Chapter: 6
"Hey Zero."
The preteen looked up from his book - that his friend somehow managed to get for him - to see Lucy staring at him with a slightly confused look. "What's up Luce?"
The girl's gaze drifted to her feet as she lightly kicked the ground in slight embarrassment. "W-well i just realized that...well i don't actually know your name hehe. I mean you know mine and all but i have no real clue what yours is beyond being number Zero."
When her question was met with silence she crouched down to be at eye level with his sitting form, only to see him glaring at the floor with much more heat than she would have thought possible. "Did i say something wrong? I'm sorry i shouldn't have-"
Zero shook his head and lifted his tired eyes to meet hers. "No, no it's alright i just. I hate my name, everytime I hear it...it just reminds me of why i'm here."
"Why? What does it have to do with you being here Zero?" The pinkette tilted her head in confusion. "You know you can tell me anything, i'm you're friend so you can trust me. Alright?" She said with a sweet smile on her face while batting her lashes at him. Just barely a teenager and she already had that look perfected, poor Zero.
"Shiage Kotomori…" He said in a strained whisper.
Her eyes widened, "Koto...mori...no way. Are you his-"
"Yes i'm that bastard's son." He stated sharply. "When i was four he took me here under the pretense of wanting me to help with one of his projects. But i never expected this, i thought that he was working on a cure or something. The next thing i knew i was strapped to a lab table and they were getting ready to start." He lifted his head a leveled the shocked girl with a glare. "So now that you know are you gonna just leave me on my own for sharing that shit-eater's blood? Of course you would, after all who would ever hang around a monster's worthless spawn!"
*Slap*
Zero rubbed his cheek in shock and with wide eyes he turned his head back to look at his friend who by this point had tears in her eyes. "Don't ever say something like that ever again Zero! I would never leave you no matter what, you're too important to me! It doesn't matter who your father is, only who you are and who you are is the nicest person i've ever known." She lunged forward and wrapped him up in a tight hug further shocking him.
He hadn't felt the embrace of another living being since he was four years old on that fateful day. It seemed to warm his very being and sent his heart pounding away in his chest. What was wrong with him?
They sat like that for several minutes before she let go of the boy and wiped away the last of her tears before smiling at him brightly. "I know, if you don't like your name then how about i give you a new one?"
"A new name huh?" He smirked, still feeling a little off, and nodded, "Sure, let's do it, give me your best shot!"
Lucy closed her eyes in thought with her arms crossed. Eventually she opened them and slammed her hand down into her open palm with a wide grin. "Oh i got it! What about Ken?"
Zero shook his head no "It would be cool to be named 'sword' but it doesn't really fit."
"No? Ok how about Naraku or Ashura?"
"Ashura sounds nice but I think that's the name of a god, it might piss him off." He finished with a shiver. He sighed "It's times like this, well all the time really, that i wish i could see the sky again. It always helped me think as a kid."
"Sky...Sky. Sora. How does that one sound?" She asked as she looked back up into his pink eyes. She frowned when all he showed was a blank face. "No good huh...well we'll think of something let just ke-"
"Sora huh? I like it." Zero interrupted softly. Slowly his head rose up and he flashed her a smile, his first true smile in years, and it felt great to him. "Thank you, Kaede."
He wasn't the only one feeling good however, in front of him Lucy felt a sudden heat creep onto her face at the sight before her. 'I never knew he could smile like that.' Then his final statement dawned on her and she flushed a little further. 'That's the first time he's ever used my name, why do i feel so...happy about that right now? And my heart, why is it speeding up?' The girl shook her head and coughed into her hand. "N-No problem...Sora, so what about your last name?"
The newly renamed Sora chuckled, "No need, i already know the perfect one. Inzei."
"Royalty? Why that, you aren't getting a big head are you? Cause if you are i'll have to pound you into ground to drop your ego." She said with a pout.
He shook his head in amusement, "Don't worry i'm not. The reason is because it is my mother's last name. I never knew her myself but i had always heard great things about her, and who knows, maybe if i use her last name then one day when we get out of this hell hole she'll hear about me and find me." His smile turned sad, "At the very least i want something that i share with her, that's my reason."
