Chapter 5: Troubled Pasts

Well, well guys! I think I've updated pretty quickly this past two times! Schools going to be out in a few days, so I'll be working on this a lot in the summer! So, R+R please!

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Soubi stopped in front of the Seiya Jr. High gates and checked his watch.

"10:30, it should be starting soon." He put his back to a pillar and waited for the gates to open for the public.

Meanwhile

"Ah, you must be the famous Long Gong Zhu* everyone is talking about hmm?"

Subaru acted out. Einrie was in a protective stance, standing in front of Ginga, who was dressed like a Chinese pauper.

"If I am, what would you do about it, Rei Wang Zi*?" Einrie asked in character.

Subaru walked forward and touched her face lightly.

"I am not sure…maybe…I…" his grip became tighter, but Einrie didn't budge, "Maybe I should just kill you now hmm?"

"Okay, Cut!" a girl called from behind a megaphone. "That was great guys! Now you just gotta make sure that you act out that scene perfectly during the real deal! Subaru, make sure you look hateful during Line 93! Or else the audience won't believe you!"

"Hai, Hai Nagisa-sensei" Einrie joked. The brunette, Nagisa laughed. And sat the megaphone on a table in front of the stage. The others laughed too. Subaru wasn't laughing, he only sighed and sat on the edge of the stage. "Something wrong Su-kun?" Ginga asked. He sighed again and nodded his head no. "I just… don't like that one scene…cause I don't want to hurt Einrie…" He had such a pitiful look on his face that Ginga couldn't help but laugh.

"Pfffft- hahaha!" She let loose and ended up falling of the stage, her only savior the fact that Ringo and Nagisa caught her in time. Subaru huffed and jumped down to the audience floor. "See, I knew you would laugh." Einrie only smiled. "I think its sweet, but Subaru, I'm not made of glass." She giggled. Subaru sighed and nodded, "Fine, fine, I'll still do my best."

Nagisa clapped her hands together and everyone turned her way.

"Okay, guys, the real deal is in half an hour!" People were hooting and high fiving each other. And she laughed too. "Okay, okay are we going to be able to do this?" There were even louder woots and excited shouts. "Alright then, Lets do it!" And she raised the megaphone in the air and the rest of the students cheered.

30 minutes later:

"Hey, guys! Hurry or we'll miss the show!" Yuiko said tugging on Ritsuka's arm. Soubi and Kio had come too, and Youji and Natsuo were walking behind them, Youji was dressed in a long black dress, and had a purple shawl draped around his shoulders. Natsuo had his hair in twin tails, and was wearing a witch costume from some anime. Yayoi had already left to grab them good seats in the auditorium. When they walked through the doors, they saw him up front, and they went and took their seats. The play was good, the actors very well rehearsed.

"HAH!" Einrie delivered a seemingly deadly blow to a demon who had snuck up on Ginga.

Then Subaru snuck up on her and put his sword to Ginga's throat. Einrie spun around and froze.

"Let her go you demon!" Einrie was at position, ready to attack.

He laughed and nodded no, "The only way I will let her go, is if you agree to help me."

"And why would I help you!" Just then, a flash of smoke and light appeared and Ringo was dressed as an evil Dragon spirit.

"So, I see you've finally caught your little birdie, eh Rei Wang Zi?"

As Ringo was about to laugh, an actual explosion happened, it blew a hole in the side of the auditorium and people were screaming. Two cloaked figures were floating outside the gaping hole. Those women! Ritsuka gasped. They were the women that had attacked him last week! The group stood, and teachers and adults were ushering people out of there. Einrie jumped off of the stage, and the class came from behind the curtains, and started heading for the exits. Kaori was looking for Ringo, because she hadn't seen her leave the stage. Then she saw her and paled, letting out a loud yell, "ONEE-CHAN!"

Subaru turned towards Kaori, just in time to pull her out of the way of the falling curtains. Einrie looked towards Hana and Mizuki to see Hana engaged in battle with Soubi and Ritsuka, but Mizuki was choking Ringo. This made Einrie's blood boil. There was a lot of smoke from the smoke bomb, and the falling ruble made a perfect cover for the fighter units. Einrie couldn't find Subaru however, but she pulled her power through their link and he gave the okay. So she initiated her magic, and jumped through the air with amazing speed, catching Ritsuka after he was knocked back by Hana. She dropped him off by Ginga, Youji and Natsuo and headed for Mizuki, who had started to fight with Ringo. Ringo was the Sacrifice, and Kaori was her Fighter, but she still knew how to fight.

