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Claire- I made them 'beautiful' demon slayers so that they would stand out from the regular people and catch attention. It worked, right? Glad that you like it otherwise. What parts do you find confusing? I'll try to make it clearer in the next chapters.
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Lewnuhkkau- Sweet screen name!...hard to spell…anyways. Naru should suffer shouldn't he! smiles evily
Kyia Star- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know John was out of character…but there was a reason for that…I think. Hopefully I answer that annoyance in this chapter…I'm evil that way. Mwuhahahaha!! cough cough Yeah, and I made Naru an idiot in this. He's trusting Masako completely, so he doesn't see it as more than an outburst from Mai. Leave me alone. gives puppy dog eyes There's a story line in here that I really want, but it's going to take a while to build up to it, and unfortunately I write where everything is based on the main plot, so small little details escape me. I know, pitiful. Besides, if I take what the readers want, wouldn't that make it a better story? Improvise people. You're allowed to do it. Anyway, thanks for the comment, it really helped me out. Seriously.
Sara Moon- I was about to make it so she actually fell down the stairs, but that would be that, and I wouldn't get much fun from it. snorts I'd have to make her get hurt because that's the most rational event that would happen from falling down stairs…anyway…
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Day 3
You are my heart, oh
Small and precious and beautiful
I want to hold you
With these hands of mine
You are my heart, oh
Young and strong yet innocent
I want to love you
With this heart of mine
In the night where shadows roam,
I will light a way
From the moon so far a away,
My love will find a way
You are my heart, oh
Beating still and lovingly
Hidden in the shadows,
A light will light your way
"Who's…singing?" I ask to the unfamiliar darkness around me.
Where is everyone?
"Bou-san? John? Ayako? Masako? Yasuhara? Naru?Anyone!" I call out.
Light.
There's a small light ahead of me.
I start walking toward it.
Someone's in the light.
"Who's there?"
A lady?
"You are my heart, oh" she sang.
What's she looking at?
I walk up to her, she doesn't even notice me, she's too busy staring at something in her arms.
Cautiously I peer into her arms.
A baby?
Is this…one of those dreams? If so, where's Naru?
"You are my heart, oh" the melodious voice repeated.
She stopped singing and smiled down at the baby.
"Go to sleep now, little love, we'll be together forever, I promise."
Why did she say that? The baby has already been asleep for a long time.
"Hush now. Go to sleep. Go to sleep." She cooed as her hand slid toward the baby's chest. "Everything's going to be alright."
Her fingers dug into the baby's skin.
Blood.
The baby is bleeding.
"What are you doing? Stop that! You'll kill it!" I scream.
It fell on deaf ears.
Her fingers dub deeper and deeper into the infant's skin.
"Please stop!" I wail as I try to hit her across the head. It's no use, my hands can't touch her.
"All done little love, all done." She cooed again.
I stare in horror at what's in her hand.
A heart.
A small little heart.
The baby's heart, and it was covered in its blood.
I think I'm going to be sick.
I tried, but I couldn't take my eyes off of the murderer and the baby.
Why? Why didn't the baby scream? She took out his heart!
The woman brought her fingers to her lips, and swallowed the organ.
Once done, the woman vanished into darkness.
"Why?" I gasp as I unwillingly step closer to the bundle now lying on the floor.
I gently hold the bundle and look at the poor baby.
Blue.
This baby is completely blue.
It hit me.
That's why it didn't cry out.
It's already dead!
"It's too sad." I cry. I pressed the dead bundle to my chest trying to comfort the poor body.
"Don't touch it."
My eyes opened spilling out a stream of tears.
"Why? Why did this have to happen? He was just a baby!" I shriek to the darkness.
"That thing is no longer human! You must get away from it! Now! Hurry!" the voice ordered frantically.
"What do you-"
Movement.
My eyes wandered from the darkness down to the bundle I was holding.
I screamed.
Its eyes!
Its eyes were open! It was smiling!
