Chapter 18: Meeting Tsukuyomi
I awoke the next morning to find myself in a confusing position. Kakon was in the bed with me, but our clothes were on, so I knew Kakon didn't try anything last night. Confusing yet was that my head was on his shoulder and his other arm was around resting on my waist. I blinked sever times and the sleepy haze lifted, allowing me to remember the night.
I tensed as he started to move, ready to strike at any giving moment. His eyes opened to look at me glaring at him and he smirked. I quickly adverted my gaze, remembering that he could set another hypnosis/paralyzes spell upon me. Chuckling, he rose from the bed, sliding me off his arm and onto the pillows. As quietly as he had come in the night, he left.
After making sure that he was gone, I rose from the bed as well. As soon as my feet touched the ground, Shaz'na came through the door, as if my movement had summoned her. Smiling at me kindly, she placed a dress, undergarments and a few towels on the foot of the bed and left without saying a word.
Shrugging to myself, I get up and walk to them. I grab them and left the bedroom, heading for the bedroom door. This time, since Shaz'na wasn't waiting for me, I filled the tub up to as full as it could with me in it. Getting in it, my tense muscles relaxed without me willing them to. Being as relaxed as this meant that my reflexes and reactions wouldn't be as good as usual. Oh well, the water was warm and the door locked.
I felt a tingle behind my eyes as I sat in the tub, my eyes closed, just enjoying this temporary escape. At first I was able to ignore the feeling but it slowly and steadily got strong. Finally I opened my eyes, the tingle becoming just above annoyance, but it was still a little bearable.
When I opened my eyes, there was a light silvery flash, which still blinded me temporarily. When I was able to see again, a silver haired male youkai stood at the foot of the tub. He looked to be full youkai, with slitted silvery eyes, fangs, claws, and pointed humanlike ears. He even had the youkai perfection, so finely honed that I could even see it through the shirt that he wore.
"Who are you?"
In one fluid movement, I grabbed a towel and stood, wrapping the towel around me. His silver eyes glowed with amusement before answering me.
"Why Diana! You don't recognize me! That makes me sad."
I could tell that he was enjoying this. Wait! Don't I know that voice though? It sounded so familiar. He grinned, obviously seeing my thinking process on by my facial expressions. I quickly schooled my appearance and though a little harder. Then all of a sudden, it hit me.
"You're that voice! From my head! Wait a minute, wasn't there another one too?"
"Yes I am. And yes there is. But you should know who I am."
Now he was really confusing me. I've never seen him before in my life, and he expects me to know who he is. Well, the silver crown on his head looked a little familiar. Similar to the one that Father wore. The engravings were small, but in my native language.
The inscriptions, looking closely, were in Old Tongue. It took a few minutes to translate them to New Tongue, "Kings of Thelnore." Gasping, I stared at him in astonishment.
"You Tsukuyomi!"
"That I am. Have you figured who the other voice is yet?"
Frowning in confusion, I shook my head. There were legends about Tsukuyomi, but they were all the new stories. We were never taught the old stories anymore, not since the war broke out. But I remembered something about a female deity.
"Your… opposite…?"
"Kind of. Do you know the name though?"
"No, we were never taught about you opposite. I only begun to read about her, but the book was taken from my before I could learn more then that there was a female counterpart to you."
"Ahh… I see. My "opposite counterpart" is the Goddess of the Sun, Amaterasu, and my sister. Now I don't have a lot of time. Jashin is bound to sense me anytime soon now. Give me your fighting had."
Confused, I did so. He wrapped both his hands around the spot just below my wrist. There was a white flash brighter than snow glare along with an intense burning pain. Within seconds both were gone and the spot felt cool. When Tsukuyomi took his hands away, there was a clear Moonstone there, about the size of a coin.
"In times of great need, the jewel will become what you most need it to be. I must be gone now. But remember, do not use the gem until you know the time is right."
