A/N The part of the story before the title is PART OF THE STORY and needs to be read too. I just wrote the title after because of POV change.
Two shadowy figures stood near each other on a high balcony of the castle's highest tower. They looked down on the intruders as they fought through hordes of ayakashi in the courtyard. They were trying to reach the tower the figures stood on. They continued watching the group with narrowed eyes.
"Sumimura Yoshimori…. Hiba Kyoichi…. Kagemiya Sen…. They interfere with my plans…" A deep voice spoke from the two figures. The male figure turned to the female one, who returned the look.
"Do not worry, things tend to sew themselves up in my castle." The woman spoke. The male grinned and returned his gaze to the group cleaving through the enemy ayakashi like butter.
"So that means the girl is dead. She is no longer needed." The man asked her. The woman shook her and looked back at the man. She sighed and turned around and looked back at the tower they stood on.
"No, she's alive…. They still have her." She said. "They unfortunately have the boy as well."
"The more taken the merrier, I want this castle rid of intruders. Are there any Guardians free?" The man asked.
The woman shook her head. "I don't believe so. Numbers 3 and 5 are deceased. Number 4, 7, and 8 are traitors. Number 6 and 9 are already out on a mission you gave them and Number 10, is where he usually is, the dungeon, as you ordered." The woman said.
"You should confront them, Christeenala." The man said.
"I refuse. I will not leave your side." Christeenala responded. She looked back down at the intruders who were jumping up kekkai to reach the balcony they stood on.
"You're the Superior?" Yoshimori shouted.
Chapter 9
The Lover's Paradox
Princess walked up behind us and stood behind Sen. I looked straight at the man known as "The Superior" among the guardians. Only Christeenala has ever referred to him by his name. I waited for my question to be answered. The superior turned and walked back and turned back to look at us.
He removed his hood, revealing pitch black hair and heterochromia eyes: one purple, one green. His skin was just as white as the other members, other than the Latin Christeenala, but he had a cold, icy stare. I shivered at his aura. It was sinister, but I could tell he didn't eat humans. It's just sinister because of the man's intentions.
"I am the Superior, Xorin. Why have you invaded Christeenala's castle?" Xorin questioned.
"Christeenala invited us to stay here." I informed him. He looked at Christeenala with anger.
"Traitor!" He shouted and summoned a sliver claymore and tossed it at Christeenala. It feebly impacted with her and fell to the floor, to teleport back to Xorin.
"You need to calm down Xorin. You've become obsessed with this organization." Christeenala said. "You've even let your friends die because of it. Cognizine, Zinzin, Cereza-Torina; they all died because of your actions."
Xorin looked speechless for a second but turned back me angrily. "It wasn't my fault they died. It was these people's fault. Killing innocent Ayakashi…."
"They weren't innocent. In every one of the cases, we were attacked by them first." Hiba argued. Xorin growled and turned around to sit back in his throne.
"And why should I listen to you?" Xorin asked.
"Would you listen to me then? I always thought we were going to create our own world for us to live in peacefully, but it's always been about this organization!" Christeenala shouted, throwing her arms in the air.
"We could always cut him down a little; it would let him realize what's wrong with his crazy mind." Princess suggested with a giggle.
"No, don't hurt him!" Christeenala shouted at Princess. I couldn't help but feel sorry for Christeenala, She's stuck loving a person who doesn't love her back.
Christeenala turned to Xorin. "Xorin please, forget about all this stuff with the Guardians! Let's go run away together, like you promised!" She shouted at him, tears streaming down her eyes. Xorin looked at her with a confused look; he obviously can't make up his mind. His cause of his girl…. I choose Yoshimori over anything in the world.
Xorin stood and opened his mouth to talk, but a vine shot through his chest. Christeenala gasped loudly and ran up to Xorin. She froze the vine and pulled him away from it and began performing what looked like healing spells.
"W-We have t-to get him to Karasumori!" Christeenala shouted. He lifted his hand and took hers. He shook his head slowly.
"It's too late. I haven't kept in shape…. It's too much." He said solemnly. Christeenala took his hand and shook her head.
"No, no, no no no! Don't die, please don't die!" She shouted. She stood up quickly and created a portal.
"I'm t-taking you to Karasumori. Y-you'll heal there and w-we could live happily forever after." Christeenala said desperately. Just as she said that Xorin started fading away into shining dust.
(A/N the way Gen does in the anime)
Christeenala panicked and, as a last ditch effort, she froze him. His body completely encased in the ice, perfectly preserved. She collapsed onto her knees before it and cried over the ice.
