Soul's Journey

Chapter Eleven

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Kai sat at his kitchen table, blindly staring off into nothing. His thoughts were running all over the place. Yesterday had been so, surreal. And yet, Kai new it to be real. He couldn't imagine something like that if he tried.

It was weird though, some part of him had always thought of Tyson as an angel. The way he was kind to everyone, the way he was always ready to forgive even when Kai felt he didn't deserve it. His warm smile and cheerful attitude that seemed to light up a room. And now he was an angel. Wings and all.

It was amazing.

Kai was pulled out of his thoughts by knocking. Light grey brows furrowed together in contemplation. Who would be knocking at his door? And at this time of night too. Really, most people would be asleep by now. (Most people not being Kai of course)

The knocking became more insistent. Plagued with a small bit of curiosity, Kai got up and went to answer the door. Whoever it was, they better have a good excuse for being here this late.

Abruptly, not sure what he would see on the other side, Kai yanked the door open stopping the knocker mid knock.

And came face to face with Tyson.

Kai tried to keep his features calm as he looked at the boy. What on earth was Tyson doing here? Looking closer, he began to notice some things he hadn't at first because of shock.

Tyson was shaking, and he looked frightened. Big blue eyes were looking up at him, pleading with him for something. Nervous.

Kai's heart skipped a beat.

Tyson's voice broke the silence a moment later, his voice soft and shaky. "Can, can I come in?"

Kai didn't say a word. Really, at the moment, he wasn't sure he could. Instead he stepped deftly to the side, holding the door open for Tyson to pass.

The tremulous smile he was rewarded with as Tyson walked past him made his heart skip a beat. Again.

A few moments later had the two situated in Kai's living room. Tyson was seated on the coach, Kai standing a few feet away leaning against the back of a high backed chair. A strange silence filled the room. Tyson sat on the edge of his seat, his hands playing with the hem of his shirt, body still shaking lightly. Though it did seem that it had lessened in intensity.

Tyson finally broke the silence.

"Sorry...about coming over like this." He said softly, his eyes down.

Kai couldn't help but think that he looked very pretty.

"Hn. Why are you here?" He asked, voice low.

Tyson was silent. Kai was just about to ask yet again when he finally spoke. "There, there was something in my room. It was...evil."

Kai looked at the boy sitting on his couch for a moment. Then he said one word.

"Explain"

And Tyson did.

"And then I ran. I wasn't really thinking clearly and somehow I ended up here."

At the end of his story, Tyson finally looked up, blue eyes clashing with red.

Kai shifted so that he was standing completely upright, unfolding his arms.

"There's an extra room next to mine. You can sleep there for tonight."

Tyson smiled.

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"Wow. That sounds really scary!" Max exclaimed the following morning. They had all come over to Kai's house, much to his dislike, after a call from Tyson. Now they all sat around the living room listening to Tyson's story of his night.

"Do you have any idea what it was?" Rei asked, ever the reasonable one.

Tyson shook his head. "No, I've never seen anything like that, in either of my lives. Whatever it was, it was unnatural, I know that for sure. There was just this supreme sense of wrongness coming from it. It made my skin crawl."

"So what now," Asked Max after a short contemplative silence.

"I think, its time to make my 'followers' a visit."

They all looked at Tyson surprised. Determined eyes looked up at them all. "So, who wants to come with me?"

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"Do they have to live so high up? It's freezing!" Max complained as they hiked further up the mountain. It turned out that the "Order of Light" or whatever they liked to call themselves lived far atop a tall mountain. And though it wasn't winter, it was quite cold this high up.

"You're the one you wanted to come." Stated Tyson matter of factly. In fact, they had all decided to come. Even Tala, though he wasn't quite sure what the redhead was still doing here.

"Well yeah, but I didn't know that we'd have to walk in the cold! I thought there would be a road or something!" Max pouted as he wrapped his arms more tightly around himself.

"Max, they're a special order that lives in seclusion. Why would there be a road to where they live?" An amused Rei inquired. Really, it was pretty cold but nothing they couldn't handle. Of course, he's a Neko Jin and therefore was made of tougher stuff. But he ignored this fact.

Max didn't reply, he simply "hmphed" and pouted some more.

Tyson gave a small laugh at this. Trust Max to be so ridiculous.

But the blonde had succeeded in doing one thing, he got their minds off the hike.

Before they realized it, they were within sight of the building.

Tala was the first to spot it. A glistening tower rising above nearby trees. It gleamed in the sun, an iridescent blue. Quite pretty actually.

Max gave a gleeful shout, before going into a mini rant about being somewhere warm and out of the wind. Everyone ignored him in favor of speeding up their pace.

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"Wow, this place sure is pretty."

Tyson gave a small 'hm' in agreement to Max's statement. It was a beautiful place. The building was more like a temple than anything. But never before had he seen walls made of that kind of material. They didn't just shine, they practically glowed. The whole place sparkled. Talk about a place devoted to 'light'.

"How do they make the walls shine like that?" Max wondered aloud, speaking Tyson's thought's from just a moment before.

"A more important question is: where is everybody?" A calm voice spoke up. Kai looked around with suspicious eyes, arms folded in his usual pose.

"Kai's right. One would think someone would be around. It's strange." Rei stated, as they all came to a halt in the middle of what seemed to be a courtyard of some sort.

"Not to mention the fact that according to what they told us about themselves, they're warriors of a sort," Tala's cool voice added. "Where is their security? We just walked right in."

