AN : ALOHA!~ Here I am with another chapter to this story! Now, before anything else, I want to shout out to my lovely classmate ( she knows herself ), whom had - under my request - started to read this fanfiction. She had bothered me to freakin finish this chapter sooner, so thank her. She had also gave me 'adorable' ideas for this chapter. To spare you the headache the words : dinosaur, unicorn, dwarf were all into one sentence, so yeah. There goes Writer's Block! And btw, 3.k views and 30 reviews makes you guys the best readers in da wooorld~~~! Do I have to say I love you again! Cuz I surely do! Anyway, without much further aido here goes the next chapter of TSOHM!
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The Shadows of her memories chapter 11
Years had been ever since. Ever since the day she had proved herself. Years had been since he was gone. Since he betrayed the order and broke her promise. The order moved on. Two students to be banished wasn't something that happened daily, but neither was something that had to stop their lives. Even if the others hadn't been deeply scarred by that, somebody was.
It had been hard to go trough life that way. Losing what had been the most important to her at a young age, wasn't something she wished to others. Her own sister neglected her, her mother died, and then... he did the final blow to her heart and betrayed her trust. It had taken years to heal it, and neither now after almost eight years since the incident, it hadn't healed completely.
But she wasn't alone along the road as she believed. She had met three wonderful people, she owned them her own sanity. When she fell, they all reached out hands to her, and helped her up. They bandaged her wounds, help her dust herself off and told her she'll be fine. How could she ever repay them enough?
The own triumvirate of the order. The three special ninjas, charged with a task to protect the balance were her saviors. And they never asked for something back, but she guessed they had no actual idea, of the fact they had saved her from herself.
Akyo ran. She didn't knew where or why, but she ran. She knew if she'd stop, she'd be dead, so she continued onwards, in the darkness. She panted hard, her lungs screaming for missing oxygen, her legs begging her for rest, but she could not grant them such wishes. She continued forward, only the sound of her ragged breath, and her footsteps bouncing off the walls of a narrow hallway. She knew it was a hallway, since she had accidentally cut her elbows into something sharp in the walls, while looking back to see whoever or whatever was chasing her.
She heard a faint wishper, something extremely creepy. It was faint, but for once she wished she didn't had such trained ears. What that creepy, cold voice wishpered, only made her heart go on adrenaline again, and sent her running even faster. She tried to keep herself calm, under control, but she had no idea where she was, nor why she was running. She could feel her legs give away, and her lungs giving up, and when she was close to letting herself stop, she heard it again. A cold breath brushed against her ear, sending chills down her spine. She gasped audible in the void of darkness, and then stumbled. With a yelp, she turned on her back, leaning on her elbows. Thanks to her amazing dark vision, she saw she was only wearing a sleveless white dress, her hair let down. She had nothing on her feet, which explained the numbness she felt. While trying to regain her breath, she looked in the darkness and then the voice wishpered in the void again.
'You shouldn't be alive...' she heard to voice say the third time.
'W-Who's t-there?!' she heard her own voice dissappear into nothingness, as she looked franatically from something. Anything!
'You shouldn't be alive...' it said again louder this time, closer.
She hold back a soft wince. She could feel pure terror surrounding her, and she was scared like never before in her life.
'YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE!' this time the voice shouted, and she replied with a scream of her own, as she could see dark claws lunging at her from the darkness, wanting to tear her appart.
Akyo shot up, sweat covering her from head to toe. The moon was shinning outside her window, bathing her in it's soft glow. She panted, trying to regain her breath, her eyes wide as saucers, before she adjusted to the dark, and realised where she was. She started shaking, her body moving without her accord, another sympthom of what she had just experienced.
A pure nightmare.
She put a hand over her racing heart, trying to calm it down. She gasped for air she realised she desperately needed. She closed her eyes, blocking tears of fear out of them. The last thing she wanted was to cry herself over a stupid nightmare. After regaining some of her breath, and the shaking gone, she let herself plop down on the bed again, resting an arm over her eyes. She really, really hated nightmares, and they usualy ment something bad. Whenever she had a nightmare not even as bad as this one, something awful would happen the next day. Life and death scenarios for her and whoever she had close that day. Her nightmares would usualy be her, in a dark space alone, wondering out loud where was she, and why was she here. She would receive no response, and then she would feel a pair of cold hands grabbing her troath and killing her right there. Before she would pass out from lack of oxygen, she would wake up eventually.