The infant pierced the skin on my shoulder with its teeth.
Another scream erupted form my throat.
"Hurry! It's going to eat you if you don't get away from it!" the voice pleaded.
I tried to pry the baby off my arm.
No use.
"I can't! He won't let go!" I yelled to the voice.
"You must! If you die here, you'll die in real life too!"
The teeth sunk deeper into my flesh.
"It hurts!" I scream as another searing pain burned its way through my arm as it bit down deeper.
"Do you know any warding spells?" the voice demanded.
"Yes! I do!"
"Good, you have to use them. If this goes as I plan, that thing will be destroyed and you'll be able to wake up. Now, recite the spell!" the voice urged.
I yelped as more flesh was destroyed, then took a deep breath.
"Naumaku sanmanda bazarada dankan! Namaku sanmanda bazarada dankan! Naumaku sanmanda bazarada dankan! Rin! Pyo! Tou! Sha! Kai! Chin! Retsu! Zai! Zen!"
A sound of glass breaking filled the empty darkness.
The baby in my arms shattered.
"Get ready!" the voice ordered.
No.
It wasn't just a voice.
It belonged to the man running toward me.
He seems…so familiar…like a childhood friend that I'd long forgotten…
"Stay clam." He ordered, as he held me to his chest and took off running toward the screaming darkness.
I nodded.
"Everything's going to be okay, but I need you to close your eyes for me. Understand?"
I nodded again and closed my eyes tightly.
"Let's go."
Falling?
Were we…falling?
I think so. That fluttery feeling is in the pit of my stomach, and I feel a breeze rushing past my face.
Where are we?
The feeling stopped as feet landed gently on a hard floor making a 'tap' echo through out the place.
"You can open your eyes now." He said calmly as he released me to the floor.
I opened my eyes and saw a path.
The path was completely made of light.
A white ribbon in a dark forest
"I'm glad…I was able to do something…before…" the voice was getting softer, as if it was drifting far away.
I looked at my savior and gasped.
"You…why?" I cry.
He smiled.
His form was being absorbed by the darkness.
He was being erased.
He was dying.
"Please" he begged as most of his body fading way, "Help him. He doesn't… remember…he needs to know………he's in danger…… of crossing………… the bridge……………………help him."
"The bridge? Who? Who do you need to help?" I beg.
He was nearly gone, fading away, dying.
"Help…brother…………he's so scared…………I tried………"he cried.
"I understand. I'll help him. You're going to help to, right?" I promise quietly.
He slowly shook his head no, and smiled a weak last smile.
"I couldn't………fight the darkness…………………………… forever……………I've used the last………of my light………to illuminate you……a path home……………hurry………save him……tell him…………"
His body completely faded away.
"What! Tell him what!" I plead frantically.
"……………I'm……………………………so……r………rrr…………y………" A faint whisper of wind breathed.
"I understand. I'll help, no matter what. I'll find a way to help. I have to. I owe you!" I repeat to myself and the darkness.
My feet walk me to the lit path, and I make my way back home.
"I'll do it. I promised. Why? Why did you do that! You idiot! No. I'm the idiot. I can't even remember your name!" I confess as I wiped tears off of my face.
My sight is fuzzy as I manage to open my eyes for the first time in what seems like ages.
The ceiling is hazy, but there.
Why am I here?
Did I fall asleep? If so, what did I dream about…I can't seem to remember…
I scrunch my face in concentration.
Nothing, I can't remember what happened in my dream at all.
Not the slightest thing.
…
Someone is calling…
…
Who is it? What are they saying?
"Mai!"
The world snaps back in my face.
"John?" I ask hesitantly.
I blink.
Was that really my voice? It was hoarse and scratchy, not like mine at all.
"John?" I ask again.
Yes, it is definitely my voice.
"Mai!" he calls again relief drowning his words. "I was so-" he couldn't even finish his sentence before he was tearing up again.
His fists clench the sheets of the bed I was on.
