Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho (damnit...) T_T I only own my OC's Akikaze and Akio! ©GarnetValkyrie
Author's note/Summary(for this chapter...): AN: Breaks in the story that look like this ~Are lyrics.~ From the song that gave me the idea to finally write this out and have it written up instead of it sitting in my brain and letting it stew. Thoughts will look like this 'Thinking.'/Summary: Akikaze deals out her revenge but will she make it through? And if she does what unknown affects will it have on her body, mind and soul? Read to find out!
About the title: Ghost Town-Egypt Central (The song that finally got me off my lazy bum to write this out, also did anyone else know that writing gory scenes is a great stress reliever?)
If you haven't heard this song, you need to! I absolutely love it! And if you do listen to it either while reading this chapter or after reading it I'm sure images of Akikaze will flash through your mind. It just set the mood and feel of this chapter perfectly, which is why I included lyrics in the song that matched what was happening in the story.
Side Notes/Warnings: Strong profanity and VERY gory. DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH! (I had to up the rating because of the gore...)
Akikaze with Akio in her arms was now on the outskirts of the forest, both of them dripping wet, since it was still raining. Akikaze smirked knowing that the weather would help her not hinder her. Carefully she laid Akio down under one of the trees near her and while kneeling stared at his peaceful face. 'They will suffer for what they did to you Akio.' Akikaze thought as she got up from her kneeling position and stared at the many ogre and demon guards that surrounded the castle. Normally Akikaze did not torture her victims, but due to current circumstances she was well beyond showing mercy or pity. Akikaze entered the clearing in front of the Castle as lightning flashed behind her, many of the ogres and demons saw her and soon she heard a loud alarm being rung that made her ears twitch in pain.
Slowly the gates of the castle opened to reveal a large boar demon dressed in armor with a large claymore at his side walking towards Akikaze.
"What do you want wench?" The boar demon asked as he let out a large snort while glaring at Akikaze, slowly the rain stopped after the Boars statement as a dead silence filled the air.
Akikaze's bangs due to the rain where hanging in front of her face and had been hiding her eyes. She lifted her head so that she could look the boar in the face, her pupil slits, and her eyes glowing bright yellow.
"I want you dead. I want all of you dead!" Akikaze shouted as she rushed forward before anyone could stop her, using her wind energy she lifted herself into the air and slammed her fist through the boar's armor and right into his chest cavity. Akikaze smiled evilly as the pig demons dark purple blood seeped down her arm and some of it splattered onto her cheek.'His blood smells horrible!' Akikaze thought to herself as her nose wrinkled in disgust.
The boar demon could feel Akikaze's hand gripped tightly around his heart, as he stood in disbelief unable to understand what was happening to him.
~I'll cut out the broken hearts down Union Avenue
Let the streets run red with my revenge~
Still grinning Akikaze ripped her arm out of the Boar demon taking his heart with her; she jumped back with the still beating thing in her hand, as she smiled happily at the damage she had caused. The massive boar demon had a gapping hole in his chest; Akikaze could plainly see the demons insides as some of them hung out of the hole, while other parts of his flesh, muscle, and bones landed on the Castle grounds in his blood. The Boar demon let out a squeal of pain as his hands went to his chest, feeling his blood pulling out from the hole in his chest. He pulled his hands away and saw them covered in his purple blood along with some of his flesh, bone, and entrails. The guards stood in shock, not knowing how a woman had taken out their Lieutenant so quickly. Akikaze laughed evilly a she held the Boar demons heart in her hand in front of her face. She moved it slightly to the right of her face so she could watch the Boars reaction as he looked up to see her doing this action. Her eyes glowed as lightning flashed behind her and she crushed the Boar demons heart in her hand, her nails sinking deep into the vulnerable flesh, and shredding it like a hot knife through butter. The Boar demon squealed again and gripped his chest in pain as he began coughing up blood; he pointed a shaking finger at Akikaze and began to order his guards to attack.