But this was a new, and a really ugly one. This dream terrified her in a way it should and in the same time it shouldn't. If she hadn't died before in her dreams and real life until now, today was probably the day God decided to take her back, not that she minded.
She glanced at the clock right to her and squinted her eyes to see what time it was. Four in the morning. Brilliant. She put her arm on the matress back on place, and she started staring at the ceiling. She felt awful in a whole new meaning of the word. She was scared, sweaty, hungry, felt the stupid need to cry, and mostly pissed off. She groaned and brought her hand to her face, then tried to massage her temples, shooing away an incoming headache. Removing the blanket, she stepped out of her bed, her warm feet touching the cold floor below. She slightly winced, and then turned to look trough her window.
Opening it, and letting the cool summer air fresh her up, she put her arms crossed over the frame and leaned in. She watched the sleeping forest, move and whisper softly whenever the wind passed by. The full moon shone above the ground, the stars accompanying her trough her journey across the sky. Letting out a soft sigh, she continued to gaze trough the window, letting herself cool against the air. Thanks to her amazing night vision, she swore she saw a shadow moving across the training grounds. It was fast, she could've just hallucinated. But she knew she saw it. Retreating from her window and grabbing her staff, she opened the door from her room, and then exited her quarters. Whoever this shadow was, he or she wasn't getting away.
Walking with silent steps across the hallways, moonlight flowing trough the windows, Akyo looked straight forward, her all senses in alert. She let her eyes wander trough the shadows, searching for the one she saw across the grounds. She then heard a light creak behind her. Stopping mid step, she slowly set her foot on the ground again and turned around. Nobody. Slowly starting to move forward again, she flexed her fingers which still hold her staff. Hearing somebody run behind her. She sharply turned to look back. Nothing. She was starting to get frustrated with this. She stopped, dropped the ninja atitude and sighed. She was having visions.
She put a hand over her eye and tried to shoo the sleep away. As she started walking back to her room, and with her eyes closed, she bumped into somebody. She instantly refocused, just in time to catch herself falling. She swiftly brough her staff to whoever she bumped into, as well as a shinny kama was pointed at her. She furrowed her brows.
''Akali?'' she whispered, and let out a relieved sigh when she heard the anwer.
''Akyo? What are you doing up so late?'' Akali asked and dropped the kama, as Akyo dropped her staff to.
''Well, I couldn't sleep, and I was looking out the window. I saw a shadow moving across the training grounds and went to investigate.'' she paused, looked Akali from head to toe, then spoke again.''What are you doing out, so late?''
Akali sighed. ''Just came from a mission. It went faster than expected so I returned sooner. I did wanted to go to your quarters and ask if I can sleep there tonight. I don't want to disturb my mother...'' she said. Akyo chuckled lightly and then spoke.
''Well...'' she extended Akali an arm.''Shall we?'' Akali laughed a little, grabbed her arm and then they were gone.
When they reached Akyo's quarters, she flipped the switch on and the light started glowing around the small apartment.
''You know your way around here. Bathroom first right down that hallway, the oposed door is the guest room, but I guess you want to sleep in my room, again.'' she mutter the last part with a sly smile, and Akali rolled her eyes amusedly.
She did a double take while looking at Akyo, and let her eyes softly widen. She let go of Akyo's arm and then spoke.
''Akyo, why are your clothes sweaty?!'' she asked. Akyo looked at herself and let her eyes widen. She forgot to get herself changed after she woke up.
''Uh... Y'know, it's summer.'' she lamely excused herself. Akali didn't believed her.
''Don't you bring up that excuse. You wont sweat that way only if you're too close to a volcano, or...'' she let herself trail off, a dangerous look in her eyes. Akyo fidgeted under her gaze.
''No, Akali, I swear I-'' Akali istantly cut her off, by pointing a kama at her face, her eyes a cold glare. Akyo let her eyes softly widen and tried to calm her breathing.
