This might not be a good idea, to type this I mean... I'm in kind of bad mood... Once again my favorite character in the book I was reading died! All the author's have it out for me! It happens every time...
Oh well...
While I go mope over Jason, you can all read the new chapter...
Thanks to: Dragon (Here's your first death threat, write the next chapter, or I'll fucking kill you! XD Wow... I can be scary) Kitteh Ranger (More mentally scarring images are bound to come up again in the future) Dark Link (Kai centric? I know this will make me appear dumber then normal, but what does that mean? You mean it will focus on Kai? Omg I'm so stunned xD) KATZUNITED (More Shigen at your command) i-live-for-the-pie (I think I'm just gonna call you pie! XD Thank you again for the wonderful comment) Krystal (Get your computer fixed soon dumbass) and Imp. YaoiShishou (Cause I know you'll eventually read chapter 6 xD)
I don't think I mentioned this... but my two school friends (Krystal and Dragon) are writing fanfics with Shigen in it, so... I'm just going to say that they have my permission to use my characters, I've seen people almost kill other people when their characters were used without permission...
Shygen opened his eyes, not surprised to see that he was still in the same dark room he was in before. Soft breathing beside him alerted him to Lore's presence and he shivered despite the heat that was radiating off her body. So far, Lore had only touched him, and not anything perverted, things like stroking his face, or tracing the muscles on his chest, or his least favorite, the kissing.
There was a reason he was gay...
Women are too plushie... I like the feel of muscle...
He sighed as he tried to recall his memories of the future world, but once again, they slipped away from him. I guess there was one bad side effect of being brought back to life... perhaps it's an exchange for my personality... I keep my personality... and the goddesses get all my memories...
He thought of Ryuk, how similar the younger Haniam was to his previous lover, not in attitude but... I don't remember him very well... but the hair and the eyes... they look the same... I'm sure of it...
Beside him, Lore rolled over on her other side to face him, she was awake now, her breathing was no longer following a rhythmic pattern.
He felt a long finger nail trace up the side of his arm. "Are you awake pet?" The nail left his arm, and was replaced by a hand on his chest.
Shigen rolled his eyes, a gesture he was glade she couldn't see. "Yeah... Of course I am... I don't sleep remember...?" He wanted to move away from her stupid touches, but was afraid to. I need to keep Kaichou and Kyou alive... He hadn't seen them yet, he didn't know if they were alive, but he had to hope.
The hand moved from his chest down to his stomach. "Right... I forgot. You're wonderful you know that? A perfect killing machine, you don't need to sleep, you can keep going until your task is completed." She moved until she was lying half on top of him and then buried her head into his neck.
Shigen tried not to struggle, he tried to imagine that he was laying down with someone he loved, but he didn't know who it was that he loved, and when the name Ryuk popped into his head, he refused to accept it. Ryuk doesn't love me... He hates me... or the old me anyway...
But it was the best he had, picturing Ryuk in his head, he used one of his hands to play with a few strands of black hair that covered Lore's back. "I'm bored... You're not going to keep me locked in here forever... are you...?"
Her girlish giggle almost made him loose the illusion. "Of course not my pet, I have a mission for you to complete right now actually." Her lips met his, and it took all he had to picture someone else's lips touching his. "I'm going to go and get your clothes and sword, then tell you what it is that I want you to do."
With another giggle, she picked herself off of him and strode out of the room, closing and locking the door behind her.
Kaichou bumped her head against the stone wall for what must have been the hundredth time.
And for what must have been the hundredth time, Kyou shot her a look of concern.
Stupid doctor part of him coming out. She mumbled out something that sounded like 'I'm fine' but to Kyou sounded more like 'fuck off'.
She bumped her head on the wall again, still grumbling.
Kyou didn't want to risk the already half crazy woman's anger, but he was going to go insane if he didn't start talking. "I wonder if she is ever going to feed us?"
Not that eating was something they HAD to do, but if you wanted to hang around humans without accidentally drooling on them, it was a necessity.
"I highly doubt she'll even look at us, let alone feed us.." Came Kaichou's angry reply, she bumped the wall again.
Her hands were taking a long time to heal, they would heal slowly under any normal circumstance, but it was taking even longer, and she had yet to regain the feeling in them.
