Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Umanoki Sugaki belongs to my friend Sacredtion
I own Kiako (That's ME!), Mana, Malice and Miu. When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.
Mana and memories: Italic
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"GWAAAH!!" I flew backwards rolling and was stopped when I crashed into one of the rocks protruding from the ground. Rubbing my aching head, I jumped back up to my feet and dove to the side to avoid a missile launched at me.
Dammit!! I HATE Deepground!! Sure they're kinda cool and Nero and Weiss are part of it, but I. CAN'T. STAND. THEM!!
Hearing a loud groan, I looked up and threw up a NulBlaze and a Shell just as Spirit of Fire's arm swung over my head searing the barriers off right away. I pushed a button on my headset.
"Nero! Have you found your brother yet?" I asked.
"Stop asking! I'll tell you when I do!" I sighed and switched frequency.
"Jade, any sign of Weiss?"
"Yes, just follow the burning path of destruction, it shouldn't be too hard..." the Colonel replied, "Oh yes, and I suggest you consider getting out of that field as soon as possible, unless you want me to kill you."
"EH?!"
Peering around, I spotted Jade casting a spell and I dashed towards him. As soon as I was further behind him, he smiled.
"O Amonishing melody, arise in the name of the Necromancer!" Jade held out his hand, the sky darkening and bright light revolving, "MYSTIC CAGE!!" Nearly half of the battalion in front of us had been blown to smouldering bits and I had to catch my balance from the shock.
This man... Is truly scary...
"There! I've found him!!"
"Hao, it's your turn!" I called and ran towards the giant cloud of dark matter over our heads. Nero was flying about as Weiss slashed at him.
"Weiss! Listen to me!!" Nero was shouting and shot off his gun to block Weiss's bullets, "Please!"
"Hold him still, I can't remove the intruding soul if he's darting about like that." Hao said. Nero flared his wings, and dove into Weiss, locking his arms around him. I saw Weiss grin and Nero choked as Weiss's hand shot through his back but clung on.
"Nero!!" I took a running jump, "Hao!"
Hao smiled, and grabbed the back of Weiss's hair. He lifted his hand and pushed it into his back.
"ACK! What're you doing?!" Weiss shouted and I could hear distortion in his voice as Hojo's croaky one mixed with his deep one. I watched Hao rip something green out from Weiss's back and toss it to the ground.
"There, it's done." Hao smiled, "Now back to my burning path of destruction."
Weiss seemed to have staggered in mid air and looked down at his arms.
"Nero?!" I was already in white mage with a Cura in my hands as he landed, Nero bleeding in his arms.
"W-Weiss... My beloved... Brother..." Nero reached up, his eyes dulling. I quickly applied the spell and sighed in relief.
"Don't talk too much, you're lucky you didn't lose too much blood." I said and looked at Weiss, "Please don't kill me, I'm helping..." Weiss looked ready to strangle me and Nero tugged at him shaking his head.
"I'll thank you for helping my brother..." Weiss said. I smiled with a nod and after a moment, took a deeper breath in.
Mana... Do you think, I can use a new white magic??
Do you want to save these two that badly?
I looked down at Weiss and Nero, cradling eachother.
Yes.
Heh heh, good for you then. You already know the right spell to use.
I felt a new energy surge up my arms, "Full Cure!!" The spell laced into Nero and he shot up, clawing at his chest where the hole was. I froze from the sudden reaction of Weiss's sword on my throat.
"Brother, it's fine. Spare her." Nero stood up and Weiss withdrew, much to my relief... "The pitiful humans I've been accompanying aren't so pitiful after all. At least, not this one."
Weiss stared at me with his piecing eyes and I stared back.
"Well then, I suppose you'll have to fill me in later." he said and looked about, "What happened to my troops?"
"Oh, Hao kinda... burnt them..." I said sheepishly, "He's also the one who seperated Hojo's soul from yours."
Now that I think about it... Where DID Hojo's soul go?? Looking about, I didn't see anythig. At least, nothing out of the oridinary right now...
There were a bunch of screams and I ducked just as a few of the WRO members and some Deepground soldiers along with a Yevonite were tossed straight at me.
"YOU!!" the monster hissed, it's deformed body slithering towards me, "YOU RUINED MY PLAN!"
