Rosario to Elf

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"talking"

thoughts

Nightmare

"Are you feeling OK Kaede-chan?" Kohta asked seeing his friend hunched over breathing heavily as she sweated.

"I'm fine" Kaede stuttered seeming flushed as she leaned against the railing of the train that was leading back to Kamakura. "Just a headache is all . . . ."

"Really?" as the youth placed his hand to her forehead. "You're burning up! I think you're running a fever!"

". . . . It's fine" as Kaede took a few sharp breaths. "I just need to rest a little . . . ."

"Come on" as Kohta kneeled positioning his arms back. "I'll carry you home".

"That's' fine" she refused sharply with a mixture of both pride and embarrassment. Just entering the Kamakura area, her head felt like splitting open the closer she got to her home town. She couldn't quite describe her current ailment. For it wasn't like she was really getting sick, but something was pounding against her mind the moment she came back which was causing her headache to grow worse the longer and closer she came to Kamakura. If anything, it felt like so many voices were screaming at her at once just clawing at her mental barriers trying to get in. "Does it have something to do with my increased powers? But then where are all these voices coming from?"

Losing balance for just a moment, Kohta pulled her back to her feet. "This is serious Kaede-chan. I think you need to get some rest now". After a bit of arguing and a few compromises, the horned girl slung her arm around her friend as he supported her by her shoulder as they began to walk to her home.

After some distance, they arrived to a warm welcoming two story house. Stepping to the front door, they knocked as soon an elder brunette haired woman answered.

"Hello mother . . . ." smiled Kaede wearily.

Kaede's mother Mikomi Hikaru was expecting this moment for so long when her little girl would return to being her real self. For several years she waited as now that time has finally come. However this wasn't exactly what she had in mind when it came to first meetings. "Are you OK?" she asked with much concern. "What's wrong?" as she pressed her forehead against her daughters.

Just as Kaede was about to speak, Kohta was quick to interrupt. "She's not feeling well Mrs. Hikaru. She needs to go lay down for a while".

"I understand" as Mikomi stepped aside guiding the children in and pointing to her daughter's room as Kohta then helped her into bed tucking her in.

". . . . This is so embarrassing" said Kaede rather dazed as she looked away from her friend and mother.

"Don't be like that Kaede-chan" smiled Kohta. "When you're sick just let people take care of you. It's only natural".

The horned girl's face turned a slight shade redder. ". . . . Whatever".

Kohta gave a nod to this. "Alright, get some rest OK". Then exiting the room closely followed by Mikomi, they then came to the living room area. "If it's OK with you Mrs. Hikaru, I'm going to go the market to get some supplies to make some soup so Kaede-chan can feel better in no time".

Immediately finding this odd, "couldn't you just use magic to heal her?"

"Well magic can only do so much. But sometimes a nice bowl of chicken soup is all the magic one needs" Kohta said in a rather chipper way.

Turning about to leave, Mikomi stopped him as there was something that she wanted to say. "Thank you Kohta . . . . For keeping your promise in bringing my daughter back to me".

"Not a problem" the youth smiled. "When I make a promise you can guarantee that I will always keep it". With that Kohta made his way to the market to get what he needed.

Watching him leave Mikomi gave a slight giggle. "You're rather lucky to have him in your life Kaede" as she soon returned to her daughters side to see what she can do for her until the youth came back.

~ Kamakura (The Facility) ~

On an isolated island miles away from the shore of Kamakura laid a scientific facility whose sole purpose was to study a strange oddity that had appeared in the world several years back. It all started with a gruesome murder at an orphanage which claimed the lives of four children. Although unnecessary, an autopsy was mandatory for all deaths in general. Upon examining their bodies a strange virus was discovered in their blood stream. With a closer look, a strange anomaly was revealed with how this virus interacted with human D.N.A.

Observing the virus as it worked, it only seemed to affect males or more specifically their reproductive D.N.A. Through them, only female children were born who not only had horns but also exhibited psychic abilities. Although human in relative appearance, these children were categorized as a sub-species of humans dubbed silpelits.

However because of their unique abilities and that they weren't even classified as human, much experimentation was done. Since creating more wasn't too difficult in addition to the fact that they matured quickly, they were never short of test subjects. Although they made rapid scientific progression due to their hands on experiments of physiologically similar humans, this facility abandoned all sense of ethics and morality for the sake of their experiments.

But on this day, all technicians were running around in a panic as something major was occurring.

"Report! Has there been any change in the status?"

"No sir! It's happening to every silpelit here! They are reacting to something!"

"Theories then, do we have an idea of what it is?"

"Sir! If anything we believe the only thing that could cause this mass eruption of chaos is the possible presence of subject zero".

"That can't be, after all these years there is no way subject zero would appear out of the blue like that".

"It's the only thing that can explain the mass psychic synchronization going on. We assume that subject zero is the only presence capable of causing mayhem of this magnitude as only very few silpelits were able to cause an uproar of this kind. However this is on an entirely different scale as every silpelit in the facility is reacting to it".