'I'm not done with you yet.' Akikaze thought to herself as she once again rushed towards the Boar, once she was in front of him, their eyes met and the Boar knew that his fate was sealed. Akikaze using her Wind to make her nails as sharp as a scalpel sliced through the boar demons armor and right into his flesh. Akikaze felt exhilarated as she felt her nails gather skin and guts underneath them as she drug her nails from one side of the Boars oversized belly to the other. She jumped back just in time as not to get crushed by the Boars large entrails as they poured out of him like water. Akikaze realized that she had cut a little deeper then she intended as the Boars dark purple intestines, and his stomach hung out of the hole she had cut and she could clearly see that his stomach was sliced open revealing the mush that he had eaten a few hours before. His thick purple blood now pooled out around him as the Boar began shaking, and fell to his knees, his eyes rolling into the back of his head, as he whispered, "Why?"
His guards had not heard what he had said but Akikaze did and she shouted loud enough for every one of them to hear her, "You killed the wrong fucking demon!"
The Boars thoughts instantly went to the little shadow wolf that they had severely injured the night before. Akikaze now knowing that the demon knew that she was referring to Akio ran up to the Boar demon and roundhouse kicked the demon into one of the castles pillars. His entrails fell the rest of the way out and trailed behind him as he flew through the air. The boar demons body created a small creator in the side of pillar where he had hit as he fell limply onto the ground. To his fellow guards he was dead as they positioned themselves to attack Akikaze, but Akikaze could still feel the Boars life energy.
'I'm still not done!' Akikaze thought as she jumped onto of the Boar demon, she knelt down on his chest, and looked him in the eye as he coughed up blood and his eyes rolled into the back of his head.
"Please, no more, I'm sorry, please…." The boar demon begged as he felt his life force slip away. Akikaze snarled and began punching the Boar demons face as hard and fast as she could.
~You can't fake apologies for everything you do
You can't repay the price that's on your head
The price that's on your head!~
Akikaze pounded away on the Boars face until she felt his life energy completely fade away. Akikaze leaned back on the Boars chest, her knee sinking into the hole in the Boars chest, and looked at the damage that she had done. The Boars once long nose was now flat, the bone that once ran down it sticking up at an awkward position sticking into his left eye, while his right eye hung out of it socket. His teeth were scattered around his head while some of them were lodged in the back of his now open skull,and at some point Akikaze had ripped his tongue out, making her giddy with delight as his brains clung loosely to what was left of his facial structure.
~When the sky comes down
Over this ghost town
You'll be first against the wall~
Akikaze looked down at her hands and saw that she small miner cuts covering both of them underneath all of the Boars purple blood. She reached up with her hand, and wiped some of the Boars blood off of her face, licking her lips she realized that she had some of his blood on there as well and spit it out onto the Boars disfigured face.
Her golden eyes widened as she felt presences behind her, she turned and jumped to barely avoid a sword coming down on her head. The sword slashed into the Boar demons abdomen, through his arm and all way through until it hit the castle ground. Akikaze's eyes glowed yellow as the guards advanced on her quickly surrounding her.
'Fuck!' Akikaze thought as she released her power, the Wind rushing to her, and then around her to create a powerful deadly barrier. She extended her arms out to control the Wind and the bubble of Wind surrounding her exploded sending the guards flying in every direction, leaving multiple deep long cuts on many of them. Akikaze rushed to the first guard she laid eyes on who was already back on his feet and using her claws ran in between the ogre's legs cutting his Achilles heal on both ankles. The guard fell immediately and Akikaze turned on a dime and jumped into the air, landing heavily on the guards' chest being sure to use the ball of her foot. The guard coughed up blood, letting Akikaze know that she had at least broken a rib, as the guard tried to stab her with his sword she jumpped away from him, only to be stabbed in the shoulder by a dagger.
~Come on, test me
You'll be first to take the fall
When the sky comes down over this ghost town
You'll be first, first against the wall~
As she felt her blood run down her back her eyes flashed angrily as she turned around and with one swipe of her claws ripped the demon guards' throat out, his head instantly detached from his body, and rolled away from them. Crimson liquid spurted out from his neck like a water fountain, drenching Akikaze in his blood as the smell of rustic metal filled her nostrils, making her eyes light up with delight. Reaching behind her she pulled the dagger out of her back and threw it onto the ground. Normally she would dance in this "rain" but unfortunately she had no time as another guard rushed at her.
'I have to thin out their numbers if I want to have my fun with them.' Akikaze thought as once again she called the wind to her, creating another barrier as the guard ran at her. Absent mindedly the guard ran into Akikaze's' barrier and was torn to shreds, his blood, guts, flesh and bone mixing in with the barrier. The guards that were rushing after him stopped in their tracks and stood in shock, some of them stopped only a few inches from the barrier. Akikaze smirked as her eyes glowed and the barrier exploded outward, tearing some of the closer guards to shreds, while others had limbs sliced off and guts ripped open.