"I think we should comfort her." Yoshimori said. He grabbed my arm and gently pulled me. He led me up to her side and he put his hand on her shoulder.
That's right. Yoshimori's the type of person to care about someone he just met. I looked at the scene before me, the heartbroken lover crying over her lover's corpse. I'd do the same, except I might make it a Romeo and Juliet story and go with Yoshimori.
I looked up and flicked my ears. I hear laughing. Where is that laughter coming from? Where is it? I looked at the throne and immediately figured it out. It was a vine that stabbed Xorin. That means…
"I'm still here you know." Lilium walked out of behind the throne, a huge smile on her face. Her hand was frozen and she was trying to break the ice off. Christeenala froze the vine that stabbed Xorin…
"Christeenala, we've found the murderer." I said. Christeenala immediately popped up from the floor and glared at Lilium. Lilium looked at her smugly and laughed.
"It's pitiful! Seeing a person so reserved like you burst into a crying fit! It's hilarious!"She laughed while pointing at Christeenala. She suddenly stopped laughing. She was slowly freezing from her pointed figure back to her. She immediately jumped and cut her arm off. The frozen piece dropped to the ground and shattered. Her arm grew back in milliseconds. She smiled at Christeenala again.
Christeenala let out a weird sound and looked at me. "Take him and put him in Karasumori. Hide him somewhere in there. He won't melt, so don't worry. I froze him alive, so if he stays on Karasumori grounds he'll heal." She said it all so quickly that I almost didn't catch it. Princess, Aihi, and Shion immediately helped me lift the huge icicle and took it onto Karasumori grounds, leaving just me, Hiba, and Yoshimori with Christeenala.
Christeenala and Lilium glared at each other and the air became extremely tense. Yoshimori pulled me back and put a kekkai over us.
"This is going to be like a battle between gods. We defiantly need to stay out of it." He said. I nodded and relaxed into his arms. He put a kekkai over Hiba just as the fight commenced. They were just standing there, not making a move, but their telekinetically controlled weapons were flying around crazy trying to strike the opponent.
Lilium's vines sprouted from the ground and whirred past Lilium, sending Lilium's haired aflutter. It speed towards Christeenala, but was blocked by an iceberg that materialized from nowhere. The iceberg crushed the vines and launched after Lilium. It crushed Lilium, who quickly regenerated and sent several vines from her sleeve flying at Lilium.
The vines sprouted snake heads and hissed as they flew towards Christeenala. Icy spears materialized in the air and flew at the snakes. The snakes serpentined around the icy weapons and dived towards Christeenala. A spinning ice dome enclosed Christeenala and shredded the snakes to nothing with its fast spinning. A chunk of the ice dome flew of and turned into a chisel as it flew towards Lilium.
Lilium's body split up, leaving a whole in her stomach for the chisel to fly through. The chisel crashed into the ground, but didn't stop moving. It suddenly flew backwards and crashed through Lilium's head. Lilium growled and her head turned into vines that propelled the chisel back at Christeenala. The chisel hammered through Christeenala's icy barriers and lodged itself in her icy force field dome, it's point inches from her faces. The dome exploded, sending point ice shards in every direction.
The ice shard crashed into Yoshimori's kekkai, and became lodged halfway through the kekkai. Yoshimori grunted as they crashed into the kekkai and dispersed the kekkai. Hiba rushed over to us so Yoshimori wouldn't have to make an unneeded kekkai. Yoshimori created three kekkai around us.
The shards flew at Lilium. Lilium spun wildly and turned into a top with flailing vines. The vines slapped the shards into the ground, crushing them, and spun towards Christeenala. Christeenala took in a deep breath and blew out and great storm of freezing air. The clouds crashed into the top, pushing it over.
Lilium jumped out of the top and sent vines from both of her sleeves at Christeenala. The vines succeed and grabbed Christeenala's wrists. Christeenala glared at Lilium and the vines froze at an incredible pace. The freezing reached Lilium and froze her solid before she could react.
An enraged Christeenala held her open hands into the air and hundreds of floating ice spears materialized form the moisture in the air, all pointed at Lilium. Christeenala clenched her fists and the ice spears flew at Lilium, crashing into her all at once and creating a powerful shock wave accompanied by a dust cloud.
Yoshimori and I looked at the scene with widen eyes. I've never seen such powerful Ayakashi before. These two have more power than my mother in one finger than she has in her whole body, and she's a nine-tailed fox ayakashi, one revered as a god. These two need to be recorded as gods. The unbreakable shield versus the endless spawn; it's an impossible battle.
