Alright!! Finally updating 'No Longer in the Human World'!!
This chapter I would like to dedicate to one of my best friends, DarkXLightxmagique!! To all who read her amazing stories she is currently away. So she won't update her stories until she gets back from England/France.
So girl, I hope that you'll enjoy this chapter when you're back home!!
As well as, you other readers.
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Ch. 5: No Longer in Ningenkai
Three high school students walk down a dirt driveway. Two of them are young women the other is a young man. After a long test day at their school, all they want to do is just eat and watch cartoons. But the shortest of them all, Rebecca (or Becky/Neko), seems to be distracted with something.
Her icy blue eyes are darting into the woods that surround them all; she looks at the woods with a slight glare. The other two don't seem to sense what she senses. Something evil, something demonic…
"Man, this bits!!" I shout, ruffling my hands in my long brown hair. My friends' eyes are on me. "Who could be such a Fricken' as-mufmuwphmmm!!" Mark's hand went over my mouth.
"Glow, we get! Someone ripped two pages out of your Demon book. You don't have to cuss them out, ya' know?" I rip away from his hand and look back at them. "I KNOW!! IT JUST PISSES ME OFF, IS ALL!!" Mark lets out a deep sigh, and Becky stares into the woods.
"Do you guys feel that?" Her voice sounds… well… creepy. Mark looks at me, and I look at him. We both shake our heads and look back at our Neko. "Well, I do. And it feels bad."
She walks into the woods. Mark shrugs his broad shoulders and follows after her, knowing she'll still go even if we didn't.
"Wait!! Aren't we supposed to walk awayfrom something like that!?" Rebecca and Mark both ignore me, praying slightly. I give them both a sigh. "My friends will be the death of me…" I follow after them, reluctantly.
We walk deep into our wooded area. Rebecca leading the way, since she knows where this 'demonic aura' is at anyway. After about an hour and a half, all of us spot a… portal!!
It swirls in the colors of purple, white, blue, and pink and this 'portal' thing is swirling counterclockwise.
Mark walks up to the unknown vortex, and pokes it. His finger seems to be sucking inward, with a 'swoooooosh'-ing sound. "I've read about these things in one of my demon books." He says. "Depending on which way the portal is spinning (if its spinning at all), it'll take us to a different world." Rebecca and I look at one another, rather stunned that Mark remembered something that he read.
Stepping back he looks at the swirling portal. "But I never found out which swirl connects with which world." Rebecca walks up to the portal and walks around the portal, while rubbing her chin.
"Hmmm…?"
I walk up to the swirling portal and stick my left leg in. Looking on the other side I don't see it, so I bring my leg out before I lose it for good.
I step back so Rebecca can investigate the portal further. Mark and I walk up behind her.
"Neko, do you see anything?" Mark asks.
"Other than a counterclockwise spinning portal, no."
Smart-ass… I look at her with a dull look.
"Oh, well than. Allowing me to help you, Neko." Mark states, rather politely.
That's odd, coming from Mark. I look at him suspiciously, with a raised eyebrow.
I stand on Rebecca's right and Mark stands behind her. "Mark are you going to- whaaa!!"
Mark pushed REBECCA INSIDE THE PORTAL!! In doing so, making Rebecca grabs my wrist and making me grab Mark!! All three of us left our school bags behind us, when we entered.
"This isn't good!!" I state. We're all twisting and twirling, I hear voices but they're going to fast for me to hear, images are zipping past us but they too are going to fast for anyone to see.
There's a light up ahead and the speed picks up.
"Uahhhh!! Oof!" I land on the soft, but uncomfortable, ground, and then something very heavy lands on me. "What the heck?"
"Oh! Gomen, Glow, Neko!" Mark jumped off of us and helps both of us up. Rebecca rubs her back with a pained expression. "You two are heavy!" Mark gains a goofy grin and rubs the back of his neck I smile innocently.
"Well, Neko, muscle weighs more than fat." Mark states with a grin on his face. "Are you saying that I'm fat?!" I cross my arms chest and glare at him. Mark's green eyes widen, he realizes what he'd just said. "N-no, Gloria!! I didn't mean it like that!" His arms are frantically shaking in front of his face. "What, I meant to say is that you're… ummm-"
Rebecca and I hold up our hands. "Why, don't you stop before you say something you'll regret."
