Authors Note: KIYO AND I ARE NOT MAD AT EACHOTHER
I said I'd kill Kie and she said no kill Kiyo or the bad guys win. It was fully discussed between us and she is fully aware of her death. ^_^ Also, please don't hate me. I just didn't think it would be right of me to leave you all with some happy bullshit ending. So I gave you tragedy. Also, she wrote her own death. Only more proof we're not upset with each other. She figured, if she's going out it'll be with a bang... And I give you Kiyo's death.
~*~Kiyo's POV~*~
I turned to stare at the blade once more. My eyes were still wide. I had never been bested before. Never in my long, long, long life have I been wounded so. His chest bled slightly, but I didn't even make a deep enough mark to cause any kind of permanent harm.
The scar stretching from my left wrist up my arm and across my body to my right hip throbbed. It seemed that the vampire that gave me this mark was tormenting me from beyond the grave. Even that one hadn't hurt so terribly.
The vampire pulled away, leaving the sword in my chest. I looked back to Kieko and saw a look of astonishment on her face. I opened my mouth to tell her to take action, but some sort of strange gurgling was all that came out. It was painful.
A sudden cough erupted from my lips and I stared down at the ground. Blood was pooling at my feet. My blood I had to remind myself. Something warm was running down my chin. I lifted my shaky hand and touched it gently. I then brought it down to study it. More blood…Internal injury…That was the only reason it would be there.
A harsh laugh caused me to look up towards the Pureblood once more. He was enjoying himself. This was the end. I can apparently die.
Anger laced what little life I had left as I whipped around to face the vampire. I was going to die. That was it. Demons aren't immortal it would seem. I prayed to any heavenly being that may exist or be listening that there was some kind of afterlife and I didn't just cease to exist before I felt a burning growing from the blade.
If I was going to perish, I was taking this fucking bastard with me. I had used this move once before and it wore me out. I had no doubt in my mind that it would kill me in my weakened state.
'Since I'm going to die anyway, I guess it doesn't matter,' I thought bitterly to myself. 'Take care of yourself, Kie. Remember all that I taught you.' I didn't broadcast to her mind. I couldn't use the energy. I felt the portal to my home plane close and the binding spell used to keep the vampire here growing weaker. I knew Kieko's barriers would hold him to this plane, but I wouldn't be able to hold him into this clearing for very much longer.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, ignoring the pain in my chest. I felt the warm feeling spread through my body before it began to burn. I bit off a scream from the pain of my own flames ingesting my body from the inside out before my eyes shot open and I released everything I had.
~*~Kieko's POV~*~
I watched as Kiyo seemed to realize that she had been stabbed. Could she really not die? I was surprised. She seemed to want to talk to me, but all that happened was blood spewed forth from her mouth and coated the ground. I couldn't bring myself to move.
She stared at me one more time after touching her chin and looking at the blood before a glare crossed her childish features. She spun to face Kaname and I didn't know what to do. I had seen this look before and I knew that meant she was going to fight, but what could she do? She was just run through with a sword! The offending object was still protruding from her chest!
I suddenly felt the barrier beneath my feet beginning to weaken. She was losing the fight. I could tell this now. Her face contorted in pain and I watched as she bit her lip. I took a step back, a little nervous about the energy that she was gathering.
Before I could do much more, her eyes shot open and I watched in awe at the spectacle. I knew that she was a fire demon, but I had never seen her use an attack so vicious before. From her body, silver and red flames exploded. Waves of them covered the surrounding forest and washed over me. They didn't hurt me, but seemed to caress me softly. I knew it would be different for our enemies.
When the blast died down, nothing was left except the burning trees of the forest. I looked around and felt anguish grip my heart even as the vampires of the Night Class came forward towards me. I lost her. She wasn't coming back.
A laugh stopped me and I spun to face the source. My eyes widened. The fucker was still alive. She killed herself and he was still living? I felt anger fill every ounce of my core, growing and changing my body. I felt it devour every last bit of my soul, consuming me.
I fell to my knees right before I began to grow, my skin rippling and turning into scales, wings ripping from my back, my very bone structure changing into that of a dragon.
He wouldn't walk away from this, not now. Not when she had sacrificed herself so that we would win. She gave up her very life in hopes that we would defeat an enemy that had really only been opposing me. And now he's laughing? This will not stand.
My body stopped changing and I launched myself at that vile vampire, a feral snarl tearing from my throat as my claws sank into his chest. I quickly muttered a spell to reduce the damage I caused him, but not the pain. Didn't want him to die before I could put him through the hell I was now living. I drug my talons down, shredding his chest and healing him instantly before jumping away. I drug him along by a leg, slamming him viciously into the ground a few feet away before pouncing on him once more. I settled my weight, crushing his bones and relishing his cry of pain. I healed him again, this time sinking my fangs into his shoulder and ripping away the flesh and muscle, leaving bare bone behind. I slammed the back of my front leg into his face with a growl before I heard a cry from behind me.
"Kieko! Stop! Just kill him," I heard Takuma cry.
I looked behind me to see the Night Class, all variously disgusted, and sighed. I bowed my head and sank my fangs into his neck, ripping through the flesh and removing his head from his body. Finally I released my spell, allowing him to turn to dust and vanish from beneath me. I backed away from the spot and dropped onto my haunches just in time to hear Takuma vomit behind me.
"I… I'm sorry… I have to leave… I can't…. I can't be with someone that… I," Takuma stuttered, backing away from me in horror.
How wonderful, I lose my best, my only friend, and now I lose him too? I couldn't think of any way this could get worse as he ran away from me.
I don't know how long I sat there, staring out at the sunrise, but finally I had to move. I got up and wandered into town, knowing that I was stuck in this plane, I might as well find somewhere to live.
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Several Months Later
I wandered through town as always, heading towards the bookstore. I kept my head low and never said much, bought my books, maybe some coffee, and went home. It was a typical day for me now. But everything just had to change on me again didn't it?
I felt a hand snatch my wrist and I couldn't even find it in me to growl at them. Let them kill me, I thought, knowing Kiyo would have beat me for such thoughts. It wasn't Takuma I mourned for, after all, but her. My best friend.
"Stop being so mopey Kie, it doesn't suit you," came her voice.
God, I'm really losing it when I hear her scolding me in my head. I finally looked up to see who held my wrist, but my head barely made it to it's normal height.
"Ki..k…you're supposed to be dead," I whispered, fearful now that I was hallucinating as well.
"Well you can't keep me down that easy, where's darling Takuma?"
"He left me after… after seeing what I did to Kaname."
"Ah, well his loss, let's go. I've got the most AMAZING thing to show you," she shrugged.
I felt the familiar jerk in my stomach that told me we were jumping. When we landed, everything was different.
"Welcome to the 21st century," she told me with a laugh.
Kie and Ki's adventures continued at /t53-we-don-t-stop-till-someone-s-bleeding#204