Chapter 27-Serikuna's Dark Past Part Two…
A few minutes later…
"We've come a long way since the last war, look air condition tanks!" Sam pointed at a ventilation system in the tank. Lexi, the driver of the tank, punched Sam in her arm. "What the hell Lex?" Sam asked as she rubbed her arm with a gloved hand. Sam was the 28 year old wag, or light spirited soldier, of the squad. She had red blazing hair that was tied in a pony tail like Serikuna's. She was attractive, spirited, and supportive. She had green eyes that could stop most in their tracks. She had some freckles under her eyes but the scar across her nose grabbed the most attention than the freckles. She said she got it before the war when she worked as a zoo keeper taking care of a Siberian Tiger, an extremely rare and majestic beast. "You mess with that and you'll have to worry more than the heat in this tank…" Lexi growled. Lexi had electric blue hair and equally blue eyes. She was a Federation officer before she was kicked out for not destroying a Magna town that had no Magna forces in it. The town was destroyed and she joined the People's Freedom Force the very next day. She had been one of the women that helped Serikuna steal this very same tank when she was a kid. Now Lexi was a 34 year old veteran and was able to challenge anyone on the field, be it man, woman, or machine. Everyone laughed at her comment. "Captain Aneway, Federation communications tower up ahead! I think it's the one we were supposed to blow up…" Lexi alerted Serikuna. "Opening hatch…" Serikuna said as she opened the service top and looked around. They had been driving away from City Hall and back to base when they got the transmission from base to destroy the communications tower before the PFF lost City Hall. During that time they had healed Alexander's leg and removed the metal rod from his leg. Serikuna used a pair of long ranged binoculars to look at the steel object in the distance. "Yup that's it alright. You have any high explosive rounds or plasma rockets left?" Serikuna asked to those inside the tank. As Serikuna kept looking through the binoculars she felt a hand shoot up through the service hole. She looked down to see Sam's gloved hand holding a Plasma Disintegrative Explosive Device. "I was hoping for something without getting close to the tower and all its guns and soldiers…" Serikuna said disgruntled. The hand went back into the tank and didn't come back. "What are you worrying about? We have a Federation tank and the best Tank Commander in the Freedom Fighters!" she heard Sam say. "The only Tank Commander we have in the PFF…" she heard Lexi and Alexander mutter. Serikuna sighed and closed the service hatch above her. "Well we could use a better plan…" Serikuna said. The four thought about it for awhile. "I got it!" Alexander said, the women inside the tank looking at him. "…I forget…" The women sighed and Lexi punched Alexander in the arm. "Idiot…" she said. "We could roll in and blast the P.D.E.D out of the main gun…" Sam said hopingly and deserved another punch in the arm by Lexi. "The P.D.E.D. would explode in the main gun. And even if it didn't how the hell are we going to escape from the angry Federation grunts?" Lexi countered. "Why don't you have any ideas?" Sam and Alexander asked in unison. "I'm a soldier not a bloody tactician…" Sam and Alexander muttered under their breath and looked at Serikuna. She was drawing out plans in her head when she got it.
"OK this is what we are going to do…" Serikuna said as Lexi started the tank up again and moved towards the tower.
Federation troops patrolled the area around and in the communications base with hawk like gazes. They were so concentrated on their work that they only noticed the tank that was getting close to the tower until it was at the front gates. "What's one of our Federation tanks doing here?" A sentry asked. Before anyone answered the tank's service hatch opened and a female Brigade General came out. The sentries at the gate stood at attention and as did the rest of the people within sight. "Ma'am?" a sentry asked. "I'm here to inspect the tower on orders from Federation High Command, please open the gate sentry." the Brigade General motioned with her gloved hand at the gate, the other on her hip holding onto the hilt of an officer's sword. "Yes ma'am!" the same sentry said in a nervous voice and motioned to open the gate. "Where is your commander, soldier?" she asked another sentry as soon as she jumped off the tank. "What the hell are you all doing?! No one told you to stand to attention!" they heard a voice in the distance. "That would be him ma'am…" The sentry said with slight disdain. Serikuna looked around and spotted the Lieutenant scolding one of his troops. He was completely oblivious of Serikuna's uniform rank and yelled at her and the sentry next to her. "What the hell are you doing?!" he yelled at the sentry's face. The sentry stumbled over his words and Serikuna placed a gloved hand on his shoulder. "He's helping me find you." The Lieutenant had still not realized her rank. "What the hell do you want? A night with the greatest Lieutenant in the Federation?" he smirked. Everyone within earshot gasped or laughed. Serikuna smirked. "You're relieved of your command of the tower Lieutenant." He looked at her questioningly and had finally realized her uniform rank. "I'm so sorry sir I didn't realize-" Serikuna slapped him, the sound resonating across the base. "Sir?! I'm a woman you piece of mangy trash! Now get out of my face before I have you court marshaled. NOW!" the Serikuna had ordered behind her Federation scarf. The lieutenant nodded frantically. "Yes sir, I mean ma'am!" Federation troops laughed and cheered that the abusive lieutenant would finally be out of their hair. Serikuna smirked and watched as he went back where he came from, possibly to get his things. "Anyone know where the tower's control room is?" Serikuna asked, to which everyone on base pointed at. "Thank you…" She said and started to walk towards the control room. She had a few minutes before her friends would start to shoot their way out once the tower had been destroyed so walked faster towards the control room than most Brigade General's would. She opened the door to the control room and smiled. No one was in the room but her. Serikuna walked up to the control panel and set the tower's energy to overload and placed the P.D.E.D. underneath the control panel. "1 minute should be good." Serikuna thought. She put a few more codes in and was about to leave when the door behind her open. "Ma'am I know we got off in the wrong foot…What exactly is it you are doing?" the lieutenant asked. Serikuna looked at him dumbly. "Tower Energy Overload Imminent, Evacuation Protocol Advised." A monotone male voice stated an alarm going off after. "Spy!" The lieutenant yelled as he tried to grab for his side arm. Serikuna ran up to him and high kicked him into the air. She ran out the room and saw the tank move toward her. She saw three Federation soldiers ahead of her, blocking her path and yelling at her to stop as soon as the Lieutenant had yelled at her to stop. Serikuna pulled out her sword and service weapon and ran towards the trio. She shot two of the soldiers and slashed at the other in seconds with grace and finesse but had for some reason not made life threatening wounds on the soldiers. She jumped on the tank and into the open service hatch before the shooting had even commenced. Serikuna told them to move and the tank started to move away from the steel tower, plasma blasts hitting the tank. "Was Alexander able to do his part?" Serikuna asked as she looked at the back of Sam's and Lexi's head. "We'll see soon enough…" she heard Lexi state. Alexander was to alert a nearby Freedom Fighter outpost that the tower would soon fall and that the Federation would have no access to their radios. This information would then be given to secure channels to the Freedom Fighters at City Hall and prepare them for a counterattack against Federation forces. The tank lurched forward when an explosion pushed the tank forward. Serikuna opened the hatch and looked around the area. The tower had fallen and victory for the PFF in City Hall was assured, at least over the much larger Federation forces. Magna would be easy to tire out with their hit and run tactics, being accustomed to frontal assaults by Federation troops. Serikuna smiled when she saw her friend Alexander on the road. "Nice explosion…" he said when the tank stopped to pick him up. "Thanks, I had helped though." Serikuna said as she grabbed his forearm and pulled him up. "Incoming!" Serikuna and Alexander heard from inside. An explosion rocked the tank and Alexander fell down. "Damage critical, Eject, Eject!" Lexi yelled. Serikuna watched the ejection chairs in front of the tank fly out with her friends on them. Serikuna felt her own chair start up and sat down, strapping up and checking her parachute. The chair shot up into the air 60 feet in a 45 degree angle and the parachute deployed. Serikuna looked in front of her and noticed her friends had landed safely further than was expected. They landed almost a mile away than her but that must have been because their escape pods were a sphere that could roll. She looked down and noticed a group of Federation soldiers waiting for her. "Shit…" Serikuna muttered.