Looking around, I see that it looks like my woods. "We can't be that far from our home, Beck." She nods in agreement and Mark looks around for our bags.
"Damn-it all hell!! The one time I don't cheat on my homework we have to lose our bags!! GAH!! LIFE'S NOT FAIR!!"
Rebecca sighs in irritation and rubs her temples. "Ever think that, because you cheat on your homework that it would end to you losing it?"
"But Gloria cheats off of you!!"
I make a wrong buzz sound, from one of those game shows. "Wrong answer, Ookami!! I don't always cheat off of her!! And don't drag me… in… to… … this…" My chocolate brown eyes widen at what I see before me.
Where my home once stood proud is no longer here. Instead nine over grown green-yellow-eyed lizards in some type of armor are sitting around a roaring fire staring at Mark, Rebecca, and myself. "Well look at what we have here fellas, humans." States one.
"And rare ones at that." states another, with a crooked-toothy grin on his scaly face.
"I say we eat them all up…" The rest of the lizard group laughs at their friend's comment causing me gulp at that. I've read many things about demons and depending upon their mood… there are two different types of 'eating them up'.
"Like hell you will!!" Mark puts his fist in the air ready to kill all those lizard demons if necessary. The nine demons glare at him, their eyes briefly flash a blood red.
"We've gotta run." I air whisper to them, taking a step back with frighten eyes. Rebecca nods in agreement and mimics my movement. Mark on the other hand cracks his knuckles and gives the lizard demons his famous wolfish grin.
"Well I'm not running!"
"Well you're not fighting them!!" Rebecca and I grab his writs and run for our young lives. The nine demons are rather slow, so this is looking in our favor but to be on the safe side, I guess, Rebecca tells us to split up.
She goes left, Mark continues to go straight ahead, and I go right.
Looking behind me, I see three of the nine demons are following me. "Damn-it all." I state under my shortening breathe.
My human lungs are on fire from the lack of oxygen, my throat tightens uncomfortably tight, my mouth is uncomfortably dry, and my legs feel like jell-o. But still I run, refusing to be devoured by a bunch horny lizard demons.
Besides don't demons consider humans ugly? Maybe I'm just on of the lucky ones. Great… I think sarcastically with a rather sad grin on my face.
Feeling like five hours have passed, and I'm still running for my life, with the lizard demons following after me. Come on Kitsune think, think!! Wait!! Kitsune, fox demon, fox, FOX TRAIL!! THAT'S IT I'LL MAKE A FOX TRAIL, THEN I'LL FIND A RIVER!!
I do a sharp to the left – the lizard demons follow – then I go right, around a few trees, and all over the place; wherever I go my scent goes with me. This maneuver confuses the demons greatly, now I'm running towards the sound of running water.
"Woah!" That one word echoes several times, before it finally faded. I stand on the edge of a waterfall, my chocolate colored eyes widen at the height and my breath quickness and I shake. Not only did the demon chase give me a fright now this ridiculous height is shaking me up.
I take four steps back before I hear the screech of one of the lizard demons.
Two more of the scaly demons come out of the dark woods. "There's nowhere else to run, little girl." The one in the center says, bring out an ancient katana while smirking. The other two fallow their leader's actions, both with crooked grins.
I take two steps back once they advance towards me, but then I remember the ledge. Looking down I see that the waterfall's white flurry end, making me sallow the lump in my throat. If I stay here I'll mostly likely die by the demons, but if I jump I could die from the underwater whirlpools. I absolutely refuse to die by demonic hands, so… jumping sounds the best option.
I turn my back to the demons, rather determined to live. The wind blows moving my school uniform's skirt with it, and ruffling my shirt. "Look fellas she's going to jump! HAHAHAH!!" the loud laughter greatness three times, I ignore the laughter and bring my hands above my head.
Damn demons. With that thought I dive into the roaring water, away from the baka demons.
My body dives into the water, I quickly swim up lungs screaming for the oxygen and wanting get away from the waterfall's underwater whirlpools. Once above the surface I take a deep breath of the Makai air, but some of the water enters my mouth.