''If this is the only way I'm going to make you talk, I'm not going to hesitate. Remember, hesitation is the seed of defeat.'' she said in a monotone voice, but Akyo could see the actual worry behind all this cold facade. She sighed, and looked at the ground.
''Yes, I had another nightmare... Again.'' she added with an annoyed roll of her eyes. Akali let her hand slowly fall, a look of worry stretched across her features. She removed her mask.
''This must've been a bad one. I've never saw you like this before, you even have a start of dark circles under your eyes.'' she said, and Akyo closed her eyes tiredly.
''Alright, alright. You can torture me until I tell you what it is about after we both take a shower?'' she asked and Akali nodded.''You can go first, until then I'm going to get you some clean clothes.'' Akyo said as she turned around to go in her room. She also flipped the light on, and then heard the shower going on. She sighed and then went in fron of her closet, and opened it, searching for a spare pijamas for Akali.
*An hour later*
Akali sat next to Akyo. The bed was big enough for both of the girls, and Akyo laid down, while Akali had her back supported by the wall. Akyo -without a lot of struggle like Akali expected- had finished telling her what the nightmare had been about. There was a soft sign of the incoming sun, and both girls stood surrounded by darkness and silence.
''You're awfully quiet.'' Akali remarked and looked at Akyo. She had an arm over her face, covering her eyes.
''I'm thinking...'' she said.
''Well that's surely a premiere.'' Akali remarked again, and received a playfull shove from Akyo.
''You know, the nightmares I had before weren't this bad, and the days that followed seemed like somebody was trying to kill me hard.'' Akyo said. She took a pause then spoke again. ''I don't even want to imagine what will happen today. Will my life be threatened if I sleep all day?'' she asked laizy and Akali had a dead panned look on her face.
''You're being childish and supperstitious, those were mere coincidences.''
''I don't believe that.'' Akyo simply said. Akali opened her mouth to say something but Akyo cut her off.
''There is no way in heaven that getting killed almost three times in a row in one week after three nightmares is a mere coincidence Akali.'' she said rather harshly, but didn't opened her mouth to speak again. Akali just sighed.
''I'm just worried about you. These nightmares scare you worst than they should.''
Akyo let a soft smile grace her lips before she spoke.
''You don't have to be worried. Trust me, I'm not losing my sanity. If it weren't for you Shen and even Kennen, I would've lost it already.'' she said looking at the ceiling. Akali just had a surprised look on her face, but didn't questioned anything. Instead she let a yawn pass her lips.
''How about we get some sleep, before the sun rises completely?'' Akali asked, and when she looked at Akyo she saw her eyes were closed, and her breath calm. She was close to doozing off,and Akali didn't said anything more. She just got under the blanked, found a comfortable place for her head on the pillow, and then closed her eyes. Sleep didn't wasted anymore time.
~(o-o)~
When Akyo woke up, she yawned and stetched, hearing a few satisfying pops here and there. She then rised from the bed and glanced at the clock. Nine A.M. Well wasn't she a morning person? She looked to her right and saw Akali had left. She just simply smilled and scoffed. She saw she had left the blanket and pillow she had gaven her right there and didn't bothered to put them back.
''Well, she surely makes herself home everytime she comes around. Wonder if she does the same in her real one?...'' Akyo softly muttered before another yawn softly escaped her lips. She set her feet on the floor, and then rised from the bed.
After her morning routine, she had almost finished clasping the belt around her waist. Her costume hadn't changed at all trough the years, only she had to get bigger sizes as she grew.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she let a small smile spread across her face. Even she didn't believed her eyes, time surely had been kind to her. At the age of twenty she had an hourglass figure, with well defined curves. Her hair had grown even longer, it was halfway from her knee. She still hold it up in a pony tail, letting two lateral bangs to frame her face. She shot a small gaze trough the window before bending to grab the holster with her staff. She quickly did a double take, and took a closer look at the shadows trough the trees. Approaching the window, she let her narrowed eyes send a heated glare. She didn't saw anything trough the darkness.
Sighing she put the holster in it's place and grabbed her hood. Today was a good day if she could say so. This was one of the few days she exited the small area of the order, to take a stroll trough the mighty city state of Ionia. It was a break day to call it like that. She would leave in the morning and return not long before sundown. Putting her cloak on her shoulders, clasping it in front, and the hood on her head, she exited the quarters and left. While walking towards the gates, she felt a chill go up her spine and shivered. She looked around her, searching for what she tought were a pair of eyes. Instead a sqeuaky voice grabbed her attention.
