Hey guys,
Wow, it's been insane with this chapter a day schedule I think everybody is getting very used to. Which for those of you who don't know why I am doing it this way, I can explain quickly why I am doing it this way. It goes on like this, because I do have readers that have been loyal since before I even began writing this story. So, they deserve to have new chapters from time to time, which is why I update as much as I can for them and for everybody who enjoys reading it. And as always, I encourage you all to ask whatever you need or want to know if you ever do. I don't mind taking time to answer whatever a fan would like to know, because you all are rather important in the end. So, never be shy, trust me when I say I'm shy and it's deprived me of a few things. So, never be shy if there is anything you want to know, it's cool.
Alright, so I should stop babbling, it's time for you guys to read a new chapter.
xKiha
December was just around the corner, so of course it was finally time for the snow to fall in Otaru. Not that it was always welcomed, but while to some it was nothing but an annoyance or a pain to others it was that little beauty everybody was waiting for around this time of the winter season. It was a sign that the holidays were just around the corner, which seemed to always calm most of the people down or get them very excited for what was to come.
"It's really snowing, huh?" Kimiko pulling on some light boots as she looked over to the deeply invested Tsumi, smiling to him with warmth. "Well, I guess since I've got some errands to run today you might as well come with me."
"R Really?" The demon's violet eyes widening as he gave her a smile. "Yeah! Let's go then!" The child acting as if he had never really seen snow before and was more than extremely eager to get outside and just feel the cold weather against his skin.
Kimiko pulled on her comfortable black jacket, thin but warming at the same time, not to mention carrying a style she quite liked. She hadn't always loved the snow, but something about this day brought her to wanting to come outside and feel the cold that she hadn't been anticipating. The girl grabbing her satchel and placing the list of things she needed to get done for her mother before her eyes fell onto the purple book that sat comfortably on her dresser.
'Go ahead, pick it up. Take it with you, you know you want it.'
The girl whirled around, taking in deep breaths as she tried to reason what exactly was happening with herself but for some reason just couldn't. This voice was something that continued to tease with her ears and apparently it was playing with Kenja too. Oh well, no time to worry about something like this right now, the girl looking around once more before picking up her book and placing it in her bag. It couldn't hurt that much, could it?
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"So, where exactly do we need to go?"
Kimiko took the paper out of her satchel, looking through the list of places she would need to go as she watched her breath take on a ghastly white in the cold weather. "I guess we should go to the farthest part of town first so we can get that stuff done first. That way we can make our way back down slowly and we won't have to go in all different directions."
"Alright." Tsumi nodding with a little eagerness buried in her voice. "That sounds like a plan."
The brunette at least hoped so, continuing to walk forward with the child in tow as the snow itself
began to play around in the wind, garnishing her black coat with pale white flakes of the tiny crystals of ice. Her cheeks had taken on this warm and soft pink, the girl continuing to walk as she looked down to the child. For some reason all she could think about was what that voice had said to both her and Kenja, both times he had spoken about some sort of jewel that had been specified by Kenja as purple. Could this possibly relate to them, after all it seemed that their spellbook was purple and it seemed to be a color on the child and of his irises.
Could he know anything about a purple jewel? Had he been referred to this by somebody he wasn't that fond of? Could he possess some kind of gem that this voice was wanting? This word would have to mean something, right? "Tsu?"
The child suddenly looked up to her, cocking his head and going to speak when he suddenly stopped in his tracks. "Hold on." The look in his eyes informing the teenager of what she didn't exactly want to think about as it came to mind. "Do you see that over there?"
The brunette turned to see a man with platinum blond hair wearing a black trench coat standing beside a child with blue hair and aqua eyes that seemed to have minus marks tattooed onto his cheeks. They were standing at a newsstand, but the moment Kimiko glanced over in their direction the man made eye contact.
"It's a demon," Kimiko whispered, shaking her head as she swallowed. "What do you think they're going to want?"
