Rosario to vampire Time, Place Destiny! Chapter 55 Assassins part 4: A siren's last song!
A soft hand reached upwards and brushed against the large red ribbon in the back of her hair in a gentle motion then moved downwards softly brushing her black hair aside from the sides of her face to flow elegantly in a messy sort of way down the sides to her shoulders. A poka-dot dress fell gently down to her knees with a big red ribbon on her chest and a long-sleeved shirt with a thin ribbon around one of the sleeves.
Sun Otonashi, the former leader of the News Paper club of Youki Academy closed her blue eyes as her placed her hands around the thin notepad that served as the power limiter for her powers. Sun tried to relax as she heard it close softly with snap. The siren began to shiver slightly as got close to the microphone that a human had set up which would, he said, carry her voice though out the underground structure and offer the youki some comfort. Sun then looked at the one human whom she had looked upon as a mother figure to her and began to unleashed her heavenly voice upon the youki inhabitance hoping to bring all of them some comfort. Marin closed her eyes as she listened.
'Great Sun and I are homeless along with all these youki…..I'm just barely getting my head around werewolves but all these youki are amazing….In a frightening sort of way. Here we are cramped, scared, and not to mention angry. All of them have a right to be considering all of them have been driven from their respective sacred lands and homes from Fairy Tale, whoever they are?'Marin felt her thoughts leave her for a moment as she temporarily lost herself in Sun's song. Marin closed her eyes and took a breath as she clenched her fists only to hear Sun's voice and let the gentle song sooth her once more . Even now as Sun's heavenly voice offered, not just to her, but to all the other youki, if only for a moment, a reprise from the pain of the hell that everyone, residing in the massive underground had experienced days before, not to mention the stressful situation that they now found themselves in.
'According to Sun's friend Gin from all the other youki he's talked to each race had somehow had been infiltrated by this organization and sold out. On top of that each youki race has been visited by the same woman with lime green hair and forced to watch as she sucks the souls, if that's what they really are, out of their loved ones bodies as they die of a plague that she spreads.'
"Werewolves, Succubi, Yuki-onna, along with witches, and wizards." Marin shook her head slightly trying to wrap her head around the different youki she had met in the last few days.
"Everyone is all being forced to room together in this amazing place that offered us sanctuary. This place its like a underground city down here…" Marin opened her eyes and looked at the endless barrage of little cute pink bunnies which covered the walls. Marin resisted the urge to roll her head at the bizarre choice of wallpaper that covered the walls of the nursery in the large infirmary.
"Even days later after fleeing here along with Sun, Gin, his cousin, along with rest of the surviving werewolves the whole thing seems at times a nightmare to me." Marin sighed. The complex was still receiving youki whom were wounded or showing symptoms of being sick with the same virus which had killed hundreds of their own people. All around Marin could see scared and worried youki parents in their human disguises softly rocking their babies to Sun's enchanting voice and song while giving the occasional soft words of comfort to their small children whom looked like mini monsters like a human would find in a fun claw machine on Halloween.
Several humans from NightFalls and Kronos, had been dispatched here and even now aided in giving care for the wounded youki and sick youki but it seemed that it wasn't nearly enough.
Marin closed her eyes and felt herself relax loosing herself in the heavenly voice of Sun.
Melissa sat beside Gin's mate Gabrille. The two werewolves looked worn, tired, weakened, but still the two of them did their best to help the human's wrap bandages around the numerous wounded youki in the over crowed hospital along with Tsukune's cousin Kyouko Aono whom was helping other youki try to find their missing relatives. The human had taken everyones name down on a list and had managed to break it up into wounded, sick, missing or dead. Granted she maybe a human but despite everything she had seen and everything she had been through both the werewolves would have thought that the human girl would have lost her mind by now.
Ruby, spell book in one hand and her wand in the other, walked down the hall of the hospital after using her magic to make several potions which would help heal several wounded youki. The effort was exhausting. Suddenly the masochistic witch felt someone run into her from behind.
"Oh I'm so sorry I'm supposed to relieve the witch who's making healing potions I though I was doing to be late desu!"
A small voice said sadly.
Turning around Ruby saw a face she hadn't seen in the last few weeks. Not carrying what anyone thought Ruby rushed forward grabbing the little witch and holding the perverted witch in her embrace.
"Yukari oh I'm so glad to see you! I was afraid that you had….Anyway how have you been? What have you been doing? I've been hearing a mess of things from the other witches. Look tell me when your shift ends and I'll come and meet you so we can talk. Then you can tell me all about it then okay."