Einrie paled though, and everything seemed to go into slow motion when she saw Mizuki kick Ringo in the stomach, proceeding to hit her across her back, and then start to choke her again when her guard was down. Ringo tried clawing at Mizuki's hands, but just couldn't stop her. Hana must have saw Einrie about to attack Mizuki, because she flashed a fire ball at her and threw her into a tree, outside the Auditorium.

She couldn't focus very well, but she could see clearly enough to see Ringo's unconscious falling body. She heard Kaori scream somewhere, and she saw Subaru pulling her away from the falling ruble of the building. But he didn't succeed and she desperately ran to Ringo's side, or tried to before Mizuki sent her flying back into the ruble. Einrie limped from the tree, and collapsed beside the area where she thought Kaori landed.

As Mizuki kept attacking the school even after rendering Ringo unconscious, Einrie was trying to find Kaori in the rubble.

"Kaori! Kaori! Where are you!" She was desperately trying to find her friend; only when she felt the wind get knocked out of her lungs did she notice what had happened. Her fingertips were bloody and Youji was on top of her, yelling, trying to pull her away.

Another piece of ruble crashed nearby, causing them to go flying. Natsuo, Kio and Ginga were trying to evacuate people and students from the school; Hana watched on as Mizuki laughed maniacally.

Mizuki… Einrie thought sadly. In truth Mizuki had been her sempai when she was a first year in Junior High, she had looked up to and respected her. Then when Einrie started to make other friends through out the year; Mizuki had snapped. She had been abused as a child and had mental problems; but the day that Mizuki had actually 'attacked' Ginga, causing her to lose her left eye, Einrie couldn't take it anymore and cut ties with her. She loved Mizuki like a sister; but she couldn't risk the few friends that were willing to accept her as is.

She got thrown across the courtyard as a piece of wall landed on top of Youji and his movement ceased.

"…Youji…Youji!" Einrie tried to scramble to her feet, but a sharp pain in her ankle stopped her. She cursed the pained and half crawled over the ruble towards him until a loud screech was heard from near the students; one girl in particular stood out from the crowd, Yuiko.

She and Yayoi were looking pale as they stared up into the sky. Yuiko was crying and Einrie could practically hear Yayoi gritting his teeth. She followed their line of sight and felt her breathe stop short. Ritsuka…

Ritsuka was being chocked by Mizuki as Hana delivered quite a painful blow to Soubi's gut. Blood flew from his mouth in specs. And then he lay still. It seemed now Natsuo noticed Youji was MIA, because he yelped and rushed to lift the heavy concrete off of him. Einrie's heart felt a pang of guilt.

But she scanned the area once again; where the hell was Subaru and Kaori? She couldn't see them anywhere, and there was no sign of them in the ruble. Hopefully he had gotten her to a safe place and went to get help from another unit possibly. She got on her knees and grabbed a piece of broken pole to use as a crutch. Hana seemed to notice this because she spoke at her.

"Oh, so the big and bad princess is all helpless now hmm?" Then Mizuki laughed, even creepier, if possible.

"Serves the traitor right!" She spat. Einrie's heart broke at the slight truth in the young woman's angry words. But she wouldn't lose her ground now; after all they were still enemies on different sides of the line. Einrie stood as best she could; Hana and Mizuki hadn't even bothered to summon a barrier. So Einrie did it herself. It was around the entire auditorium, and it blocked out the regular humans. So Yuiko, Yayoi, and Kio were sent out. Ginga stayed though, she was a Fighter, but her Sacrifice was in high school.

Hana and Mizuki were trapped, literally. But then again, so were the others. It all depended on who made the first move in here. Both Hana and Einrie had decided to be that person. They both started their most powerful attacks. Hana summoned a massive amount of fire in front of her. "Phantom Flame, Blitz Fire! (Maboroshi-en Burittsu Kasai!)"