"Sheesh Tyson, you sure have some lousy followers." Max kidded, though he too was looking around nervously.

Tyson ignored him. His eyes were trained at a certain spot off to the groups left. Curious, they all turned to look at what he was gazing at just in time to see a young man walk out of an archway.

The youth stopped for a moment, eyes wide as he took in the newcomers. "How did you...?" He began to ask before his eyes landed on Tyson. If he had looked shocked before it was nothing to what he looked like now. Then, without warning, the young man simply turned around and fled.

For a few minutes there was silence.

"Well, that was weird." Max stated, blue eyes blinking in slight confusion.

He got a couple of nods in agreement.

Before any thing else could be said, a man came rushing out from where the other had just vanished moments before.

They recognized this man. It was Calib.

"My light, I did not know you were coming!" He cried, his voice only slightly out of breath.

"I didn't really know I was coming either until a short while ago," Said Tyson lightly in apology.

Calib smiled. "But you are welcome of course at any time. We are here but to serve you after all."

Tyson blinked, slightly innerved by that.

Calib, as though sensing Tyson's unease, quickly continued. "So, what is it that you require of us my light?"

"Information."

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A short while later, Tyson was seated at a large table in a room.

"I am sorry for not coming to great you as soon as you arrived. But somehow, our warning system did not sense your arrival." Calib spoke once they were all settled.

"Warning system?" Rei asked curious.

"Yes, we have a sensor of sorts, I guess you could call it, that warns us when anyone gets within 200 yards of this place. No one has ever before managed to get close without us knowing."

"Why do you think it didn't work?" Tala asked.

Calib frowned. "I'm not sure, but I do not like it. I have some of my people looking into it. For now, let us speak on why you came?"

Tyson straightened in his seat and took a deep breath. "Right, well you see…"

Tyson watched the leader closely as he told his tale. Calib's face seemed to grow more grim and the story went on.

Not a good sign he was sure.

When Tyson finally grew quiet, Calib leaned forward in his seat, folding his hands before him in a thoughtful pose.

Are you going to tell them about me now?

Tyson?

Hey, come on! Telllllll themmmm!!!!

Dragoon.

Yeah?!

Shut Up

But…

I'm not going to tell them now. I can't release you yet anyway, no sense it piling more strangeness onto an already bazaar situation.

Hey, I'm not strange!

You? You are the definition of strange and silly my friend. Now hush. You're giving me a headache.

Fine.

Tyson shook his head. Aw, blessed quite in his mind again. He couldn't wait until he could free the dragoon. He loved his friend, but having a hyper Guardian in your head could wear on anybody.

Bringing his entire focus back on his surroundings, Tyson waited. Only seconds had passes while talking with Dragoon, and Calib seemed to be thinking.

"Well?" Max finally prodded, after a few minutes of silence.

Calib shook his head. "This is not good news My Lord. It means Damien is not only awakened, but starting to move his pieces. Things are going much faster than I had anticipated."

"Wait, are you saying Damien could come after us now!" Max exclaimed, blue eyes wide.

"It is possible. Though I doubt he would come himself. No, he would more likely send one of his demons. According to legend, he has created many new types of the foul creatures."

Tyson looked up at that. "So the thing in my room, it was one of his demons. That makes sense of course. And if he made it after I…'died' than that would explain why I didn't recognize it. But, that still doesn't explain why it caused me to react the way it did.

Because it was scaaaaryyy?

Dragoon.

Shutting up.

"It is most likely part of its makeup. Its design could be too strike fear in its prey. To weaken it."

"Oh, well that sounds just wonderful." Max muttered sarcastically.

"Max, don't…" Tyson began before trailing off, eyes growing distant. The others exchanged looks.

"Tyson?" Rei asked.

Tyson tensed but didn't say anything, eyes trained toward the southern window.

"Tyson, what…?"

"Something's coming." The words were said in a whisper so low they could barely hear it as deep blue eyes kept staring as if entranced.

Calib stood quickly. "Come, we best leave."

The others, glancing at the stature like Tyson silently agreed. They were just standing up, Tala reaching to bring Tyson along when it struck.

No one knew what hit them. One minute they were standing in the room, the next they were all thrown to the floor from the force of the large creature that had just crashed through the southern window.

Shaking shards of glass off his clothes, Tyson sat up. Only to come face to face with a monster.

There was no other word for it. Large fanglike teeth gleamed, poking out from a long muzzle like snout. The thing was all black, with large bat like wings and evil orange eyes. It had two clawed hands and two powerful looking rear legs, all tipped with wicked looking claws.

All in all, it looked dangerous. And it was staring right at Tyson.

Freezing, Tyson concentrated on a plan. There had to be a way out of this mess.

Out of the corner of his eyes, he could see the other's sitting up as well. It looked like Calib was unconscious though. Being halfway to the door, he was right in the monsters path as he entered. Tyson hoped he was okay.

Spotting the table, Tyson felt a plan come to him.

But before he could so much as move, something else landed right in front of him.

It was that thing again. That thing with the evil black eyes. And it was an inch from Tyson's face.

The blue haired boy didn't even get a chance to scream before the thing lunged at him, and then he knew no more.

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TBC

A/N: Things are finally starting to get interesting eh? I hope this chapter was good. It was twice as long as normal:)

As for the next one, I'll try to get it up ASAP. It will be up before Christmas though. That's a promise.

Thanks for reading.

Wing