''Akyo!'' Kennen shouted as he ran towards her. She turned around and smiled under her mask.
''Kennen. What honores me with your presence?'' she asked and softly giggled as the yorlde rolled his eyes.
''Where are you going?'' he asked her, curiosity getting the better of him.
''Outside. I'm going to walk around Ionia, just to streatch my legs a little, and see the city again. A lot of things change when you spend all your days in a hidden order in a forest.'' she said and saw the yordle's eyes widen.
''Can I come with you? Pretty please!'' he begged her, as he started jumping up and down. Akyo rolled her eyes amusedly.
''If you promise to not cause me any trouble, and not leave my side, alright?'' she saw the yordle's energy slightly dim but he nodded none the less. She jerked her head towards the gates, and they both started walking towards them, disappearing from sight.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the forest
A cloaked figure watched from the shadows, crouched on a branch the small exchange between the yordle and Akyo. A small growl escaped it's mouth, and it's eyes burned with uncontrolable anger. Once they disappared out of sight, the cloaked figure jumped down on the ground to meet a masked one.
''Done stalking her?'' a male voice asked, diformed by the mask it wore. The figure rolled it's eyes and then replied.
''You done stalking him?'' a feminine voice resounded, her voice filled with anger and annoyance. The masked figure growled, crimson eyes sending a heated glare towards the cloaked figure. She shivered a little.
''Calm. No need to burn holes in my head.'' she took a small pause then said: ''Have you decided when we move?'' the masked figure turned his attention towards the gates of the Order, an invisible frown on his face.
''Yes. We act before sundown. I don't want to miss the beautiful view.'' the female figure scoffed and turned her eyes to look at the gates.
''In a few hours, your dream shall come true.'' she said while looking in the crimson eyes. He nodded sowly.
''He cannot escape me forever. We will end it today. As for her...'' he said looking back at the cloaked figure. She took off her hood, revealing soft green eyes and short black hair. Her mouth was covered by a mask, but under them were soft feminine features, enough to get a man's attention. She merely batted her eyes and him and approached him.
''No worries. The fight that has been going on between us for years will end today. But I'm not sure if she will get to see the next morning's light...'' she purred as she put a hand over the masked figure's chest. He didn't move.
''Don't kill her.'' his voice was stern and ferm, but she just looked innocently at him.
''Yeah, yeah I know.'' she said while rolling her eyes. ''She would be a great acquisition to the Shadow Order. I promised I wont. But you also promised me something...'' she said slyly and he could picture the smirk behind her mask. He just scoffed and turned around.
''I'll give you what you wish if you keep your promise too. I know you for years, and I'm not one easily to fool, Zayenn.'' he said looking at her before turning around and walking forward.
''I know.'' she said louder. ''But it wont matter if you will be mine or not. I'll make sure she'll die being broken on the outside as well on the inside. Don't you worry, Zed.'' she muttered for herself, before pulling the hood on her head again, and turning to walk in the oposite direction.
Time skip to sundown... ( AN : Get ready guys :o! )
Akyo let her eyes open slowly. She and Kennen had returned a lot sonner than they had expected. She had gotten tired faster, and asked Kennen to return sooner. He complied to her demand and didn't complained. When they returned it was four P.M so she decided to take a quick nap. It was half past seven now, and she decided to get up from bed, or else she wont get any sleep tonight. Rising up and stretching her body, she looked around the room for a little. She searched for her clothes as well as her staff. When she rised from the bed however, she heard commotion outside. The door to her room was open and she could hear the slight shouting and running footsteps on the hallways. Quickly equipping herself, she tossed the cloak over her shoulders and the hood over her head, opened the door and started running with the other ninjas. She was close to asking what was going on, but when the doors of the order opened the view itself answered her.
Her eyes widened, her heart punding in her chest. Her lungs refused to take anymore oxygen, as fear and terror washed over her. There, in the main ground of the order stood what it looked like four hundred dark clothed assasins. The Kinkou Order itself had only three hundred ninjas. Many of them had gathered at the base of the order, and she could shee Akali and Shen already in the front line. Pushing her way trough, her heart stopped once she was next to them.