The speeding water takes me on the fastest/danger-est ride I've ever rode in my life. Trying to keep my head above the water is the hardest thing for me right now. Images of my two closest friends and my loving family keep coming in my mind, making me fight.
My body hits boulders, both above and under the water. Bruises will form if I survive and I'll most likely feel a few broken/bruised bones.
I crawl to shore once the rapids are over. "Thank God, that's over with!" I cough up buckets of the river water. Still on all fours I look over myself, by some miracle I have no injuries. "Well that's good. Now I won't die if by injuries, but by hypothermia. Just great…" I stand on wobbly legs and look around from some dry wood.
I found several decent amounts of dry wood and some long blades of grass. I make a tepee out of the wood surround by smooth oval rocks. "Now I know why Granny had me and Neko take Girl Scouts." I put my wet, cold, hands close to the fire I created. I sit close for warmth, but not to close to get burned.
"I really hope that Neko and Ookami are alright." After the energy spent all I want to do see sleep for a while, but the thought that a demon could come and eat me while I'm sleeping makes me want to stay awake.
Through the battle, the wanting to sleep grew greater and I softly fall to my left and close my eyes.
+Somewhere in Makai+
"COME-ON YOU FILTHY SON-OF-A-BITCHES!!" A rather loud teen male shouts at the green lizard demons. His body has a few cuts and bruises, but nothing compare to the once armored demons. "ARE YOU GONNA FIGHT, OR JUST WOBBLE THERE?!"
The piercing green eyes glare at them, as the demons get into their weak fighting stances. "Pft! Waste of time." Mark smirks and the demons slowly run at him. "Eat this up, bitches!!"
With his strong fists, Mark punches each of them in the face with amazing speed. Quickly grabbing one's katana, the human ookami stabs them in their 'hearts' and throats. His school pants have the blood of lizard demon on them, but right now he could careless about his clothes. "I… just… hope… that the… girls… are… okay…" He says to himself between ragged breaths.
He takes the katana's sheath away from the dead lizard. "I'll be using this from now on if you don't mind." Mark glares down at the three bloody lizard demons. "I hope you burn in hell." He says coldly.
A shrilled scream cuts through the Makai air. Mark runs towards the sound as fast as his legs can carry him. "Please, be Gloria or Rebecca!" he pries to himself.
Seeing three demons trying to jump into the high tree, luckily they didn't realize that their armor was holding them down. "Somebody help!!" The cry of his friend Neko breaks out.
"YO!! LIZARD BREATHS!!" The demons stop their jumping and look at the male human. Mark takes out his katana with a wolf's smirk. "Just how low will you demons go?" he gets into a battle stance.
"Th-that katana…?" one points the blade coated in lizard demon blood.
"Oh, this? Heh. Your pals didn't put up a good fight, as I intended. Shame really… cause now I'm pumped up for another fight." His smirk widens seeing the demons pull out their katanas.
"Hope you don't plan on living after this you filthy ningen." The one to the left states.
"Then what does that make you three?" Mark asks with a raised eyebrow.
Anger by that question the three lizard demons run at him to attack. Swinging their white blades at him, but not landing any blows. "To slow." Mark states dodging the katanas' strikes.
"Now its my turn." Once at the base of the tree Mark gets into a battle stance he'd created, while fighting on the streets. "Die." The black haired ookami says darkly.
Zipping past the lizard demons with unimaginable speed, Mark kills the three green ugly demons. He smirks at his handy work. Now to find Gloria and the demon's that want to 'eat' her.
"Ummm… Mark," The young hero looks up at the light brown haired-blue eyed girl in a tree. "Do you mind if you turn the other way 'til I get down?" Mark gives his tree-climbing friend, but turns the other way while sheathing his sword.
Hearing a very faint 'thump' Mark turns around with a smile, once his green eyes saw one of his best friends.
Rebecca brushes the dirt and wood off of her tan-black trimmed school uniform. "So glad I wear shorts under this thing." she says to herself. Mark wraps one of his arms around the small girl's frame. "And you climbing ridiculously sized trees is why we call you Neko!!" Mark pats her shoulder with his goofy grin on his face, wanting to lighten the near death mode.
