The Bitterness of the Rain

By:Danni Lynn

Chapter 7: Physico Livin'

~+!Diva's Pov!+~

I ran out of the room like a dog with its tail stuck between it's legs. Nathan's rejection had been clear enough and it had stung almost as Saya's sudden rage had towards me. The power and athority that Saya's gaze had held had made me shivered almost as the lethalness that her voice had carried. I hated being stuck down here almost as much as I hate Saya for being so distant. But I couldn't leave not yet anyway. I needed to understand everything. I needed to know what past, lies buried in Saya's mind. I want to know the truth. And I knew one way of snuffing Saya out when she went all 'lock myself away forever' on me. I didn't need to crash down doors and piss off the chevaliers but I did need Solomon.

~+!Saya's Pov!+~

A peircing scream rang through the darkness of the basement and shook my numbed mind awake, but when I finally began to register the damage that was already done, it was too late. The light in Min's eyes were rapidly fading as her gaze held mine. Time seemed to stop as Min said one and only one word..."Monsters..." It was all that needed to be said just to sum the chiropterean race but the way Min had said it was if she was blaming us for all the wrong things in her life. Bits and pieces of flesh hung limply to the side of the cut as Min's throat was slashed out. Though the smell of her blood was enticing and sweet it wasn't enough to stop the guilt from taking another chip off my heart. Hagi's grin faded when he caught sight of my disregard for the blood of Min. My knees buckled underneath me and tears stung my eyes. I had let it happened again. How could I? Why is it always the blood that ruins everything? Why is it something so sweet can be so...twisted?

Hagi tossed the knife angerily against the floor to get my attention. My head shot up and broke my trian of throughts. I stared up at Hagi confused as he grumbled about something.

"Your so useless! We should just kill you and use your sister instead!"

Hagi snapped at me with his fangs exstended. Sister? My little sister. Diva! Suddenly Min's words flashed across my mind. "Then we'll go find your sister and go far, far away..." I stood up and broke my shackles with ease and spun to face Hagi, who was already up and in my face. He loomed over me by what seemed like sky-scrapers but thanks to him, his blood was giving me plenty of energy to drop down and do a round house kick on him to sweep him off his feet.

By the time Hagi had landed on the ground, I was already gone, and up the stairs. Light blinded me for many seconds and I stood there with my eyes closed as the warmth of the sun washed over me in a dazzling splay of lights. For many years, I had been in the basement and now I was free. Free as a bird flying in the sky. The sensation of reality came crashing down on me as I remembered my sister.

I had to save her.

My eyes shot open as darkness flooded my sight. Was all that just A dream? Was I still in the basement, shackled to the wall? As I moved my hand, it glided across a book resting on my stomach and then it growled. Low and loud, startling even me. I tossed the book aside and stretched. I was hungry again and had no food.

I had closed myself off in the study and had spent four days in here and was already feeling like I hadn't eaten in years. So I made my way to the door and pressed my ear to the cold wood. Silence was the only thing that answered me. By the second day, I decided I would tell Solomon I was sorry and wasn't going to let what happened the other day bother me, but Diva began to stake out the door of the study and pleaded me to come out. On third day, I had decided to stay a week in the study just for the amusement of listening to Diva wine. It always makes me laugh when Diva wines because first she started to plead, then she begins to beg, when those two don't work she cries, as a last resort she gets angry and starts yelling, then the cycle repeats itself.

"Suppose, she left." I muttered to myslef as I slowly open the door cuatuiosly and peered out into the hallway just to make sure it was safe. No sign of Diva here, so I crept out of the hallway and closed the door behind me. As I made my way to the kitchen, I saw no one. I opened up the refrigerator and let dool water out of my mouth as I stared up at the mountain of food.

Mumbles from a room over caught my attention as I hastedly dumped food into my arms. With my hands full I kicked the door shut and made my way down the hallway.

"Spirit allmighty! I will you to bring Saya back to us! Shambala kazame!"

"Diva! Is this really neserary? I mean, you tied me up!"

"Shut up, Solomon! God your annoying, its a wonder Saya puts up with you. Now let me contcentrate. Lululul lalala puji!"

"Do you even know what your saying? Untie me woman!"

"Kikiki kaku la! Ugh! You made me mess up. You know what, I know how to shut you up."

Diva's and Solomon's voices carried out into the hallway. No longer caring if I get caught, I stood in the doorway of my bedroom door. Rose petals littered the floor as Solomon lied on his back tied by his ankles and wrists to my four-poster bed. He was nearly naked except for some boxers and the sight of him made me burn with shame.

