Hiya peepz! I know I didn't update last week, sorry about that, I was trying to think of ways to write out this chapter. But my dreams seem to be as inspiring as ever, and so I managed to write out this chapter all today. (I also had more time today anyways eh heh...) If I can, I will try to post another chapter this weekend. Anyways, read on, faithful readers'reviewers, and I celebrate the fact that I have now hit 50 reviews on this story!
Summary: Kurt is a Fallen, an indescribably beautiful race of demon–angels. Kitty is a fledgling priestess with a hidden power. Kitty knows that Kurt isn't her enemy, but can she prove it?
Fallen Angel
15. The Element Spirit and Memories
Kitty was falling through a tunnel of rainbow light; to her left she could see Kurt; the shining lights flickering all around them in a myriad of colors. Wind flowed through the light, spinning them in random directions. Kitty could see more blinding, white light waiting to receive her and Kurt, and she fell towards it, letting it swallow her up in a single moment.
Kitty opened her eyes, blinking to adjust them to the light. She stood. There seemed to be no recognizable land, or sky, for that matter. The entire landscape of this new realm had blended together into a multitude of shimmering, pulsing colors. Everywhere she looked, there seemed to be swirling colors. Nothing appeared to be solid, save for the ground she felt at her feet; and of course there was Kurt, Sparks, herself, and Fervior.
She remembered. Kurt and Sparks! She could see Kurt groaning beside her, slowly but surely waking up—but where was Sparks, who had gone through the portal second, after Fervior?
A distant roar shattered the tranquil calm; and before she knew it she was running forwards, through the almost misty, congealing colors, shifting and flowing around her as she broke through the lights.
What she saw utterly confused her.
Well, at least Fervior looked relatively the same as before. But where Sparks had gone, she had no idea. Instead, the dark Fallen was facing a tall fiery dragon. The dragon was literally flaming, as far as Kitty could tell. It had ruby-red eyes, and there was something on its forehead, gleaming like a tiny white star.
And all Kitty could think about was that Fervior had done something to her friend. She ran forwards blindly, yelling, "What did you do to Sparks?"
Fervior turned; for a moment, Kitty saw his eyes flash a different color (weird, she thought) but it seemed like a trick of the light. He let out a scornful laugh and pointed at the dragon. "That is your friend."
Kitty let one eye look towards the dragon, while keeping the other trained on Fervior, in case he tried anything. But the evil Fallen was simply watching her through his black eyes. She heard the faint 'bamf' noise as Kurt appeared beside her, evidently unsure of how far she had gone and so had used teleportation. She whispered to him, "Apparently Sparks is the dragon." She let her skepticism on Fervior's statement be clear.
Kurt's eyes widened in surprise. "The Guardian…" he whispered, almost reverently.
"Wait…you mean she's the Guardian?" asked Kitty, beginning to gape.
Kurt nodded numbly. Kitty shoved her hands in her pockets to keep them from pointing at anything in wild shock, when her hand came into contact with something small and pointed. She drew it out, eyes widening as she saw it was the strange tooth she had received as a gift, the one that let her see elements.
She noticed Fervior's eyes widen when he saw the tooth, but he made no move to attack. She let the ancient artifact manipulate her eyes so she could see all the elements.
Kitty saw that the swirling colors of the realm had become muted, grayed as she took in the whirling orbs of the elements. She could see Kurt's, an orb of fire, and then a secondary odd orb of smoke and light not moving, but literally disappearing from one place to the next—his teleportation gift; obviously the tooth showed your gifts as well. The dragon had normal fire and the dragonfire, obviously (Kitty finally admitted to herself that the dragon was Sparks when she realized that the star-like object on the dragon's forehead was the heart of the dragon's fire) She could see her own elements, a large ring of swirling colors, as well as a faint, pure white glow that she understood to be the 'brightness' both Shade and Kurt had spoken of when they had looked at her with the tooth's powers. Fervior had two orbs—the metallic one she assumed symbolized his gift in working with metal, and the other the soft, white sphere that had been the final obstacle to opening the gateway—the one he had called 'Spirit'.
She closed her eyes, letting them shift back to 'normal'. Her mind came up with an idea—both Shade and Kurt had been paralyzed when they looked at her using the tooth. Fervior, though he seemed mighty in magic, she suspected he would not have enough to counter the effects of the tooth—and she made a split second decision. She threw the tooth.
It sailed through the air with aim far better than Kitty could have done as a human; one of Fervior's hands whipped out and caught it. For a moment he stared at it, confused; then the small object began to emit a glow. Kitty stepped back a little as the tooth grew in Fervior's hands, becoming the shape of a bow, complete with string as well. She stared in astonishment. How had he been able to do that? Just as she was thinking that, white light enveloped the newly-revealed bow, and when Kitty looked again, she saw a pulsing white arrow nocked at the string.