Later that day, Unknown location…Unknown P.O.V…
I woke up with a pounding headache. My vision was blurry and body aching. I shook my head and regretted it a few seconds later. "Hurts like hell don't it…Mr.…Oh excuse me, Sir Alexander Siegfried the Third of Her Highness Royal Guard of the United Federation States? You're a knight? Huh, fallen from grace haven't we?"
Normal P.O.V.
Alexander looked up at the man. "I have nothing to say lieutenant, sir." The man smirked when he saw Alexander hang his head. The lieutenant walked around the room, going behind Alexander, and placed his hands on Alexander's shoulders. Alexander heard the smugness in his voice. "You don't have to…Your little vixen of a spy will tell us anything we want soon, and after that…well lets just say my men have missed the feeling of a woman for a long time..." Alexander eyes widened and slammed the back of his head onto the lieutenant's nose. He heard a satisfying crunch and smirked when he heard the lieutenant scream in pain. "Bastard!" Alexander felt something hit him on his head and his world turned dark once again.
Somewhere else nearby…
Serikuna's violet eyes blinked open. Her head swam and she felt like she was about to throw up. And she did, three times. Three times bile had come out of her throat and landed on the floor next to her. That's when she realized she no longer had her father's scarf to cover her face. She also noticed that her hair was let down to its full length, reaching her waist on the back and a couple of purple strands in her face that reached her stomach and that blocked her face on the sides, only revealing her nose, mouth, and half of her two violet eyes near her nose. Serikuna looked around the room she was being held in. Everything was dark except a light above her that shone around her, keeping the darkness away. A metal table was in front of her and another steel chair was across her. Her hands were currently cuffed behind her and behind the chair, cutting at her gloved hands. She heard footsteps nearby but they never came close. She looked at herself and was thankful that her mother's uniform was still with her. She looked up again and tried to find her father's scarf as well. She had found the scarf, along with her knife and sword on another table nearby on the other end of the room. She couldn't see them but she knew that someone was looking at her from behind. When the door opened Serikuna stopped looking at the table and up to the men that walked in. She noticed the rank of the man as he smirked at her and sat down across from her. He stared at her for awhile and she frowned. "What do you want?" Serikuna asked as she raised her chin high and looked at him. He smirked. "For starters you can tell me who you are and how you got your hands on a Brigade General uniform. Any other information like troop positions and how Magna is doing these days would be a bonus." Serikuna scoffed. "First of all I'm not with Magna. I'm with the People's Freedom Force. And second…go to hell. I don't need to tell you anything else." Serikuna saw the sergeant nod and felt one of the men that had walked to her side and stand there in the beginning punch her in the side of her face. More purple hair covered her face but her nose and mouth were still able to be seen. "Don't make me hit that lovely face of your again. Now tell me what I want to know!" the sergeant spat. Serikuna laughed and raised her head again, her hair moving away from half her face. She spat blood in his face. "You wouldn't be able to hit me if you tried!" Serikuna felt the men at her sides hit her again, once in the face and another in the gut. "Get her up!" The sergeant ordered as he wiped the blood off his face. The two men roughly picked her up and slammed her head on the steel table when she tried to resist. "Can't hit if I tried? We'll see about that…" the sergeant said as he walked up to her and punched her in the stomach a couple time. After a few minutes of being a punching bag Serikuna felt one or two of her ribs break and coughed up a bit of blood. She looked up at the sergeant through watery eyes and noticed he was tiring. When he turned around to rest awhile on the chair, she noticed the two guard's hold on her arms were loose and tried to gather all her strength up in this last fight to get out of here, at least knocking them out if she couldn't. Serikuna looked at the guard on her left and slammed her forehead with his when he turned around to look at her. He stumbled back and landed on his behind, knocked out. Next she high kicked the guard on her right squarely on his face with the front of the boots she wore. She was thankful for her flexibility and noticed the sergeant was running toward her. Serikuna still had her hands tied behind her back and stood her ground. Serikuna waited until the sergeant was close enough and somersaulted, kicking him under the chin and making him stumble backwards. She smirked as she rose from her position and ran towards the disoriented sergeant. The sergeant looked up just in time to see Serikuna get close enough for him to punch her. He extended his arm in a punch but Serikuna ducked and back kicked him in the stomach and made him fly into the table. Serikuna stood over him with a smirk in her face. "That makes three knocked out idiots…" she said as she looked at the keys he had on his hip. Serikuna jumped up and tucked her arms underneath her legs before landing, hands now in front of her. She reached for the keys on the sergeant's hip and smiled when she was able to insert the proper key on the first try. She walked towards the knife, rapier, and scarf when she felt someone tackle her from behind. She turned around to see it was reinforcements. She slammed the back of her head on the guard's mouth and felt him stumble backwards. Serikuna got up and turned around to see four other men walk into the room, accompanied with the lieutenant she saw earlier that day. Two men charged her and she butterfly kicked them to the ground at the same time. Before she was able to get up fully from her attack, the other two guards tackled her to the ground. She tried to kick the men off her but as soon as the idea popped up in her head, the two guards she kicked and were on the ground grabbed her legs. Serikuna screamed in frustration. The lieutenant laughed darkly. "Since we can't break you in the traditional sense, I guess we will have to resort to more…drastic measures." The lieutenant laughed as he walked towards the table where her scarf and knife was. She heard him pick something up and screamed when he jammed the knife in her right leg.
