Chapter 30: Ken's POV
"Something really bad is about to happen" I say to the miniature man in my front pocket, while we enter through the gates of Blood Pledge Castle.
"I can feel it too, my Sage. This amount of negative energy, and with such power..." he answers me, I know what he wants, but dares not say, this energy feels much similar to Sousho's, and it's coming from Shibuya.
I jump out of the horse without waiting for the soldiers that are running to help me and dash to the castle's door. Shibuya must have found out about Wolfram and this energy, now I fear the worst possible outcome.
But then, just as I reach the gigantic double doors, I feel, and then see, an explosion of bluish power that goes up to the sky like thunder, and blinds us all for a moment.
There's no time to waste, I open the doors and run to the royal chamber. Just when I'm about to get there I run into Lord Weller, Lord von Voltaire and Lord von Christ that are going in the same direction, followed by a handful of soldiers each.
With a strength and a speed I never knew I had, and I do think I don't, I rush and place myself in front of the door to Shibuya's room, blocking the way.
"Geika what...?!" before they, I'm not sure which one, are able to finish the question I summon upon myself the aura of the Great Sage.
"Lord Weller, no one is allowed to cross this door except me, and no one shall come near it until I say otherwise" I can feel Shinou sort of backing me up silently from my pocket.
"But Geika..." Lord Weller protest, obviously worried for his nephew, I'm sorry Lord Weller, but I have no time to explain this situation right now.
"I gave an order, Lord Weller, not a suggestion" I say and sustain their gazed one by one.
"Yes, your Excellency"
They walk away reluctantly and filled with worry, but at this moment nothing matters, only what is behind this door. I can feel the powerful energy still being emitted from inside and just bringing myself to touch the doorknob becomes almost painful.
"This is it..." I say and open the door in one single movement.
For a moment, a shining bluish light blinds me and an enormous amount of power goes through me, Shinou rapidly puts a shield around us and I can finally see the picture in front of my eyes.
At my left, on the floor and on his knees is Wolfram, or his body at least. He's crying so hard he's not even bothered by our presence, his eyes are fixated on the sight in front of him.
Shibuya is suspended on the air and his eyes are blank, his head is slightly thrown back and his marioku is flowing out of him without control.
"Shibuya!" I yell at him but I get no response, instead Wolfram seems to have acknowledged our existence, and gets up.
"What happened?" I ask, no, I demand for him to answer me.
"I... don't know. I thought he was going to kill me, but then, when the power was coming at me..." oh Shinou... now I get it.
"He redirected it towards himself" I finish his sentence for him and he nods as a response.
"Is just like the second duel he had with Wolfram, he had already let his emotion take control over him and he couldn't hold back his marioku, so he chose to hurt himself rather than you" I say and take notice of the beat up state Shibuya's body is in, he has bruises all over and he's obviously exhausted and desperately trying to take back control of himself. We won't know the extent of the damage until we consult a healer, but I can feel him weakening.
"You... you know I'm not..." he moves closer to me and looks at me somehow, hopefully? Well, if the dream was a true mirror of reality, he has been suffering over this matter also, so he probably wants someone to put an end to it, even if it means he will have to keep suffering from now on.
"Yes, we know you are not Wolfram von Bielefeld, although this is, in fact his body" Shinou answers him for me in a this-is-my-decedent's-body-you-rascal tone, and not without reason, but now is not the time to be bickering about what body belongs to whom. Although I was starting to get worried about how quiet Shinou has been since we got here... now I'm the one wasting time!
"We have no time no waste on that right now! We need to stop Shibuya before he really kills himself" I say and they stop their arguing to look at me. Not-Wolfram's eyes widen to all their extent for a moment of realization, of the state things are right now.
Then I see it... the purple snake eyes, a shadow of their energy to be more precise, reflected on his eyes for just a fleeting second. Could this be what Shibuya saw? But if that is the case and he found out that this is not the real Wolfram, it still isn't enough reason to go completely berserk like this, unless...
"He thinks you killed him?" I ask bluntly.
"I don't know..."
"Did you... kill him?" he look at me with a mixture of despair and guilt, he wants to say no, but maybe he's not even sure himself.
"If you knew about this, why didn't you do something!?" he's close to tears again, is really weird seeing Wolfram's face so easily changing from one emotion to the other so freely.
"Why didn't you?" I ask again and he clenches his teeth fighting between anger, and sadness maybe.
"I wasn't sure" he finally answers.
"Well, neither were we" I say and fix my glasses up the bridge of my nose, looking at Shibuya and trying to think of a way of stopping this maddening stupidity he's right now doing to himself. However, no matter how many times I try it, I cannot establish a mental connection with him. We are running out of options and time.
"The only one that can bring him back to his senses right now is Wolfram... or maybe you" I finally say as calmly as I can. We really have no choice but to try, if we don't stop this now we will lose both of them, and as much as Yuuri would hate me for this, protecting his life is my one and only priority, no matter who has to be sacrificed in the process, that is what I was born to do, after all.
"I'll do anything! Just tell me what to do!" he says and approaches Shibuya, which is not an easy task, considering the threatening waves of marioku around him. A feel a sting going through my heart and I flinch a little, not visible to him though. Whether this person is responsible for Wolfram's soul being trapped or not, one thing's for sure...
"He loves him" Shinou says reading my mind. I suddenly feel sorry for this poor, clearly in love soul in front of us. Was he willing to let Shibuya kill him all along?
I'm about to give instructions to not-Wolfram when Shinou suddenly takes his full form beside me. His eyes are narrowed in concentration and soon I feel the reason why.
Hissing.
The same energy we felt in the dream is approaching us right now. Through the windows and the door I can see the same purple smoke we saw when we rescued Wolfram from the Bielfeld lands, slowly filling the room.
"Show yourselves!" Shinou demands and we stand guard, ready for the room to be filled with men, but the figure the smoke forms is different from what we'd expected.
A slender and tall woman stands in front of us, she wears a long and tight black dress, contrasted with white pale skin. Her hair is black... even for her tribe, that is a really uncommon and dangerous sign of power in this world, and something to be very worried about, when the person you're facing is an enemy. She slowly opens her eyes and looks directly at us.
"Mirage, I suppose?" I ask in a sarcastically polite manner. She lets out an evil chuckle and begins walking in our direction, humming a tune that sounds really familiar somehow.
Her voice echoes like a serpent hissing through the room and rings on my ears making me feel like they will crack. I can't move...
"I have no business with you Soukoku, I've come here to take back my son"
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So... how is it guys? Like it, hate it? No flames please ;)
blackirishawk: yeah, Yuuri is a peaceful boy, but remember he has a really short temper. He gets angry easily and often gets carried away by his emotions when he sees injustice, especially when he sees someone is being hurt, so I thought he would probably go berserk if someone were to hurt his precious Wolf, don't you think? *-*
But at the same time he would never be able to hurt anyone, hence the hurting himself thing.
Pikeebo: I was getting tired of the pace myself so I thought, what the hell and just went all out with the last chapter. The problem is, since I need to change POVs so often for the story to make sense, chapters are going to get really short from now on, but I hope I can keep up this pace so the story doesn't get boring again! And about Mirage's son soul, well, wait 'till next chapter to find out ;)
SheWhoIsPowerful: so sorry that you didn't like it! Like I said before, I need to change POVs too often, hence the really short (hopefully not boring) chapters, this one was a little longer so I hope you enjoyed it :)