"Diva! Where the hell are you going? Untie me!" Solomon yelled in the direction of my bathroom. Suddenly a screw driver came out of nowhere and smack Solomon in the head.

"What the hell?" Solomon cursed as blood came streaming down his face.

"You scratched my bueatiful face! If you weren't Saya's little sister I would-"

"You would what Solomon?" Diva came strolling out of my bathroom with more rope and ducktape in her hands. Diva wore a long black dress with a turban and a bone necklace with some corpse hand. The sight of Diva kinda scared me. What kind of things were my little sister into? She might need...some medical help. I shook my head not wanting to continue with that thought. Solomon's confused face made Diva stop and tip her head in wonder.

"What's with the face?" Diva asked. Solomon blinked at her.

"Um...why is that stuff in Saya's bathroom?" Solomon gazed at the ducktape and rope. Diva shrugged and began to make her way once more to Solomon.

"She told me that she had emgency supplies in her bathroom." Diva replied.

"What emergency?" Solomon muttered more to himself than to Diva.

"Its the end of the world for me emergency." Diva answered as she began to retie Solomon to the bed.

"What are you doing? That hurts!"

"Shut up do you want Saya out of that room or not?"

"Maybe I do maybe I don't! I'll decide that when you untie me!"

"Never! Now stay still this won't hurt that much. If you don't listen I'll make you a sacrifice to the Spirit Allmighty!"

"Spirit -what? Where do get this stuff? Get off me you Weirdo!"

"Begone Satan! The power of Christ repell you!"

"Stop spraying me with water! Its annoying!"

"Aha! So you are the Devil in form of poor Solly's form. You ahould've chosen a better retainer."

"Solly? I'm not a devil!"

"Sure you are! You drink human blood for food!"

"So do you!"

"Yes, in a more refrained way. I am no savage like you. Terroirizing poor village women!"

"Village women? Me? A Savage? I'm an angel whose wings were clipped by the sister of a God!"

"Saya is a God! But you are no angel, your a demon!"

I watched silently as I bit my lip as I tried to not die of laughing. I could see it now.

My tomb stone read as:

Saya Otanashi

Born when ?-? Died when

Loving Sister

Died by death of laughter

Yep. Just my death plate. I never knew chirpotereans could be religuios. Diva has given me a new view of life. I shouldn't live a life of darkness, I should live a life of darkness that mocks the religuios. Sounds good me. I shake my head in agreement.

Solomon stops moving and cranes his neck up to look at me. He blinks at me as I blink at him. Then Diva stops and turns to look at me. She blinks, I blink. We all blink. Without so much as even a nano-second to think, I ran out of that room, running like hell as Diva squeals with joy and chases me like the freakin' Flash. Food was falling out of my arms as I kept running but when I made a turn it was a dead end. I whipped around with back to the wall as Diva comes skidding to halt like a mad bull as she panted for her with her nostrils flaring and her long black hair amess.

She blinked, I blinked. She blinks again, I triply blink. We both blink.

Suddenly...Diva lunges for me...I scream like a little girl...and...a net comes out of nowhere?

"Wait." Diva stops at my cammand as I look up at the huge fishing net that was about to land on top of me. I stared at Diva.

"Where did this come from?" I asked her. Diva shrugged.

"E-bay." Diva replies. I shake my head and mutter 'weirdo' under my breath.

"OK. Resume." I say...as once again...Diva lunges for me...I scream like a little girl...and...sadly, the net catches me.

Diva triughfantly drags me back to my bedroom wrapped up in the huge fishing net.

"Hello? Diva. Saya. Can someone untie me?" Solomon's voice wined. Diva glanced at me over her shoulder, "I still can't belive that you made that guy your chevalier. He really is annoying and weak! Listen to him!" Diva tells me as I cross my arms over my chest as my butt gets rug-burn.

"Your one to speak. Nathan's annoying too. Its a miricale I didn't cut his leash short like all the rest of them." I grumbled back to her. Diva stops with her back to me.

"Don't say that!" Diva snarls at me. Her sudden anger statles me and I jump with surprise. I begin to bristle with a sharp retort but when Diva looks over at me, I see tears pickle the edges of her eyes. I soften and give her a sad smile.

"He reject you, too? So it is true, Diva. You love him." I softly tell her and Diva's face harderns as she quickly turns away but I could tell she was blushing.

"Haha! Little Diva loves little Nathan! How cute!" I cry out with amusement. Diva didn't say anything as she entered and I dragged into my room. Diva let go of the net so I could get out. Solomon had started to shout for help by the time we got in my bedroom so he was pretty pissed but when he saw me being dragged into the room in a net by Diva, he just went quite and stared at me with astonishment. Went I finally manage to free myself from the net, Solomon was already untied and sitting on my bed.

