Chapter 14 guys...posted for my sun sister to stop her whining, for Tetsuni cause I got her in trouble, and OddIsMyHomeboy because I love getting Odd's reviews!
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Mamoru's point of view…
I finally killed all the bat demons and their bodies littered the ground around me. I looked around me to check on Dawn but she was no where around. "Dawn?" I asked and ran towards the path of destruction that led away from everyone. There was a trail of blood leading to a clearing not far off and I found another dead demon. But…I couldn't see Dawn. I inhaled deeply trying to catch a scent of her but her smell ended here. I could smell the two women and a whiff of smoke and I knew exactly what had happened. They had taken her.
A growl started deep in my belly and I whirled from the spot. Nozomi stood close behind me and her eyes were milky white. A vision! Maybe she knows where Dawn is! I waited impatiently for Nozomi to fall out of her vision and when she did I grabbed her shoulders. "Where is she?"
"My first mother, Mai, said she is in a house beside the mountain over there. Naraku won't come see her yet so they are going to hold her. They will torture her so she doesn't have the strength to get away." Tears ran down Nozomi's cheeks as she looked up at me. "Father you need to hurry."
I growled, "I am going as soon as I get you to Miroku and Sango. Grab your mother's bag."
Nozomi picked up the bag and gripped its handles tightly. "Father you don't understand. You have to hurry because…Mai told me that Mama…she's pregnant."
I froze in my tracks and turned my eyes back to Nozomi. "What?"
"Mother is carrying your pup."
She was in heat when we mated but I didn't really think much about it. She's already pregnant? My heart skipped a beat, and then it began to speed up. My mate and our pup are in danger. My eyes flashed red and I could feel the dog in me growling to get out. I grabbed Nozomi's arm and dragged her behind me to the hut as fast as I could. I had to get this pup to safety before I could save my mate. Dawn! I am coming! Hold on love! I left Nozomi in Sango's grasp; she was sobbing heavily then let my body take its dog form as it was screaming too. I turned towards the mountains and let out a howl that set the village shaking and began to run.
Dawn's Point of View…
I was sagging against the wall, my arms stretched above my head, held by demon chains. Mamoru…I thought weakly as I gazed around the bare room. Tamasine and Raku came into the room a few seconds after I woke up and stood in front of me.
"So Raku, Naraku can't see her yet so what should we do with her?" Tamasine said flipping a dagger between her hands.
"I think we should have fun with her Tamasine. I haven't gotten to try this out yet. The last visitor died before it was my turn." Raku said holding up a poker. The top of the poker was edged with numerous sharp points.
"What are you?" I whispered. Kagura was the wind; Kanna was the void. These two had to be part of Naraku's personality too.
"We are pain and pleasure." They said in unison.
Oh shit…sadists…wait, Tamasine is 'twin' and Raku is 'pleasure'. Damn it I should have paid more attention to their names! I thought as I struggled to my feet.
Raku stuck her poker into the floor and approached me. She ran her fingers from one wrist down my arm across my collar and up my other arm. "You cannot get free. Tamasine, do you want to play first?"
Tamasine grinned and held the point of her dagger to my left bicep. "Oh yes Raku." She shoved the dagger through my arm and my body gave an involuntary jerk. But I didn't scream…though God how I wanted too. I couldn't give them the satisfaction of my screams. It would make them worse because they would enjoy it so. "Sadly now that you are a demon, you can heal from everything we do to you but that doesn't mean it won't hurt."
I turned my face to look at her and smiled. It took a lot to smile into her ugly face as she pulled the dagger from my skin but I managed. I couldn't let them enjoy torturing me or I probably wouldn't be able to get them to stop.
Tamasine snarled and shoved the knife into my arm again turning it sideways so I had a cross on my arm going through my arm. "I will make you scream."
"All you do to me," I whispered as she pulled out the bloody blade out again. "I will return unto you tenfold."
Tamasine's eyes grew wide with worry and she turned. "Raku, you play for awhile. Your toy will be more effective." It seemed that Naraku was not used to people fighting back or else my telling them I would pay them back wouldn't faze them at all.
Raku nodded gravely and withdrew her poker from the floor. "I think since Tamasine started at your arms, I will start with your legs." She said and swung the poker like it was a bat into my left shin.
The skin ripped open and began to bleed heavily as it dribbled onto the floor. Blackness came over my eyes and I started to sag again to the floor but I straightened my knees to be sure I didn't land on my torn flesh. "You…bitch." I gasped out.
Raku grinned and stuck two fingers into the open wound. "Oh damn. I didn't break the bone. I'll need to try again." She pulled the poker back behind her head again and swung it even harder. I felt the bone shatter beneath the force of the hit then I passed out.
