Hi everyone, I am once again back, and I know I'm quite late, with another chapter that I hope you're gonna like! I was busy studying the last few weeks, and did anybody notice how conveniently they put the word 'dying' in studying!
Anyway I don't own Inazuma Eleven GO Chrono Stone or any of the official characters, the story idea was adopted by Shiranai Atsune but the new storyline is my own!
ENJOY!
- Normal P.O.V. -
- In the Werewolf kingdom -
It had taken him quite a long time but he had finally reached a village, carying his wounded kohai in his arms he desperately called out for help.
"Somebody help me!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, everyone on the street froze for a moment, taking in the scene beeing played in front of them before they snapped out of it. Ten, maybe even twenty people rushed to their side to help him carry his friend while others went to inform the local healer. worried and curious questions were shot at him from all around.
"What happened?"
"How did he break his leg?"
"What have you two been up to?"
The only answer he could give them was: "..Vampires.." And that was all they needed to know, a few angry nods and growls went through the crowd as this news only fueled their hate towards the other supernatural race. "We were almost on our side of the country when... we were ambushed..."
They made their way to the clinic of the Healer and the woman helped them in and ordered everyone out who was of no use to her, but before she closed the door to everyone Kirino stepped up.
"Wait!" He called and the woman paused for a moment, telling him to speak up. "..Is he going to be allright?"
The woman's greyish blue eyes turned softer at the question and she smiled kindly at him. "Don't worry Kirino-san, your little friend is in good hands." She replied. "Meet with my assistant in the back, you look like you need some treatment yourself." The last thing he saw before she closed the door was her short blue hair and a slight glimpse of his companion laying on a table in front of the fireplace. He came to stand eye to eye with the heavy wooden door as it fell in the lock and he let out the deep breath he did not know he had been holding.
His legs weakened and he felt himself falling backwards, he was exhausted. But before his butt could crash to the ground he was caught by the shoulders by a pair of strong arms.
"Wow, you okay there buddy?" A kind and male voice asked. Kirino looked up and stared straight into a pair of dark-brown eyes. He tried to stand back up and, with a little help from the grown-up, re-found his balance. Now he could take a better look at the man without having to turn his neck a hundred degrees. The man had a dark, tanned skin and dark-brown hair in large spikes to match his eyes, in adition to this he wore a bright-orange headband that looked like it had never left his forehead.
"Yeah I'm fine, thank you mister..."
"Endou, Endou Mamoru," He replied and gave him a broad grin. "Always glad to help,"
Kirino nodded politely and turned silent, not that he found it awkward to talk to a grown-up or anything, he was just still thinking about Kariya. If he had not send him to run to the border with the girl he wouldn't be in this situation right now. Kirino's fist clenched and a frown appeared on his face. "It as all his fault, not only wasn't he strong enough to protect his kohai, he had also lost to a Vampire for crying out loud!
His accusing thoughts were forced to the back of his mind when a warm hand rested on his head in a kind manner.
"You can't blame yourself for this," Endou told him as if he had read Kirino's mind and had found what was troubling him. "Every person here, in this village, this country, knows the riscs that come with crossing the border. You probably had your hands full with your own troubles to deal with at the moment either,"
"But still... he got hurt because I told him to make a run for it..." Kirino replied.
"You did what seemed best for you at the time," The older male said in a gentle voice. "And that was for him to make it to safety, that means you thought of his safety first before your own. Now that, my friend, is a quality you don't find much in people these days!"
"You.. you really think so?" Kirino asked, still slightly unsure wether to believe this Endou or not. "What I did was for the best?"
"Absolutely! Now, we need you to get all fixed up." Endou replied. "So let's go find that assistant, now shall we?"
The older man led him around the Healer's cabin and indeed, they found her assistant picking herbs in the backyard. Her long, fiery red hair reached the lower part of her back and a dark-green ribbon was tied on top of her head. She let them know she had noticed them by the twitching of her ears. She turned around to face them and her sharp, dark-green eyes met theirs, and it matched perfectly with her slightly tanned skin.
"Oi Endou, who's this?" The girl asked. Her fiery red tail sweeping from side to side.
"This here is eh... uhm... now that I think about it I never got your name ahaha..." Endou laughed a little awkwardly.
"It's Kirino, Kirino Ranmaru." The pinkette replied.