Alexander's room…
Alexander heard Serikuna's screams of pain and frustration and started to loose control over his feelings himself. He stood up and one of the two guards in the room walked up to him with a baton. Alexander slammed his shoulder into the man's chest and sent him flying into the other approaching guard. Alexander walked up to the downed soldiers and picked up a set of keys on one of them. He took off his handcuffs with some effort and looked up to see more guards go into the room. One ran up to him as Alexander raised his foot, the bottom of the boot hitting the man in the face and sending him to the ground. Alexander grabbed the next guard and sent him flying to the wall. He saw the last two guards charge him with batons. Alexander grabbed one baton and felt the sting of the other on his right shoulder. He pulled the baton from the man's grasp and head butted him. He turned around and whacked the man that had struck him on the shoulder on the side of the head, breaking his skull. He was about to leave the room when another guard, larger and tougher looking than the last six, entered and blocked his path. The big brute charged and hit Alexander in the chest, sending him into the wall. Alexander grunted and looked at the guard smirk. Alexander stood up and picked up two batons near him. Alexander ran at the guard and hit the large guard as hard as he could. The batons seemed to not do much damage and the large man punched Alexander in the gut with his monster sized fist, making him fall on the ground again. Alexander looked up in time to see the guard's large boot come down towards his head. Alexander lifted his hands and held the large boot away from his head. He pushed the boot off him and sent the large man stumbling back. Alexander roundhouse kicked him on the side of the head and sent him into the one-sided observation window. The large man's head went through and into the other room and stayed there. Alexander picked up a baton and ran out of the room. He looked around in the hall and saw three other doors: one in front of him and two on the ends of the hall. He opened the door in front of him to see a figure at the other end of the room. He was about to hit them when he sneaked close enough when they turned around with a knife to his neck. "Serikuna?" Serikuna shook her head, smiled behind her scarf, and lowered her knife.
(A/N: Warning: lots of bloody action ahead.)
A few minutes ago…
Serikuna had blood running along both her exposed legs, thanks to the fact she was wearing blue Federation shorts and the ever so gentle lieutenant, stabbing her with her own knife. She stared defiantly at her captors throughout it all though. The three men she had knocked out before had awaken, even the sergeant. The lieutenant had become tired of her not answering his demands. "I'm getting tired of your unresponsiveness…men do as you please with her. But don't break her…much." The lieutenant laughed evilly as he walked out of the room. Serikuna widen her eyes at his comment and hoped he didn't mean what she thought he meant. The color from her face drained when she saw the hungry looks in the eyes of the seven men in the room. She felt someone try and pull her blue uniform shorts off and yelled. "Hey, big guy!" the man that was trying to undress her looked at her. "Yeah?" he asked. "Come here…" she said with a smile. She saw the man move in front of her and smirked at her as he moved towards her face. When he moved close enough to her face, Serikuna bit his nose and held onto it. The man screamed and stumbled back when Serikuna took off a big chunk off his nose. She smiled a sadistic smile with blood dripping down her chin, some of the men walking slowly away from her. She turned to the man next to her and spit the piece of flesh, along with blood, in her mouth into his face. He let go of her arm and stumbled back, trying to wipe off the blood in his eyes. She used her free hand and punched the guy on her other side in the mouth, breaking his teeth and drawing blood. Serikuna laughed insanely and, as if her wounds healed by some unknown force, ran towards the group in front of her, which had a hard time believing that underneath the beautiful woman was a blood thirsty demon. She was able to jump onto the neck of one man's neck thanks to her running start. She used her powerful legs and momentum to send the man into his allies. As Serikuna was getting up, she saw one of the soldiers able to leave the carnage before he became a bloody mess as well. She looked at the remaining six men and screamed at an almost unbearable manner, some men holding their ears. She saw the knife on the table that was used on her; the lieutenant had taken her rapier as a war trophy. "They don't deserve such mercy…" A demonic voice rang in her head. She accepted the voice and looked at the man nearest to her. She grabbed one of his hands that he had out in surrender and pulled him towards her. He screamed as she used her fingers and stabbed his eyes with them. His screaming stopped after awhile and dropped to the floor. The men around her had taken the hint that they were not going to escape alive from this room and tried to subdue, kill her, if possible. She noticed that only two guards had single shot side arms, powerful one shot one kill weapons but took awhile to charge up after each shot, and the rest were armed with batons. She laughed demonically again at their hopeless situation. She waited until one of the men charged her with his baton and grabbed it before it fell on her. The man stared at her with wide eyes as Serikuna flipped him and slammed her boot on his skull, killing him instantly. The remaining two baton holders were on each side of her and the two that had weapons started to power them up. The two baton holders nodded at each other and charged her in unison. She smirked and side stepped one guard and grabbing the arm of the other. She punched the man a couple times in the stomach and pushed him away from her when she noticed the other man come back. She used the baton in her hand and slammed it into the man's chest when he was close enough. She smiled evilly when she realized it was the man she bit. He slumped over and died. She saw the last baton carrier, well he no longer had his baton, it was currently in his comrade's chest, run at her and that the armed men had charged their weapons. When the man was close enough she grabbed his shoulder and placed him in front of her just when the guns had discharged. The remaining men looked in disbelief that they had just shot their comrade and watched as she dropped the corpse in front of her. One of the men ran to the door and tried to open it. "Damn it! That stupid idiot of a private locked the door behind him!" the man screamed as he slammed his shoulder on the door. Serikuna noticed that it was the sergeant and grinned. "Tsk, tsk, tsk…don't you know it's rude to leave the room before a lady?" Serikuna laughed at their reaction. The last guard looked at the sergeant, Serikuna, and then at the knife on the table. Serikuna dodged the gun he threw at her and saw him run for the knife and pick it up. She smiled and then watched as the man ran towards her. He stabbed to where her head would have been and noticed her underneath him. She uppercut him, grabbed the knife, and slammed it into his chest before he hit the floor all in one fluid, deadly movement. She pulled out the knife and started to walk towards the last remaining human in the room, because it was clear to everyone she no longer held the same characteristics of the woman that helped injured enemy soldiers or was a Peace Fighter that wanted peace. The sergeant turned around and saw Serikuna stand over him. He noticed her unique eyes and hair were no longer their beautiful violet but a sinister blood red. Before he opened his mouth Serikuna slammed the knife in his forehead and back kicked the hilt to drive it further into his skull. "You've done well Serikuna…These souls should support me for awhile but I need more." The demonic voice rang in the room as the evidence of her battle: blood, bodies, and her own wounds, started to disappear in a dark miasma. "How much more?" Serikuna asked, picking up the blade that no longer was in a man's skull but on the ground good as new, and twisting it in her hand. "Eager are we? Well I will need thousands if not millions of souls like them to quench my thirst but…" the demonic voice stopped from hesitation or thought. "Spit it out!" Serikuna said as she started to walk towards the table were her scarf lay. "But…if you gave me the soul of one pure human I would be able to not only quench my thirst tenfold but also be able to escape my prison and help you destroy all who stand in your way…and it just happens the one with such soul would be here, in this very base." Serikuna reached the table and picked up her scarf. "What kind of person would have a pure soul in this place infested with power hungry rats?" Serikuna asked as she wrapped her scarf around her face, her blood red eyes closing for a moment. "This one…" the demonic voice rang as an image of a man with brown eyes and equally brown hair popped up in her head. Serikuna's eyes shot open, one red and another violet. "Choose another…" Serikuna spat as she tied the scarf and let her purple hair down. "It is his soul I wish for a reason my lovely human…It is because of his undying admiration and love for you that draws my attention. I only ask for the soul of the one that loves you compared to millions of others that will surely take more than time what your life already has left. He is the only one I wish. He must die. You must kill him." Serikuna felt the demonic voice leave and she closed her eyes one more time. "Did the voice speak the truth? Was Alexander really in love with her?" Serikuna contemplated and closed her eyes to think back at their relationship. She opened her eyes to their normal violet and turned around when she heard something behind her. "Serikuna?" Alexander asked with a hint of surprise and worry. "Kill him. You have him exactly were you want him. Just drag the knife across his neck and let his life force leave and mine enter the world…" Serikuna heard off in the distance. She shook her head and lowered her knife, her normal human smile returning to her face behind the scarf.