Lilium shot out of the dust cloud and landed on the wall above the throne chair, defying gravity. She angrily glared at Christeenala as the skin on her face regenerated, the green muscle visible as the skin healed. I noticed that she's healing slower. Maybe temperatures effect how fast she heals…. It might be possible to kill her!
"Yoshimori, when Christeenala bombards Lilium like that could you contain it in a kekkai? I think if it's too cold, Lilium can't recover as fast; that's why she fled the battlefield when it got covered by the freezing dust." I said in the excitement of my epiphany. Yoshimori smiled at me and rubbed my head quickly before focusing back on their battle. I fixed my hair and flatted my cat ears at him. I stuck my tongue out at him quickly before looking back at the battle.
Lilium surrounded herself with vines and jumped down at Christeenala. She curled up like a ball and flew towards Christeenala like a pinball. Lilium dashed at Christeenala, breaking through the ice barriers and crashing into the rebuilt ice dome around Christeenala. The two beings crashed into each other and pushed up against each other.
The pinball of vines suddenly burst through the ice dome and crashed into Christeenala. The breaking dome sent icy dust flying all over the place. Yoshimori quickly created a kekkai over the icy dust, trapping an injured Lilium in the cold. Lilium crashed into the kekkai, nearly breaking it.
I sweatdropped at how much effort it was talking Yoshimori to maintain the kekkai without letting Lilium crash through it. I sliced up the kekkai around us to give him only one thing to focus on. He sighed and continued focusing.
Suddenly, is kekkai was sliced in half and it vanished. Yoshimori's mouth dropped open in surprise. He immediately turned and protected me with his body as the icy winds exploded over the throne room in a shockwave of power. I closed my eyes.
When I opened them, Yoshimori's hair was windswept forward and his eyes determined. He looked like he'd rip someone's throat out for nearly hurting me. I saw a new figure standing on the throne chair holding something. Another shockwave of power pushed against Yoshimori and I as Christeenala and Lilium continued fighting.
"Aww, the bitches started a catfight and I didn't get to join in. Impatient little fuckers."
"It's Tsurosa." I mumbled. Yoshimori and I stood and looked at the menacing woman. It was the first time I actually noticed how intimidating she was. Her short cut hair styled to cover one eye slightly; that eye having an eye patch over it. A scar on both of her shoulders. The giant golden claws, 4 times the size of her hands, worn over her hands and forearms, stopping at her elbows. She's creepy.
Suddenly a large explosion sent Yoshimori and I flying back towards the wall behind. Yoshimori spun us around in midair, so he was facing the wall instead of me, and made small, soft kekkai against the wall that we crashed into. We landed on your feet and looked back at the fight.
Christeenala was barraging Lilium with an endless array of ice spears, each time they hit it sent a shockwave out. Tsurosa jumped in and slashed Christeenala, but only managed to push her back and cause her to stumble. She glared at Tsurosa, who was jumping away, and sent a wire of ice at Tsurosa. IT latched around Tsurosa's leg and she slammed Tsurosa into the ground.
Vines wrapped around Christeenala and squeezed tight. They suddenly froze and fell to the ground to shatter. Christeenala created a spike of ice and flung it behind her, at Lilium. Lilium dodged it again and ran towards Christeenala. Tsurosa ran towards her at the same time and they simultaneously struck Christeenala with vines and claws. The vines severed and fell to the ground and the claws cracked. Tsurosa jumped back and quickly repaired the crack in the claws somehow, leaving it good at new.
In a surprise attack, Yoshimori made a kekkai around Tsurosa's head and collapsed it. Tsurosa body wobbled around, but the head regenerated itself quickly, in a matter of seconds. She glared at Yoshimori and ran after him. He created a kekkai around us, but she cleaved through it.
As she ran towards Yoshimori, I took that chance and kicked her in the face, sending her flying back. She landed on the throne and I heard her growl. Yoshimori immediately grabbed me and stole a kiss from me. I happily obliged, but a started shout pulled us out of it.
"You think that your all so good? You're all just the bitches under the pimp!" She shouted. She jumped onto the roof through a hole in the ceiling. She stood at the edge and showed off her prize.
She has Gen, and she's holding her claws to his throat.
A/N. PLEASE REVIEW, I thank KONEKO-CHAn717 and RED-GOLDEN-WINGS for their constant support and reviews. But, reviews are loved by all and I know there are more people reading this than just them!