Some of the guards hanging back on the side lines became fearful and started running away from the Castle.
"You won't get far!" Akikaze shouted as her eyes glowed yellow and she sent the Wind after them.
~Scatter like the roach, like the insect that you are
Cowards always try to get away
No matter where you run, no matter where you hide
I will hunt you down, you can't escape
You can't escape!~
The wind caught up to the guards quickly, wrapping around them like giant hands, as it slowly suffocated them, squeezing harder every second. Akikaze kept adding pressure until over the guards' cries of pain and struggle she heard their bones popping, cracking and breaking. She released them from her grip and let them fall to Castle grounds moaning and screaming in pain.
Akikaze gave a toothy smile as she looked at her carnage with happiness as it started to pour down rain again; she tilted her face towards the sky that was now black as thunderclouds rolled over head. "Akio…" She whispered as thunder rolled and lightning flashed above her as the rain washed away the blood all over her. Akikaze swiftly turned around as she felt a presence behind her; she was met with a sword cutting across her chest, Akikaze screamed in pain as she stumbled back and her eyes flashed yellow as she used the wind to push her assailant away from her. She took deep breaths making sure that the cut hadn't pierced anything vital. The gash started under her right collar bone and continued down to her left hip, going right in between her breast. Akikaze's yukata hung loosely on her body as the rain washed away the blood coming out of her wound as she glared murderously at her attacker. She could tell that this guard was different from the others due to the color of his clothing underneath his armor.
"Who are you?" The demon asked Akikaze threateningly as his fellow guards screamed in agony and pain all around him.
Akikaze snorted as her tail and ears twitched in anger, then she answered the guard, "Your maker."
~Test me and you'll be shot down
Test me and you'll be shot down
Shot down, YEAH!~
With that she lunged at the demon meaning to rip his throat out, but he brought his sword up to meet her claws and pushed her away from him. Without missing a beat Akikaze attacked him again going for his side, only for the demon to flex his demonic energy unexpectedly, sending Akikaze flying back into a pillar. Akikaze quickly recovered and hunched on the ground like a wild animal as she let out a demonic snarl at the demon. The demon got into a defensive stance waiting for Akikaze's next move. Akikaze snarled again and lunged at the demon using all of her speed, as she ran up on him and aimed her claws to rip his face off. She was surprised when the demon side stepped away from her and brought his sword down meaning to slice her in half.
'His speed matches mine!' Akikaze thought in alarm as she brought her arm up to block the brunt of the swords blow as she moved away. As the sword sunk into Akikaze's flesh she let out a cry of pain and her eyes flashed yellow as she used the Wind to blow back the demon. He flew into one of the castles pillars but got back up quickly. Akikaze snarled again while holding her left arm as the rain washed her blood away.
"I don't know why you're doing this but leave now and I'll spare your life!" The demon shouted as he lifted his sword and flexed his demon energy.
Akikaze let out an unholy scream of fury and called the Wind to her creating a massive tornado around her body and sent it barreling towards the demon. He yelled and flexed his demon energy pushing it against Akikaze's tornado, for a moment they were tied until Akikaze let out a bloodcurdling scream in pain, and pushed herself passed her limits. Her wounds began gushing blood, her hair shot into the air, and her eyes were glowing completely yellow as her blood mixed with the smaller Wind tornado around her. She looked toward the demon, through her massive Wind tornado, and his demon energy right into his eyes as she screamed, "DIE!"
She released the smaller wind tornado forcing it into the bigger one, although the larger tornado didn't gain size once combined, it did gain massive power and toppled the demons demonic energy shield.
'She's using her life energy!' The demon thought as he frantically looked for a way out until the Tornado broke through his aura, tearing his shield to shreds as it headed towards him. His eyes landed on the now dead Lieutenant.
"See you soon Lieutenant." The demon said as Akikaze's tornado tore his body to shreds. Akikaze watched with satisfaction as the demons flesh was ripped off of his body, as the wind ripped his body into pieces, slicing through his bones as if they were nothing. His blood, entrails, bones and flesh mixed into the tornado until it dissipated; his body parts and blood rained down onto the castle grounds, mixing in seamlessly with the pouring rain. Akikaze dropped to her knees her demon energy now exhausted as she became covered in a mix of the demons blood and the rain. She stared up at the thunderclouds as thunder rolled in the distance and the sounds of the guards groaning in pain filled the beautiful night air as the rain slowed to a steady drizzle.