Einrie wasn't afraid. She knew she had to do this. She looked to Ginga and smiled, Ginga nodded back, she knew what to do. Ginga placed barriers around the others, Youji, Natsuo, Soubi, Ritsuka, and Ringo. She converged them in one place, and they pieced together around her. "Hey, what are you doing?" Natsuo yelled. Ginga checked Ringo's pulse and sighed, looking at Einrie through the barrier. "…I owed her a favor…so I guess I just paid her back." Ginga said sadly. Youji seemed to wake up, and Natsuo helped him sit up. "Wait…what's going on…" he seemed to see Einrie and he paled further. "What- What's she doing!-"

Einrie had silver and green energies winding about her body, coming from the palms of her hands. They seemed to join in front of her, it looked like a rose…

I'm sorry guys…I know you'll be upset with me after I do this but…I have to… Sayonara…Subaru… And she took the energy within her hands and a silver barrier appeared in front of it. "…Gin No Jeiden bara! Seishin No Hana! (Spirit Flower, Silver Jade Rose!)"

And Hana let loose her attack, which sent all of her fire flying at Einrie. At the same time, Einrie let hers loose and they clashed with each other. But Einrie was still more powerful, and she used all of her power to throw Hana's flames back at them, ten-fold.

Hana seemed to realize that there was no chance of them surviving other wise, so she threw up a barrier and lunged for Mizuki. "Mizuki!" Mizuki looked at Hana wide eyed and weakly held out her hand. "Ha-" but before she could even finish, the fire engulfed them.

After all the smoke had cleared and the barrier had faded, Hana and Mizuki's bodies could be seen falling out of the air. They were holding hands.

Elsewhere; on a computer screen, the same thing could be seen.
"Tch, Bairon, Kiriya, go retrieve their bodies" Yami, the leader of the Shadows, said as he disappeared as well.

"Hai King" they both said as they disappeared at once. They arrived at the scene as shadows and hastily left once they caught their unconscious companions. The smoke was clearing and the firemen had begun to hose down the burning school.

Indeed, Subaru had made it out of the barrier with Kaori, and she was happy to see her waking sister again. He walked over the ruble toward the rest of the group; who were just standing there looking around, looking for something, or rather, someone. It seemed to dawn on him as he stopped and looked around himself, where was Einrie?

"Einrie… where is she?" he asked, more to himself, but Ginga answered him anyways.

"I don't know… she just-" TINK.

Ginga stopped mid step and looked down at something glistening in the available sunlight. She paled and started to shake and stutter until she dropped onto her knees. This had Subaru worried.

"Gin, what is it?" Then he noticed; in the palm of her hand, a small crescent moon shaped earring. He found himself simply starring, trying to think of a reason why he felt so sick. But when he finally pieced it together, he felt himself go pale. Something had gone horribly wrong. Einrie was GONE. As in not there.

She was just gone, the only trace of her was the small golden earring in Ginga's hand. He wondered what happened, but his silent wonder died on his lips as Natsuo answered him ahead of time.
"She… she used all her power… she used Spirit Flower to finish them off… Subaru, I'm sorry I-I broke my promise… I didn't protect her in your absence… I'm sorry…" But Subaru didn't respond; the only thoughts in his head were; She used Spirit Flower… she's gone… not here… gone… It seemed as though it still couldn't click for him, so when he ran his power through their link, and got nothing, he broke down. He dropped to his knees like a rock and started hitting the earth. But no matter what, it wasn't going to bring her back, no matter what.
She was dead. Gone. Forever.
And he was alone, again; she had broke her promise to him. Her promise that she would always be there for him, and he for her. Why did life hate him? Why did he always lose everything important to him? Now… all he had was her earring and an apartment and mind full of memories of her. It was painful. And he didn't know how he would bear it. So he sat there, crying on the rubble where she had stood only seconds before, alive. His only precious one. Dead…. Dead…. Dead…. And he stayed there, until Soubi and Kio helped him stand and walked him to a fire bus. Ginga walked over and placed her earring in his hand. Told him sweet apologies and walked away. The others cried over her death as well; and gave their honest grievances. Ringo took it the worst; she cried and cried, saying sorry over and over, blaming herself. He reassured her, it wasn't her fault. Einrie would not want her to blame herself. Einrie's father wouldn't be pleased; neither would the rest of her family. They would comfort him and would tell him not to blame himself, but that wouldn't stop him.
She was his everything.
And he had lost her.
He lost everything.
He knew deep in his heart he would never find another.

But he would still fight, for her, for her memory. For himself.
More importantly, for REVENGE.

[End Chapter Five]

Okay guys. Hope you liked! Another Cliffy ewe

Anyways, here are the translations for the Chinese words!

Long Gong Zhu = Dragon Princess

Rei Wang Zi = Dark Prince