did he seek you out for anything. Because in his mind's eye you were not only dead but nonexistent as well." I told him as I watched his face change. Then I saw his anger and rage come out of control in those few moments as it spiraled out and took hold. It was what I needed. Uncheck rage.
It may have meant more power against the enemy but it also meant less thought process behind ones moves. A dagger that he had been holding onto came faster than the previous weapons had, his anger making him out of control as he did everything within his power to drive it into my heart. The move so fast as he blurred that I ALMOST didn't see the blade coming. It was only by the gift I had been given that I had seen this coming. That and centuries of training.
I grabbed the sword, his sword that I brought with me and in a quick move that had him bending over backwards nearly to avoid the swipe, forced his release of me as we both barely once more avoided deaths door. It was only then that for a slight moment that I saw a glimmer of 'kudos' on his face towards me. Whether it was for the move itself or from the whole event that was happening he had in some form granted me even if only in his minds eye a tinge of respect that he didn't want to admit to.
That alone angered him further. We traded more blows as we began to wreck the balcony we were on. The wood that was helping to hold it in place was crackling under the heat and pressure of our fight. The stone that was part of it was beginning crumble under the pressure of stability as we fought tirelessly on it. At one point he almost threw me off the edge and only my last minute grab onto the stone saved me from going over and into the fire.
I wouldn't have made it if I hadn't grabbed like that. Instead I swung around, jumped and landed on him striking him with my fist twice before my third hit dented the stone beneath him as he ducked away from it and tried to throw me away again by my face only for me to release my hold and dive off to the side. I didn't need to get throw off cause I wasn't so sure I'd catch myself this time.
It was then that we saw the roof top catching fire behind him. He looked back only briefly to see it and know we both knew it was only a matter of time until the last piece of the coven that was still relatively standing on would crumble completely and there would be no helping either of us if we burned to death. It took much longer for a vampire and we could definitely endure more but we could still get burned to death if the fire went on long enough and if we couldn't get out of it, it was rare, but it did happen.
Regeneration became impossible at that point. I think he realized how screwed we both were at this point and he was beyond frustrated by my nonstop continued efforts. He roared out his anger so loudly and sharply that it felt like the only patch of stability that we were on grumbled and shook in response to his out pouring of anger at me. it was almost as if the remaining bits of the coven moaned in response.
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE ALREADY?!" he yelled, frustration mounting within him at me as he gripped his blade like a life line in which case for both of us our blades were at this point. Both of us were worn down, tired, bloodied up, bruised and broken in so many areas I couldn't keep count now. He definitely hadn't expected this as a possible outcome and was furious with where things had gotten to.
There wasn't much time left and we were both becoming exhausted from not just the fight but from our injuries and the blood lose. I could see the beginnings of different hues in the sky that were beginning to peak out. the sun would be coming up soon and here we were still in the middle of a blood bath as it were, I had to end this now! "You know it's actually a good thing your father removed you from Damon's memory when he did." I told him. He looked to me oddly as I smiled.
Mouth filled with blood I spat it out on the ground, "Yeah that way he wouldn't have to deal with or be tainted by the knowledge that his own flesh and blood brother was a pathetic piece of sociopathic shit that didn't deserve the breath of life he has…" his mouth was starting to drip with his own blood as he didn't even bother to spit it out, letting it dribble past his mouth as he heard my words.
"That his own father, whom did indeed love him very much and wanted only the best for him still gave the consent for his death for what he's done to everyone past and present…" his eyes darkened more than they ever had before and this I knew was it. He was becoming rabid with anger and the pain I was pulling forth from him. the pain that he believed he felt from being denied what he felt was his purpose in life.
I turned off the com for a few moments in my ear so the guards wouldn't hear this as I said, "And yeah I have one of the purest of bloods in me…" I breathed as I gathered my last bit of strength up, needing it for the final blow I was about to deliver, "But Emon…" I wanted his full attention on this one. he looked at me, feral instinct taking hold and letting his full force out, "It wasn't you father's blood that courses through me…" I told him.
It was enough to give him pause once more, one last time anyways. It was almost as if there was a tinge of relief that entered his eyes if only for a moment before I told him my next words, "It was Chikao's blood…cause even HE had more faith in me than in you. Imagine that your own uncle has more faith in me than in you." The knowledge of what I told him hit him hard to as he found out that I now knew more than he ever had.