Akikaze stood up slowly and checked her wounds, her shoulder blade burned with pain as she ran her fingers over it, the gash in her arm wasn't quite as tender, and the open cut across her chest hadn't went as deep as she once expected. Akikaze turned around when she heard an ogre groan in pain, she smiled when she saw that he was making a pitiful attempt to get to an abandoned sword. His legs had been ripped off, pieces of them hanging out of his open wounds as he crawled leaving a thin trail of blood behind him as the rain washed most of it away. She walked over to him just as he was about to grasp the sword in his hand and kicked him onto his back. As the ogre screamed in pain Akikaze saw that she had done quite a number on him since his armor was torn apart showing his chest scattered with deep gashes and his face had a large cut starting above his eyebrow and moving across his nose and lips to end at his jaw line. The ogre glared up at her and made an attempt to spit at her but his bloodied spit landed back onto his face. Akikaze narrowed her eyes at the ogre and grinned as she heavily stepped on one of his amputated legs. The ogre screamed out in terrible pain as Akikaze applied more weight on to his stump of a leg.
"You think this is pain?" Akikaze asked as she took her foot off of the ogres' leg and made her way towards the head of the demon. Akikaze picked up the sword that the ogre had been trying to reach and showed it to him as he stared up at her with pleading eyes.
Akikaze snickered and said, "Your time to beg for mercy passed a long time ago. " She grabbed the sword at its hilt and turned the sharp blade so that it stared straight down at the ogre, right in between his eyes. Flashes of Akio's face contorted in pain flashed across Akikaze mind.
"Plea-" Was all that the ogre got out of his mouth as Akikaze plunged the sword deep into his skull, and then bending over to watch the ogres final moments with her hand still on the hilt twisted the sword sharply to the left and then to right. Slowly the light faded from the ogres' eyes and standing up straight Akikaze withdrew the sword from his skull. His blood gurgled out from his wound and seeped onto the castle grounds, the rain had now slowed to a crawl as Akikaze looked around for her next victim.
Her eyes landed on a demon close to the outskirts of the forest trying to limp away. She sighed in annoyance and slowly made her way towards him. The demon heard her coming and tried to make a run for it, but as he looked behind him to keep an eye on Akikaze he ran into a tree. Before he knew what was happening Akikaze was upon him and had the sword at his throat.
"Did you really think you would escape?" Akikaze asked the demon amusement dripping of of every word as she pressed the sword into the demons skin. Before the demon could even answer her Akikaze growled as she slit his throat, she smiled happily as the demon made gurgling sounds and his hands went to his throat in a desperate attempt to keep his precious life force from leaving his body. Akikaze leaned down and placed her face closely to the demons face as blood seeped out of his mouth and his eyes began to roll into the back of his head.
She wanted her delighted smiling face to be last thing they saw before they went off to hell and she wanted her face to haunt them even then.
She walked around the castle grounds and one by one tortured the ogres and demons. Some of them she got to too late which made her depressed but she continued on to others that were still breathing. Some of them, the ones who had the least damage from her Wind attacks; she experimented on, seeing how much damage and pain she could inflict upon them until they died. Others, who had massive damage, she simply slit their throats, or pierce their skulls. Those that could still speak, sent her curse words as she approached them; that proved painful for them. She had a special treat in store for those beings.
As she approached the last living guard of Blood Castle he did just that cursing her the whole time as she made her way towards him. Once she was upon him he spit on her foot. Akikaze was honestly surprised that the demon was still speaking much less alive. Deep long cuts covered his entire body from head to toe, one of his legs was half severed, his intestines and other inside organs where in clear view since his stomach was ripped open, one of his arms was tore clean off, small strains of nerves and muscles hung out of the torn appendage, half of his face was gone, and a large hole was in his skull revealing his pulsing brains. Akikaze snarled under her breath as she bent down and grabbed a hold of the demons still attached leg, she looked the demon in the face, and smiled sadistically as gave a strong yank, ripping the demons leg clean off. As the demon yowled in pain still cursing Akikaze she threw his leg off to the sides. She smirked as she stood, and walked around to the other side of the demon as he hissed at her; still smirking as she reached the other side of his body she quickly and fiercely punched the demons hip, shattering his pelvis as he cried out in pain tears of blood seeping from his eyes.