Present Time…
Alexander watched as the knife was removed from his neck. He lowered the baton in his hand and sighed. Alexander looked around the room and noticed it was completely empty besides the two of them. "Are you alright?" Alexander asked as he looked at Serikuna. Serikuna nodded and patted her friend on the head. "Yeah, don't worry your cute little head Alexi." Serikuna stated and moved towards the door. Alexander shook his head and muttered under his breath. "I hate that nickname." He turned around to see Serikuna not in the room anymore and the lights in the room turned off, emergency lights turning on seconds later, Serikuna appearing in front of him. Alexander jumped and tried to decrease his heart's rate of speed. "You coming or what?" Serikuna asked as she turned around again and walked out of the room. "Hey Cap- Serikuna! Hold up I need to talk to you!" Alexander ran after her. When she turned around Alexander swore her eyes shown a glint of red. "What is it Siegfried?" Alexander looked at her as if she had told him to leave. "Umm…nothing…" Alexander muttered and walked behind Serikuna as they walked towards one of the doors he spotted earlier. "What happened to her? What did these bastards do to her? I got to ask…" Alexander looked at the ground ahead of him, looking at Serikuna's boots. "Captain…" Serikuna kept walking. "Serikuna!" She kept walking towards the door as if she couldn't hear him. "Aneway!" He said with more anger than he expected and grabbed her arm. Alexander had little time to see Serikuna's fist head to his face, less when the knife she carried in her arm holster came out and stabbed him in the chest. Alexander screamed as he watched Serikuna drag the knife across his chest. He grabbed her hands and tried to stop her. He looked up to see her smiling sadistically with blood red eyes and flowing fiery red hair. "I'm sorry Serikuna…" he muttered as blood spilled from the corners of his mouth and punched Serikuna across the face. Serikuna went flying and hit the wall next to him. Alexander pulled the knife out and yelled once again. He looked at Serikuna who was getting up and looking at him with an angry stare. Alexander got up and the two stared each other down. Serikuna was the first to make a move and ran at Alexander. Alexander watched her jump and got closer for the kill. Alexander slid behind her and roundhouse kicked her on the ribs when she landed. She yelped and turned around. She ran up to him and grabbed his punching arm. She punched him a couple times in the chest, increasing his pain because of the recent stab wound. She back kicked him away from her and watched as he stumbled back and held onto his chest wound. His vision started to blur when he saw Serikuna grab his arm that was holding the knife and twist it. He dropped the knife and was thrown across the hall. Serikuna smirked and picked up her knife. "No one will touch me ever again…" Serikuna said in an ominous voice and walked up to the rising Alexander. "You're dead." Alexander heard her and looked up to see her thrusting the knife at him. He grabbed her arm and picked her up with a surge of power. He held her up in the air with both hands and threw Serikuna through the door on the other end of the hall. Serikuna burst through the door and landed in the middle of the room. She raised her head and blew a strand of red hair from her face. She lifted her scarf up and looked around. Around 60 soldiers sat on long steel tables eating. She got up and looked at where she came from. Alexander lay on the door frame and looked at her and then at the Federation forces eating. "Shit…had to be the cafeteria." Alexander muttered. The Federation soldiers got up and encircled the two, more like Serikuna and blocking Alexander's escape. A door opened and more soldiers and a lieutenant walked in. Serikuna turned towards the lieutenant and smiled. "That's her sir! She's the one that killed everyone in the interrogation room!" the soldier that had escaped her wrath earlier yelled, pointing at her. The lieutenant smirked. "Well it looks like the bitch has fangs. Kill her. Kill them both." He said as he looked from a safe distance behind two guards with plasma rifles. The men in the room charged at Serikuna, not bothering with Alexander as they thought he would die from his wounds. Serikuna held her blade on her side and felt a surge of demonic aura consume her and go into the blade. The dark aura took the form of a horned beast that almost touched the roof of the base. It was hard to describe what people saw because the aura was all black and Serikuna was in the center of the darkness, blood red eyes glowing and hair fluttering around. The aura's only distinctive shape was the three spikes that protruded on its back and four on its head, two on the forehead and two on top of the head. The small knife that Serikuna held turned into a large sword with black miasma surrounding it. Most people stopped and backed away, but had no time to run when Serikuna screamed angrily at them, the beast also roaring and slashing the large blade. Those unlucky to be in the range of the blade exploded in a bloody display of power. Those not in the blade's range was showered with blood and started to scream as the blood started to burn their skin and clothes. In only seconds the cafeteria's attendants had fallen to a mere quarter of what it used to be. The remaining men screamed and tried to run away from the evil aura. Before they got the chance though the dark miasma shot spear-like tentacles from its back and stabbed the runners. The dark tentacles retracted and absorbed the bodies on the ends of the spear like weapons. The beast roared and black miasma poured from its mouth, consuming the dead in the room and destroying any evidence of a struggle. The lieutenant had watched all the slaughter with terror filled eyes and started to back away from the scene and went through a door to the outside. "Shoot you idiots! Shoot!" He ordered at the two equally fearful soldiers. The soldiers watched as Serikuna and the beast turned in unison and stared at them. They began to yell and fire their weapons into the beast and Serikuna, trying to prolong their lives before either neared. The beast placed what looked like its hand in front of Serikuna and shielded her from the plasma. Alexander saw this and thought about a plan that Serikuna, his normal and loving Serikuna, would be proud of. Alexander walked out of the room and back into the hallway the two were in earlier. The two soldiers kept shooting until their plasma weapons overheated. They watched in terror as the beast shrugged off their blasts and raised one of its hands. It slammed its hand on the ground and black miasma shot up in spikes from the ground, impaling the two soldiers and absorbing their bodies, their weapons clattering on the floor. The miasma beast started to walk towards were the lieutenant disappeared and stopped when it noticed it would not fit in the doorway. It slammed its body onto the wall and burst out to the outside world. Powerful search lights turned on and shown on the beast. Serikuna looked around her and looked at her opposition. Five Armored Federation tanks, at least a hundred soldiers armed with varying weapons, guard towers with plasma turrets, two X-5's and about half a dozen artillery guns pointed at her direction. She smirked and noticed the time of day. "Night…ah isn't it invigorating my pet?"the giant dark beast asked, frightening the soldiers that such an evil beast had the ability of speech. "Very… but these damn insects are so irritating. Don't you think we should do something about that?" Serikuna chuckled darkly. "Certainly but…lets see what they do first to try and stop us no?" the beast suggested as it moved its dark head from each of the Federation positions. A transport aircraft hovered between each X-5. "Aha…so that is where our prey has gone." The miasma stated. Serikuna looked up at the transport aircraft and saw the lieutenant inside, shouting orders at the pilot. She watched with slight amusement as the pilot handed him a headpiece and the lieutenant put it on.