Tsumi tried to brace himself for whatever was going to happen right then. "I can't be sure, but I'm pretty sure we are going to be fighting them really soon." Seeing the look in the eyes of his bookreader fill with distaste as she braced herself for whatever was about to happen.
The blond man set down his newspaper, signalling to the demon child who nodded right away and began to follow as the man began walking over to the poison duo who found themselves unable to turn away suddenly. The man standing before Kimiko suddenly as his warm breath burned at her cheeks. "Come on, we have some business to attend to."
"W What do you mean?" The brunette said, trying to seem as unaware as possible as she nervously giggled. 'I I don't want to fight anybody right now and judging by the way he's looking at me, he's a henchman...'
"You know exactly what I mean by this," The man said, gesturing to Tsumi with a growl in his tone. "Either you come with me or I will burn your book without giving you a chance to even fight back."
She almost felt that she could believe this man, Kimiko looking to her partner who only gave her a nod of understanding with a determined look within his purple eyes. They didn't really have much of a choice in the matter so refusing probably wouldn't exactly be something they should attempt to do.
"We'll fight." The girl said in a meek tone, trying not to think about everything that had begun to bother her. "We will fight you."
The man only seemed to laugh in his own satisfaction, his demon flashing a smile that actually seemed rather innocent when the girl looked into it. "Good, now come, follow us."
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The farther they got away from the town, the more nervous Kimiko had become, the faster her heart began to pound in anticipation. The snow underneath her had begun to grow thicker, making a rather uncomfortable crunching sound as it was pressed against the ground by her boots. She continued to glance over at the blond man. He wasn't under the trance everybody had been up until now, but instead he was completely aware of everything around him.
Could he really have willingly chosen to work under Xenolith?
Well, maybe it didn't matter, but it still would be interesting to know what would convince this guy to willingly work under the puppet master. Maybe she would try to get answers out of him later, but for now she couldn't find a reason to say anything of the sorts.
"We're here."
The man suddenly stopped in his tracks, not turning around but just stopping before a rather large tree. His demon taking in a deep breath before sticking his fingers in his mouth and loudly whistling, Tsumi covering his ears in the sheer power of the child's volume.
"We heard you, we heard you!"
Hearing another voice was honestly what horrified Kimiko the most, looking around in panic before seeing a pair of people sitting in a tree. A woman with short ringlets of black hair with a child sitting beside her with red hair and ruby red eyes with what seemed to be plus signs tattooed to her cheeks.
"They're a pair." Tsumi muttered, his partner turning to him as she blinked and went to ask him what exactly he meant by that only for the child to continue. "It means that these two can be strong on their own, but when together they have amplified power. I I think they're twins, but this isn't good…"
"Why not?" The brunette's heartbeat beginning to pick up as she watched the woman and her partner leave the tree. "Why isn't this good?"
"I'm pretty sure they're twins and when twins are fighting side by side the power isn't something you are going to want to think about. We can't take them on our own and hope to win since they're fighting together."
Kimiko sighed, reaching into her satchel and taking out her spellbook. "We're going to have to try; there is nothing else we can really do at this point."
The two demon children seemed rather happy, linking hands as they looked over to Tsumi, the young boy choosing to speak. "We have been waiting to fight you, my sister and I. Lord Xenolith had told us to wait up until now and we were starting to get really bored just as he decided it was time to send us to do what he doesn't want to. And this is why he will soon be praising the amazing Hiku and his sister Sei!"
The bookreaders didn't seem to be very invested in all of this, but it was pretty obvious that they were completely aware of just what was happening while in this state. They were in control, just like how Kimiko and Tsumi were, which could be a good or bad thing for the poison duo.
"Alright, Lavi!" The young girl saying as she lifted her left hand. "Let's do this!"
"You too, Koichi!" The boy shouted, lifting his right hand.
"Jikirdo!"
"Jikuldo!"