"Mark, have you seen Gloria?" Rebecca suddenly asks, concerned about her sister and friend.
Mark unwraps his arm around her and his facial features gain a serious look to them. "No I haven't." he states plainly. Rebecca sighs, worry lying within.
Hours go by, looking for a friend in an unknown forest is hard than it looks. "Mark I think we should go by our nicknames, just to be on the safe side." Rebecca says, looking up at her eight-teen year old friend. Mark gives her a stern nod, showing that he heard.
Ookami must be really worried about Kitsune. Normally he would've cracked countless jokes by now. Rebecca's sky blue eyes look around the darkening Makai forest.
"We'll rest here for the night, Neko." Mark stops brutally. "Neko why don't you go fetch some dry wood?"
Rebecca crosses her arms over her chest with a glare. "I'm not a dog, you know?! Go get it yourself!"
"Come on, Neko!! I'm hurt!!" whines the human ookami, while pointing to one of the cuts on his face. "Hmph, that didn't stop you from looking for Kitsune, now did it?" Mark gains a blush across his nose. "My point exactly."
The two human 'demons' both look for dry decent firewood. They both watch the fire dance and break the wood with worried expressions. "So, Neko, do you think Kitsune is okay?" Mark asks his much like cat friend, with somber green eyes.
Rebecca nods her head. "Yes she's fine, Ookami."
"How do you know?" He asks tilting his head.
"I don't know, I just have this feeling that's she fine… for now…" She mumbled that last part to herself.
The two friends fell asleep on opposite sides of the roaring fire, knowing that they'll need their energy to find their brown haired kitsune.
+Next Morning (Gloria's POV)+
"Mmmm…" My chocolate eyes flutter open wanting to get use to the sun's bright rays. I sit up rubbing under eyes, ridding them of the Sand Man's… sand. Once sitting up straight I look at myself with wide eyes. "I'm-I'm alive…" I bolt up with a happy face. "YES THANK-YOU LORD!!" I dance around the hot fire embers, laughing. Not only that but I'm bone dry, too. "I must never jump off a waterfall again."
After putting the embers out I continue to walk around the Makai forest, several hours. "NEKO!! OOKAMI!!" Deciding it would be better to shout their nicknames then their real names. "NEKO!! OOKAM-Oof!!"
"Damn tree root." I unlock my ankle from the uprooted tree root. Picking myself I dust off the dirt and leaves off of my white school shirt and tan skirt. "Why did Ookami have to push… us… through… that…"
I don't finish my loud thought; looking ahead of myself I see another demon. But, unlike the first group this guy strikes fear into my heart. On instinct I take one step back, avoiding the tree root.
He has really long black hair some strands are out of place, violet slanted eyes, dressed in all black but the inside is red, and what I find the most creepy is the mask over his mouth.
I try to match his appearance to the images in my demon book.
My eyes widen once I figure out who he is. "Karasu…" I let out in a hushed whisper. Karasu let out a girlish chuckle. "It would seem that even the ningens have heard of me." I lost some of my fears after the chuckle he just did.
Yoai… I think with an emotionless look on my face. I read that Karasu enjoys seeing the fear and pain on his victims' face. So if I just keep my face emotionless he won't blow me up, with those invisible bombs of his.
The both of us stood there staring at one another, not moving. A breeze blows past us moving our clothes. A sizzling sound comes with the breeze, making my chocolate eyes in fright. Uh-oh!
"AHH!!" My scream cuts through the air. One of Karasu's bombs have blow up on my right leg. Another one I felt blow up on my left elbow, another scream erupts from throat. Back, stomach, scream, scream, thigh, scream, shoulder, scream.
I no longer know where he's hitting me, for now all I feel is a numbing pain that surrounds it still making me scream… but not for help. And I still stand proud, refusing to fall.
"It truly is amazing." He says. "Normally I have demons begging or they're dead by now." He looks over my bloody and broken body. I can't see that well now but I know he's smirking behind his damned mask. "Heh, I'll still kill you and your friends." A bomb blows up on chest, sending to fly into a tree and scream.
