Forbidden Love
Eps. XXII
"Halt, where are your invitations?" a guard asked as Mikoto and Nagi come strolling up to the Kanzaki's gates. The post-wedding party seemed to be in full swing inside; Nagi smiled his usual impish smile. With a flick of his wrist, the guard's inner organs imploded just as Nagi's smile widen into a devilish grin. The other guard reached down to drawn his weapon, but Mikoto had already got her katana pierced through his heart.
"Amateur," Nagi said lightly. "Blood thirsty," Mikoto retorted as they both shared a laugh as she cut the iron gates down with her sword. They stopped a few feet in front of the double doors that lead into the giant mansion, obviously there were strong magical barrier that were placed around it. The uncle and niece knew that their enemies were expecting them; they looked at each other and shrugged at the same time. Unsummoned her weapon, Mikoto used her hands and punched into the barrier causing a hole big enough so that she could rip the thing apart. "Let's dance," Nagi said as he reached his right hand out and a dark surge of energy ball escaped from the palm of his hand and burst the doors open ripping it out from its position like someone just shot a cannon ball at it. "Always the flashy one," Mikoto shook her head as both of their wings had withdrawn right after they landed a block away from here.
All the music and laughter died immediately, people looked at the door with curious eyes and some with fear written on their face. "Hello people of the High and mighty Council," Nagi said with a cocky grin on his face. "Since you're all here for such an elaborated event, we just thought of dropping in to collect the debt that you owed us. Especially you Kanzaki Kentaro," he continued pointing at Mikoto's father, who stood next to his wife. "What nonsense are you spewing Homura Nagi?" Kentaro shot back looking visibly unpleased at the event as he only expected Mikoto to come crashing in. "Tsk… tsk… There's no one by the name Homura Nagi, because he never existed in the first place. My name is Minagi Nagi, the second Epic Hero and son of Minagi Jijirou, brother of Minagi Mira, and uncle of Minagi Mikoto. You, Kanzaki Kentaro, seduced my sister by lying to her that you were never married when you had a son. Impregnated her and leave her on her own, only to return seven years later to claim your child and when she refused to give up you used force and killed her in front of her daughter. You weren't claming your child, you were making an excuse to kill her and since Mikoto here is still young, you think of training her into becoming a dog to do your dirty work." Nagi announced as he pulled pictures of the aftermath of the death of his sister out of nowhere and thrown it all up in the air, fluttering down at all those presented to see of Kentaro's hands stained in blood.
"I could kill you back then, but it's your fate to die tonight. So I had to live under false name for the last fifteen years waiting for today," Nagi laughed cynically. Unmerciful, Mikoto summoned a bow and pulled the string back, just so five arrows appeared of crimson crystal arrows. Upon releasing, the arrows seemed to vanished only to appeared just as Kentaro suddenly let out a shrieking cry of pain, the arrows seemed to pierced both his eyes, neck, groin, and heart. The bow dissipated as she pulled both of her hands back to her side, letting it crystallized up to her elbow in the color of blood.
"Hah!" Mikoto breathed out loudly pushing her right hand forward aiming directly for her father, shooting hundreds of tiny yet dangerously sharp crystal shards at him shredding up his clothes and piercing into his flesh as his wife let out a blood curling scream of terror. "You're being too loud," Nagi said as he flicked his fingers and the woman exploded instead of imploded, splattering the people nearby with blood and guts. With a stomp of her foot, thousands of crimson crystals speared from the ground and impaled those are too slow to get out of its path. Those that managed to escape death from below didn't escape death in the air as Mikoto pointed her left hand up in the air and rained down shards of crystal in all sizes. As the crystals hit the ground, it attracted each other and formed into crystallized beasts that aren't from this world, chewing and gnawing on its victims… preys.
"Mikoto, why?!" Reito shouted asking his sister for the reason. "Revenge," was her only answer as she herself transformed into a crystallized onyx beast with burning coals for eyes. "You got your revenge, so leave!" Reito said blocking the shards that come his way as Fumi created a powerful barrier around the both of them. "Not until the last of the Kanzaki die," Nagi answered for Mikoto as she leaped into the air opened her mouth to shoot a crystal that will shatter the barrier.
Back at the home hidden somewhere in the hidden jungle, Mai fluttered her eyes open only to be stared back by a pair of gentle golden eyes. "Where's Mikoto?" was the first thing that came out of her mouth. "Getting her revenge," Jijirou said calmly already feeling something dark and sad loomed ahead. "But… she will die…" Mai suddenly cried not know why she said what she just said either. "She…" Jijirou let out a heavy sigh. "She's already dead…" he finally said it. "Wha-what do you mean?" Mai stopped crying looking at the spitting image of Mikoto (with a beard). "She died when she save Yuuki Nao that night, the crystal that my son: Nagi used was just a remnant of her mother in hope to awaken her demonic side keeping her body from rotten away just a little longer until she get her revenge. But by doing that, the crystal itself had slowly taken over her body, by now her entire body with be completely crystallized." Jijirou said heaving yet another sigh.
Suddenly the crystals on the table started cracking, once it broke completely Nao and Yukino appeared as they're the only two that was able to break out from the crystal prison due to their strong tie with Mikoto. "NO! That can't be true," Nao shouted. "There has to be a way to save her," Yukino said in her shy and panicking voice. "There is only one, shatter the crystal that is acting as her heart. With this," Mikoto's grandfather said holding a heavy onyx sword. "To have a high chance that she will be alive, the one person that love her the most should be the one that pierce the crystal in her body. The question is can you do it?" he asked looking from Nao to Yukino and finally Mai. They all wanted to save the feral girl, but the thought of having the use that sword to pierce a friend's heart caused them to hesitate.
"I will do it," Mai said finally making up her mind. Loving Mikoto, and out of love she had to sacrifice that there will be a chance this will kill the person she loved. If she can't save Mikoto, then the least to it is that they will die together. She reached out and took the sword, the thing that looked like it weighed a ton felt as light as a feather in Mai's hand. "We'll come with you, for her sake…" Yukino said in a more determined tone and Nao just nodded her head. "Take care of them for us Jiji," Yukino said bowing at Jijirou deeply. "Thanks old man, good knowing you." Nao said with a grin before Jijirou opened a portal linking from his home to the Kanzaki residency. "Hahaha… Same old little Nao," the man laughed watching the three girls stepped into the portal and disappeared. "Darling, please watch over them and Mikoto," he said looking up at the ceiling.