Kaede sat down beside her friend and sat in a comfortable silence. Eventually the girl decided to try something and laid her head down on his shoulder. "Wh-what are you doing Kaede?" There's that feeling again.
"Just...let me sit here with you for a while. Okay, Sora?" The boy nodded while trying to calm his rapidly beating heart. The two blushing teens stayed like that for the rest of the night and eventually fell asleep, still laying together until the sun that they could not see rose the next day.
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Rias, Akeno, and the two fallen angels they had trapped could only stare in mute shock at the body of the now dead Hikitori. It was more than that however as none of them had ever witnessed a death like that one and from what Sora had said, it was probably pretty gruesome on the inside at this point.
Finally the blonde fallen angel broke out of her stupor, "He-He killed Hiki…th-that's not possible." The girl turned her head to look at her blue haired friend, what she saw wasn't good, it looked like she was on the verge of a breakdown at that very moment. "Kalawarner, you need to calm down, take deep breaths!"
The girl didn't listen and instead started to grit her teeth as sadness and despair changed to blind fury and pure unadulterated anger. Her wings exploded from her back just as she did the same from her place in the treetops, in seconds she was in front of the killer with a yellow light spear mere inches from his heart. "I'LL KILL YOU YOU BASTARD! I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO HIM!" The woman tried to move her spear forwards to kill Sora, but it was all for naught because the moment she moved he had sent out his vectors, which were now tightly wrapped around her limbs and preventing her movements.
"LET ME GO YOU COCK SUCKER! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB WHEN I GET OUT OF THIS!" She screamed out in her hate filled rage, writhing and jerking in his trap.
It was then he noticed something, that look in her eyes, it was the same as his was on that day. Did that mean…"He was someone important to you, wasn't he Kalawarner?" The woman flinched and dropped her head as tears spilled down to the ground below.
"He was my fiance." It was low, low enough to where even with his enhanced devil senses Sora had trouble hearing it. But it was enough, every syllable met his ears and it sent his mind back to the day that changed him into the person he was now.
"I see...i'm sorry for that Kalawarner. I know how it feels to lose someone like that, it burns and hurts doesn't it? I'm truly sorry that i caused you this kind of pain." He took a deep calming breath and ignored the surprised looks from his acquaintances, especially Rias who had never heard him utter those words for as long as she had known him.
"If you want, i can end your suffering. I still wish someone had done that for me. Or i can let you go, consider it a gift for what i did. Either way it's your choice." With that he retracted his vectors and took a few steps backwards.
"Sora what are you talking about we can't just let her go! She'll just go back to the church and gang up on the other group! Stand down!" Rias called out with a glare but ended up taking a few steps back from shock and a little bit of fear when the teen merely returned the glare with twice the intensity over his shoulder.
He turned to face the crimson haired girl with his piercing dark pink eyes never once leaving her form. "I'd advise you to be quiet King, you have no say in this matter and if you try to stop her from escaping if she choses to do so, then i will not hesitate."
"Sora do you have any idea what you're saying?! She's our enemy and needs to be destroyed before it's too late! If you try to stop me then you are betraying me, can you really go through with this knowing that!" She felt herself gulp at his solemn nod, he was serious about this.
Before anyone could speak, a yellow light spear lodged itself through the teen's form from behind. Rias and Akeno's eyes widened in horror as blood poured from his mouth and the wound. But Sora? Sora just glanced back at the still angry Kalawarner. "So this is your choice then? Fine, i hope you and he can find each other wherever it is fallen angels go when you die." The bluenette's confused look shifted to utter shock when 'Sora' burst into a flock of crows and the real one appeared behind her.
An instant was all it took for her head to be severed from her body.
The maroon haired teen glanced up the sky and sent a thankful nod to a certain red eyed avian who was circling overhead.
Turning his attention back to the clearing he noticed that his king was putting the finishing touches on the other fallen angel, apparently she had snapped out of her surprise quick enough to realize there was still another in the immediate area.
Sadly that didn't seem to exterminate the red head's anger as she stormed up to the slightly taller teen and grabbed him by the front of his shirt to get in his face. "Do you know how dangerous that was?! You could have been killed out there and for what, just so you could get some closure from killing an enemy! In fact if it wasn't for that little trick you pulled then you would have died! Do you know how much it hurts to know that!"