"I'm only gonna say this once! If you don't surrender when I count down to one you will be obliterated! Five!" The lieutenant said in his headpiece. "I do think it would be a good time to defend ourselves don't you?" the beast asked as he shielded Serikuna with his hands. "Four!" the two heard. "Such an imbecile…" Serikuna heard from above her. "Three!" They heard weapons powering up. "I think I'll use his soul as food for my cannibalistic friends. They'll like that." She heard and grinned. "Two!" he screamed into the headpiece, desperately trying to hear surrender. "You should use him as toilet paper…" She laughed sadistically and heard the demon chuckle darkly. "One! Fuck! To hell with this! Fire! Fire everything damnit!" He yelled. Plasma lighted up the dark sky as it started to strike the dark miasma. The plasma fire kept going for five minutes straight until the weapons overheated. Everyone cheered when they saw Serikuna on her knees and hands. Someone's cheer turned into a scream and everyone turned to see what had happened. The black miasma had used the darkness of night to sneak up on the soldiers and take the form of locust, man-eating locust. The locust ate everything; man, bone, and steel. Tanks exploded, guard towers fell, and the aircraft fell from the sky. Serikuna got up from the ground when there was nothing but the downed aircraft the lieutenant was in. The locust took the dark form of a man with the same horns and stood next to the aircraft. The pilot took out his side arm and started to shoot at the miasma, which shrugged it off. The miasma walked up to the cockpit, tore it off and pulled the pilot out of the cockpit. Serikuna watched as the miasma snapped the man's neck and started to absorb the pilot into its body. She turned her attention to the lieutenant who was crawling out of the wreckage. The miasma walked alongside her until they reached the lieutenant. The two watched as the lieutenant turned around and held his hands up. Serikuna smirked and grabbed her knife from the dark miasma next to her, which went into the blade and turned it black. "Killing me won't change anything!" the lieutenant yelled defiantly. Serikuna turned her head towards the lieutenant. "No, it won't." Serikuna said darkly. The lieutenant sighed in relief. Serikuna slammed the blade into the lieutenant's heart. "But it sure as hell will feel good…" she laughed as she looked down at the man scream in silent agony. The knife glowed and started to absorb the man into it, her rapier falling to the ground along her knife. Serikuna was about to pick up the blades when someone tackled her to the ground. She turned around to see the brown eyes of Alexander Siegfried. Alexander had located the base armory and wore an H.A.A.P.S., or Heavily Armored All Purpose Suit. It was black in color, white under armor and trim around the neck, elbows, and behind the knees. An H.A.A.P.S. was used for mainly bomb defusing but was modified to take enormous amounts of damage and still have the wearer the ability of mobility. It was equipped with two shoulder and wrist plasma repeaters that could destroy a tank or small building and not overheat after continuous use of 10 minutes. It had the ability of flight, jets underneath the boots and back saw to that, which could outperform an X-5 in speed and mobility. If the situation ever really got dangerous the suit could eject the user and self destruct. The most impressive design feature was the prototype weapon in its chest. It was a plasma cannon that could shoot in a continuous session and be used as a long laser to destroy everything in its path. There was negative affects to using the H.A.A.P.S. for all its power though. The suit used the life source of the wearer and would only eject the wearer near death, leaving them wide open to attack.
"Aww little Alexi got a new toy…mind if I play with it for awhile?" Serikuna smirked as she lifted the 300 pound suit and flung it towards a destroyed tank. Alexander rolled and hit the tank with little pain. "Look Serikuna, I don't know what they did to you but I sure as hell will protect you, even from yourself!" Alexander said behind his armored helmet. "Activating wrist and shoulder guns, standby." A robotic voice stated. Serikuna was once again enveloped in dark miasma but relatively smaller this time, only a few feet taller than her. She waited for Alexander to make a move; Alexander watched her dark miasma aura behind her swish in a form of a tail. Alexander started the fight first by shooting at her with his wrist and shoulder guns. Blue plasma hit the black miasma but it moved its hands in front of Serikuna, blocking the plasma shots. Serikuna charged but missed her target because Alexander activated his jets just in the last second. He floated in midair and shot at her again. Serikuna back flipped away from the plasma and hid behind a tank. Alexander flew towards the tank and aimed his guns at an empty spot he thought his friend was. Serikuna growled and jumped at him from on top of the tank, slamming him into the ground. They rolled around on the earth, each trying to get an advantage over the other. Alexander looked around him when he realized that Serikuna will soon gain the advantage and spotted a destroyed X-5. He activated his jets and slammed both of them on the aircraft's hull. Alexander went through the hull and ended on the other side. "Damn it…that hurt." Alexander stated as he stood up and looked at the hole he created on the hull of the X-5. He cautiously walked up to it and held out his wrist plasma repeaters. "Serikuna?" Alexander cautiously stated as he kept getting closer and closer to the aircraft. A roar answered back and he watched as the aircraft was pushed towards him. He rolled out of the way before the aircraft slammed into the base wall. He turned in time to see Serikuna use one of the wings of the X-5 at him and flung him a long way. "Four!" Serikuna smiled sinisterly and threw the wing over her shoulder. Alexander activated his jets once again in midair and his chest started to glow. "H.A.A.P.S. Cannon activated. Power outage at 25%." A monotone feminine voice stated. Seconds after the voice had said that the main gun on the H.A.A.P.S. shot its power weapon at Serikuna. Serikuna smirked and raised her hand. Before the blast hit her she unleashed a black miasma and countered the blast, static electricity could be seen between both the blue plasma and the black miasma. "Increasing power outage to 50%." The plasma increase in power and effectiveness and Serikuna's smirk fell as she started to feel the power of the cannon increase. "You got to stop this Serikuna! You're going to kill yourself if you keep this up!" Serikuna heard Alexander through the increasing static electricity and wind gust. "Your just saying that because you know your about to lose!" Serikuna yelled back as she increased the miasma's power. "Power outage now at 75%, caution is advised." The same robotic voice alerted. Serikuna saw the plasma increase its distance to her and lifted her other hand to increase her own power. "Damnit Serikuna! Stop this now! If you don't stop this I will!" Alexander yelled as he increased the power of the cannon to its max. "Power outage at 100%, Danger to pilot imminent" Serikuna and Alexander both increase the power of their attacks and watched as the center of their attacks started to take the form of a bright ball. A massive explosion rocked the earth and flung debris and the two away from each other. When the dust cleared Serikuna lifted herself up and looked around. Most of the base was unrecognizable and there was no trace of what used to be in the center, a large crater was the cause. Serikuna huffed and started to walk towards a large object in the distance with electricity jumping around it, fire barely enveloping it.