That he had an uncle in Chikao and that he and his own father care and had more faith in me than they both did within him. I would say Damon to but our elder worked with Damon for decades and he was a decent leader to everyone for the longest time. Or else he wouldn't have been given his over coven, granted with supervision but still. It was at the end of the day Emon who failed everyone and committed not just one but TWO of the most ultimate acts of taboo upon the vampire society.
The death and murder of his who previous coven as they tried to stop him back then from killing his father and in the most recent, the attempted murder on a grand elder, his own father. Emon's lust for power and domination would fail him and I would ensure that it did. "This is for your coven and the innocents lost thanks to your selfish desires." I muttered, letting him hear me as the roar came again.
His rage erupts as he attacks me. All of his blinding white hot anger came out like a wall of lava hitting against me at once. He was a force of nature truly to encounter as I saw the blur of his form coming at me. had it not have been for the blood in me I wouldn't have seen how fast he was. The speed he held in him was incredible and I was never more grateful than now that I had Chikao's blood within me.
I could see all of his past issues that made him flare up through his eyes finally all come out in one big hit. It was a highly risky move to make but it was needed. His aim was clear as day as he came at me to take my head off. And the move would have been successful had I not made my move as well. I used the last ounce of blur I had in me which wasn't a lot mind you to take off to as I slid beneath the hit that barely passed by my neck.
The sword literally took a light sliver of skin from my neck leaving behind a small trace of blood in its wake that's how close he was as I turned my head and bent it back to avoid the rest and from losing an ear no less. Though I did feel his blade catch a few stray hairs that popped up during the attack. They were cut off instantly and barely tugged but still did at the skin letting me know how close I had been to loosing my own head. It was an incredibly heart pounding moment as I knew I still couldn't take that breath of relief yet.
I barely popped back up in time as I slide around and under, using the flexibility of my body to curve around in front of him. A move he'd NEVER seen me perform before. one that required both parties to be left vulnerable and quick thinking on one end to ensure only one party went down. It was a move his brother taunt me long ago. I was thankful that he did insist I learn as much as I could about hand to hand combat.
His shock that I was in front of him caught him off guard as it was meant to. I slammed my fingers through his chest using the pressure and force of my nails to cut through the clothing and skin, to get between the ribs and push far enough under the rib cage to grasp on to his heart. I felt it beating hard as a jackhammer against my palm as he grasped onto my wrist trying to budge me free of him.
The stunning shock on his face as I gripped his heart was plain as day as I felt him weaken from the effect I was having on him. The blood was oozing from his mouth as he tried to talk, "How did you…?" he couldn't finish though. I squeezed it as he looked to me now in panic that I was about to do as I told I would…kill him. It was oddly gratifying as it was unsettling to feel this, "Thank your brother for having enough confidence in me to teach me this move. Something he learned from your father after your removal." I told him.
He gasped for breath. It was an extremely difficult move to make and usually required a lot of skill and practice at it along with the other person, vampire or not, letting themselves be vulnerable enough to let their chest be this exposed for the desired results. It's why I had to get him so angry, to get him exposed. And the best way to anger someone…to tell the truth that they can't handle hearing.
"Your heart is in my hand now…" I squeezed harder as I felt it try to pump blood in and out but was dying under the pressure I was forcing. His hold on my wrist began to fade away as was his life at the moment, "Consider this quick death a professional courtesy considering you deserve far WORSE than what I'm giving you." I yanked out as hard as I could to get past the chest bone with the organ in hand.
The sound of bone breaking echoed underneath the sound of the crackling fire. His coloring faded out as I watched the life leave his eyes before he fell to the balcony floor. They were vacant now, his whole form gone as he was now with his brother and the rest of his family. I tossed his bloody heart into the fire and watched it burn. I'd like to think for those few seconds that what went through his head in those moments was how the hell I got the better of him but those few seconds were gone now and I had to move.
When I felt the balcony shift, I knew I had to act fast. I grabbed his head and the sword and sliced it off in one hit to the neck. Gripping his head by the hair I jumped from the balcony as it finally collapsed and fell to the ground. I rode it only a tiny bit as I used the platform in a sorts as a slide downwards to avoid more of the fire. When it came to a halt against the burning stone, I barely made my jump work for me.
I landed several dozen feet away from the burning pyre as I decidedly roll away from the stench and heat of burning everything while trying to stay on my feet at this point. The landing was not soft but at least I made it work and stick. I swung around to watch the rest of the coven burn down the ground. The balcony we had been on had been the last piece standing as it burned away as if it hadn't been the battle grounds of something so huge.
