Hey guys,

I can bring you this one quickly because I edited it right after I finished posting chapter 10, because it's always better to run through a two parter back to back because it keeps you engaged in the story and the action. Raion, who I had actually forgotten about up until this point, was fun to look back on as I realized just how strange this character is. But, let's face it, in this chapter, Juri steals the spotlight and we get to see a third spell from our poison heroes.

Anyways, enough stalling, I need to edit chapter twelve. But are you all going to want that chapter tonight, or should I wait until tomorrow? Enjoy the conclusion of the Raion fight and the first glimpse into our true first foe.

xKiha

"This is what we meant by partnership! Together we unlocked this next spell and together we are going to defeat you!"

Kimiko gave Tsumi a look of trust, the young demon smiling as he tried to think of what this next spell could do. Whatever it was, it felt powerful and rather exciting to know that they had earned another one. Well, it didn't matter what this was going to be, as long as it was strong enough to take down Raion he didn't really care what it was.

However, the lion like demon wasn't very thrilled with what was going on, clenching his fists as he looked over to his entranced partner with a hating and spiteful look. "Juri! The second spell!"

"Kooria!" The woman standing completely still until she read the spell, Kimiko looking at the woman as she noticed something that didn't exactly seem right on a person in this kind of a situation. She actually thought she saw emotion in the woman's eyes as she looked a little deeper, possibly even tears beginning to form inside the brown irises that the high school girl found herself looking into. This wasn't supposed to happen this way, was it?

"Kimi!" The girl turning to look to her partner who was being careful with every step he took before looking to his bookreader as his eyes went wide. The child taking no time as he ran to her side, shoving her out of the way only to find himself being impaled with the giant fang.

The brunette let out a scream as the top pierced his ribcage, the tip not going all the way through but going through enough for the child to find himself unable to hold in all of his tears. Tsumi trembling as the fang went back into the ground and left him lying there in horror. His partner rushing to his side as she placed her hand gently on his head, running her hands through his hair. "A-Are you okay? S-Sumi!"

"I-I'm okay.." The child trembling as blood began to form from underneath his chest, forcing himself to stand up as he tried to keep his balance while the red liquid once in his body now began to stain the earth. "W-We're not going to go down by the hands of a guy like this." Only waving off Kimiko's words of concern as he took in a shaking breath, it didn't feel good to be standing up at this point and every cell in his body was telling him to rest, but he didn't feel like he had much of a choice in this fight anymore.

"You two are too pathetic; just admit defeat so I don't have to send a dead demon child back to the demon world." Raion giggling to himself as he folded his arms with twisted pleasure. "Honestly, I don't know why there is so much fuss going on about you right now. Who are your parents, kid? Are you the son of some incredible demons? Are you some kind of God spawn?"

Tsumi blinked as he heard this, people were fussing over him? What had he done, geez he wasn't that great! "They're not alive, I never got to meet them."

"So, it doesn't have anything to do with your blood, then what could it be that you have? An overpowered spell maybe?" Raion trying to figure this out as he pursed his lips in curiosity, obviously craving the answer to the question.

"I don't know what I have, I've never fought anybody before, so whatever this person is looking for I don't know."

Kimiko had taken this time to inch closer to Juri while the demons spoke, the woman just continued to stand there stone faced with tears beginning to grace the woman's cheeks, Kimiko not sure what exactly to say as she wondered if it was even possible to provoke a response from the woman. "C-Can you hear me?"

The woman only silently shifted her head to look at the teenager, the tears becoming heavier as she only looked at her. Her jaw shifting as if she wanted to say something but couldn't get any words out no matter how hard she tried. Almost like her mouth had been sewn shut, or something or rather somebody had locked all of those words away.

"We're going to help you, I promise that! Don't be afraid, this is almost over for you."

The look of buried humanity grew from inside Juri, the woman's gaze never leaving Kimiko as she tried to nod in a struggled reply of sorts. So, even moving slightly, like trying to nod, was painful and almost utterly impossible. Kimiko biting her lip in utter disgust and horror. However, to see this woman suffer only helped to build the teenager's rage as she began to tremble with anger. This couldn't continue happening, not like this!

"Juri! The first spell, quickly!"

Tsumi jerked as he noticed Kimiko standing right before Juri with the book in her hand's the boy mortified as he realized this. Rachido wouldn't be able to work from this distance, trembling as he gritted his teeth. "Call out the third spell!"

"Kiba!"

Kimiko looked at the fang headed in her direction, taking in a breath and silently praying this would work the way they needed it to. "The third spell! Rokuryo!"