"So much for All Purpose…" Serikuna smirked when she realized it was the H.A.A.P.S. "So you've finally realized the power I can give? You're finally going to do it? You're going to kill Alexander Siegfried and sent me free to unleash hell on your enemies? The man with a pure soul and that loves you but is so pathetic and weak that he can't protect you, let alone himself?" Serikuna heard the same demonic voice ask as she walked up to the suit and crouched next to it. Before Serikuna answered back she looked into the helmet and realized no one was inside. Serikuna widen her eyes and was soon tackled to the ground, her scarf had flung off her face. She looked up to see Alexander hold a pistol at her forehead and held her neck with his other gloved hand. She tried to kick him off and screamed in frustration when she realized he was lying on top of her and was not going to budge. "Get off me!" Alexander smiled down at her sadly and brushed a strand of hair away from her face when she tried to kick him off. She stared up at him angrily. "So that's what you look like…more beautiful than I imagined, than anyone could imagine." Serikuna stopped trying to struggle and looked up at Alexander with a different face, her face turning from a face of hate to a face of shock. It was at this point that Alexander realized that one of her eyes had changed back to its normal violet. "You're just saying that…" Serikuna stated as she looked away from Alexander. She felt Alexander grab her chin and turn her to face him. She realized his gun was no longer on her forehead and that his hand on her neck was now in a softer, gentler grip. "You know I'm just saying that. I just said it. But it's not that I'm just saying it…I mean it too." Serikuna watched Alexander lower his face towards hers and stopped inches away from her rosy lips. "Please come back to us Serikuna." He stated. Serikuna closed her eyes. "I don't know if I can…" She stated and felt Alexander stare at her critically. She opened her eyes to realize he was still close to her face and smiling down at her reassuringly. "I don't know what they did to you but together…with some help from the ever so helpful Lexi and Sam…" They both laughed. "We can face it and eventually defeat it." Alexander finished and placed his lips on hers. Serikuna's hair and remaining eye turned back to normal and closed her eyes as she kissed Alexander back. Their intimate moment had been interrupted by a growl. "Enough!" a demonic voice roared above them. They looked up to see the black miasma beast stare down at them. It raised one of its hands and swatted Alexander away from Serikuna. Serikuna tried to get but was forced back down by the creature. "If you won't kill him I will! It might not bring me to the world but at least no one but me will have the power to influence your actions!" Serikuna watched in horror as Alexander was enveloped in black miasma and screamed as she heard Alexander's cries of anguish. "I told you! Love and friendship has no power! That it can't protect you, let alone itself. Only power and control are the undeniable truths of the world!" Serikuna heard as the large demon started to slowly kill Alexander. "Stop this! I already told you to choose another! Alexander is not yours to keep!" Serikuna yelled as she tried to get up again and yelled again in frustration. Serikuna's heart fell when she heard Alexander's cries cease. Serikuna started to cry when she saw Alexander fall to the ground, next to her scarf. Her tears of sadness turned into anger when she saw the black miasma head for his still body, trying to consume him. She mustered all the strength she had and lifted the black miasma off her and rolled away before it crushed her. "You bitch! You will regret defying me!" The miasma roared as Serikuna ran towards a weapon on the ground. She slid towards her rapier and grabbed the side arm of the pilot. She turned around and blasted at the beast as he flung large orbs of black miasma at her. Whenever the black miasma would get close Serikuna would slash at the miasma and cut it in half. She then went flying into a tank and slid down its exterior when the beast had charged at her and flung her with one of its hands. She stared up at the face of the beast when it stepped up in front of her. It roared in her face and Serikuna almost gagged and turned her face away when she smelled the death come from it.
"No one, be it you or a fool like him will take you from me!" the beast roared as it got closer to Serikuna. Serikuna could feel the beast try to take over her body again and tried to resist. Before the beast was fully inside her, Serikuna heard an explosion and the beast roar and pull back away from her. Both she and the beast looked at the one figure on top of the destroyed roof of the base. It was tall, at least 7 feet tall and wore a futuristic full metal suit of armor, a torn green scarf fluttering in the wind, and glowing green eyes looking at them. "Step away from the girl, beast!" They heard from the figure as it landed on the ground and stood up, holding a large sword, almost like a medieval claymore, on its back. The beast laughed and started to walk towards the figure. "What do you hope to accomplish human?!" the beast growled as it took another step closer to the figure. Serikuna heard the figure chuckle. "As a human? Nothing but extending the inevitable. But as a powerful being….much." The man charged at the beast and jumped up. He slashed at the beast's face with his sword and slammed his feet on it to land on the ground. The beast stumbled back and almost fell on Serikuna if she hadn't moved away from the black miasma. Serikuna backed away from the beast and was amazed at the strength of this one man. "But could he really not be human?" Serikuna thought as she looked at the man land on the ground. She remembered her friend and turned around to see Alexander still on the ground. Her purple hair whipped around in the air as she ran towards Alexander's still body. She heard the battle behind her continue and fell to her knees next to Alexander.