The cold pair of green eyes that gazed at her were painfully familiar. The mask that covered her face didn't made her unknown. She was wearing a sleveless necklong black shirt, as well as a pair of leather dark pants and high boots, going over her knees. She had a cape draped upon her shoulders, it's red symbol shinning on the black material. Small gloves covered both of her hands, as she had a hand on the hilt of her sheated sword, the other dangling by her side. Akyo let a small gasp pass her lips. Zayenn...
However the person she stood next to didn't made her life any easier. Even if he was clad in red and black armor, two blades dorning his hands, and two shurikens his back, she recognised him. Even with a masked face, the crimson irises that shone beneath them told her the identity of the person behind it. 'Zed?!' she asked herself in her head, and she could feel her knees starting to give out. However she felt a small paw on them, and she glanced down to look at Kennen who shot her a reassuring look. She inhaled softly and then turned her attention to the two. The master didn't wated time and joined the front line.
''Zed...'' the old master said, Akali and Shen on each side of him. Zed slightly shifted his head, acknowledging his presence. ''What wind had brought you back to the order?''
''I'm here to take what it's rightfully mine.'' the distorted voice said. The master sighed and shook his head softly.
''Your judgement had been darkened, young one. But I believe there is still hope for you. Follow me into the order, destroy the box and offer yourself a new chance to life.'' Youken said, meeting Zed's cold glare with his own.
They mantained eye contact for a while, before Zed started moving toward the old man. Youken turned around and made way for the both of them. Once they entered the order, the tension in the air was palpable. When Zed disapeared, the dark clothed ninjas in the fron line started to move, but Zayenn held a hand up and they returned to their initial position.
'Not now, you fools. Wait...' she tought, while she kept her eyes glazed on her sister. She saw the broken and shattered heart behind her white irises, and she felt a slight pang of guilt and sadness. Shooing it away she replaced it with a crude smirk on her face, but nobody else knew about it.
She didn't let that part of her heart to make her back down now. She had always hated her sister, and had promised her death tonight. She wont let a stupid 'sister bonding' they had to destroy her dream. Right, her dream. Ever since the day of the trial, her new goal was to get this world rid of Akyo, and the fools of this order. Losing the battle opened her eyes about the 'balance' this order fought so hard to protect.
Suddenly all heads snapped up, when a cry of pain resounded from the order. Everybody was waiting in silence, until the doors opened. Nothing appeared at first, but then Zed appeared from the shadows... with Youken's head in one of his hands. All the Kinkou ninjas' eyes widened, and Akyo gasped audibly. Zed throwed the head as it rolled down the stairs, stopping at the bottom of them. Everybody froze for a moment before Zayenn's shout sounded clearly trough the thick air.
''NOW! ATTACK THEM!'' she yelled as she unsheated her blade and started charging with the other ninjas. The Kinkous were taken by surprise, but swiftly answered, resisting the dark ninjas. Zed observed form the top of the stairs, as the battle unfolded before his eyes. The Kinkous were slowly getting themselves pushed towards the gates of the order, but they still fought back. He saw a blue suited one guiding as many as he could trough the gates, demanding retreat. He growled.
Meanwhile, in the fray, Akyo had her all senses in alert, as she dispatched ninjas around her. She striked one across the head, and then turned around in time to push her staff trough another's chest. She removed it and then ducked, to dodge a sword meant for her back. She rolled on her heals and striked the man across the head as she returned to full height. She was stealing as much gazes as she could towards the gates. She protected the others as Shen guided them trough the gates. She saw Kennen and Akali swiftly cutting trough the enemies.
Just as another dark ninja wanted to leap at her, a sword put across his chest from the side stopped him. Zayenn throwed him a cold gaze.
''Leave. She's mine.'' she said her tone low and cold. The ninja nodded and left.
Akyo and Zayenn were watching the other in the eye. The time itself seemed to stop around them, as they focused only on the other. Zayenn snickered.
''Long time, no see Akyo.'' she said and smiled.
''Sister, please stop this. I-'' Akyo was however cut of by Zayenn's menancing, cold laugh.