"Right! Midori, meet my friend Kirino Ranmaru, Kirino-kun, this girl here is Seto Midori, one of Otonashi-san's assistants." The grown up introducd them to each other.
"Nice to meet you," Kirino said and reached out his hand to shake hers but she just looked at it for a second before looking back up. She had no intention whatsoever to actually shake it.
"Yeah whatever," She said and shrugged. "Take off your shirt," She ordered.
"What!" Kirino semi-shouted, taken aback by this sudden and slightly embarassing command.
"I need to check you up apparantly," The red-haired she-Wolf shot back in a calm tone. "So take it off allready! Goddamnit!"
She had him sat down on the wooden picknick table underneath the covered terrace, a lantern hang beside the door that lead to the front room where Kariya was treated at the very moment. The Healer's house was like everyone else's in this village, they were all cabines made of dark oak wood and rocks from the river.
As Kirino was being checked from his head to toe he came to know that Midori's personality was just as fiery and lively as the color of her hair, she did not flinch at bad words or a little bit of blood or infections. On the contrary it seemed to fuel the fire inside of her, and after a little while he noticed that behind that harsch outside was a friendly and trustworthy friend. But even the nicest of people tend to stick their noses into someone's business that would lead to uncomfortable silences and even harder questions that would touch the sore spot each time.
"So you two were in Dead Man's valley huh," Midori said as she gently rubbed a little disinfecting balm on the cuts in his neck. "And that's where the two bloodsuckers caught up with you, why were they following you anyway?"
"They wanted something... 'important'... we had." Kirino said, carefully choosing his words, not wanting to let anything about the Last Human slip past his lips, it was embarassing and humiliating enough already as it was.
"And what was that something 'important'?" Mirodi asked. "Did you guys find some good Bloodfungus on their side of the country?"
"Bloodfungus don't exist," Kirino stated.
"Sure they do, look they grow over there in the garden!" Midori pointed out to the garden and indeed, a few metres away from them grew a thick patch of mushrooms with thick black hats that seemed to be on the verge of exploding. "They're Fungi which hats are filled with extremely dark blood, they don't taste too well but they do medical wonders!"
"Didn't your friend Roco once made a salad including them?" Endou asked, he was sitting on the other side of the table leaning against the wall of the house. Roco was the other assistant of Haruna Otonashi, both girls were specifically chosen because Haruna would only train girls who were strong of heart and bright of mind. Anyone else who asked for her tution was simply declined, claiming that the path of a Healer was not for everyone.
"She did, it was still horrible, but not that bad as the original." Midori replied as she wrapped a couple of bandages around his neck and chest. "So you're all fixed up."
"Thank you," Kirino said as he put his shirt back on.
"I'd like my payment now," Midori said.
"What payment?" Kirino asked surprised.
"Yes, payment, gold, cash, whatever it is you want to call it," Midori said and smiled cheekily. "A Healer's treatment isn't just for free you know!"
"But I.. I don't have any money with me!" Kirino replied feeling a little angered because she had not told him about this before and was forcing it down on him so suddenly.
"Then I guess we've got to make some kind of arrangement." Midori said, winking.
"What kind of arrangement?" Kirino asked carefully, feeling she was going to ask about that.. something important.
"Just a little information switch! You see I ask you a couple of questions and you'll answer them!" Midori replied. "And you've got to be one hundred percent honest and no turning around the subject or giving some kind of vague answer!"
Kirino thought about this for a few moments but finding no way out whatsoever, he was bound to tell her the truth... the truth and nothing else. He sighed deeply and a little irritated. "Ugh.. fine! What do you want to ask?"
"What were you doing on their side of the border?" Midori asked, accusingly pointing her finger at him for no particular reason.
"I already told you that," Kirino said. "We had to go get someth.."
"Yeah yeah, something important," Midori finished his sentence in quite an impatient manner. "But what was that something important?"
At this Kirino stayed silent for a little while, at the beginning of this mission he was told not to tell anyone about the Last Human running around somewhere in their world. The Prince had specifically said he did not want anyone unsignificant to this mission to try to butt in and claim the Human before he could. He had taken an oath to keep it a secret, but now he was almost forced to tell.
"I'm waiting!" The red-head said while impatiently tapping on the wooden table with her extremely long nails.
"I can't tell." Kirino said by truth.
"Incorrect answer!" Midori said. "You can only tell the truth or hand over the money you owe me!"