"Perhaps lord Shigen will-"
"No! Don't count on that loser! We're getting out of here without his help!" She continued bumping her head, and Kyou wondered briefly if she planned on escaping by creating a hole in the wall by doing that.
The first thing Ryuk noticed when he finally came to, was that it was very noisy and dark. There had to be at least thirty people talking all at once and he couldn't see any of them, it was making his head sore. And the second thing he noticed was the searing pain that leaped up his arms a few seconds later.
He began to thrash, trying to rid himself of whatever was burning his arms off, he heard someone screaming in th distance and wondered if he was slowly being eaten by something, and that was what was causing the pain.
Something heavy landed on top of him and his suspicions were confirmed, he was being eaten.
He thrashed around more wildly this time, aware when his fist connected with something hard.
The screaming was getting louder, it must look really scary, to see someone being eaten, and there was another sound, a voice.
"Ryuk!"
Something cold hit his face and he gasped, his eyes flew open, he didn't know that they were closed. The screaming died down, and it was then when he realized it was him who was making all the noise.
He tried to focus his blurry eyes, but the tears were making it impossible. Tears? I don't cry! He blinked, and when he opened his eyes this time, he could make out Link's face staring down at him looking very worried.
Link looked like he had been run over by a Goron, he had a black eye, and blood dripping down his chin from where his lip was split pretty badly. Ryuk wanted to ask him what happened to his face, but he couldn't get the words out.
Another wave of pain raced up his arms, and he whimpered pathetically. "Wh-what?" He managed to get that much out before falling silent again, his throat was burning too.
The weight on his chest shifted, and another face came into view. "You okay kid?" Vii looked at him with annoyance more then worry.
"Of course he's not okay! He can't even talk!" Link looked stressed out, Ryuk tried to remember what happened, but he was drawing a blank.
"Listen hero, you should go look after your man, I'll take care of this kid." He flinched as Vii brushed the hair out of his eyes, his face was starting to burn too. Is Kai hurt? That would explain Link...
A strange scene played out in his head, he saw Kai buried under a pile of burning wall, and he saw himself rushing in to save him...
Then it clicked and he remembered everything, unfortunately...
"M-my... hands..?" He tried to moved them in observatory range, but Vii kept his arms down.
"Don't move them you dumb ass, you opened the wounds up again after that freak out you had. We brought you back to the Inn after what happened, you've been out all night." She offered this explanation in hope that it help with his confusion.
A low moan from the other side of the room drew their attention.
Link left Ryuk's side and went over to the bed on the opposite side of the room where Kai was laying. The head wound was pretty bad, and Link was worried he might have a concussion, but that seemed to be the extent of the damage.
Kai wrinkled his nose and then opened his glowing red eyes.
Link stepped away, an uneasy feeling swept over him, but he shrugged it off. "Kaiten? You alright?"
Kai sat up and stared at him strangely, then he reached up and poked at his bandaged head. "What the fuck?"
Link offered him a smile and leaned down to kiss him, but was pushed away rather roughly, he flew backwards and landed on his ass. That was uncalled for. He was about to voice that thought, but the look Kai gave him stopped him.
Kai was on his feet in record time for an injured person, and he observed the room, he seemed twitchy and ready to bolt.
Ryuk turned his head to look at the shadow, something was defiantly off.
Kai met his gaze, and with five long steps, he was beside Ryuk's bed. "You're hurt are you? Lot's of pain right? Barely alive?"
Vii wasn't to sure what to make of Kai's behavior, she got off Ryuk and stood on the opposite side of the bed, eying him wearily.
When Ryuk failed to answer him, Kai growled. "If you're too weak to talk, you'll never survive, you should be put out of your misery." And before anyone could stop him, he drew his sword out of the shadows and stabbed it through Ryuk's stomach.
Vii screamed.
That finally prompted Link into action and he flung himself at Kai, they both hit the ground, wrestling each other for dominance.
Kai came out on top and he stared down at his lighter half smugly. "Now, now princess, no need to get so worked up." He pinched Link's cheek, almost jumping for joy when Link gasped in pain. "I did the kid a favor, I could smell the burnt flesh in my sleep, his arms would have to have been cut off soon!"
Upon hearing the psychotic tone in Kai's voice, Link finally clued into what happened. "Kai... you're..."