''Sister?!'' she almost shouted. She pointed her sword at Akyo's head. ''You stopped being my sister years ago.'' she said her eyes narrowing.
Akyo softly gulped. She stood there looking in her sister's eyes as she tried to formulate a plan in her head.
''Zayenn, please. It doesn't has to be this way.''
''Oh but it does.'' she said.'' You see, I must thank you for beating me in the trial. It opened my eyes towards this 'balance' you fools protect.''
''What?''
''Oh little Akyo. If there was any balance to this world, you wouldn't have had been a shadow born, but me! This is just something cooked up by a smart enough man, to brainwash some idiots into doing his dirty jobs.'' Akyo looked increduously in Zayenn's eyes.
''Zayenn...''
''Enough chit-chat. It's time to end this. Do not tag my face as your sister today, but as the one who would end your petty little life.'' she said, as she started charging towards Akyo.
She blocked the strike, her staff and her shiny sword clashing. They both tried to put the other off balance, but it was futile. They both jumped back, putting distance between them. Akyo held her staff in front of her with one hand, while Zayenn had the sword pointed at her. A fast gale of wind blew by, moving both of the girl's capes. Akyo felt her heart go cold at the scene around her. Fellow ninjas falling, her sister wanting to take her life and... and the one her heart never let go, being the middle of all this.
Zayenn saw everything in her sister's eyes. Her pain, her sadness, her fear, and what was that? Was it... love? She was quite sure that it wasn't she the one Akyo thought about, but then something clicked in her mind, and a grin spread behind her mask. An idea formed inside her brain.
'How about I destroy you mentally first?...' she thought with a snickering laugh.
''So you have been foolish enough to fall in love?'' she asked aloud, and Akyo's eyes widened.
''What? How...?'' she couldn't even say what she wanted to say.
''I can see it in your eyes. All this sadness and pain they bear are unfortunately not my own creation, but his...'' Zayenn said letting the sentence drift in the air.
''Who are you talking about?'' in the back of her mind, Akyo was well aware of whom she was talking about.
Zayenn laughed at her. ''Don't play the fool on me, Akyo. You know very well who I'm talking about. The one who had senteced you to death, Zed.'' she said, and saw Akyo's widen even more in unbelief. The grin got bigger and bigger behind her mask, as she saw her sister in a new found emotional turmoil.
''No... He wouldn't...'' Akyo said, herself unsure. She tried to keep tears away from her eyes, and kept the sobs at bay. She closed her eyes as her sister's taunting continued.
''Oh but he did. You see, unlike you, he never was stupid to fall for you in the first place. He always saw you as a weakling, and only helped you just to toy with you later. He turned you into his own personal puppet, and you were stupid enough to believe he loved you.'' she said as another merciless laugh escaped her mouth. She observed with pleasure as a small tear slid down Akyo's cheek.
''No. He wouldn't. We were...''
''Were what? Friends?!'' Zayenn almost shouted, scoffing soon afterwards. ''That was just in your head, you idiot. The one who he really sough out to stay by his side was me.'' Zayenn said, watching Akyo froze completely. She decided it was time to finally cut her off.
''Because you see Akyo, during all these years he hadn't given you the slighest thought. I have been always by his side, aiding him in achieving his dream, you only wanted to destroy. He realised it, and had given himself all to me.'' she said in a finishing tone. That was a lie, Zayenn knew it very well, but it was soon to become reality. After taking her sister down, making Zed fall for her wasn't a hard task, but it required time. He was powerful, inteligent and in her opinion the epitome of how every man should be, not afraid of the darkness. She saw Akyo's spirit go down, and shatter in thousand of pieces. She had gaven up fighting.
Taking the oportunity, she runned towards her and planted a first in her right cheek sending her crashing with her back on the wall. Slowly walking towards her sister, Zayenn grabbed her by the throat and rised her up to her feet. Akyo tried to glare at her sister, but fighting with the dark ninjas and with her sister had exhausted her physically and emotionally.
Zayenn removed her mask, to reveal her cheshire like grin. She slowly took Akyo's own mask down, and could see a little sign of blood from the corner of her mouth. She hold her at arms distance, before speaking.