"I don't have your money!" Kirino snapped, losing his patience with this puchy girl. "And even if I wanted to tell you I can't! I took an oath!"
"What kind of oath?" Endou asked, finally butting in in their conversation. "Who made you take it?"
"I promised not to tell anyone about my or Kariya's whereabouts or doings untill we had fulfilled the mission." Kirino explained.
"Mission?" Midori asked excitedly. "What kind of mission? Did you had to steal something from the Vampires?"
"Yeah, sortof. It wasn't exactly theirs to begin with, but it was in their territory." Kirino replied.
"Kirino," Endou started, earning the attention of the two youngsters. "Who made you take the oath?"
The pink-haired werewolf waited a few moments before gulping and quickly licking his lips. "Saryuu Evan-sama."
"THE PRINCE!" The two of them shouted in surprise. Their shout died away in the night.
- Aoi P.O.V. -
- In the castle of the Vampires -
It had felt like I had slept for days in a row, my body felt extremely relaxed if it weren't for the stiffness in my limbs and joints. When was the last time I had slept so deep like this? I could exactly remember when, it had been the day before the war had started and she was forced to flee the safety of her house and into the wild.
I turned to lay on my right side and sighed in content, I had missed the comfort of a decent matress and warm sheets so incredibly much.
Wait!
"A matress..." The word processed slowly in my mind. "Sheets..." My eyes shot open and I sat up straight in an instant, my heart beating painfully in my chest as my breath hitched in my throat.
My fears were confirmed when I looked around feverishly in this unknown environment. I had never been here before, and I had been practically everywhere in this goddamn' country, trying to search for a beter hiding spot where I could stay for a while before I had to move on again. But I had never stopped anywhere this fancy before. Mostly because I could not afford to be seen by people, they'd know immediately what I was, and because it had always been way out of my budget to even get to peek inside one of these suites.
I threw the blankets off of me and, quite unladylike, wobbled my way to the door that was right across the room. But when I tried to open it I noticed, to my very dismay, it wouldn't budge.
"Probably locked..." I thought and a big wave of fear washed over me like ice. The doors were never locked... unless... "Please say it's not true!" I thought panicked and raced towards the window, tripping over my boots beside the bed, who had taken them off anyway? I tore the curtains to the side and got the biggest heartattack of my life. It even stopped for a moment before it started hammering agressively in desperate, mean thumbs.
Far beneath me was a world I had never seen before, busy streets filled with people, marketstalls with loud salesmen in the plaza, tall, stone houses with stained glass windows and tall and proud chimneys which were spitting thick smoke into the darkened sky.
They looked so normal, the handsome guys with kind smiles and the beautifull women holding the hands of innocent-looking children. But looks could be deceiving, and soon enough did their pointed ears and sharp nails catch my attention and all I could see were black spots dancing in front of my eyes as harsch reality crashed onto me. I started to shake uncontrolably and fell back onto my butt quite painfully.
Realisation dawned onto me like ice and I felt cold and sick all over.
I was in the Capitol of the Vampire territory!
- In the castle of the Werewolves -
Somewhere far away over the border, in the golden Capitol of Arcadia, was an enormous castle. Its golden peaks reaching high up into the skies, as if trying to touch the stars, the many windows erupting a soft and warm light to the streets where many wolves and pups were feasting on the streets in preparation of the coronation which was comming closer by the day!
But the happy music could not penetrate through the thick walls, inside it was as silent as the grave. Here was no reason to party, at least not yet. Even though they had suffered a great loss, they did not lose hope just yet.
A tall knight in shining silver armor walked through the long corridors of the palace, his beige colored hair tied into a low ponytail softly swaying from left to right and back again with his steps. His dark-brown, almost black, eyes looking straight ahead as he neared the throneroom of the caslte.
Two knights were standing on each side of the grand doors, they saluted him, recognizing the captain of the Royal Guard and let him pass. But when the doors opened not even a single bit of light came from the grand hall behind, it was pitch black. It didn't worry the knight even the least and went in, knowing he'd meet the Prince here wether it was dark or not.
And when the doors closed behind him and heard the soft echo of a falling lock all that could be seen in this darkness was the luminous white hair from the prince who was facing him with a smile on his lips from the throne.
AND I'M ENDING IT HERE!
AND I REVEILED THE WEREWOLF PRINCE TOO!
Now I can die and rest in peace! Haha joke! No really I'm not going to die, I still have to finish this story!
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