"I don't even want to know." Solomon shook his head as he rubbed his raw wrists. Diva spins to look at me and plops down on my bed. I sit on the floor and finger brush my messy long hair. Diva and Solomon both glare holes into me as I begin to mutter to myself about 'freaky little sister' and 'winy chevalier'. I stopped grumbling and stare up at them.

"What?" I snapped as I stood up and rubbed my rugged-burned butt. Solomon and Diva both blink and looked at each other, then blinked again and looked back at me. I sighed annoyingly and trudged into my bathroom, but by the time I was in the doorway, I was tackled to the ground by Diva.

"What the-"

"No! Saya! Don't lock yourself in the bathroom again!" Diva pleaded as she clung to my waist. I stood up with her still attached to my side and tried to push her off but she wouldn't budge.

"Saya, I feel sorry for you." Solomon apologized which for some reason ticked me off even more so when my foot hit a hammer that was lying in the middle of the bathroom floor, I picked it up and chucked it at Solomon.

"Shut up, Solomon!" Diva and I yelled in unision. There was a crowbar lying on the bathroom counter so I snatched it up and tried to wrentch Diva away from me but the crowbar just snapped in half, so I yelled a string of curses and sat on my bed next to Solomon.

"Wow, Saya can cuss!" Solomon and Diva teased in unision. I stare at Solomon and flick him off then I lied back on my bed with Diva still leeched to my side. I closed my eyes and tried to come up with a way to get Diva off me.

I sighed wanting nothing more than to eat. I was famished.

"I'm hungry. Diva get off me." I asked as I got up and began to follow the hallway back to the kitchen were I had stocked up on food but had lost it all thanks to me being chase by Diva. Diva got off me but followed close behind. Solomon tailed along as I scavanged around for food to eat. Diva leaned against the counter with her arms crossed over her chest as she watched me intently like as if I might bolt any second (which I would if I could).

"Um...Saya...How should I put this? Your sister...Diva is-"

"Nuts!" I scream. Solomon looks at me with a smile plastered on his face as Diva glares at me angerily.

"How could you Saya?" Diva yelled at me as she stomps her foot in anger. I blink up at her confused.

"What did I do?" I asked her. Diva's death glare falters as she opens her mouth to speak.

"You called me nuts, Saya." Diva replied quitely, as she shifts her gaze to the floor. I smack my forehead with my hand and sighed dramaticly.

"Here, look." I lifted up the bag of almonds truiphantly to show her what I so bravly found. Diva's mouth hung open like a gaint 'O'. Suddenly she turns to the hystericaly giggling Solomon.

"What were you going to tell Saya about me?" Diva spat as she began to slowly approached Solomon.

"Oh, just how...uh...mmm...Oh! Just how faithful you are to the...Ah! Spirit-Allmighty!" Solomon recovered quickly and Diva smiled and hugged him. I popped him a thumbs-up and mouthed 'smooth' to him. Solomon nodded with a huge grin.

"Spirit-Allmighty?" I asked trying not to laugh. Diva rounded on me and nodded for what, I did not know.

"He is the...the...the...he is the...it." Diva stuttered as she shook her head in disblief. I nodded my head as if I understood and Diva gave me one of those 'thank you' smiles she gives me all the time.

Munch! Munch! Chomp!

I slowly ate the bag of almonds as I listen to Solomon drone on about something I didn't understand so I just stared blankly into space. My mind meandered about as thoughts came in went. First, I had been thinking about wether or not I should make a gaint samwhich or just make Solo make it for me. Then I got to thinking about ketchup which only made me hungrier.

Then, little Nathan popped into my mind and about how Diva had been rejected by him. Nathan is usually soft and caring but more so when it involves Diva, it was one of the reasons I let him stay as Diva chevalier, he was different from all the rest. I had to kill Diva's chevaleirs only for the simple fact they all wanted something and had to use Diva to get to it. But the day I met Nathan, I could just tell he loved her by the way he looked at her. I never said anything to Diva because was afraid she might not return his feelings and he would get hurt and so would she. I was reminded that I hadn't seen Nathan in a bit then I remembered I been locked away in the Study, so it wasn't really a wonder to why.

I stopped eating and looked directly at Solomon. He stopped talking and stared back at me. For a couple of moments, I stood there staring vacantly into his deep blue eyes.

"James." I muttered. Diva figeted in her seat and refused to meet my eyes. I blinked at her confused. Solomon's face went rigid.

"Where is James? I haven't seen him once down here. Samething for a Karl." I questioned Solomon who's face was starting to go cold. Diva swiveled in her chair to look me in the eyes and solemnly shook her head.