It seemed the earlier adrenaline that I needed to fight Emon had decided to wear off and was now trying to take me down a few pegs in front of my own people no less. I had to remain strong and steady appearing though. The guards had to see that they had a strong leader leading them and even leaving with them. However, I was barely able to stand on my own as the toll the fight had taken on me was finally making me feel the weakened level I was at.
I hadn't realized how badly damaged I was till the fight was over with. I guess I had used up all of my strength to fight Emon after those few lycan I dealt with were killed. Have I mentioned how grateful I am for the blood Chikao gave me? I know I have but damn I am. It stunned me to realized that had I not had it nor my training Emon would have killed me. No contest. At least I was vampire enough to admit it.
I could even feel the blood loose I had suffered begin to take effect as I was beginning to get woozy and light headed. I barely saw something in the distance. It looked like a hooded figure and while my vampire trained eyes saw who it COULD be, because my vision was wavering, and I was feeling the effects of my weakened state I couldn't be positive, nor could I even try to speak up about it.
I was barely aware of Mamoru coming around and grabbing me up. Talks of sun light coming up was encroaching on my hearing. He hauled my arm around his shoulder as he pulled me up into the SUV, my feet barely keeping up with his fast pace as I was beginning to feel sluggish, as if I had been drugged. I didn't remember feeling this way last time when I had a huge fight. It was unusual to me.
I watched as Rei, Minako and Makoto jumped into the van as well. I tried to think of why else I would be feeling this way. Wracking my brain for several seconds and unable to process to much at the moment other than maybe it was because of the elder blood. Perhaps it was the effects of my being so young with it and coming down off of using it. Like a high per say. I'd have to ask Chikao about it later.
Rei grabbed the decapitated head from my hand as we loaded the rest of us into the big SUV and took off before the first rays of sun came up. I wanted to ask about our motorcycles but I figured we could get them later. My body was protesting too much to voice a complaint on it and I slumped against Mamoru's battered form. The remaining guards in front of us as we drove off like bats out of hell.
I looked up at Mamoru and saw his battle ridden face as I smiled up at him as he looked down at me. A small part of him doing a mental category of what was in need of healing on me. It was so sweet of him to care, "The lycan leader?" I asked, "Dead. Just like Emon." He smiled. I thought on Naoyuki running away during the fight and went to ask, "Naoyuki…he…" but I felt my body shut down. it was unavoidable. His still grateful smile was the last thing I saw before darkness took over my vision.
Mamoru POV
I was never more grateful to see her. She had looked worse for the wearer, but she was still alive and I wanted to say 'ha!' to that bone head back at the coven. I was to happy that this mission was done with, but I was grateful that my mate was coming home with us alive. Even if she was passed out. I explained to the guards that her fight took much more out of her than ours did considering who she was fighting.
They nodded and accepted her being passed out. I knew they might see it as her not being strong enough but reality was she was the strongest of us all in my opinion. Even before the blood she was given. I knew they didn't know that part as the com mysteriously went dead after she started to talk to Emon after a moment. I knew that was why. The guards only knew so much and she was keeping that much a secret from them for sure.
Only a select few were to know about our blood gifts and those few were in here but not the rest and that was based more on promise rather than exclusion. As we drove off I thought I saw something in the distance, a figure of sorts but couldn't make it out with the exhaustion I was feeling myself nor with the bumpy ride to get out of this place and back to our home. There seemed to be something different about her though.
Her scent was off but still somehow the same. I couldn't tell what it was and figured since the girls didn't seem to say anything or notice themselves I put it off to crazed past few hours, mixed with the fights in between, and a burning coven. Who knew and right now it didn't really matter as I felt for her heart to make sure it beat smoothly even if a little more softly than usual. It was a true testament to how hard and strongly she fought today.
For a brief moment I thought I saw a dawning expression crossing Minako's face before she covered it up. thinking I was seeing things I ignored it and just let my body relax just a little bit so that I could still carry my mate inside. "Park out around back. I don't want anyone else to see her passed out on the way in." I gently but firmly order the driving vampire. He didn't even blink as we came onto the property and went around back.
I pulled her into my arms and feeling her small form as I carried her bridal style into the safety of the coven I suddenly felt a more overwhelming urge to protect her. Her scent told me something was different and though I put it off earlier something told me NOT to ignore it. That it was significant yet I didn't know why. "She needs blood." I ordered the nurse there as she went to retrieve a blood bag.