"Yes?" Kai leaned down to nibble the dried blood of his chin. "I'm what princess?"
The shadow seemed completely oblivious to what was going on around him, so Vii took the chance to tend to Ryuk. He had lost consciousness again, thankfully, he shouldn't have to feel the pain anyway.
She wrapped her hand in a cloth (In case Kai's sword was picky on who wielded it) and pulled on the hilt of the sword. She drew it out of Ryuk's stomach slowly, the blade making wet squelchy sounds, and she prayed she could keep her breakfast down.
When the sword finally came free, she covered the wound and put pressure on it. "Link, I know a healer, He'll be able to help him, but his village is a days ride from here." When neither of the men payed attention to her, she resisted the urge to throw a book or something at them.
She whistled to Xxeon who was under the table growling and grabbed her traveling cloak off the back off the chair, she wrapped the cloak around Ryuk as tightly as she could. "I'm going to get him," she told Link looked at her and nodded, "keep him alive until I get back." She jumped on Xxeon's back and took off. Hopefully Link can handle Kai, the guy's acting weird.
Kai growled again, he wasn't happy that Link was paying more attention to the woman then he was to him. Stupid little hero, how I've missed torturing you... I swear that 'other' me will never come between us again.
Link looked back at him, and Kai was happy to see that his eyes were full of fear. "So Kai? Do you mind getting off me?"
Kai snorted, finding that question extremely amusing. "Of course I would mind!" He used his left hand to pin the hero's arms above his head. "Remember when I told you that you should wear less clothes?" He giggled as Link struggled.
"Kai! I'm wearing a tunic! That's not a lot of clothes!" He's defiantly changed back! Oh goddess! I'm doomed!
"That's still a lot~" Kai sang, swiping Link's hat off and tossing it, ignoring the pouty look he got from Link. "I'd prefer if you were... hmmmm... I don't know... naked maybe?" He unbuckled Link's belt with skilled hands and nipped at the hero's ear.
Link increased his struggles ten fold. "Haha! Nope! I think I'd rather keep my clothes on thank you!" He managed to get one hand free, he used it to push himself up and reverse their positions.
Kai just smirked and grabbed onto Link's hips. "It's okay princess, you can ride me if you want." He grinded their bodies together and chuckled when Link's hands clenched painfully on his shoulders.
Link glared down at the shadow and between clenched teeth said. "Stop. Calling. Me. Princess!"
Kai sat up and kissed Link, toppling them both over, the shadow maneuvered himself on Link once again and forced his tongue into the hero's mouth.
Link struggled of course, but when it came down to it, Kai had demonic blood, he was stronger then him. He hated this Kai the most, this was the Kai that knew he had power, and he used it.
Kai's lips left Link's and they traveled down his neck. "Never forget princess," he nibbled on the spot where his neck met his shoulder, "You belong to me..." And with that said, he bit down on the spot hard enough to bruise and draw blood, claiming the hero as his own.
Link only hissed in pain, he didn't cry out, that would only make the shadow hurt him more, he almost cried with relief when Kai dissolved into the shadows. Thank the goddess's...
He stood and used the wall to steady himself. "Ryuk..." Link dragged himself over to the bed and sat down gently, trying not to move the Haniam. I want to keep you alive for Shigen, but I'm doing a lousy job... He laid his left hand on Ryuk's stomach and tried to pushed some of his magical energy into him, hoping it would do something.
He knew Kai was watching him from the shadows, but he was really too tiered to care, with some effort he laid himself next to Ryuk, his left hand still pouring energy into him. Hopefully Vii will bring back that healer soon.
Shigen knew the apocalypse would befall them all if he started jumping for joy, so instead he chose to stare blankly at his captor.
Lore had finally given him back his clothes and sword, having his personal effects back made him feel like himself again. He didn't try attacking her though, knowing Lore she had about a thousand wards guarding her, he'd only be putting his friends in danger.
"Now my pet, I am going to explain something to you."
They were in what seemed to be a throne room, Lore had seated herself in the biggest chair, and she motioned for Shigen to sit in the smaller on next to her.
Shigen really wanted to refuse, but he couldn't, so he strode up the steps and took his seat, not flinching when she laid a hand on his shoulder.