"Where is he?" I began to panic as fear was carved into my voice. Diva got up and walked over to me, not saying a word.

"Karl and James went to hunt down Hagi and Anshel." Diva whispered to my ear. I insatntly jerked back as if I had been stung and stared at her angerily.

"That's not funny, Diva. Now tell me!" I demanded as I wrenched my hand away from Diva's grasp. I glared at Solomon for reconitio that what Diva was telling me wasn't true but Solomon just shook his head, sadily. I reeled onto him.

"How could you? Why would they do that?" I snarled in hurt rage. Solomon gave me a sad smile.

"Because this was our last resort. We've been running for years. Its about time we stood our ground." Solomon stonly stated but the emotions in his eyes betrayed his voice. Tears brimmed my eyes and and I angerily wiped them away.

"We would have been fine." I muttered to myself. Solomon banged his fist on the table as the chair he was just sitting in, skittered across the floor.

"No, we wouldn't! What if you got caught again and we couldn't save you! What about Diva?" Solomon yelled as his face churned with rage. Diva seemed to shrink into the shadows of the kitchen as I bore holes at Solomon.

"We would have been fine." I repeated more loudly this time.

"No, we wouldn't! I couldn't bear to see you get-" Solomon's face dropped as he looked away quickly. Still angry, I hissed a curse under my breath.

"I can take care of Diva and myself. If I get captured, I'll be fine. I always...am." My voice crackled with emotion as memories intruded me with devasting sorrow. Solomon looked at me sadily and casted his gaze away. Suddenly, Diva's hand grasped mine and tugged me closer to her. I kept my eyes on the floor and didn't move as our fingers intwined.

"Saya, I need to know the truth." Diva calmly soothed me. Solomon's head snapped up as if he'd been punched. I shook my head.

"Please, tell me. Tell us. We need to know, what it is Anshel and Hagi are after. I know that your the only one who knows everything. So again, tell me everything." Diva pleaded as she jerked my head up to meet her eyes. They were filled with determination that made me internaly cringe in my withering sorrow. This was the sister, I knew and loved. But Diva didn't truly know me. How could she? When we were young we had been seperated and in that time, I was away down in the basement, things happened down there that should never be told. Tears cascaded down my pale cheeks as my forehead rested against Diva's. I mutterd an old saying that I learned on my many travels.

" Live not in fear and anguish, but live with bravado and courage." I searched Diva's eyes and discovered her buried emotions. All her fear, all her rage, all her love. Through my tears, I gave her a sad smile.

"I can't. There is so much to tell and so much I can't say. Soon, though. Soon." I whispered to her. Hurt flashed through her eyes with understanding. She shook her head ever so slightly as she wiped away my tears.

I bounced away and gave Diva a playful grin as I swung our hands in the air. Diva gave me a confused smile.

"Let's play a game, Diva." I laughed out as I chugged down a glass of water.

"Okay. What game?" Diva asked with wry in her voice.

"Oh, I don't know. A Truth or Dare, game." I shrugged nonchalantly but I could tell I had hooked Diva. She always loved this kind of games, it was her way of torturing someone without actually toturing someone.

Fortunatly, Nathan decided at that moment to enter the kitchen, but as soon as Diva saw him, she turned away from him and refused to look at him. Nathan on the otherhand, for once seemed uncomfortable, but when he saw me, he sighed with relief.

"Good to know, you finally stopped pouting." Nathan told me, and I scowled as a response.

"Allright, so we all are going to play." I announced. Solomon and Nathan ddin't protest as Diva and I led them to the living room floor. I placed an empty wine bottle on the ground as I sat crossed legged on the floor next to Diva and Nathan.

"We all know how to play, so Diva, you can start us off." I gestured towards Diva and she grinned as she leaned forward and spun the bottle. Around and around it went. Slowly it stopped spinning and landed on Solomon. He met my eyes briefly with a surprised face and shrugged. Div turned to him and grinned.

"Truth or Dare?" Diva repeated the normal question of the game. Solomon groaned as he hissed out, "Dare." Diva laughed and nodded to herself.

"Alright, Solomon, I dare you to have a drinking contest with Saya." Diva implied. Solomon and I both stared at Diva with surprise.

"What's the point? You know we can't get drunk." I shrugged as I tried to hold down the estacisy of doing a drinking contest. They were always my favorite games to play. Diva grinned wickedly and I could see the hands on her clock spinning in her mind.

