The blonde ruthlessly continued to carry out the evil deed, unaware of the mysterious blue figure approaching them. Ichigo stared at him, eyes focusing on his face, trying to understand why her blue knight appeared to be so different.
His hair was no longer a golden blonde, but instead was a much darker shade of brown and his eyes sparkled a cat like yellow as he stared back at her. His blue cloak, now almost black, blew roughly behind him in the wind as he stormed forward, furious with the blonde.
Hands drawing inside of his cloak he pulled out two sai-like swords instead of his usual knight sword. Her eyes widened dramatically and a gasp escaped her mouth when she recognised them.
These small weapons definitely did not belong to Masaya or belong to the blue knight she once knew. Feeling the rage flowing from the new knight she began to struggle against the blonde.
Smirking, Ryou held her down firmly and started to roughly tug her pants down from under her skirt and watched her as she started to panic.
He leant forward, biting down hard on her already bruised lip and smirked sadistically when he heard her scream. Blood trickled down her chin and his eyes lit up in delight. Leaning forward his tongue lapped the crimson liquid up eagerly.
Taking the knife from her weak hand he trailed the edge up her thigh, slitting her creamy pale skin. As she felt the cool metal make contact with her she let out a terrified sob and instantly tried to move away, but he held her there strongly.
The evil man moved it higher, grazing it softly against her entrance in an attempt to frighten her.
The cat girl's breathing intensified and her body shook in fear. He watched her as she began to hyperventilate. "You look so cute when you're scared…" He hissed in her ear and made the knife slit the inside of her thigh again.
A painful and terrified scream escaped her chapped lips and she shut her eyes tightly, tears spilling out of the corner.
Swiftly the new knight charged forwards, grabbed him and threw him against the nearest tree hard, obviously disgusted by the blonde's intentions. Ryou's head hit it hard and flopped forwards from the impact.
His feet staggered, trying to keep himself upright. Groaning, he lifted his head back and shut his eyes, willing the dizziness to stop. Slowly the perverted man opened them and gazed at the spinning form in front of him in shock.
Masaya came back… This can't be fucking happening! He cursed outraged.
His mind raged with confusing questions about how the knight could have got here and he looked up, taking in his full appearance. Something wasn't right. This was definitely not the same knight.
Instantly the psychopath's mind sprang into a series of possible explanations, but only one could be true. Masaya had moved away, meaning he could no longer be the blue knight, he could no longer protect Ichigo.
That meant another man that loved her would have to take his place. The blonde narrowed his eyes at the new knight and smirked knowingly.
One of his hands clenched into a tight fist and drove it hard into the new man's stomach angrily. Ryou's leg came up, kneeing him in between the legs hard.
Smirking he watched as the knight doubled over in pain and fell to his knees. The blonde brought his fist down hard over the side of his face. The mystery knight breathed in and out hard, trying to regain his composure.
"She is mine you fucker! No one can take her away from me!" Wincing the blue knight pulled himself to his feet and stared the blonde in the eyes, trying to intimidate him, then without warning his fist made contact with the psycho's face.
Quickly, he raised one of his sai's up to his evil opponent's neck and pushed him back against the tree again, uttering one word of advice.
"Leave…"
Cackling the blonde stared at him, a maniac-like expression fixed on his face.
"Make me," he taunted. The knight glanced at him, emotionless for a while and he started thinking of a solution, but in the end there was only one way to make Ryou truly go away. It all came down to the greater good. He had to do it to protect Ichigo.
"Leave…" He warned him for the final time, still not wanting to go down the path to his last resort.
The blonde sniggered at the knight's foolish attempts and lunged himself towards him in an attempt to knock him over. With unleashed anger the blue cloaked man drove the other sai deep into the psycho's abdomen.
Ichigo screamed in fright and stood up sharply, dizziness once again flooding to her head. Blood leaked from the blonde's mouth and he stumbled back quickly, trying to pull the piercing blade from his stomach.
Seeing him struggling the knight tore the deathly weapon out quickly and watched him fall to the floor.
Instantly the cat girl's caring side kicked in and her eyes widened and tears started to fall as she watched the man who she once considered a friend laying on the floor, clutching at his deep wound in agony.
A moment passed and he didn't move. Silence. The air was tight and tense-full, and the sound of a dying man chocking on his own blood filled the air.
Slowly she limped over to the blonde. Gazing into his face she watched as he began to pale dramatically. He looked back at her, knowing that he didn't have long and instantly began to regret the things that he had tried to do to her.
Kneeling down next to him she rested her hand behind his head and pulled him up slightly, cradling him. She wouldn't let someone she had once cared about die alone; even if he had tried to do terrible things to her.
He smiled at her, delusional and weak, finally giving up. He didn't have the energy to continue and his mind was coming to terms with his dark fate. Blood leaked out quickly, mangling together with the mud on the ground around him.
Sad eyes looked into hers dismally and he attempted to lift his heavy arm up to caress her cheek. Guilt stricken, the cat girl took his hand with her own and clasped it tightly. "Ryou…"
"I'm sorry Ichigo… It was never meant to end like this." He smiled back at her weakly and with his last ounce of strength he lifted his head to hers and kissed her.
Holding onto his body the cat girl let out a melancholy cry as she stared back into lifeless eyes. She smiled sadly, seeing the small and caring smile she once knew still frozen on his face. She instantly knew his expression would never change again.
His hair, now a dirty blonde from the rain and mud, blew softly in the passing wind of the storm and some of the longer strands stuck to his face. Slowly and carefully she lowered his body back to the ground.
A moment passed while she mourned silently. No longer being able to keep her mind focused on just his death, her mind wandered to even darker subjects and instantly she knew she was in a lot of trouble.
This is very bad… Ichigo knew that someone would find him sooner or later and she'd left fingerprints all over him. All evidence pointed in her direction; the blood on the knife, the footprints, and her hair strands on his clothes. Everything!
Although he had tried to kill her she knew that she'd still have to explain the story of the aliens and the mew mews to the police.
Without her power pendant for proof she'd probably land herself a one way ticket to a mental asylum. She'd be shunned, ranked as a psychopathic murderer.
Suddenly a flash surrounded the area and her head snapped to the side and her eyes instantly locked onto the spot where the knight had been stood. Squinting to shield her eyes she continued to watch the spot until the area faded back into its normal gloominess.
But as the blinding light disappeared it wasn't the knight that stood there.