Then there was that same light silvery flash from before and Tsukuyomi was gone. He had given me a lot to think about and my bath was now cold. Looking down, I saw that I had dropped my towel into the tub; I must've done it when Tsukuyomi was putting the Moonstone on my arm. Sighing, I picked it up and ringed it out as best as I could before tossing it onto my pile of dirty clothes.
Not wanting to dawdle anymore, I washed, rinsed, and dried off quickly. I then tossed the dirty clothes down the laundry chute and donned on the undergarments and black silk dress. The dress had a slit up to my hip on both sides of it and a weird necklace that I glared at before putting it on. Nothing happened so I sighed and left the sanctuary of the bathroom.
Grumbling, I headed back to the bedroom. My tail was still damp and no amount of towel drying was going to help it completely. I wasn't watching where I was going, so when I turned the corner, I smacked right into someone's chest and fell. Looking up, I see that it was not anyone I knew.
Looking down, he smirked at me. His fangs were pretty pointy and shinny from down here on the floor and I decided I didn't want to be down here any longer. When I stood up, I noticed that in those few seconds of confusion and being down on the floor, I had been surrounded.
"Awww, looky what we have here. Kakon's new wittle pet. It seems to have lost its way, shall we teach it not to enter out hall again?"
A chorus of male and female voices piped up, all agreeing. I gulped and turned, only to see that They were back there too. There was no escape. I glance down at my jeweled arm to see that it disappeared, it must have a self-perseverance and automatically disappeared when other people were around.
Hearing a little movement, I whirled around just as the seemingly leader of them rushed forward. He grabbed my left arm and pulled it around to my back. To do that, we were pushed up quite close to one another. Looking more closely, I see that he was a black… cat.
Great, another of my species. If he weren't, I would probably be able to escape. But wait, just because he's the same species as me, doesn't mean that he has the same training as I do.
My cat-slits narrowed to the dangerous line they always do before I start to fight. I hissed, then brought my right claw up and connected it solidly onto the side of his face, digging my claws in. Crying out in pain, he let me go. Taking that opening, I leapt over the small line of youkai behind him and started an all out flight.
"Stop her!"
With those words from this male feline, the others went into a frenzy after me. I had a head start and it really looked as if I might get away. Then arms wrapped around my waist and jerked me back. It was the leader; he had me backed up against the wall with no escape now.
"Hey Akushou, what are you going to do with her?"
"I don't know yet, but I'll think of something. You know, Little Kitten, you drew blood. The rules here are not the same as your petty land's. Since you drew blood, I get to do the same to you in anyway I want."
He took a claw and drew it down the side of my face. Sucking in my breath, I try to contact my magic again, but it was still no use. He hadn't drawn blood yet, and I was wondering when he was going to.
His face started to get closer to me, his fangs growing a little longer. My breath froze in my throat and I clenched my eyes closed and turned my head away. I waited for those fangs to sink into my neck, me unable to do anything as held my arms to my chest.
Then I felt his body jerk away from me and heard something connect into the wall across the way. I cracked open my eyes to see Kakon standing before me. I was shocked into silence as he glared at the other youkai, slightly glowing a blood red.
"How dare you! You dare to try and claim mine?"
How dare him! How dare he! I am not anyone's property!
I growled slightly as he rushed forward and sank his green glowing claws in Akushou's stomach. Sliding his hand out of his stomach, Kakon shook the blood of. He then turned and faced the others. His hand slowly stopped glowing green and his eyes stopped glowing blood red.
"I suggest that you take Akushou to the Healers, he will die otherwise."
A few of them ran forward and picked up a curled up form of Akushou and carried him off. Akushou watched them leave, then turned and faced me. He looked me up and down before he grabbed my arm and led me away.
I growled a little louder when he jerked around the corner. He squeezed a little to hard and led me around and around. I was officially confused and lost.
"You're hurting me! Where are you taking me?"
"Be quiet. Akushou found you easily enough. I'm taking you somewhere else."
"Where?"
"Be quiet! I'm not saying it out loud."