She checked his heart as she place her head on his chest and felt a weak beat. She looked up at Alexander when he placed his hand on her cheek. "Man beater…" she heard Alexander mutter. Serikuna smiled down at him through teary eyes and placed her hand over his that was on her cheek. "Baby…" Serikuna said as she looked down at him at laughed sadly when he grinned with his eyes closed. "Do you…" Alexander hesitated and pointed up at the early morning sky. "Do you think that when the war is over we'll be able to see the blue sky and bright sun again? That the sky will clear up and that the world's beauty will return?" Alexander asked as Serikuna looked around her at the flames and destruction that she had created. "I hope so…" Serikuna said as she looked down at Alexander. "I mean…don't get me wrong. You make this place look ten times better when everyone can see your face but I just wish for others to see the sky return to normal, for this stupid war to end. I don't even remember why it started." Alexander said as he lowered his right arm to lie across his chest, the other still on her face. Serikuna smirked. "Beauty comes in many forms Alexander. You know that I'm not the only thing that has some sort of beauty in the world Alexi." Alexander chuckled, coughed, and placed a hand on his mouth. When he removed his hand Serikuna saw blood on it. "True. Others have beauty that others can't understand or know of. But you're beautiful in your own way. You're beautiful to me. You'll always stay beautiful to me, you know even if you turn into a crazy demon thing, burned or crispy in a fire or with…someone else, as hard as it would be." Alexander smirked when Serikuna punched him in the arm. "You really got to learn a new way to…discipline others. Your way…hurts." Serikuna laughed and closed her eyes as she tried to wipe her tears away. Serikuna felt Alexander's gloved hand fall. Serikuna opened her eyes and looked at Alexander's face. "Alexander?" Serikuna asked as she placed her hand on his cheek. "Alexander, come on this isn't funny." Serikuna raised her voice. "Wake up!" Serikuna looked down at Alexander through teary eyes and hugged his still warm body. She knew he was gone but tried to deny the fact when she first looked down at his face. She felt coldness in her chest, almost unbearable as she sobbed on Alexander. "I promise…we'll see the sky once again." Serikuna felt the coldness in her chest be replaced by a blazing fire. She looked around and grabbed her scarf, wrapping it around her face. She looked at Alexander and placed his hands on his chest. She leaned down and kissed him on the forehead through the scarf. She was about to get up when she felt something grab her around the waist and looked down to see the black miasma had its hand around her. "What do you think you are doing?" The beast had asked as it started to squeeze her. Serikuna grunted and raised her pistol at the beast's face, blasting it in its red eyes. It roared in pain and Serikuna felt herself drop. She rolled on the ground and looked up at the beast as it tried to slam its fist down on her. It was stopped when the man punched the beast in the side of the face and hacked and slashed at it with his sword. "Didn't I tell you to leave her alone?" Serikuna heard the figure state. The beast roared and turned into locust once again. "You will not tell me what to do human!" Serikuna watched as the man stood his ground and a bright green light enveloped him. The locust laid dead on the ground and started to combine again to form a human sized demon again, this time with a large sword as well. The two figures charged at each other and collided, each one trying to gain the advantage. "You can't possibly hope to defeat me, even with your power!" the demon stated as its weapon was flung along with the man's weapon away and towards Serikuna. The demon grabbed the man's head and slammed it on its knee. "Do you see Serikuna? Do you see that power is the only way!?" Serikuna heard the beast roar over his shoulder as he kept beating the man in hand to hand combat without looking at her. Serikuna looked at the man and looked around for something to help him with. "Pathetic worm! As soon as I kill and absorb your soul, I'll be able to come back and wreck hell on earth!" the demon said as it punched and gripped the figure's neck, lifting him up in the air. "Your strength has no power here! I am supreme in darkness!" the demon stated as it started to choke the man. Before the demon was able to snap his neck, a sword went through his chest. He looked down at it and then behind him as he dropped the man. The demon looked wide eyed at Serikuna. "Hate to break it to you…" Serikuna muttered as she twisted the blade and slashed the demon in half, it screaming in agony. "But I don't feel like letting you out and you're not powerful at all if you gloat so much during battle." The demon fell on its knees as Serikuna raised the large sword above its head. Before Serikuna brought it down she felt a pain shoot through her abdomen and looked down to see the demon's sword in her stomach. The blade went up to its hilt and came out the other side. "Heh…guess you that goes for you too my sweet." The demon said as it disappeared. Serikuna dropped the sword and fell to her knees, blood rushing out m of her stomach and back, the demon sword also disappearing. She felt someone beside her and place a hand on her wound. She could barely make out what the person beside her was saying as she felt the same darkness she thought she destroyed go through her wound and head for her slow beating heart. Before it got in every nook and cranny of her body, she felt it suddenly leave, disappear as if it no longer was part of her or had ever been. Serikuna felt a firm hand turn her head towards them by her chin. The hand was covered in cool steel that comforted Serikuna. She still couldn't make out what he was saying and just looked at the blurry image of a pair of glowing green eyes. A light slap and a shake on her shoulders had brought her out of her numb state of mind. "Are you alright? Can you here my voice? How many fingers am I holding up?" Serikuna tried to focus her vision. "Umm...16…wait…12? I don't know…" Serikuna tried to answer and shook her head. She heard the man chuckle. "Close, two fingers. At least you can speak and hear me." Serikuna scoffed. "I don't feel so good…I'm gonna go to sleep now…" Serikuna said as she stared to fall into a heavy sleep. She felt the man give her another shake. "Don't fall asleep. Don't-" Serikuna blacked out.