"I took this kingdom back from my worthless brother not too long ago, and as one would expect, not many of the people are happy about it, they have set up rebel camps all over Kaithlaka, and rumor has it that they're going to gather their forces and come after me all together."
Shigen already knew where this was going. "So you want me to find these rebels and kill them... right...?" He felt disgusted already just saying those words, he did kill, but it was never the innocent. "Even the children...?"
"Yes pet, don't you think it would be nicer to kill them, then to leave them alive so they can suffer without their parents?" She laughed as if his question was the most stupidest thing she'd ever heard.
He ignored her. "How am I going to get there...?"
"I'm going to transport you, it makes things easier." She stood up and took a hold of his hands. A light engulfed them both, and much to Shigen's amusement, he found that the magic feeling made him itchy.
When the light vanished, they found themselves standing in the middle of a dense forest.
"I'm sure you can find your way from here pet, I'll be watching you so I'll know when you're done, and then I'll come get you." She kissed him quickly before disappearing.
Shigen wiped his mouth off and started treading through the forest, he could smell the humans camp not far away. Why do humans smell so salty...? Like... that cupped noddle stuff...? So damn good...
Shigen shook his head. What am I thinking...? He stopped and hid behind a tree as a young man in armor walked by, probably on patrol.
When he was gone, Shigen unsheathed his sword and crept into the camp, his movements were silent.
"Hey you!"
If it was possible for a Haniam to have a heart attack, Shigen was sure it would have happened right there.
"I asked you a question!"
And I don't feel like answering... Shigen spun around and sliced the guy's head off with ease, some off the blood splattered on his face and he licked his lips hungrily.
A scream cut through the silence of the camp, a woman had come out of her tent and seen the whole thing, she tried to run but Shigen cut her down before she could move.
By now, everyone was rushing out of their tents, a group of guards quickly assembled and they circled Shigen, thrusting their weapons at him. Shigen hissed at them angrily and knocked their weapons away, stabbing the wielders when they didn't run away quick enough.
There were about one hundred people based at the camp, women, children included, it took Shigen the whole night to kill them all. He moved through the place like a ghost, slaying anyone that came in reach. And he was smiling while doing it.
He pointed his bloody sword at the last child. The little boy was around seven years old, he was standing in front of his dead mother who lay crumpled on the ground behind him. The boy was giving Shigen the strongest glare he could muster, but Shigen didn't care less, he was out of his mind with blood lust.
He drew back the sword and prepared to run the child through, but Sulken was then roughly smacked out of his hand.
Shigen looked at his right hand where his sword had been just seconds ago. What... happened...? He felt like he had once again been dreaming, his attack on the camp didn't seem real to him. But when he looked down at the boy, he knew it was his fault.
"You're a monster."
Shigen felt as those words pieced his soul, it left him feeling cold and empty. He turned to look at the person who the voice belonged to.
A young looking man stepped forward, his boots making squelching on the blood soaked ground, he had an air of command about him, and Shigen regretted loosing his sword. It shocked him at first, the man looked so much like Link, except for the eyes, they were a dark green, and his clothes, they were white, not green.
"You attacked this place and killed everyone in sight, even the children." The man continued stepping forward, and for every step he took, Shigen stepped back. The man stopped when he was standing beside the boy.
"I didn't... I couldn't-"
"Did Lore create you? She did her work well this time, a perfect... monster..."
Shigen wanted to throw up, he looked from the man to the ground, refusing to meet his eyes.
The sound of foot falls continued to approach him, but Shigen stayed where he was. Let him kill me... Kaichou can get Kyou out on her own...
He was surprised when strong arms wrapped themselves around him.
"Ah... I see, so that's the situation."
Shigen wanted to stay awake, but his eyes were closing, the man must have put a spell on him.
He heard Lore's voice behind him, but he was too sleepy to worry about it. Perhaps this guy... will kill her...
But knowing his luck.
Yeah right...
Well, that's done~
Oh, 'the guy' knocked Sulken out of Shigen's hand with magic if you were wondering.
I totally have to share this little ramble, I did it while I was writing this chapter actually xD
My budgie bird is tripping out, he keeps falling off his perch... I ask myself "I wonder if he's brain dead?" But then he hit's his head off the mirror and I know he's brain dead... It's a shame I called him Link, because he's starting to act more like Kai...
Yeah, I had fun!
Until next time~