"Uhhh…" I cautiously open my eyes, afraid of what I'll see. When I do fully open my eyes I'm not surprised to see my blood everywhere; most of it is on the ground, some even it made it on the tall trees, and near Karasu's feet.
The bomb demon's footsteps are getting louder, sounding that he's coming towards me. I refuse to die by demon hands. I glare up at him, no blood is on my face but I feel the sting in my eyes that I hadn't felt for a week.
Karasu lifted me up with just two fingers under my chin. "You still have that damned fire in your eyes." He says.
"Jigoku e ike!" I tell him. His violet eyes flash a dark red color and he throws me across the valley of blood. I bite my lower lip from screaming out in pain. The left side of my face is now on the bloody earth and my long dark brown hair is spread across the blood.
"You little bitch." Karasu's foot presses my head into the Makai ground. "How dare you say that to me." He presses his foot harder, making me groan.
"How dare you kill an innocent beings." I retort, but to be met with a blow to what's left of my stomach. The blow was forceful and sends me to crash into a tree and break it.
I fall off the tree landing on my butt, but not having the energy to stay sitting up I fall on my back. My breath is becoming ragged, my vision fading in and out and I'm seeing double, and I feel completely weak.
Karasu is now standing tall and smug above me. Holding out his right hand (palm face me) I see small green sparks. Here comes another blow…
"Karasu!" Someone shouts. The violet-eyed demon looks in the direction of the voice, I slowly turn my head towards the voice, too. "Don't bother blowing her up, she'll die by being devoured or bleed to death. Lets go!" I really can't see clearly so I can't see the other male demon. But if he can order Karasu around like this, he must be stronger than him.
Karasu glares at the bulky demon that orders him to leave this girl to die. But enjoys that she'll die by torture. "Very well."
Karasu takes his leave, but I'm pissed that he'll try to kill my two best friends. "Karasu!!" I growl out. He turns around, but what he sees makes his violet eyes to widen with shock.
Miraculously I'm able to stand on my two bloody feet. With the tree's help I stand proud, with a fire in my chocolate colored eyes. Glaring at the demon that's responsible for my body's state. I glare at his unbroken and clean body. "Don't you DARE go and kill my friends!!" I shout at him. But, yet again, he lets out a girlish chuckle. "Oh? And just what are you going to do, little one?"
'Little one.' Youko… Those two words reminds me so much of Youko Kurama.
I say nothing but glare harder at Karasu. He lets out another one of his chuckles and holds up his right hand. "You'll meet your friends in hell." With that I feel a bomb blow up on my back.
"AHHHH!!" I'm thrown back into my pool of blood on my stomach. Hearing retreating footsteps of Karasu and whoever told him to leave me alone, I turn my head to where he once stood. No… he'll… he'll… I can't finish the thought fearing that if I do it'll happen.
I feel something wet roll down my face. Painfully I move my right hand up towards my face. I touch close to where my eyes are, bringing my hand down I 'see' that I'm crying tears of blood. Heh, well what do ya' know? Dieing doing the thing I've haven't done in awhile… just… great…
I feel my body go limp, my vision gains blackness around the area I can see, my eyelids gain I heaviness to them. I close my eyes knowing that I'll never open them again. Mark… Rebecca… I am truly sorry… That's my last thought.
+Somewhere in Makai, inside a small hut… thing+
"AHHHHHHHH!!" Both Rebecca and Mark grasp their hearts. Tears erupt from Rebecca's icy blue eyes; she leans forward crying heavily her heart feels broken… crying in pain agony. Mark punches the ground (with the hand that isn't hold his pained heart), his tears brimming his emerald eyes – one or two falling on the hut's wooden floor. "Gloria…" they both whisper out in pain.
"She can't be… no…" Rebecca cries harder, still grasping her heart.
"Gloria… you're strong… you can't be… no!" Mark squeezes his eyes shut, tears coming out.
Both humans cry in the small hut by the calm river. Whispering the brunette kitsune's name out in pain and refusal the feeling that's she is gone from this world… and them… forever…
Note: 'Jigoku e ike!' means 'Go to Hell!'
I hope that this chapter was long enough, peeps!... peeps...? Hmph! Well anyway, it took up 12 pages on Microsoft Word... so I'm hoping that this was long enough.