Realization closed in on her like an icy wind. The tooth had worked for her because she had all the elements. But the reason it had changed for Fervior was because he could use the element Spirit—that was what it had been created for!
A smirk flickered across Fervior's face, and he raised the bow, the gleaming white arrow not moving. Kitty waited, almost closing her eyes in case, but then she noticed Fervior had frozen where he stood, quivering slightly as he fought the paralysis the bow brought when all the elements were looked upon in a single person.
Kitty, very deliberately, took a couple steps towards him, hearing Kurt whisper, "Don't, Kitty!" at her back. But she ignored him, standing a few paces in front of Fervior.
She reached out towards the bow, and his eyes widened very slightly, about as much movement as he could do. Her hand hit the Spirit arrow instead, and in an instant, her world was gone.
She was looking out at a smaller Treehaven; dimly she thought this must've been before she was even born, maybe. She floated like a leaf on the breeze, not a care in the world…
Kitty looked down and saw a bridge down below, and standing on it was….herself? She looked harder, floating down to the bridge's level, and saw the girl didn't look exactly like her—the brown hair was longer, and her eyes, although blue, seemed clear as glass. At her side was the bow that Kitty's tooth had been, and the one that Fervior had regenerated.
She followed the girl's gaze and saw a younger Fervior standing on the other side of the bridge. He looked mostly the same as he had been when she had first seen him, but his eyes were different. Instead of black with red flecks, they were a deep brown, with spinning golden flecks. Was this him before he became evil?
The girl was speaking.
"I'm sorry."
Kitty jumped at the sound of the nearly-identical-to-Kitty's voice. But what was she sorry for? Had she done something to Fervior? Or maybe he had done something?
She concentrated; Fervior was speaking now, in a whisper. "I won't be able to stop it anymore, Karma."
Kitty blanched. So this was Karma? No one had told her that she looked like the first all-elements wielder!
Karma was returning his gaze, seriousness in her eyes. She nodded once, saying quietly, "I understand."
For a moment hope flickered in Fervior's strange eyes, which quickly died away when Karma raised her bow, a Spirit arrow forming rapidly, ready and waiting.
Kitty could see the sorrow, the grief in Karma's clear eyes, and she knew that whatever the Fallen was about to do, she definitely did not want to do it.
Karma lowered her head for a moment, and Kitty was shocked to see, for a brief instant, unshed tears glimmering in the corners of her eyes, but she blinked them away and lifted her head, saying, "I don't want to do this. You know I don't want to…"
Fervior nodded swiftly, eyes filling with a faint fear. "You aren't—" he began, but was cut off by Karma's sad, quiet voice.
"I don't want to do this," she repeated, sounding close to tears now, "but I have no other choice!" She aligned her arrow, and Fervior's eyes took on a pleading look, and he put his hands together, as if begging, beseeching her to not do what she was about to do.
Karma shook her head, tears finally falling from her eyes, trailing down her cheeks. She mouthed 'I'm sorry' once, and closing her eyes, let the arrow fly.
Kitty watched as the arrow flew in a perfect line, and Fervior, too, closed his eyes, not even trying to avoid it. Was this his judgement, she figured, was this what he had expected?
What had that arrow done to him? More like, what had Karma done to him?
She was drawn back to reality, her hand falling from the Spirit arrow. Vaguely she thought, it seemed so similar to before, only this time it was twisted around—a sort of grim parody of what she had seen in that memory. She looked up at Fervior, who was still frozen in place, the Spirit arrow quavering against the string.
She stepped back slowly, Kurt appearing next to her.
"Kitty, what are you trying to do?" He sounded extremely worried.
"It's all right," she mumbled, glancing back at Fervior. "He's not our enemy."
"WHAT?" Kurt yelled, shock clearly evident.
Kitty turned back to Fervior, realizing the paralysis was fading a bit; the dark Fallen's hand slipped from the string, enough to give it a twang, and the Spirit arrow flew forwards, and Kitty couldn't have dodged it even if she wanted to.
There was no real feeling of impact when it hit her; it seemed the Spirit arrows couldn't hurt you physically—but as she thought this it felt as though her very soul was being shattered into pieces.
Distantly she felt herself fall backwards, feeling the ground against her back only faintly.
The multi-colored lights of the realm were fading into black; Kitty felt her mind slip into the waiting blackness.
The last thing she heard was Kurt's cry, of sorrow and anguish.
"KITTY!"
Muahahahahahaha! Another cliffhanger! (These are becoming regular) While I don't really like reading them, it's always much more fun to actually write them! (Don't mind me, it's just the plotbunnies attacking my brain) Anyways, everyone gets brownies because this story has received over 50 reveiws! Yaaay! Although I've seen more reveiws on other people's stories which have less chapters, this is like a milestone for me. Happy 'Over 50 Reveiws' Day!
~ Shadey