The girl clenched her eyes closed as she tried not to think about the fang coming for her, her eyelids tightly compressed while her shaking hands pressed the book close to her chest in terror. However, the fang never did come forward and hit her much to the surprise of the girl who opened her eyes to see nothing.

"That was your spell!" Raion blinking in shock as he looked at Tsumi. "How did something like that work properly!"

Tsumi seemed rather proud of whatever he had managed to do with the spell his bookreader hadn't managed to see on her own. Which began to bother the girl who was being silently poked with the shame of having no idea what her own demon's spell had just done. "I don't know, is that why your boss wants me so desperately?"

"I don't think so, that wasn't worth much. It just that the way you used it surprised me a little, it's still nothing amazing, not comparable to something like Baou."

Kimiko sighed as she looked back to the woman, giving her a look of pity and understanding. "Look, I need you to try and fight this as much as you possibly can. Don't let this take you over and consume you, fight with all of your might as we try to get rid of your demon. Because it'll be a lot more meaningful if we know that you're fighting just as hard as we are, I'm sure we can break this thing together."

The woman's jaw once again shifted to show that she really wanted to say something to the girl but was still unable to say anything at all, trying to nod and failing before seeming to figure that nothing was going to work properly. The tears in her eyes however multiplying and racing down her cheeks, which alerted Kimiko to the fact that the woman was obviously fighting an inner war with whatever was trying to take control of her and her own humanity.

Tsumi narrowed his eyes with a growl after looking over to see what was happening between Kimiko and Juri. "That is sickening; your bookreader is trying to take control of her own body because of what you did to her! Don't you even feel the slightest bit horrible for what you are putting her though for your own personal gain?"

Raion looked over to Juri, shaking his head and smirking to himself. "Not if I have her doing everything I want her to do without listening to her complain about every little thing I tell her to do. I like this Juri, because she doesn't constantly try to warn me about being bad or making 'wrong' choices." Then holding out one of his hands and smiling. "Juri, the second spell!"

"Kooria!"

Raion snickered at the spell was called, however the book never did glow when the words were said which meant something nobody was ready for. Tsumi looking around and smiling softly. "Looks like it's not going to work anymore, your partner is beginning to resist your orders and power!"

The lion like demon tried to keep himself from yelling out in rage, clenching his teeth together. "I won't let you win, not like this!"

Tsumi turned to Kimiko, giving her a smile of trust and belief. "Are you ready to finish this?" His face had become pale as his cloak was soaked with the blood from the second spell that had managed to destroy part of his body. It only made the brunette worry more about his health, but she knew that there was nothing she could do right now accept finish this.

"Yeah," Kimiko returning to Tsumi's side, holding out her book in anticipation and excitement. " Let's do this quick, I don't want to watch something this sickening anymore!"

"Rokuryo!"

And now that the spell was in play again the girl made sure to keep her eyes open this entire time, watching her demon let out a yell of anger as none other than a shuriken appeared in his hand. It didn't look very special when she looked over it except for the fact that it was glowing with a radiating purple aura. However, as the child tossed it with rather startling accuracy towards the open arms of Juri, it did begin to do some interesting things as it picked up speed.

Acid began to bubble from each of the four tips along with releasing a stream of toxic gas around the weapon to protect and conceal it from everything around it. Riaon freaking out as he watched this happen, rushing to find the shuriken only to be hit by the toxic gas. The moment he inhaled any of it, he fell to the ground, choking in pain as his eyes began to burn with the toxicity and crying out as it began to nip at his fragile skin, his throat being to be torn at from the inside out thanks to breathing this gas in. "No, this can't happen! Not like this!"

Juri noticed the shuriken heading for her, the woman using all of the strength within her to slowly lift the book up in front of her and let it be stabbed by the poison tips that stood before the novel.

Riaon trembled in shock and horror, looking to Tsumi who only struggled over to where the lion like demon lay. He bent down before the kid, shaking his head and smirking. "Alright, you lost, so tell me what is going on here with this boss. You tell me why people are wanting me and why they are using people under trances to make it work for them!"

"Tch," Raion painfully twitching. "I don't have to tell you anything."

"Oh, just admit defeat so I don't have to send a dead demon child back to the demon world." Tsumi figuring if he said what Riaon had before he would at least manage to get somewhere with this stubborn kid. "Your boss can't really get you since you're going back now, so you have nothing holding you back from telling me just what I want to know."

The lion like demon flinched as Tsumi narrowed his eyes, seeing his book was beginning to burn from the poison in the shuriken. "Fine! Fine, I'll tell you what you want to know."

The poison demon nodded, folding his arms with his eyes maturely narrowed. "Alright, then start spilling everything you can."