"Whoa, Mutant Hojo again..." I assumed a new fighting stance that I had been practicing. One fist was out in front of me while the other was arched above my head. A sword put in front of me made me stop.
"This fight is mine." Weiss said, "Taking control of me and making me hurt my brother..." Nero's wings unfolded and he pulled out two of the "Feathers" that turned into blades.
"Yes. Shall we Weiss?"
I had to grin at the two of them and nodded, "It's all yours." There was a buzzing at my headset and I quickly keyed in.
"Deepground is turning with Weiss, there is no more need to destroy them" a voice said.
"Shelke, was it?" I asked.
"Yes."
"Great, can you give me the locations of any of the others in our group? Such as Kuro and Kel?"
"They are near the middle of the Calm land, where the Al Bhed Agency once was." Shelke replied. I quickly thanked her and took another running jump. I watched as a giant beam blasted one of the bandits to metalic pieces and used some of those pieces as cover fire from the Akuma bullets.
"Ultima!!" I shielded my eyes from the green flash and landed down between Kuro and Sugaki. Kel, Zero and Kariudo all landed near us too. We all went back to back as a few fiends and Nobuseri cornered us into a tiny circle.
"Jeez, are they this desperate to get rid of us?" Kel said twirling his staff behind him, "It's getting annoying with all of the same enemies."
"No kidding..." Zero muttered through his cyber helmet, "Hey Kiako, can't you summon all of the Knights of the Round to wipe them out?" I dodged to the side and stabbed my sword into a helm with ease.
"I would if I could, the most I can summon alone is 2 at a time, I need more energy if I'm going to summon eight, not to mention some of them are already dead..." I replied and blocked a sword, "Dammit!!"
"Channel our energy then!" Kel shouted. When I rose my eyebrow at him, he did a quick round house kick over my head while pushing it down, "Since you're body can allow at least 2 knights to stay in this world, channel some of the knights energy through us and use us as a medium!"
"That actually isn't a bad idea..." Kuro agreed, "Although Diablos could take care of these guys, he's actually busy guiding souls properly into hell..."
"It's worth a shot, but everyone needs to pay a blood fine, a cut on your finger is enough." I instructed.
"Screw that! Paper cuts hurt!!" Kuro shouted then winced when a sickle flew past her giving her a small nick on her hand, "Ow! Dammit you bastards that hurt even more!!" Everyone had made tiny cuts on their fingers and I quickly bit my own thumb.
"Draw the same seal I draw on your hand." I said quickly drawing a circle with a star and moon cris-crossing together inside of it. I heard Kuro sigh.
"Such a simple design, I guess I'm not surprised..."
I decided to ignore her for once and quickly recited a different verse, "In serving eachother, we become free. May God grant us the wisdom to discover the right and the strength to to make it endure! I summon you! Glorious Knights of the Round!" A giant circle hilighted around us forcing some fiends back. Six metal clad figures climbed out of the ground from in front of each of us banishing staffs or giant broad swords.
The knights in front of me, silver armour lined with brass, turned around with bright blue eyes glowing from behind the darkness of the helmet.
"Lady Kiako, it's been quite a while since we've met." Galahad said, "I've missed you, you seem to have grown up."
"My my, are you getting closer with the ladies my dear son? Should I be expecting children anytime soon?" Lancelot teased from in front of Sugaki, who seemed a bit shocked at the appearance of the knight. The other knights were already introducing themselves quickly to the others. Zero and his knight, Sir Kay were already bickering over who knew what...
Six knights... I had summons six knights at once... I slowly felt my vision fading slightly but quickly caught myself before falling straight flat on my face. The sudden sound of Galahad's fist colliding with his father's helment brought me back to awareness.
"Galahad, knights, would you give us a hand with this? We're getting short on soldiers and could use a great deal of help."
One of the knights bowed, "But of course."
"Tch, sometimes you summoners aggravate me so..." Sir Kay seemed to complain but hefted his sword over his shoulder, "Let us make quick work of this." The knights charged off and instantly the six of us mortals stood in a giant bloody clearing that the knights had carved out.
"Whoa, they work fast..." Sugaki said peering after the knights. With a smile, he pulled a giant mace over his shoulder, "Well, guess we better start helping out!"
"Yeah!" we all nodded to eachother and split up.
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Kel and I leaned back to back against a rock, panting and passing a bottle of water among us.