''You shouldn't be alive...'' Zayenn said, and in one swift motion her sword moved trough the air as she let go of Akyo.
At first nothing happened, but then Akyo's clothes opened, as blood started to flow from a big slash. From her left shoulder between her breasts and down to her right hip, Zayenn had swiftly made a bleading to death wound. Akyo grabbed at it, crossing her arms over it, but fell forwards cringing in pain. Zayenn spared her sister a last glance, before sheating up her sword and leaving. She paused for a moment.
Turning around, she bended down and reached for Akyo's neck again, but this time she ripped the neck of her shirt. On her neck as expected, there was the necklace her mother had given her as a present. Grasping it, and pulling it away from Akyo's neck, the lock failed, and fortunately it didn't snap apart. She picked it up in her hand and watched it, the black satin and white jewel painted in soft blood.
''You just had the bad luck to be borned to be the sister of a twisted person as I am.'' she told her softly before leaving for good.
Akyo slowly turned on her back and gazed at the sky. Blood was flowing from her wound as well as from the corners of her mouth, and she started feeling extremely cold. Tears of frustation pooled up in her eyes. She tried to keep her remaining energy but she couldn't stop them. She closed her eyes in pain.
But then, she felt an warm presence next to her. Opening them, she let out a small gasp, but her eyes didn't widen and she didn't move. She saw her mother's face, looking worriedly into her own eyes, those obsidian orbs she loved so much gazing into her own. Her usual white kimono around her, and the beautiful black hair framing her face. She was kneeling next to Akyo, warmth radiating from her, a strange white mist covering her. She thought she was having visions, or her brain found a refugee from the incoming death into the memory of her mother. Keyan slowly brough her hand to Akyo's head and moved it slowly across it. Akyo closed her eyes and more tears poured from them.
'Mother...' she thought, and she could feel the world around her softly dissppearing. There was a yell in the distance, her name being yelled by a squeaky voice, familliar but she did not remember. Soon afterwards a 'no' was shouted by a feminine one. Then, not long after, she felt somebody picking up her body, and go on for a mad dash somewhere. The last thing she remembered was deep masculine voice she did recognise but couldn't come up with the name.
''If we want her to make it, we have to retreat now.'' the voice said, and then the world entirely faded to darkness.
Zed watched as the Kinkous retreated behind the main gates. Many of his own had fall, but the Kinkous were almost exterminated. He smirked behind his mask, as he succeded to destroy them. However from the ninjas that pciked themselves up, Zayenn made herself known as she had a sense of accomplishment in her walk. He had his arms crossed across his chest, and raised an eyebrow at her. She had her mask down, and a pleasured smile on her face.
''What got you all so giddy?'' he asked her, as she raised her head and beamed at him. She throwed Akyo's bloodied necklace at his legs before replying.
''I got my revenge. She's gone. Forever!'' she almost squeaked. Zed felt like a bucket of ice cold water had been dropped on his head. Zayenn just turned around and sighed happily, as Zed bend down and pciked up the small necklace.
Glancing at it, Akyo's smilling face appeared before his eyes, and her soft laughter resounded inside hir ears.
'Zed!' he heard her calling his name in his head, the way only she could do, and that way it sent butterflies to soar in his stomach. Then, reality hit him like a ton of bricks, and he felt his heart for the first time in years, bleed.
She was gone. She was dead, for good.
And he'll never see her, hear her, or even hold her close again.
AN : You must be hating me right now. I'M EVIL. How the hell could I leave you with such an cliff ass hanger?! I'm sorry, but it had to be done!
Now, what it is going to happen? Will Akyo live? What about Zed and the others? And what about the sequel I promised to you guys? Will I ever be able to stop asking you such stupid questions?!
Hell if I know. Next chapter will be the last chapter I promise. I tie it up with a bow, and make everything look nice. After I post the last chapter, soon afterwards the sequel will be posted. I've decided to call it : ''There is light in darkness'' but I'm open to suggestions. Leave one, how about it? And also tell me how much you want to rip my head off for that cliff hanger and all that damn sadness into one chapter, hmm? XD
Remember, reviews are highly appreciated, but for now, as a wise man on the pervert part of the LoL fiction comunity says,
Excelsior! ( you get a cookie if you know who I'm talking about )