A few hours later…
Serikuna moaned in discomfort and pain when she felt her stiff body. She lifted her hand with some effort and wiped her forehead with it when she felt some dampness on it. Serikuna groaned as she lifted herself up from her lying position and muttered a curse when she felt the sunlight hit her directly in the face and closed her eyes again. She noticed she was on a soft bunk in a barrack of some kind, a military blanket draped over her. She looked at her stomach and saw some slightly bloody bandages wrapped around her. She felt slight pain from the wound but otherwise felt fine. She looked around when her eyes adjusted to the sunlight. "The Federation Interrogation Base from last night…" The barrack was partly destroyed; a fallen watchtower had burst through the right wall and given way to light from a gapping hole, cool air rushing in. Steel, weapons, clothes, food, and personal items were scattered in the barrack. The doors to the barrack were opened slightly but not enough to see through to the outside world. Serikuna shuddered as she looked around the abandon building and remembering last night's events, hung her head, her chin touching her chest through her scarf and hugged her arms. She remembered every action and reaction that had happened and remembered each and every face, even those behind helmets and scarves, inside tanks and aircraft. The soldiers' hate, pain, suffering, and, especially and more heartbreaking, their cries of mercy fresh in her mind. She placed one of her gloved hands over her mouth and tried to silence her sobs at the hundreds of faces and feeling that flashed through her mind. How many had died that night? How many would have died if Alexander hadn't saved her from the demon and herself? What of the family members, relatives who would no longer see them again, not know of what had happened to them or why not even their body was able to be retrieved? She knew that she had the power to stop herself. She knew she had the power to stop the killing, the bloodshed, and the inevitable slaughter of hundreds of soldiers just doing their jobs or following orders of an obviously power hungry lieutenant. She was aware of her own insatiable hunger for power but had tried to hide the fact that she was killing all those people because they had caused her harm and would do the same to others if she didn't. She wished she wasn't aware of every feeling that went through them as she cut them down and swallowed what used to be their spark of existence, their souls. But she couldn't; the demon made that painfully obvious as it helped her wreck havoc on the base and make her know what each person had felt as they were killed and absorbed into its world. She looked at the sidearm on her hip and reached for it. The only thing that went through her head was that the world would be better off if she wasn't around to ruin it again as she placed the gun under her chin. Her hand and body was shaking as she powered up the weapon and waited for the hiss that the weapon would give when it was ready. She heard the hiss and was about to pull the trigger when she heard a distant voice in her head. "Really? You think you've gone that much over the edge? If I knew you were just planning to kill yourself I shouldn't have rescued your sorry butt Cap'." Serikuna froze at the voice. "Can it be…?" she thought and as if reading her mind the voice responded. "Yup! I'm still going to annoy the crap out of you, even in death Serikuna." Serikuna smiled and cried with relief. "Is it really you Alexander?" Serikuna asked, not caring she was talking out loud to herself and giggling with the answer. "No it's the God of Instant Fast Food, who else would it be?" Serikuna sighed as she placed the gun on her lap, the weapon powering down. "Hey don't get the wrong idea or anything but…why are you here? You know, in my mind and everything?"Serikuna looked at the weapon as she contemplated whether or not she still had the option. "Well mostly I was bored in the ghosty life, wandering and what not, so we decided to come and visit. And no! It's not still an option! What happened to the kind hearted girl that I fell in love with? The girl that would kick your ass and heal your wounds as soon as you went down, even if they didn't apologize and thanked her afterwards?" Serikuna's smile faded. "She died when she accepted that…that thing into her and let it kill hundreds of innocents." She jumped off the bed and reached for the gun. Serikuna jumped when the gun was flung across the room and gasped when she felt someone hold her hands in their invisible ones, placing her across an invisible lap on the bottom bunk. "Do you remember when you were little and I used to put you on my lap just like this and tell you about my war stories pup?" A different, deeper voice asked. Serikuna felt her heart stop when she heard the voice. "Dad…?" Serikuna heard a chuckle that could only have come from her father. "That boy was right…I think you did hit yourself on the head a couple times." Serikuna tried to keep her cool as she stared at the empty spot of where her father's face would be. She laughed when she felt a coldness press against her nose. "Honk, Honk." Serikuna heard Alexander's voice. "You're both here?" Serikuna asked. "We're always with you pup. I was here first but whose keeping track right?" Serikuna giggled when she heard Alexander blow a raspberry. A few seconds later and Serikuna was laughing as she heard her father scold her companion. "Anyways…We are always with you, remember that. We might not be spoken to like now but whenever you feel alone is when we're closer to you than you think. Time is short pup so before you go off and take your life think for a moment. Who are you really helping? Is it those who you think you've harmed? Because I can tell you right now that if those people that you killed were truly innocent why hadn't the demon that possessed you awaken? Didn't it ask for a pure soul? It was never unleashed because there were no pure souls here. You're not even helping yourself. You're being selfish and when someone knows your selfish it means that they care for you, be small or large. Your death won't bring closure, it'll bring more sadness." Serikuna started to cry when she heard her father's words. He was right and she knew it. If the people that died last night were pure, the demon would have no use for her. If she inconsiderately took her own life many more would be sadden by her death. Her friends and fellow comrades in the Peace Fighters would mourn her death and add to their mourning of countless others that had fallen in the war. Serikuna felt a cool embrace and rock her back and forth. "It's alright pup. It's alright. We know you didn't know what you were doing and that's why we had to stop you." Serikuna calmed down in the embrace and wanted nothing else but stay in it. Unfortunately her father's and Alexander's words changed that. "Serikuna…" both voices said in unison. Serikuna felt one of the spirits leave but entered her body, giving her a soothing but tearful goodbye for now. "As I said, time is short Seri, so remember this: your life isn't over, it's just begun…" Before she had time to say anything she felt the same sensation as before go into her body. Serikuna shed her final tear and looked around the building. It was then she realized the man leaning on the door. "So… you done communing with the spirits? Good we need to go now before the other humans arrive." He said as he walked away, his large sword on his back and the doors opening. Serikuna ran after the man, her rapier hitting the side of her leg. She looked to her left and saw a grave. She hoped it was who she thought it was and thought of asking the man later. Then she remembered his words. "What? Wait! Where are we going? And what do you mean 'before the humans arrive'? Aren't you human?" The man placed a piece of paper written in some strange language and looked at her through his helmet. "Your actions yesterday have proved you are no ordinary human. To me you are an enigma but to The Kami you are a Mystic. Hello, my name is Karakuto Karyo and I will be your new teacher in the Arts of The Mystics."
Talk about suspense, drama, and bloody action huh? Remind me not to piss a girl off…Now! Let's see what we got. (PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING IF YOU DID NOT GET ANYTHING; ANYTHING ELSE CAN BE ASKED BY PM!)
Serikuna used to be a soldier in an organization called The People's Freedom Fighters. Their goal was to defeat both Magna and the United Federation forces, which they were able to do as soon as Serikuna and her friends were able to take down the Federation communications tower. The story, obviously by the weapons and nations at war, takes place in a different universe. Serikuna, Karakuto, and Gakuto are from different planes. Serikuna comes from a futuristic war universe, Karakuto comes from the Kami heaven universe where he was born a Mystic, and Gakuto comes from ours, to be more precise, Earth, in the past. For those that think that Serikuna's face was revealed I like to say it hasn't. In the beginning of the story I did not mention Serikuna's eye color but like to point out that that was actually a good thing. Serikuna's only feature given away was her eye color and her rose colored lips so if that's enough for some of you then I guess I spilled the beans. Now Karakuto is not older in Serikuna's universe. He is actually younger. Remember: he recruited Serikuna first then Gakuto. So Karakuto isn't older but younger. Some of you may remember Serikuna's "condition" from chapter 6. Her condition is difficult to describe. She no longer has the demon within her but she still doesn't like to be touched and if she is touched the demon will return. So not in her but still there, make sense? Oh and no one but you the reader, Karakuto, and me know her past. Remember: she thought about the past not blurted it out. Anyways can't give out too much or else I'll spill the means even more than I have. Next Chapter- Team Higurashi Departs and A Mystic Goes Missing!