The current lead scientist had to think carefully about everything that was brought to his attention. With discovering with how the virus works, all males were required to be fixed to prevent an external outbreak preventing any children from them being born. However they were rather diligent in quarantining this threat as they made sure no silpeilts outside the facility were born. So with everything he knew, it only meant one thing. "Scramble a tracker team. Find out the source of this presence. If so, bring silpelits we can control along. If this is truly subject zero, we want to be prepared when we capture it".

Upon those orders, everything was put into motion as soon a tracker and retrieval team was now on the move to the mainland.

~ Kamakura (Hikaru residence) ~

Mikomi looked worriedly to her daughter as her condition seemed to be worsening.

"Water . . . . Please . . . ." Kaede whispered out to which her mother carefully poured the cool liquid into her mouth.

"Rest now dear, Kohta will soon be back. I'll see to other things while we're waiting".

The horned girl gave a slow nod to this as she closed her eyes to get some sleep. However doing so only made the pain worse which irked her without end. She knew something was trying to reach her. However there were just so many voices talking at once each one screaming just to be heard. To say the least, it gave her an immense migraine as she was trying to shut them all out. However that only made the voices more aggressive in their need to be heard. But of all the voices echoing in her head, one was getting louder and louder as if this presence was getting closer.

"It is not safe . . . . Run away while you still can . . . ."

"What? Who is this? What are you talking about?"

"There is no time! Run away now!" which caused Kaede's eyes to snap open as she shot straight up into a sitting position.

"I need to get out of here . . . ." Although she didn't want to think much of it, she knew when to trust her gut. Her gut was telling her to run. Whatever this danger might have been, it was something she didn't want to put her mother in front of. So steadying herself as she wobbly got to her feet, she quickly moved as fast as she could to get as much distance from home. With her current condition, she was not confident that she could defend them both to which at the very least limit the danger to only herself.

Taking notice, "Kaede! What are you doing?" Mikomi asked stopping her as she held her shoulders trying to keep her steady.

"I'm sorry" Kaede apologized breathing heavily, "but I don't have time to explain right now" as she pushed her aside quickly exiting through the front door.

"Kaede wait! Please tell me what's going on!" as Mikomi tried to follow after her only to find that the door refused to open. She then looked down to see that the lock was broken into place to prevent entrance or exits. "Kaede! Please answer me!" she then said desperately.

"I'm sorry mother" Kaede whispered as she leaned against the door. "When Kohta comes . . . . He'll know where to find me . . . ." as pushing herself the best she could, she steadied her legs as she went into a full out run.

Soon after following from behind were those sent to capture her.

~ Kamakura (neighborhood) ~

Kohta whistled to himself hauling bags in hand as he took his time getting back to the Hikaru residence.

"I hope Kaede-chan will like the porridge I'm going to make her although pitiful it's the only thing I can make" giving a half chuckle.

It amazed the youth that after a stretch of so many lifetimes, he was still such a lousy cook as he was only able to make a few items.

Allowing that thought to process, "You'd think one of my ancestors would learn how to cook, but I guess it's OK".

Kohta still mused constantly about his role as the avatar of the god of darkness which was essentially nothing as they were just simple shades left over from an older time within history. More so it was maddening with how many memories he had over many lives across the millennia. But in a way it was quite insightful as he could appreciate how far the world has come after the time of the gods had ended. But inside him, he couldn't help but fell troubled over a certain thought. That was how the era of the gods ended . . . .

But arriving to the Hikaru residence, he returned to his chipper attitude as he knocked on the door. "Mrs. Hikaru, its Kohta. I'm back".

Upon hearing who it was, the elder woman ran to the door as she banged against it. "Kohta! You need to help! Kaede is in trouble!" she said hysterically as her voice trembled after an untold time of crying.

"What?" as Kohta dropped what he was holding. Going for the door, he broke the lock as Mikomi trying to settle herself down told him everything that had happened.

~ Kamakura (The Facility) ~

Kaede felt sick beyond belief as her mind and body was bruised and battered as she found herself in some body tight restraint suit with a helmet over her head as she was suspended in some cage several feet above the ground.

"What the hell . . . ." as she felt like throwing up. During the chase, men armed with guns she'd never seen before began shooting at her out of the blue. Regardless of how well she blocked, she couldn't believe how much focus it took just to stop one of their shots. This being fact, she had no choice but to run as they continued to shoot at her.

But what really surprised her were the appearance of other girls with horns just like herself as they attacked her with powers similar to her own.

As valiantly as she fought with much destruction to the surrounding area, she was eventually overpowered and only conscious long enough to see restraints being placed on her until eventually she woke up here in this unknown place.

"What is that? What is that!" as Kaede clamped her eyes shut as the pain became ten times worse the more her mind cleared up. "Stop! Please stop!" as she attempted to shake head. It was like nails on a chalk board as she so badly wanted the screeching in her mind to stop.