"I work for a man by the name of Xenolith, a demon with pretty amazing powers. He can turn you into his own personal puppet and send you anywhere he wants to and if he has pure concentration he could even make you say things you wouldn't want to. The closer you are though, the stronger his reign over you is, it can get to the point where you can hear his own heart and voice everywhere with you no matter what happened to you. He loves messing with others, which means scrambling heads and brains happen to be a specialty of his."

Kimiko frowned, looking over to Juri and seeing the woman tremble. "So, does that mean if a person's will is strong enough, they might just be able to break out of the spell they are put under? That maybe, burning the book isn't the only way to free somebody under the trance?"

"I guess so. It seems possible, but I wouldn't know, because most people just spend their time fearing the Master. I've gotten to talk with some people that would rather fight under Xenolith while aware of what they were doing instead of becoming his play thing and being forced to do whatever the man wanted against their own will. All they would talk about was his voice, something cold and deep trying to coax them in ways they could not describe and would usually cry about when they tried to explain it to me."

Tsumi shuddered, trying not to think about what people like Juri or the previous people they had taken out were going through on the inside. "Alright, well I have something else to ask you."

Raion lifted an eyebrow. "Lay it on me."

"Why," The poison demon trying to keep himself calm as he tried to think of a hopefully positive reply to what he was about to say. "Why does Xenolith want me? Out of all demons he is targeting me and why? What did I do?"

"I don't know, he just said he wanted to have the demon that controlled the power of poison. He was just bent on trying to find you and have you, why I am not sure but he wanted to have you with him. Did you two know one another at all? He's not exactly the kind of guy you could forget after meeting him once."

Tsumi only shook his head, Raion taking a deep and shuddering laugh, his body almost entirely faded into golden sparkles of light. "Well, I can't help you out there. Good luck fighting him off, I don't think anybody will be able to take out that bastard without becoming mentally disturbed."

The young poison demon clenched his hands together, balling them into fists. "No, you can't just go now!"

"Too late," Raion taking in a shaky breath as he laughed once more, sounding like he was in slight pain as his chest shook. "I don't really have much of a choice and you can blame yourself for that one, poison kid. You're the one that burned my book."

Without having a chance to say anything else, Tsumi watched as Raion slowly faded completely, his book nothing but a few ashes that now lay in the grass of the park. He turned to Kimiko, trembling as he spoke. "This is going too fast Kimi, this Xenolith wants me and we still don't know why. But we do know he's nothing we want to make friends with and have to fight." The girl nodding as the child took in a breath of air and held it in for a few moments before releasing it.

Then the two heard what sounded like somebody collapsing, turning around to see Juri sitting down on her knees, tears soaking her gown as she harshly sobbed. The teenager rushing to the woman's side, placing her hands against her shoulder and offering her a smile of understanding and compassion. "Are you alright?"

"I-It was so cold! S-So cold!" Wrapping her arms around Kimiko and beginning to sob against the brunette's shoulder, seeking comfort that the girl could only hope she could give in this time of need. "All I could hear was a cold voice, telling me to do what I didn't want to do and forcing me to watch as I did it anyhow. It was my body doing awful things, but I couldn't do anything about it!"

"It's alright, you'er free now and nobody's ever going to take you back there. You'll be safe, it's okay." Kimiko's voice getting soft as she realized just how much she wanted to cry as well, to hold onto somebody else and cry about all of her troubles while the person held onto her lovingly and told her that everything was going to really be alright. "I promise, nobody's ever going to take you back there because we freed you from that today."

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"I-I don't want to know what I did that makes this person want me."

Tsumi had gotten back to his feet, stumbling on the path of the park and taking everything rather slow. "I mean, just to know why they have their eye on me, that might be too much."

"Yeah," Kimiko eyeing the child with nervousness as she tried to keep her spirits up. "But we have to figure it all out, or else everybody is going to end up like Juri."

Tsumi turned to the bookreader, sighing to her before tears began to well up in his eyes. "I-I'm scared, Kimi, I'm frightened and I don't want to face my fears anymore. I want to hide away where nobody could ever do something like this. I don't want to handle all of this!"

The brunette bit into her lip, knowing what he meant. Neither of them really felt like they had a choice anymore, but she couldn't coddle him and lie in this kind of a situation. "I know, neither do I. But what choice do we have, if not us then who? We can't do the running away thing, the world won't allow it."

Tsumi tried to hold back his tears, but slowly they won, the child trembling as tears over took him. "K-Kimi." The child taking a step before his eyes got wide and went blank, falling forward and collapsing on the ground.

"T-Tsumi!"