I yelp as he jumps over the side of the bed and holds me in a tight embrace.
"John? Wha-what's wrong?"
I was blushing; this wasn't like John at all!
"Mai…" he held my tighter, "I was so scared…I thought…I thought we lost you!" he cried.
The fabric on my shirt is getting damp.
Was John…crying?
"John! Why are you so upset? Did something happen?" I beg. For John to be so scared and upset, something big must have happened. "John, tell me, please!"
She almost died. You were going to let her die.
My eyes widen.
Whose voice is that?
You were careless and because of that Mai got hurt. You're too weak. You couldn't do anything to help her.
John clenched his teeth.
"John. What are you doing?" a cold voice demanded.
John let go of me and sat at the edge of the bed.
He wiped his face with the sleeve of his shirt.
"If you're going to get so emotional over such a trivial thing, John, go home. We don't need those kids of people here." Naru snapped.
"Naru…did something happen?" I ask as I stare him in the eye.
"Nothing, you just got possessed. It's nothing serious, John just can't handle himself." he said coldly, eyes glaring at John.
See? Mai nearly died and he says it's a trivial thing. He doesn't even care…unless he wanted her dead in the first place. That would explain why he thinks her getting hurt is an unimportant matter.
Who's saying such horrible things!
John bit his lip.
"Can't you hear that?" I beg to the two others in the room.
"Hear what?" Naru asks nonchalantly.
"That voice." I breathe.
He doesn't care about Mai, about anyone in the team. He only cares about solving the case. You all could get hurt…die…and he won't care, as long as he solves the case.
"There! Can't you hear that! It's saying such…horrible things! Don't tell me you can't hear it! Naru!" I scream at him.
He's guilty. He wants Mai dead. He already tried to kill her once. Kill him. He's going to try and kill her again. You must kill him first!
"You bastard!"
John leapt off the bed and charged at Naru with a fist clenched ready to punch.
"I'll kill you!" he bellows.
"No!" I shriek and try to scramble out of the bed.
Precious time was wasted because I got tangled in the sheets and fell to the hard floor with an 'oomph'.
John threw his punch strait at Naru's face, but Naru easily dodged…but with a slight look of disbelief in his eyes.
"Calm down!" Naru ordered as he kicked John strait in the gut, hard enough so that he sent the blonde flying backward into the wall, breaking a mirror when he landed.
"John! Naru!" I scream, scrambling once again, this time to just stand up.
Tears were building up in the corners of my eyes.
Why?
Why did this happen?
"Unforgivable." John hissed as he weakly got up and steadied himself.
He held a piece of broken mirror in his hand from when he was flown backward.
Naru narrowed his eyes.
"Hurting Mai is unforgivable." he growled as he stepped forward. "We trusted you, you bastard, and then you betray us by trying to kill Mai."
"What are you talking about…John?" I plead.
My pleading was ignored as John charged again at Naru, the mirror piece held like a knife.
"I'll kill you before you get a second chance!"
"Rin! Pyo! Tou! Sha! Kai! Chin! Retsu! Zai! Zen!" I scream while frantically making the hand seals.
John stopped moving.
The mirror piece fell from his hand.
I sigh in relief.
Naru glared at John.
"Who are you?" he demanded.
John's lips moved into a smile.
"And here I thought I would get away with it too. Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted. You humans are so…fun." He said playfully.
You…humans…just what was possessing John?
"You, how long have you been possessing him for?" I mumble.
"Hmm? Don't be ridiculous. I just possessed him now. I wouldn't want this dark haired annoyance to break my precious little toy now would I? No, I was merely playing with this human." he laughed.
John…just what have you gone through?
"Without possessing him you were able to get him to attack me, when John himself knew the consequences of such actions. How did you manage to do that?" Naru asked calmly.
He sighed.
"Humans have this fun little thing called emotions. I merely played on those to get him to do fun things. A little blaming here, a little paranoia there, and I got him. It's all quite easy, and all quite fun. Then, say I whispered to his soul that you were going to try and kill Mai, he became defensive and chose to try and stop you before you could hurt Mai. One of the main reasons humans are so fun! Everything he felt, everything he thought, everything he did…I controlled."