I went to give her some of my blood wishing I had though to do it earlier in the SUV when the nurse came back with three of them. "Mamoru I wouldn't advise that, your badly injured to and need some yourself." She pushed one of the three towards me. I shoved it back towards her. I didn't mean it as an insult but Usagi was more beaten down than I was, "No give it to her, she needs it more than I do." I shoved it to her to give to Usagi.
She seemed to want to refute the order considering how I looked but Usagi's well being was my top priority and would never stop being it. Seeing that I was unrelenting with it she let it go and prepared to hook up the blood bags to Usagi. Sticking the needle in her arm she hung the blood bag upside down. "I would normally suggest to feed it to her but till she regains consciousness she wont be able to swallow." The nurse said as we all waited to see when she would wake up from her unconscious state.
It took several long minutes of tension and half a bag of blood slowly going into her before we started to see signs of improvement. It was gradual but I was beginning to see color return to her cheeks. Granted there was still black and blue bruises that would take longer to heal but she at least had color to herself now. She woke up and once she regain her focus sat up. I say refocused as she seemed to get dizzy after she came down with Emon's head in her hand.
I half dragged her back to the SUV with me and the girls. She seemed disoriented now so I went over to her. "Stay down, you've been through enough, give your body a chance to rest." I gently ordered her, "No I have to bring the head to the counsel. They need to see that we succeeded and I need to tell them about Naoyuki. He got - " I shushed her, "We know, we dealt with him before he made his escape." She looked down. "I'm sorry, I should have been able to do something to stall him longer." blaming herself.
I pulled her face up. "He was a strong elder, there wasn't a way you could have fought them both off and kept them both inside. You did good Usagi and you completed the mission. It's all anyone could ask for." I praised her, "I still need to go to the counsel and show them his head and report this." She insisted as she grabbed one of the blood bags nearby and sunk her fangs into the top of it.
She drank it up in seconds flat before grabbing the next one and doing the same. It was astonishing to watch to be honest. Her eyes vamping out as a tiny dribble came from her lips and fell down her chin. It was unusual how her drinking blood could look both deadly and arousing at the same time. Both blood bags gone and the third one now being gobble up to made everyone look at her in shock.
"That feels better." Her skin already healing as the wounds that were on her I could hear reforming back into place. Cracking could be heard in her body as slash marks I had seen previously were healing up to. I had to admit that was a fucking remarkable healing time even for her and I realized that it was due to the new blood now within her from Chikao. That's when it hit me, she had accelerated healing capabilities now to. Her healing was also sped up, "Damn." Minako muttered.
I looked back as she looked forward. Her shock at the sight was mirrored by Rei and Makoto along with confusion. Usagi shouldn't have been able to heal this fast and they knew it. "Looks like we may need to tell them." I muttered as she sent the nurse off and said, "That can be for later. We need to get this to the counsel and let them know that Naoyuki lives on. I think I might have even seen him outside as we were leaving but I'm not a hundred percent on that." She admitted as she grabbed the head from Rei.
"Nice try missy." Rei came up and pushed her back down with a gentle force. I had to force myself NOT to block Rei's path as I knew she meant well especially when it came to her friend, I didn't know why I felt even more protective of her than usual. Its like the reason for it was scratching at the back of my mind trying to get out and tell me but I could free the information up to tell me.
"But watching you taking all of those hits up there on that balcony and who knows how many more down in that basement when we lost you on the com's means something significant happened BEFORE we went in there." She looked at her pointedly and at me to as if near accusatorily. Her eyes were blazing with the need for answers along with dare I say it worry over Usagi. Though why I was unclear on.
"And as your friends and sisters in arms we deserve to know what the hell is going on with our leader…and her SIC, her mate." Rei pointedly looked to me. that look almost seemed as if she was pinning me for something done against her leader which confused me even more. "Don't think I didn't notice, before I got hurled into the kitchen, that you were taking on that lycan leader pretty well on your own. Your good but even you're not THAT good Mamoru." She commented seriously.
It caused the other two to look at me unusually as well, "What the hell is going on here?" Makoto asked seriously. Usagi nodded her head to seal off the area so we could all talk in private, "Trust me this is a mind field of craziness that must NEVER leave this group." She tells them as they listen, "We've got your back Usagi." Minako swore, "Just like you've had ours." Rei agreed. This was going to be a long morning.