I came to the next morning and found Tamasine and Raku sharpening their toys. They looked up automatically their contrasting hair swaying about their faces as they turned to face me. Raku wandered over and stuck her fingers into the wound again and shook her head. "It is healing so fast."
Tamasine wandered over to my right arm and shoved the dagger through twice as she had done the day before on my other arm. It hurt…but my leg hurt more. I was trying to keep my weight from my left leg but if Raku decided to go to work on my right I was screwed. At the moment though, Tamasine was enjoying herself and Raku was sitting and watching stretched out across the floor. Tamasine took a liking to my lower arm and decided to decorate it. She stuck the tip of her dagger into my arm and dragged it around slicing open the skin and making designs with the cuts. She then moved to my other arm and echoed the patterns. Tamasine took her time doing this; it was well past afternoon when she had finished to her satisfaction.
My arms were covered in blood from wrist to shoulder and I could feel it running down my sides and dripping off. When I was training with my cousin I developed a trick to pushing the pain from my head: it was to sing songs; silly songs, tough songs, all sorts. I fell back into that trick while Tamasine sliced my skin open. Though my body twitched with each sharp movement my mind was curled up singing. The song I was on as she finished was SheDAISY's 'That's what I want for Christmas'.
"When you said yesterday that it's nearly Christmas
What did I want and I thought just love me, love me, love me
That's what I want for Christmas
When I walk through the room let them see you need me
Walk through the room let them see you love me, love me, love me
That's what I want for Christmas
Anyone can wish for all the trinkets in the window
Some can even buy the things they see
But the presents that I want (I want)
You'll never find in any window
Bring me love and bring it just for me (for me)
When you come home at night (baby)
Take me in your arms and hold me (baby)
Kiss me, and (let them see you love me) say you love me, love me, oh love me
That's what I want for Christmas
Da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da
Love me, Love me
Oh that's what I want, that's what I want for Christmas (yeah)
Anyone can wish for all the trinkets in the window
Some can even buy the things they see (that's what I want, that's what I want)
But the presents that I want (I want)
You'll never find in any window
Bring me love and bring it just for me (for me)
When you come home at night
And you take me in your arms
And you hold me (hold me) kiss me (kiss me, let them see you love me)
And say you love me (love me), love me (love me), love me (love me, love me)
That's what I want for Christmas (that's what I want, that's what I want)
(Hold me) Hold me (Kiss me) Kiss me That's what I want for Christmas"
I opened my mind again when I felt the knife stop and smiled evilly. The head of the opposite twins is what I want for Christmas. Tamasine stood back and admired her work. The swirls and curls of her cuts trailed from my wrists all the way up to my shoulders. She tore off the bottom of my skirt and wiped the blood away so that she could see the marks without the trouble of my blood being in the way.
Raku stood joined her in contemplation. "Tamasine I think that this is the best work you have done yet."
"I quite agree, Raku. It's your turn now." Tamasine said stretching out where Raku had been a moment before.
I began to sweat as Raku picked up her poker again and strolled over to me. "I think I will make sure the left is still nice and shattered then begin on the right." I wanted to bite my lip but because of my fangs if I bit into it, I would go through it, so I just tried to slip back into my blank mind. It didn't work. With the first hit on my left leg I was torn from my safe place. When she hit my right leg and ripped the skin open my stomach screamed and I heard crying from my belly. Oh god…is that…a baby? I could hear the baby screaming from inside of me as the pain I felt was shared with the child. I closed my eyes and plunged my mind into my body searching out the presence I felt inside of me.
Mama! A voice cried. It hurts!
I know baby. Close your mind to it. It will go away soon. Papa will come save us. I whispered soothingly. I was pulled forcefully out of my mind and into reality as Raku hit me again.
"Pay attention when I torture you." She snarled. She walked over to the fire and stuck her poker into it. The sun was setting by the time she pulled it out and the end was cherry red. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit…My head screamed as she approached holding it behind her head. "Let's try this again." She slammed the hot poker into my left leg and let it set against the skin for a moment before going to my other leg. As she hit that last time a scream was finally ripped out of my throat.
"AHHHHHH!" I shrieked as my legs crumpled beneath me, broken, bloody, and burned. Outside I heard a sound that brought my head up in hope. It was a howl. I leaned forward towards the door and screamed out, "MAMOOORUUU!" A second later the hut came down around the three of us. I tucked myself over my stomach to protect my pup as the ceiling came down but before it could crush me a snout pressed into the hut and grabbed me by my shirt and lifted me safely from the mess. Two puffs of smoke lifted from the hut seconds before the entire structure collapsed on itself and I knew that the two had gotten away.
I turned to look up at the red eyes of the dog demon that held me and I saw my mate gazing down at me. "Mamoru…" I whispered then passed out.
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