"You…fucking…bitch!" The demon angrily hissed as he painfully tried to breathe while his whole body was overcome with extreme pain.
Akikaze smirked as she leaned over the demon and ripped his good arm off, although she encountered a problem when she didn't use enough force and the arm got stuck on the socket, smiling she looked the demon in the eyes as his eyes pleaded her not to do what she was about to do. Akikaze growled in delight as she twisted the arm out of the shoulder socket and ripped it away from the bone. The demon withered in pain underneath Akikaze as he screamed in agony. By this point Akikaze was soaked in blood again as the demon's blood pooled around them and stuck to Akikaze's yukata.
"Kill…me. Just fucking kill me!" The demon pleaded as Akikaze once again stood over him. To the demons surprise Akikaze began to laugh manically.
"Death will come too you, but on my terms." Akikaze said now chuckling as she bent down and stuck one of her sharp claws into the demons open head wound, digging into his brain and pulling out a chunk of it. The demons eyes rolled into the back of his head as blood dripped from his mouth and he violently shook, Akikaze waited as his body finally stopped jerking and his eyes came back into focus. Her ears and tail twitched in happiness as the demon came back to his senses and he coughed up blood, some of it getting on her foot. She bent down and wrapped her delicate looking fingers around one of his revealed intestines and gave a good yank. Like playing tug-of-war with no one on the other side she slowly pulled out his intestines until they looked like a neat bundle of bloodied rope beside her. The demon screamed in unbelievable agony with every yank that Akikaze made until slowly he stopped screaming and she saw the light drain from his eyes. As soon as the light left the demons eyes Akikaze dropped the rope like entrails onto the Castle grounds, a loud 'splat' sound echoed around the now empty lifeless castle.
Akikaze looked up towards the sky again as the clouds that had been hovering over the castle suddenly moved away to reveal that the sun was coming up. Akikaze stared at the rising red sun as an image of Akio's face flashed in her mind. A sudden empty feeling overcame her.
"Revenge has been delivered but none of that can bring you back to me." Akikaze whispered as her chest ached in pain not because of her wound but because she realized that without Akio in her life, her life was meaningless and hollow. Slowly Akikaze looked around at the carnage that she had created and realized that she didn't regret it. Quickly she walked back into the forest and found where she had sat down Akio.
"You fool…" Akikaze whispered to herself as she saw his peaceful face.
"You selfish fool, how could you leave me?" Akikaze now screamed directing her words as Akio's lifeless form as tears fell from her eyes.
'You're screaming at a corpse…' Akikaze thought contradicting herself which caused her to let out a small chuckle. She ran her fingers through her long clotted blood stained hair as the sun came up fully over the horizon, making Akio's corpse glow a faint orange color. Akikaze cried softly as she picked up Akio's limp body, she walked past the massacre, and into the castle, making her way towards the East Wing of the castle. Using her nose she tracked down the corridor that the Blood Ring was kept in, walking in she spotted the loathed item that had cost her, her best friend and lovers life.
Carefully she laid Akio's body onto the cold cobblestone floor. Standing up she picked up the ring, then bending down she placed it on the ground next to Akio's body. She picked up the pillow it sat on and sitting next to Akio's body gently placed the pillow under his head. Reaching over him she grabbed the Blood Ring and placed it on Akio's chest, and then she gingerly crossed his arms over his chest, his hands resting over the ring. Akikaze pushed Akio's black bangs away from his forehead and bent down placing a light kiss on his forehead and then his cold hard lips. Standing up Akikaze looked down at her lovers life less body, rage, aguish, hate, love, pain and many other emotions ran through her, causing her body to shutter until one emotion, one want and one need trumped all the others: Bloodlust.
She wanted others to experience the pain that she felt inside right now, wanted them to feel what it felt to be tortured and she came to the realization that when she was murdering the demons and ogres that want (no, need!) was fulfilled. Smiling an evil smile Akikaze left Akio, the castle and the massacre behind. She had no destination in mind only thoughts of murder, darkness, pain, and destruction as the red sun lifted high in the green and purple sky behind her.
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