"Why are you telling us how you did it?" I ask hesitantly.
"Because! That's the beauty of it all! There's nothing humans can do to stop it! That's what makes it so fun! There's no way to fight it, none at all! Every single human is my toy! And toys are so fun to play with!" he laughed again.
I gulped.
Why was it acting like this? Spirits don't act like this!
"Well then, I best be taking my leave now. Controlling the body itself is less…satisfactory."
"The hell you are!" announced a new voice.
"What!" the spirit in John bellowed.
When I look down at John again, everything was different.
"Che. Stupid wall spirit. I thought you would learn your lesson when we got your other friend; taking pride in manipulating a human, disgusting. You're a sorry excuse for a haunt." a blonde haired girl sighed. She looked down at John.
"You'll pay for this." he hissed. He struggled to get away from the grasp he was in on the floor, but it was no use.
The blonde haired girl yawned.
"Hey, Senpai, what are we gonna do with him? Leader doesn't like us using any force when we don't need to."
She was saying this to a dark brown haired older teen, who was pinning John to the ground and threatening his throat with the sheath of his sword.
"Depossess him, lock the spirit back in the wall." the boy replied.
"Aw! That's so boring."
He glared at her.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." She clapped her hands in front of her, as far away from her body as her arms allowed.
She closed her eyes and took a breath.
"Ancient gods of the forgotten tribe. Here the vow of your humble servant. Desert this place and sent forth your wrath! Return this soul to his man-made cage. By the power of we who fight the darkness, and of the ancient symbol by which we defend, chain this soul. Level 1, Seal!" she chanted.
"I won't forget this!" John screamed as a blinding light encased him, but soon the light vanished, and John was left limp on the floor.
"You just had to make a show and do the who incantation, didn't you." The dark haired Begira sighed.
"But I was bored!" she whined back.
"Don't worry about your friend. He'll wake up in a few seconds, but he won't remember anything. Don't hold what he did against him, and don't worry, the spirit is locked in the wall again. Well then, see ya."
The two demon slayers waved a slight goodbye as they headed out the door.
"John, are you alright?" I ask concerned, who wouldn't be considering the situation he was just in…
He had just opened his eyes.
"Mai? I'm glad to see you're up. Is something wrong?"
"No, you passed out while watching over Mai." Naru kindly "informed" John of what "happened".
"I see."
"Are you sure you're okay, John?" I ask again.
"Yeah, how about you?"
I nodded.
"Fine. Thanks." I grinned.
He noticed my cocky grin and gave a quizzing look to me.
"Well, considering I've been possessed a lot through out our cases, I'd say a little thing like this barely fazed me!" I informed with a proud pat on my…'muscles'.
John laughed and stood up.
"Well then, since you two are better, go out and help the others and measure the castle for blueprints." said Naru.
I frowned.
"Okay."
In the dark lobby, where the first meeting of the case had been held, two figures stood.
"You're amazing!" the young child awed.
The girl beside him continued to roll a glass ball around on the tops of her fingers with ease.
"You think so?" she asked lovingly.
He nodded and continued soaking up the sight of his beloved companion's trick.
Two other figures entered the lobby, a dark brown haired boy and a blonde haired girl.
"Reporting, Leader." informed the brown haired teen as he and the blonde bowed down on their knee to the woman.
"Oh?" she said curiously, as she continued to vigorously roll the boll around her hand.
"While investigating a human possessed by a wall spirit we discovered a very troubling problem." the blonde continued.
"And what would that be?" the leader asked just as curiously as before.
The little child beside her looked at the new members.
"The spirit exhibited a mastery of Level 9 Human Manipulation."
The ball flew off of the girl's hand and fell to the wooden floor, shattering into thousands of pieces.
"That is a problem."
End of Chapter
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