"I'm not done. Its not that kind drinking game. I'm talking about how much blood packets can you drink in under a minute." Diva explained to Solomon and me. I felt my face pale with fear. Those blood packets made me sick last time and both Solo and I knew it. Solomon got up to protest but Nathan was already dumping a moutain of blood baggies in front us. Diva smiled as she took out a stopwatch from God knows where and began to adjust it. I shared a glance with Solomon and shrugged as I picked up a blood packet.

"Alright, let me get this here-Ah! Got it. Ready, set...Go!" Diva cheered as I ripped the bag open with my mouth and chugged like a demon. As its contents drained down my throat in a frenzied torent, I tried not to gag. Three, eight, twenty,...they just kept coming. As I was chugging down two bags at the same time (twenty-eight, and twenty-nine) I looked at Solomon who was doing the same as me but was behind by just a few packets. His white tank top was drenched in red crimson as his fangs and perfect white teeth were stained red.

" Ten, nine, eight, seven..." Diva counted to us as I brought three bags to my lips and began to drink but by the time I was half-way through, I stopped. My eyes went big as they almost buldged out of my head. I dropped the the blood bags and quickly stood. I felt the burning flare of watchers as I fled the room and headed towards the bathroom. Pounding footsteps followed close behind. I couldn't hold it down anymore as blood came rushing up my throat. The bile rose and spewed out of my mouth only to land into the waiting toilet below. My body jerked rapidly in a spasm as all the blood I had chugged came up and up and up. I was light-headed and dizzy but nothing would stay down, nothing. After what seemed like decades, the horribly, gut-wrenching spasms stopped, leaving me gasping for air and a bloodied toilet. A comforting hand caressed my back as I leaned back into the waiting arms of whoever.

(Author's thought...Sorry, this seen, is particuilerly...um...gross)

"Uhg, that was horrible. I swear, to never eat or drink another thing in my life." I muttered darkly to myself as I succummbed to exghaution. Tender arms wrapped around me as I lied down. My hazy vision was beginning to clear as I made out the gentle face of, Solomon. He grinned at me and when our eyes locked, he winked. I groaned as if I was in pain and looked away, embarassed.

"I would too, if I up-chucked that voilently. There was blood everywhere." Solomon stated. I tried to sit up but his strong arms held me down.

"I lost, oh well." I grumbled as I leaned into Solomon's blood soaked shirt. Its intoxicating scent made me nauseated.

"Actually, you won." Diva's voiced carried out from the door-way. I glanced at her around Solomon and glared holes into her. She smirked as a response. Solomon stood and helped me up. I pushed myself away from him and steadied myself. Diva grabbed Solomon's and mine's hands and led us back into the living room floor. I groaned as I sat down.

"My turn." I told Diva as I gripped the bottle in my hand and spun it. It's nose flickered towards, Nathan, then to Diva, then once more to Solomon and me. Spinning and spinning, then suddenly, it stopped...on...Nathan. I grinned at him evilly and he figeted under my heatful gaze.

"Truth or Dare?" I asked him. Nathan met my eyes with confidence. "Truth." He replies without so much as even fear in his voice. I nodded and crossed my arms over my chest. "Is it true, that you rejected Diva, even though you know you love her and she loves you?" I directed him. He lost his playful smile and jerked his head down as if shamed. Solomon's fingers laced through mine as he leaned forward towards my ear.

"Aren't you going to far with this, Sai?" Solomon whispered for only me to hear. "Nope." I mummered back to him. Diva quickly stood up and glared at me. "End of game. Goodnight." Diva fled the room as fast I had only a mere five minutes ago. Nathan watched her leave with a mournful stare. I beckoned him over to me. He trotted over with anger hidden deep in his peircing blue eyes. "What?" He hissed in a cold monotone. I stare at him just as coldly and he flinched away. "Go after her." I snapped back with rage bubbling inside of me. Why do they choose to be so complicated? Wait. Solomon and I are no better. Huh? I don't love Solo. Do I?

Nathan racing after Diva snapped me back to reality and I shook my thoughts away. Why did I think that? I don't really love Solo. Right? How can I love him? How can I love someone with the knowledge of what I did still bearing down on me. But, yet I still know, it was my fault.

And still is.

So? So? Come on. Give me your thoughts. Yes, thats it hand them over. Actually, their too much. Keep them to yourselves. Well at least the ones that have nothing to do with this story. So will Nathan go fix the web he dared to create? Will Saya ever get over a tradgic past that was written so long ago? Will they finish their game? Hell, I don't care. Just keep the story going. Thats what I want anyway, I don't know about you. Well, you know the rules. No flames, but other than that, complain as much as you want. Critsim, is for the better. To a certain exstent, then its just annoying. You know what I mean, so until next chapter! Audio!

Hopefully your favorite author,

Danni a.k.a. falling into the darkness ^.- teehee!