However her focus was then redirected as two men walked into the room with one much older than the other.

"There is no doubt about it father. She is the one, the one our family for so long has waited for".

"Quiet" said the older man, as his eyes then focused on their captive. "It would seem our guest has awakened". Giving a cough as if to grab her attention, "Greetings, allow me to introduce myself, I am Kakuzawa and this is my son" swaying his hand to his direction. "And we have been waiting for your arrival for a very long time".

". . . . What?" as Kaede was still half in and out.

"We've been expecting you as foretold by our ancestors as soon it will be the time to strike back against those arrogant human scums that plagues the Earth".

"What the hell are you bellowing on about?" Kaede gritted as she was growing angry. "I don't know what kind of crap you're spewing. But I promise you that I'm going to rub that smug look off your face once I get out of here!"

Kakuzawa grunted as this as he stared silently to the queen before turning about followed by his son. "I'll give you time to cool off. We'll then continue our conversation then".

"Get back here you old fart so I can kick your wrinkled old ass!" But upon finishing her statement she winced again in pain. Now the voices were louder than ever as they even overwhelmed her own basic five senses as they all went dead in favor of her sixth one. "Stop it!" she screamed out mentally. "Get out of my mind!"

All Kaede could hear was white noise, but it didn't make the screaming she heard any better.

Now somewhat aware, she understood why she was in so much pain. The voices were all coming from wherever she was. Although she couldn't understand a word that they were saying, she did understand one thing. That was they were all screaming out in pain.

~ Kamakura (Hikaru residence) ~

"Please . . . ." Mikomi cried. "Bring my daughter back to me . . . . I can't bear to lose her again".

"I will" Kohta nodded. "I promise" standing up, "I will bring Kaede-chan back".

"But you don't know where she went . . . . and I can't sense where she is right now . . . ."

"Don't worry" the youth smiled trying to ease her worries. "No matter where on Earth she is, I will always find her". So closing his eyes using his spell the eye of darkness, every shadow in the world became his eyes as he looked around for where his friend could be. After searching what seemed like infinity, he found her several thousands of feet under the ocean in a very well fortified institute.

Just thinking about teleporting to her, he was not able to establish a stable portal to where she was. "Why is this spell not working?" But looking around, he was surprised to find that Kaede was not the only one of her kind there as the entire place seemed to have been populated with diclonius. "But how can that be? Something I can probably ask later". If this was the case, he understood why he couldn't just teleport in as vectors had a strange effect on magic. With the numbers he was counting he knew why his portals wouldn't stabilize. Seeing no way around, he knew what he had to do.

"Don't worry" Kohta smiled. "I'll bring her home safely".

"Please be careful".

With a nod of affirmation, the youth sank into his shadow disappearing from sight.

~ Kamakura (The Facility) ~

Appearing right outside the massive complex, the youth had to plan carefully how he was going to get to the bottom level.

Teleportation was out of the question to strange spacial disturbance which only left the direct route as he had to make his way down level by level. Furthermore he needed to conserve his stamina as there was no telling what he might be running into while going down.

So needing to be a bit creative with how he used his magic, he created a cloak of darkness to wear to serve as his armor while going down as it was less draining by comparison than converting his body into the said form. "I better go incognito, would hate to trouble people if they discover who I am". So waving his hand in front of his face, darkness appeared as it then solidified into a kitsune mask. Walking through a wall, he was ready to descend down.

Being careful, Kohta made sure to stay out of the sight of people and security cameras as he did not wish for anyone to be alarmed to his presence. The objective was simple as he was here to take Kaede back and nothing more. The humans of this facility would kill anything indiscriminately upon a moment's notice which made them dangerous in a way. But it did amuse the youth in a way how far science has come in the last three hundred years with the evolution of guns as he saw a few guards walk by with semi-automatics.

Quietly as he moved like the shadows and hid within them when necessary, he easily cleared the first three floors walking by scientists and guards as he continued to descend. So long as he kept up this pace, he'd reach Kaede within an hour as she was still several floors away. But being the way he was, his heart soon betrayed him with what he heard next.

"Please stop! No more please!" pleaded a young female voice as a loud thud was heard soon after. "Please! I don't want to die!" she cried.

Elsewhere other voices could be heard ranging in cries of anguish and suffering as cruel experiments and depraved human acts were performed on them.

Listening to this, Kohta's face tightened as what was being done was truly horrible. As his body tensed, he then relaxed giving a sharp exhale. "I'm sorry Kaede-chan, please wait just a bit longer".

To be continued . . . .

Author's notes: IMPORTANT NOTICE – I've about ran out of inspiration to finish this story. So one of two things will happen as either I find inspiration again to finish the story as I intended or the next chapter will be the final one with all my notes indicating how I planned on ending it.

Well I guess that's it . . . .

So I thank you all for reading this fic thus far.