Sora shook his head and brushed her off. "I was in no danger King." He turned and walked off into the forest, once he was at the edge he stared at her over his shoulder. "For your information, i wasn't doing that for 'closure', i was doing it in respect for her situation. Never mistake that for compassion of any kind." With that said the teen disappeared into the treeline.
Rias watched him go with a sad expression, what was she supposed to do about that guy? He was reckless, he disobeyed orders, he was a world class sociopath, and he refused to get along with anyone.
And yet.
She just couldn't abandon him, Sora was a part of her peerage and she would be damned if she wouldn't make this work somehow! For now though she had a job to do. "Akeno, let go. We still need to regroup with the others and see if they rescued Asia or not yet."
Akeno nodded and walked off with her best friend towards the church. Little did Rias know, that the black haired girl was also having her own thoughts about the pink eyed teen. 'Why would Sora defend a fallen angel like that, he had no reason to do that but he did it anyway...Would he do the same for me if he knew…' She shook her head free from those thoughts. He wouldn't, she was just a disgusting half breed after all, why would he ever stick up for her?
That thought repeated over and over in her mind as she picked up her pace, making the church get closer and closer.
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Eventually Sora found his way back to the old church, a heavy frown set upon his features.
He was sure that he didn't damage the place during his battle - that was something he made sure of despite being primarily focused on the fight. So why then did it look like a tornado just slammed into the damned place? Maybe Gremory had something to do with this...couldn't have picked a worse night to finally take care of the problem that those black winged chickens might have posed.
Pink eyes roamed the outside of the building for a moment before he shrugged it off. Didn't really matter what made those marks to him, it would die all the same.
Of course even though he thought that, it was never okay to just neglect your surroundings. Anything could and would hide in your blind spots just waiting to ambush you when you least expected it. Though whatever it was, wasn't doing a good job of staying quiet, he could hear the sound of swords smashing into each other every few seconds.
Sighing softly he kicked down the door to the place and felt a twinge of annoyance at the sight.
Kiba Yuuto was standing in the middle of the room, swords drawn in a ready stance, and surrounded by men and woman in black clothing. 'Pretty boy' as he had been dubbed by Sora, was staring at him with wide, disbelieving eyes just like the rest.
Apparently the door he kicked down took a line of people with it on it's trip to the other side of the building. He wasn't really planning on that little event but he would take what he could get.
Ignoring the other people in the room, he followed the lasting feel of light magic in the air. He wasn't as good at tracing residual magic energy as most people would have been, but he more than made up for it with the abnormally high level of intuition that his altered DNA granted him. A groan escaped him once he found the trail led underground.
Why did everybody always insist on having multiple floors to every building?
His attention was drawn to the small amount of people that managed to slip past the pretty boy. People who were surrounding him with their hands raised and a small magic circle aimed at him. Did they really think that that would intimidate him? He had seen poodles scarier than all of them.
Paying them no mind, he jumped down into the underground tunnel but used one of his vectors to cut them all in half as easily as a hot knife through butter. They decided to try and fight him, so therefore it was their fault that they died.
The tunnel he was in seemed to be a recent addition to the place from the look of the walls and from the large amount of rock dust on the floor, but then again he wasn't really expecting much from a hole hidden in the ground under a church.
In the distance he could hear shouting, followed by a sultry feminine laughter - laughter in which he could hear tints of madness. Who was back there in the first place, and why did that shouting sound so familiar? Well actually now that he thought about it, there had been a lot of shouting around him lately.
Not his fault that people tended to scream and yell just before they died, if it were up to him they would just shut up and stay quiet until their hearts stopped.
Or exploded whichever came first.
By the time he reached the end, the voice had been identified as Issei who was trying to get close to the cross at the end of the room.
A cross which held the nearly deceased, crucified, and barely clothed blonde girl - whose name he barely remembered was Asia.
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Chapter 6 everybody!
Well as promised, the six chapters I had written up so long ago are now on the site...huh guess I should start on 7 now right?
Oh well, on that note please dont expect another chapter for a while. To be completely honest, i've been stuck playing all my new games and such so i have no drive to wright anything at the moment.
Though Dishonored 2 has really gotten the bloodlust flowin'...
As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns please dont hesitate to review or pm me. I will respond the best I can.
Ja-ne!