"Ruby this is a nightmare, Fairy Tale's gone too far this-" Yukari didn't get to finish her sentence as both she and Ruby found themselves in a dark void facing a little girl with long dark hair braided into multiple brads dressed in a youki academy uniform smiled at Ruby.
"Oh great not this again desu." Yukari closed her eyes as she struggled to keep calm.
The little girl toddled over to Ruby and hugged her leg.
"Mother hear me, hold me close." She cooed. Ruby swallowed as she reached down and picked up the little girl and held her close.
Yukari took the moment in strides, sure she had been exposed to the shear amazing power of the unborn off spring sired by her friend Tsukune Aono because of his blood of the Master vampire in his vains. Still the little witch was sure that despite how strong the little witch in Ruby's arms was, Yukari was sure that she would never try to hurt either her mother Ruby nor would she try to hurt her or anyone else. In spite of that the unborn witch was still something that had to be both feared and respected.
"Mother I've been giving you my youki to strengthen your natural magic so you could make that many potions, think of me as a supernatural battery. Also one more thing…..Ummm promise me one thing, if you think I've been bad spank me."
Ruby swallowed and wiped away a bit of sweat from her forehead as she said. "No, no you haven't been bad…I'm not going to hit you or spank you okay."
The little girl frowned hearing her mother say that then wrapped her hands around her mothers neck and said. "Mother get everyone out of the hospital wing. People are coming they are going to kill everyone here by they human or youki very soon the gates of hell will open, the apocalypse will be upon us and everything and everyone we love will be in danger of dying."
"Oh great we barely survive one apocalypse, one of those things is enough already so we don't need another one! So you can stop it with that talk desu! Besides when is it scheduled to start desu?" Yukari crossed her hands across her chest trying to look brave.
The little girl looked at both her mother and Yukari and said with a smile on her face.
"Oh its going to start in about ten minutes."
The dark void disappeared as both witchs found themselves back in the hospital.
*****************************Ten minutes later!
Sun picked up her sketch pad and let her voice rest after singing a hauntingly beautiful melody for the last few hours to ease everyone's suffering. Marin stood beside her in the small cramped kitchen a large pot of miso soup in her hands to which she sat down upon a burner to cook. A few hours ago she and Sun had begun to fix the various youki food and drink in the kitchen that apparently had been unused with little more than a skeleton crew of cleaners to make sure that no food went bad in the freezer. But now the kitchen and cafeteria was up and running at full steam, under Marin and Sun's direction in an effort to accommodate the numerous youki whom were now hungry and thirsty.
'Thank the kami none of them have found out where the booze and other alcoholic beverages are.' Marin sighed as she thought about the small door behind the door offset beside the freeze which led to the storage space which looked to hold nearly every alcoholic beverage known to man even a few which apparently were native to youki as well.
' The last thing this place needs is a drunk youki, oh well at least if we die we can go out with a smile.' Marin smirked.
"Sun go get more steaks and chicken from the freezer! I never thought that my idea to start this cafeteria again would be that appealing but now I've got werewolves wanting different types of marinated steaks, neko youki demanding fish, witches and wizards wanting bento's and pumpkin juice, ogers and trolls demanding raw hamburger, yuki-onna wanting to raid the freezers for any spare ice, and that doesn't include all the other youki who want food for I have to cater for. Then again I'm the only one who is able to give them food here.
Whoever built this place didn't exactly stock the refrigerators in all the apartments.
They are luckly I don't charge them for the food I give them. Then again even if I had too I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
Oh if my restaurant was this popular then I would be a millionaire" Marin smiled as she reached up and got another pot down from the rack only to turn around and see a man with pale blue eyes and short raven dark hair dressed in a dark suit and tie. Thinking he was one of the many youki whom she was serving said bowed and said.
"I'm sorry sir we're a little busy right now, I'm afraid that if you want some food you're going to have to wait in line I'm-" The man grabbed Marin by her long hair and slammed her face into the metal counter with one of his hands rendering her unconscious. He quickly dragged Marin over to one of the large burners used to heat pots filled with soup or sauces. Using his other hand he reached over to a large pan used to hold excess grease in and poured it all over the burner throwing the pan aside he turned on the burner causing the grease to explode in a sea of crimson flame.
Turning to an unconscious Marin he grabbed her by the hair and thrust her face into the grease fire. A few seconds later Marin's screams began to echo though out the kitchen as she kicked punched and tried to free herself from the youki whom grasped her by the hair and was holding her inside the fire which was melting her face off.