"Well, looks like we did good..." Kel said and took a chug of the water, "Good thing too..."
"Yeah..." I nodded taking the bottle from him and downing the rest of the bottle, "Who would've known, Seymour and the big shots didn't even show up for this battle. Though catching Hojo for hostage was a bonus, I can't wait to interrogate him..."
Kel chuckled, "You sound disappointed, and anxious about beating the living daylights out of Hojo."
"Not at all." I said. Kel stood up with the empty bottle, "Well, I'll head back, you coming?"
"I'll be right there." I said. Kel nodded and jumped off the rock while I got to my feet to look at the damage. Holes dotted the Calm lands as well as scorch marks. What littered the ground, I was sure they didn't resemble the shape of humans anymore... I glanced towards our camp and smiled.
We won this first war, hopefully no more will break loose. I rubbed behind my head.
Now, to go and attack Seymour and them before they can attack again...
Kiako, behind you!!
I quickly turned around to see a gun pointed at my face. Miu, her face twisted in rage had her gun touching my forhead. I know she has poor aim, but even at point blank range she'll hit me!
"Die! You filthy demon!" she shouted and then pointed the gun at my chest, I tried to slap it away. A loud BANG resonated through the still air and I gripped the wound and watched black pentacles started to tattoo my arms. I glared up at her.
"This is Akuma poison...!" I hissed then remembered the ambush on the camp in Bikanel desert, "You're the traitor... You told them our... position..." I felt the poison ripping at my insides and curled up from the pain.
Kiako!!
Mana... It's... It hurts... Mana...
I slowly felt my body deteriorating and held back a scream. Gathering what energy I could muster with the pain, I glared up at Miu. I want to stare at her as I die... That traitor... I winced when she kicked me in the side.
"Don't you look at me like that! It's your fault! It's all your fault!!" Miu screamed at me and kicked me again, "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT HE'S DEAD!!"
He? Who? Who died because of me? Because of YOU over a thousand soldiers died!!
Darkness flooded me and I felt the pain intensify. Soon, only darkness remained...
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There was a light nudge at my side and I had to cringe at the feeling.
"Oi! Cat, wake up!!" a rough voice was poking me. Go away voice... You're not even mine...
"I don't know if kicking her will wake her up Zabuza-sama..."
"Yeah you bastard! Quit kicking her!"
Zabuza??
Slowly opening my eyes, I looked up at a pair of kind dark eyes. The girl smiled.
"I didn't think I'd see you here of all places Kiako-san."
"Haku?" I had to comprehend for a moment then shot up, "Haku?! Zabuza!!"
"About time you woke up..." the mist demon scoffed, "So, how the hell did you end up killing yourself and dying?"
I'm... Dead?? A gloved hand reached out to me and I thought I would have a heart attack.
"Believe it kid." Cliff said holding out his hand. I staggered for a moment as he helped me up and I felt my head spin, "Whoa easy there!!"
"Am I ...Really dead...?" I asked and felt at my chest. We were in a blank white space within a small field of lightly colored flowers, a sweet scent almost familiar wafted about.
"Actually, you're kinda in between. This is kinda like a place for people who have sinned but atoned ya know? If you were a normal human, then yeah, you'd be dead." Cliff said, "But since you're a nifty Half Demon, you're kinda in a near death experience."
"You were a nifty Klausian, how the hell did you die then?" Fayt said coming up beside him, "Hiya." Scratching at my head, I bit my lip to stop water rushing to my eyes.
"Whoa, Kiako, you looked like you're gonna cry again..." Cliff said backing away slightly. I hung my head.
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you guys..." I said quietly, "I wasn't... I didn't..." I stopped when Cliff pat my head.
"Hey, don't worry about it. You did your best." he smiled then his face become serious, "Kiako, I think there's someone you need to see..." He turned me around and lead me to a small patch of grass.
There sat Kein and Albel, and...
I felt my chest start to hurt at the person with them. He looked up at me and he quickly bolted up to meet me.
"Kiako-chan..."
I started to cry.
"Hei-san..."
Authors notes: Gyaaah... I'm so tired... My big bro made a workout training thing for me and it's making me sleepy.. Of course, it's all for lion dance! YES! And I have to admit, it's working. I've got my groove back for DDR too. n.n Thanks for reading!