A burst of energy suddenly generated from the children's palms, something that seemed to be charged with some sort of energy. The twins shuddered before putting their hands together, this massive energy suddenly fading for a moment.
"One, two, three." Hiku whispered, Sei nodding as they opened their hands.
To the shock of Kimiko and Tsumi, a powerful beam of purple energy suddenly shot through the hands of both of the children. It was emitting an energy the teenager couldn't explain to herself with rational thought, but it didn't matter what it was, because she could feel the strength of the blow from where she stood right then. This wasn't going to be good.
"Rerano!" The girl clenching her teeth together as she tried to focus on going through this strong instead of the power coming from the twins right then.
The purple shield appeared, the poison duo both kneeling down and hoping that they should be okay when it came to this. However, good things don't always happen when somebody really needs it to work that way. The beam made contact with the Rerano spell and the shield only managed to hold itself up for a few moments before shattering at the power of the enemy's attack. The energy beam hit the ground right where Kimiko had been standing moments before, the girl shuddering as she tried to regain a proper state of mind. That could have been her and their book, that one thing could have been the end of this entire thing.
'No, no it wouldn't be.' Kimiko standing up as she flipped through the pages of her book, Tsumi seeing the serious look in her eyes and responding wordlessly as he stood up. This wouldn't be easy, but they could do this!
"Rachido!" The brunette's voice strong as she called this out, the toxic gas of their first spell leaving the mouth of Tsumi as they waited until it clouded the area to take action. The sounds of Sei and Hiku coughing on the burning substance the only thing leading them forward as they reacted, moving closer through the smog they had created.
"Rokuryo!" Kimiko's voice suddenly reverberating through the silence, the poison shuriken of Tsumi's appearing in his palm as he made out the shadow of Hiku as he threw it in the direction with the sudden accuracy of a marksman.
"Jidorenren."
Something happened right then that neither could have expected, Sei taking her brothers hand and leaping up into the air with amazing strength. Both seemed to land above the cloud of toxic gas, the two demons taking enough time to smile to Tsumi in an intimidating way.
"Jikuldo!" Hiku placed his hands together, a blue beam of energy suddenly shooting out of his bare palms. Neither of the poison duo had enough time to properly react, Kimiko pulling her book to her chest and bracing for impact.
The force of the spell sent the two flying back and into the newly fallen snow, the brunette trying to hold in her groans of pain as she forced herself to sit up. Blinking in shock as she noticed red beginning to stain the white substance from where her face had been. The girl was a little stunned by this, lifting her hand and placing it against her forehead only to find that she was in fact bleeding.
"K-Kimi." The brunette turning to see her partner standing in the snow, blood dripping off of his left arm as the child looked to her. "Get back up; a little blood isn't going to stop us."
The brunette nodded as she got into her feet, opening her book and glaring as the two demons and their bookreaders. "Don't worry, I didn't plan on loosing this fight. We're going to get right back up." Smirking as she looked over their enemies. "Rokuryo!"
With that Tsumi threw the throwing star at them, the toxic gas filling the air as the weapon began to spin around. The poison beginning to drip out of the spikes on the shuriken suddenly, landing on the snow and beginning to singe it, the frozen water sizzling in reaction.
"Judorenren!" Sei jumped into the air once more, smirking as she looked down to see if she could find her sibling only to see nothing. The red demon frowning with confusion, only to hear a sound moments later that frightened her; the sound of Hiku crying out in agony.
As the gas cleared, everybody saw the blue demon kneeling in the snow while blood dripped onto the snow, the Rokuryo shuriken sticking in his arm while the poison on the tip dribbled into his wound and onto the ground. Now this had yet to happen before, the poison sticking into somebody's body and into a wound.
"H-Hiku!" Sei's suddenly soft voice whispering as she landed on the snow, rushing over to her twin and placing her hand on his shuddering shoulder with wide eyes of fear. "H-Hiku! Are you okay? Does it sting a lot?"