Translations
Akutenshi: evil angels
Candlemark: basically and hour
Dainichi: Great Sun
Eiki: waxing and waning; phases of moon
Haku: white
Hanyou: half-breed
Inshi: shrine of evil deity
Inu: dog
Katana: a type of curved sword that Japanese samurai use, or in this case, Yamani samurai
Katsuraotoko: man in the moon
Kimono: a Japanese outfit that the girls wore
Kobodou: fighting in close combat with weapons
Leiko: arrogant child
Neko: a cat
Mata: fire
Obi: the sash around the middle of the kimono to hold it shut
Sensai: a teacher or tutor
Sensu: a flip fan used in Japan
Youkai: demon
Youkai Style: basically Indian Style sitting, sitting cross-legged
Zangetsu: moon visible in the morning
Name Meanings
Akushou: evil nature
Amaterasu: sun goddess
Chinpou: sunrays
Engetsu: crescent moon
GinSakura: (silver) blossoms of a cherry tree
Jashin: evil god
Kakon: root of evil
Katsu: to convert, change, transform
Makurayami: total darkness
Midoshi: year of the snake
Soso: graceful and neat
Sosonokatsu: to instigate and/or to seduce
Tsukuyomi: moon god
Name Meanings
Akushou: evil nature
Amaterasu: sun goddess
Chinpou: sunrays
Jashin: evil god
Kakon: root of evil
Katsu: to convert, change, transform
Makurayami: total darkness
Soso: graceful and neat
Sosonokatsu: to instigate and/or to seduce
Tsukuyomi: moon god
A/N: Yeah! I swear this is becoming a pain in the ass. I wish that we had no more homework. I'm getting tired of it. It's almost the end of the school year, about 2 weeks left, and they think that they have to shove even more facts and B.S. into our minds. I swear, mine's going to explode and the only thing that I'm going to be able to do is write my stories… and poems.
I'm ranting, but I have a right to rant on my story right? I mean, it's my story, right? ANYways, please r/r. It would put me back in a good mood… I promise.
ooga: Who's this ooga? Who are you? But yey, I got another one. I thank you for r/r my story, and I hope that you continue to do so…
blue mariposa: You are! That's sooo awesome! I got an 86-year-old stalker woman! Yeah! JK! ß That's my new alien person, à :) ;;) :;) are my old ones. Teehee. Oh, and there's another new one, and :)- and ;;)- and :;)-
Anyways, it's kind of like TP and anime/manga. I kinda took Japanese ideas about what some of their demons are in their anime/manga. I was actually quite happy with it and my friend/mentor, Lady Kris likes it because it's a mix of different things. The mix is TP/ anime/manga/Japanese Mythology/Greek Mythology/what-ever-I-think-of.
Oh yeah, to see who has you on author's alert, you go to stats, then in the grey box above your stories it tells you the number of people who has you on your favorite's list, and author's alert. Also how many reviews you wrote, total words of all your stories put together, and the average words per entry.
Magic Crystal: I'm glad you liked it. I was in the middle of typing it, when my mind went blank and I looked away. When I looked back, my fingers had typed that. I only made a few changes to it, but mostly kept it. I liked it, and decided that some of my reviewers would like it too. I scare myself sometimes, I also can type really, really fast when I try to. My fingers are flying right now like a hare on the run. Teehee.
Krisiana: I'm not telling who she's talking about, it'll just ruins it. And I know that Ramia and Kakon would not be perfect for each other. I'm staying at my aunt's longer than I expected so I will be able to work over summer, but I don't know how long that will last.
MGoddess: Aah. I see. Well, I hope that you are continuing to enjoy my ff. I change the POV so that you don't only have Diana's outlook on things, so that you can understand Sosonokatsu some and even some of the other characters that I had created.
Ryoku123: Neechan! I'm not sure if I can give you Kakon, he's in the story, but I can try once his job is up. But I can't give any promises. All I can say is that I'll try.
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Kerichi: You never review anymore. I think you died. Did Neechan's story kill you. You should've known better than to open one of her stories Kerichi. You know what all of Neechan's stories are.