Chapter 8: The Hands of Memories Reverse
There Dark sat, helpless to block his Fate from reaching him. 'If I die…, he thought, at least I'll die like a man'. Then, a warm, familiar feeling touched his back, and at that moment the weapons of the messengers of Death stopped, unable to move an inch.
"What the…," Samu started. The frozen wolves and Samu's clones started to fade away as Dark stood up in the blinding light that had already faded away.
"Don't think you're off the hook yet!" Resha yelled as she let go of her weapon and charged at Dark. Samu did the same thing; Dark just jumped back and then onto the roof and speeded off.
"Why that little coward…!" Samu began angrily.
Dark sprinted on the rooftops until he found the place the light had once been, and there was Kimi and another person.
"Kimi," Dark yelled as he jumped down, "are you alright?" Sukimaru grasped the uncounsious Kimi in his hands. She bled seriously like the first day Dark had ever met her. "If you're the one that did this to her with the help of that boy," Dark said as he stared at Sukimaru and then at the navy blue haired boy, who stood gawping at what he had previously saw. "Then I will surely stran…" Kimi opened her emerald green eyes slowly and looked at her surroundings. She struggled to get up, and then looked at both the boys.
"It's okay, Dark, Sukimaru's on our side…"
"Are you sure? Couldn't he be some assassin…?"
"If I was an assassin I'd have killed her and gone for you right now," Sukimaru said, as he stood up. The navy blue haired boy stood, paralyzed and unable to move an inch. Dark walked up to him cautiously, but soon concluded that he was frozen.
"That's weird, this guy can't even move…so anyway, what happened here?"
"I don't know; there was a flash of light and then he stood there completely paralyzed."
"You…it…is…" the boy muttered under his clenched teeth before backup arrived.
"Kuniko, what the…?" Samu started. They had now noticed what Samu saw. All around them were the gold and red scattered feathers that now lay almost hidden by the darkness or the pipes. Samu seemed to be frozen as well, but Resha wasn't even affected; she didn't even flinch or hesitate. The girl charged for the group, but was unaware of Dark's hidden leg, and by now, had been used to knee her. He kicked her backwards and she flew, hit the dusty red brick wall behind her, and fell onto all fours like a dog. At that moment she leaped onto her feet again and charged for Sukimaru and Kimi. Unfortunately, the same thing happened and she was down again. Dark got ready to go over and interrogate her when suddenly, a twinge of pain crawled throughout his body. Resha smirked and stood up weakly, and in her left hand she held a dial filled with strange symbols.
"What did you do…?" Sukimaru asked. He and Kimi were experiencing the same problem. The girl let loose a weak chuckle and answered his question.
"The moment I charged at you you never thought of looking at where my foot was pointing. I threw Passback Charms at you. Now let's see…how shall I torture you…?" She turned the knob of the dial until three clicks were heard. Dark, Sukimaru, and Kimi screamed in pain at the headache that was increasing in their heads. Kimi blinked and saw nothing but pitch black darkness. She felt her feet leave the ground and she thought she started to float into the nothingness. 'Am I floating…? Is that even possible? What's happened, why am I here?' She blinked once more and this time she landed on the cold, hard earth. The sounds of a neko's meow and the cries of busy people arose farther down the "alley" she was in. She walked towards the sounds and came face-to-face with what looked like a city or a large village.
"Hello? Mister, I need help, where am I?" the scruffy looking man never answered, and when she followed he didn't even turn his head. Then, out of nowhere came a girl running down the street in such a hurry that her dark brown hair fluttered like a bird about to take flight. She raced right through Kimi as if she was dust.
"Darn it, these guys are too persistent…" she muttered. As the girl turned Kimi realized what had happened, and who the girl was.
"It's…me!"
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Dark stood and looked around wearily. 'What just happened? I floated into darkness, then, nothing…' He stared at where he was. It was in a castle-like area; the gray bricks seemed to go on endlessly down the hallway, and the stairs seem to go up all the way to the sky.
"Kokuyoku! Up here!" A voice yelled. Up the stairs Dark ran, only, it wasn't Dark's form. It was a handsome man with purple hair tied in a ponytail, and he had golden eyes. He was covered in a cloak of white, black, yellow, and purple and wore gloves of deep, dark navy blue(imagine dark and Krad mixed together). He climbed the stairs until he reached about midway in the tower (at least, that's what Dark thought he was in). Inside the room the other Dark had just entered a shadowy figure sat on a chair with a book in his hands. Dark knew what was going to happen next, and no matter what he did he could never be able to change the past.
"Kokuyoku, do you remember this?" The figure threw a stone of brilliant red, yellow, and orange at the floor. It landed without a scratch.
"Th-That's…," the other Dark stuttered as he picked up the stone that was brilliantly "changing" colors. "Sir, this is the stone that that slave held on him!"
"Yes it is, and it's the same stone that you tried to hide for him. I told you to bring me the stone once he's been done for. You never followed my orders, Kokuyoku." Dark remembered everything so clearly now, just like it was yesterday. The next moment would be a painful one…
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Sukimaru stared at the blinding sunlight that entered his eyes with such force that for a second he thought he had gone blind. A voice was heard over him as he slowly got up.
"Come on, Sukimaru, you're not that slow, are you?" yelled a sweet girl voice.
"Aw, be quiet, I can run faster than you anyday!"
"Then why are you lagging behind now? If you can beat me show me!" With a burst of speed Sukimau sped like the wind down to the finish line, which, in fact, was a large cedar tree that was slowly dying. The girl followed him, and what seemed like at the exact same moment, touched the tree as Sukimaru did.
"I won!"
"No, I did!" The blonde haired boy stared at the brown haired girl as if they were about to go into combat.
"Fine…," the girl started, "It's a tie." Both kids turned their back on the tree and started walking down the gold and emerald hill. The wind blew across the land and ruffled and cooled the earth. They were halfway to a burgundy roofed house before the girl spoke again. "Sukimaru," she asked kindly, "Is it true that what the kids are saying are right?" Sukimaru blushed slightly after hearing this. The older Sukimaru smiled as he remembered this fond moment.
"Wh-What do you mean?" The younger version stammered.
"Do you actually like me?"
"Um…well…" The brown haired girl turned her head to stare at Sukimaru. Her hazel eyes turned to a light blue color.
"Well, you don't have to answer if you don't want to," she said as she walked ahead of the boy. Her tan cloak ruffled like ocean waves in the wind.
"I remember this…so very clearly as if it were --" He was cut off just as he heard what seemed like a buzzing sound and turned to look over his right shoulder. As he turned back he wasn't in the countryside anymore, but was in a sunlit room. The site was horrific. The furniture was turned and the oak chairs laid on the floor as if they were dead. Family photos and an assortment of vases lay shattered and scattered across the floor. Sukimaru stared at the site horrified. A few moments later his younger version burst through the door yelling, "Mom, I'm home!" He too, had the same shock as Sukimaru. There, they both saw their mother in the most horrible way.
Okay, I'm done. The title may not make sense, but oh well, I just thought of it in the spur of the moemnt. I hope you guys are interested in their memories; I tried to make them as interesting as possible, especially Dark's. Anyway, what happens in their memories next? Find out! R&R!