The blue twin looked up at her, steadying himself as he got to his feet. "I-I'm fine Sei, it's just a cut, nothing more." However, just from the look he seemed to give the poison duo it was obvious that this wasn't true, his face seeming to become a little paler.
"Do you think," Kimiko's voice soft as she turned to her partner, blinking as she found herself being taken over with thoughts. "That the poison in Rokuryo could have long lasting affects?"
"I-I don't know." The poison demon replied, looking over to Hiku. "But he's not looking so good, so my guess is going to be yes."
With that Kimiko flipped through her book, only Rokuryo was going to work right now and how long would it be before the both of the demons caught on to what they were doing? 'Damn it,' Kimiko gritting her teeth as she clenched the book's spine. 'We need something, an edge or something.'
"I won't let you guys win," Sei said as she stood up beside her brother. "Xenolith told us to do this and the both of us are going to do this together! Lavi!"
"Jikirdo!"
"Jikuldo!"
With that the twins placed their hands together again, the purple beam of energy being created once more and shooting forward and at the poison duo who stood there, frozen in shock and unable to really do anything about this.
"Get down!" Kimiko shoving Tsumi into the snow and lying beside him, placing her hands over her head while having her book sitting under her chest for protection. The beam hit the ground before them, creating an eruption that sent the both of them flying, Kimiko holding the book even closer as she smashed into the snow. 'Please, we need a new spell! We need something! Please!'
The girl opened her eyes, groaning in pain as she forced herself up onto her knees. Blood had begun to gush from her nose and stain her upper lip in a disgusting fashion, the girl trying to wipe it away as a bright purple light caught her eye. "W-What?! This can't be happening, right now!"
The poison demon stood up, blood beginning to build on his forehead from where he was nicked by a flying stone. "What is it?"
"It's a new spell." Kimiko whispered, smiling as she stood up and steadied herself. "Are you ready to do this?"
"Yeah!" Tsumi nodded as he straightened himself, trying to look rather intimidating as he nodded. He was ready to get this all over with, to use this final spell to destroy them both.
"You really think a new spell is going to take us out?" Sei said with a giggle, placing her hands on her hips. "Lavi, let's use the first spell again to end all of this!" Her bookreader nodding as she lifted up the novel, smirking with pleasure. "Jikirdo!"
With that a red beam shot out of the little girl's hands, Kimiko taking in a deep breath and bracing for whatever was about to happen. "The fourth spell, Zunsapen!"
Tsumi drew in a breath, on his hands and knees as he closed his eyes. He was ready to feel the power of some sort of spell leave him. But he felt nothing.
"Come on! Work!" Kimiko shouted, shaking the book while the bright purple light faded into nothing. "Please, please! Work!"
However, the fourth spell never came out, Kimiko's eyes wide as Sei's beam continued to come, striking the duo and sending them into the snow with sheer force.
"K-Kimi.." Tsumi lifting his head, shuddering as he tried to get back up onto his feet. "K-Kimi, we can't go down like this!"
The girl lifted her head, the book being protected by her arms. "T-The spell didn't work, Tsumi. What are we going to do if the next spell isn't going to work."
"I don't know, but we're not going to go down without a fight!" Tsumi whispered, the blood from his forehead staining the ground as the child sat up, taking gasping breaths.
"Tch, you really are weaklings, aren't you?"
This voice was familiar, Kimiko blinking as she pushed her body up only to find none other than Aislinn and Cheshire standing in front of her. The girl giving the both a look of shock as she found some of her words. "A-Aslinn?"
"Who else would it be?" The girl muttering as she gave Kimiko a look that basically seemed to call her insane.
"What are you doing here?" Tsumi said, wiping the blood from his forehead.
Cheshire snickered, seeming to take enjoyment in his simple question. "To help you fight, weakling. It's obvious that you can't do this on your own. So, let's fight together for now, just remember that this doesn't mean we're friends or anything like that. Let's just kick their asses and get this over with."