The man then threw her backwards by the hair sending her to strike against the counter once more. If Marin would have screamed she would have for it felt like every nerve in her body was screaming in pain as she struggled to feel around the floor and try to get to where she last knew Sun to be.
'You're a traitor to your own kind woman!" The man snapped!
A sharp "clank" of a dropped pan fallowed by the sharp gasp of Sun would have been a welcome sight and sound for Marin if she could have seen them or heard them but she could do neither for every inch of her face looked like burnt candle wax.
Sun closed her hands around the sketch pad which never ran out of paper and that was her means of communication as well as her power limiter shutting it while running to Marin's side gripping the human close to her while quickly getting her away from the man in the dark suit.
"Marin' san, Marin san!" Sun cried as she cradled her adopted mothers head in her arms ignoring the burns the melted flesh cause on her arms.
Marin blindly reached up and around briefly touching Sun's face until her hands found the familiar red bow on Sun's chest as well as the sketch pad that she knew Sun had carried. Marin trembled in Sun's arms only fall silent and still. Sun looked down so concerned for Marin's safety and well being she didn't think of her own for she didn't see the man rush forward like a whisper of smoke until the man was in front of her with a thin dagger in his hand.
He thrust forward and thrust the dagger into Sun's neck. He twisted on the handle and Sun screamed as she felt something emerge from the daggers tip inside her neck. It felt large and sharp. Sun reached up and grabbed the hand that held the dagger trying to get it away from him only the man to use his other hand to deliver a back hand slap then using Sun's brief distraction yanked the dagger out of her throat. Once the dagger was out of her throat did Sun see what he did, out of the tip of the dagger rose six metallic claws which held her voice box or vocal cords impaled upon it.
"Now you can't sing or talk siren." The man murmured believing he had won only to be flung across the room by a smack from Sun's wings. Another three men appeared. One carried a large tank with a hose which let to a large long gun like attachment. The man pressed the trigger and the flame thrower shot a short burst of flame into the air. The other two men had a small black box which Sun knew to be a youki disrupter along with a long metal branding iron in each of their hands.
'Marin san forgive me, I'm sorry.' Sun thought as she longed to say the words to the woman who had done so much for her. Sun ignoring the blood rushing from her neck quickly took off her dress and rolled it up and layed it on the kitchen floor and layed Marin's head down on it turned to the men and said.
'I won't forgive you for what you did to Marin san!' Sun thought enraged as she let the feathers on her wings harden as she let them fly at her adopted mothers' attackers. One of the men aimed the disrupter at the hardened feathers and fired unleashing a blast of energy which counteracted Sun's youki which she had embedded within the feathers to use them as a weapon, turning them into nothing more than harmless feathers once more. He fired again the wave of energy struck Sun's knocking the wind out of her forcing her to the floor. The four man then began to advance up the wounded siren and human. Sun's fighting the urge to try to fight them with her claws knowing that she had to get Marin to safety and get her help Sun turned picked up Marin and ran.
Bursting through the doors and out into the cafeteria with the four armed men at her heels Sun ran. The four men began firing their youki disrupters at the nearest youki they could find. All around Sun could see the blood of the various youki begin to decorate the walls as well as hear their screams and cries as they died all around her. A room full of youki whom for some unknown reason seemed to be no mach for the four humans.
Sun kept running and didn't look back.
'Those are humans…..and they knew exactly how to hurt me the most. Why are they here and how do they even know about youki and why did they hurt Marin?'
Something slammed into the side of Sun's face sending her and the unconscious Marin to the floor. Another one of the four humans the one that had the flame thrower on his back seemed to appear out of thin air beside Sun sending his fist into her face once more. The man yanked out his dagger and began to slash at Marin. Sun then began to bend and twist trying to duck and turned herself into the path of the blade taking as many of the blows as possible for Marin. Sun felt a sharp blast of pain as well as a lot of blood coming from her chest.
Fallowed sharply by a the man striking her with his branding iron on her back but she couldn't afford to give it any attention for a sharp cry started Sun as looked down the hall and there there ran a scared small boy. It only to a second for Sun to finger out that the boy was a werewolf cub. Knowing that she couldn't talk, Sun rushed forward scooping up the cub and ran for the nearest window which offered a view of the underground cavern. The man saw her running he fired his flame thrower at the sirn burning her wings as she leaped out the window and began to plummet to the cave floor on her burning wings.
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