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A LEGION
"What's this?" Ikki asked to himself finding his location was in the same door and in the same hall. It was just like he entered to the Virgo's temple. This time, the secondary halls were in dark except one.
"I told... you. " He heard the voice of his old master over his neck. "You... can't... leave us."
Ikki felt a terrible heavy pain on his back so he didn't thought twice when began to run away from it. He was in pain, full of blood and with a sharp over his stomach, feeling dizzy and his ears suffering from the moans and groans of the monster who was chasing him. Ikki could heard the constant hit of the bone over the floor and understood that now the monster that was supposed to be his mother was being faster. As he could remember her, a great and strong female Saint running thru the Sanctuary.
The Phoenix Saint reached the only hall with light and again his body couldn't. He began to throw up without stopping and many sharp Phoenix's feathers from his clot was going out. He took a deep breath and cleaned his lips trying to calm down now that the sound of the monster wasn't there.
"Are you fine, mister Saint? "
Ikki felt a coldness over his spine. He moved slowly to turn his face to the inside of the hall. It was terrified.
"Do you need help, mister? "
He could see hundreds of little kids wearing black clothes and even with black skin as the coal. Without faces. Their voices sounded like hundreds of kids in a high pitch talking in the same time.
"Who are you?"
"We are a legion. " They said without moving even a millimetre.
The Phoenix Saint stood up and saw them a bit astonished. They looked shorter than his daughter Helena but he was indeed feeling fear of them. Without his cosmos he was just a human being.
"What do you want from me? What the fuck are you?" Ikki yelled.
"We are a legion. All the kids you killed. "
"I had never killed an innocent and much less a child." Ikki smiled and turned to the darkness. "Whoever is doing this, let me tell you are mistaken. I had never hurt or kill a child."
"But you killed our parents. "
Ikki turned to see them. All those saints and all those enemies he killed without problem maybe and for sure could be parents in a future or even in the moment he killed them.
"That... that can't be."
"Yes, it can. " The kids kept talking. "Their destiny had lot of possibilities and we were one of them. But you killed them and we couldn't live."
"It is... so sad. " Again the voice of Guilty. "The Saints... can marry... can love... and can have kids... How many... of them... were having... a great... future?" Ikki sighed a bit impressed for the kids. "How many... kids... would you... could have... in a different... future... with Esmeralda?"
"Don't you dare to say that!"
"Maybe two... of those kids... you have... in front... are your... children. "
"Shut up!"
"Do you... still thinking... in a... future... with the... person you... love? "
"Wh- what?" Ikki decided to place his back to the wall to still seeing the kids and the darkness of the main hall. "What do you mean?"
"You... will not... have those kids... you will... not save them. " Guilty laughed. "You are... a murderer."
"What do you want from me?! Why are you doing this?!"
"We want you kill yourself. " The kids said in chorus. "This is our nature. "
Ikki couldn't understand anymore. They wasn't trying to kill him, but he could kill himself. That was the reason why he was throwing blades.
"Do you want me to kill myself with this?" Ikki said showing the Phoenix's feather he had in his hand still.
"Yes. " The kid's voices and the Guilty's one said.
"I don't understand why."
"Because this is our nature. " The voice of the kids was every second more frightening than before.
"Then you need to stop. I'm a fucking Phoenix and an Athena' Saint. I don't give up so easily."
"You can't order us. Only master Shaka has this power. "
Ikki opened his eyes widely. The candle, the Holy Rosary and Shaka's cosmos. Of course. Anything those things were, were always in control when Shaka was around. Ikki smiled and began to laugh. He stand up and saw the kids.
"You can't kill me, I will not kill myself and I can order you."
"You can't. Only master Shaka can do it. "
"Surprise then." He smiled. "Shaka loves me and he will be very mad with you if I die. Plus, I love him too so that makes me important here. Now that I had being honest about my love, that makes me someone important towards him. I order you to stop this."
"You can't order us. Only the master Shaka can do it. "
"Didn't you hear? I'm a special person for your master."
"We already knew that. " Ikki kept in silence. "We know all master Shaka let us know and everything that happens around him."
"Then why are you doing this?"
He couldn't understand well. Wasn't enough the fact that Shaka loved him in the same way he loved him back? He was totally sure after changing some letters with him, the way he talked with Ikki and that time he showed it with a special gift. He never said a word because was afraid but maybe that could help. Or not.
"This is our nature. You are nothing more than a human being. Master Shaka is the only one that can control us." Suddenly as they finished they gave a step towards. They all looked like soldiers. "We will push you physically and mentally now." They gave another step. " There is only one way to escape now." Another terrible step and their tiny hands pointed at the Phoenix Saint. "Death."
In that moment Ikki felt like throwing up again. Five or six blades began to go out of his throat cutting his mouth and tongue. Indeed he saw them and decided to do it. Held one and saw it. It was beautiful and remind him his so adored cloth, and already had his crimson liquid on it.
"No." He said pointing the kids with the Phoenix's feather. "This isn't my time."
He was a warrior, one of the roughest and most powerful between his rank, he couldn't give up. He moved a step forward to take some impulse. Ikki's instinct said 'kill or be killed' and he was going to do so. But as he jumped he felt a wrap around his arm that pulled him over the darkness one more time.