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Ever since the day I first laid my eyes on Gahenna Gate, I had a feeling my days were numbered. But I never imagined it would happen like this.
Chapter Two: Darkness Is Bliss
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Yukio POV
The sky was angry. The clouds swollen with its unrelenting rain. And down on the ground, I felt a couple rain drops on my back and was felt myself pull out of my forced sleep. I looked up as the dry pavement slowly grew darker from the rain.
Getting up and twisting around I caught sight of Izumo and slowly crawled toward her. With a pained movement I took off my now damp jacket and started to rip it into strips to bandage Izumo's neck.
A pained scream pulled me from my work, eyes widening. It was Rin's.
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Rin POV
Pain.
That's all I felt when the blue hit me, in the pain and confusion that hit me, I tumbled off the bridge. When I came crashing into the Icy cold water, the pain relinquished its cruel grasp for a second. But then It came doubling back twice as hard.
While sinking, I felt my muscles spasm with pain, my fists and jaw clenching and unclenching tightly as the pain had its way with me. It seemed to course through me with a determination to destroy me, break me. It was like Liquid fire searing me from my veins out, leaving me a shell of myself.
Aching. My lungs ached for air. Needed it. I reached out a hand toward the swirling sun above the water, and the last of my breath released into bubbles that floated up towards the sun. I felt done. All my energy spent, I felt my eyes close.
Goodbye.
"No you don't!"
My eyes shot open as another wave of fresh hot searing pain hit my body. I arched in on myself and felt the water around me begin to boil. Blue fire encasing my body.
Satan's flames… they were encasing me. Devouring me.
"Not his flames. Yours."
My hazy blue eyes didn't see where the voice was coming from, only the dark abyss of the water. The pain had paralyzed me; I couldn't move but if I didn't get air soon…
I felt things trying to push into my body. Unnatural things.
Suddenly, pain stabbed at my back and I screamed.
Membranes lanced around me with a thick leathery material, fire still boiling the water around me soon air hit my lungs as the blue flames made the water evaporate.
I filled my lungs with the sweet life-giving gas. The pain had subsided a little. Looking up, I placed a hand on the membrane. And felt myself touching it. It felt like these things were a part of me. They were... wings. Stretching the new muscles in my back they stretched back. Water encased me once again, but I was too transfixed on my new appendages to notice.
"Don't think were done now."
Pain lanced all over my body once more and all I could think about was how lost I was now. I still screamed, don't get me wrong, but I knew … It was over.
Giving up, I didn't resist the changes.
As soon as I let go, so did the pain, all I felt was bliss. Sweet, sweet bliss. As I lost consciousness I heard the voice once more.
"Sleep. I'll handle this, and when you wake, we will be one, and you can leave this life behind."
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Normal POV
There were Exorcist's everywhere. Yukio had now finished bandaging Izumo and dragged her off to the side as the bridge gathered with Exorcists.
He looked down at his injured student. She wasn't supposed to be here. But when the demon attacked, she had been on the bridge. She was there, fighting him when Yukio arrived. And not long after he arrived did the demon catch her and demand Rin.
Yukio wiped rain off his brow when he was approached by the Paladin himself.
"Tell me what happened, Okumura. Now!" The tall blonde haired man demanded. Yukio looked at him with distasteful eyes then began to explain.
"Well, I was on my way to exorcise this demon, which is a way higher level than I was told. Kamaki was here when I arrived, and then the Demon demanded Rin come to-"
"Come to him?" Angel asked with a raised eyebrow, and Yukio gave a hesitant nod.
Angel did a three sixty and faces some lower level exorcists. "Prepare! The son of Satan will show himself soon enough! Kill on sight; we can't let him get away!"
Hearing these words, Yukio ran forward. "W-what do you mean, 'kill on sight!?' You're going to kill Rin? He's on our side!"
Angel turned on Yukio and gave him a hateful glare. "Wrong. He is a demon, and we are going to kill him."
"You can't!" The dark haired teen protested. "He's on our side! He's my brother!"
The Paladin turned away from Yukio. "Not anymore. Mephisto confirmed it, sadly. He said he felt one of his barriers being breached right here, right at the same time he felt the Koma sword shatter, releasing all of Rin's demonic powers. He contacted me as soon as he felt these changes. Your brother is dead; Yukio, and now you must help me eradicate the Demon that took his place. We cannot let such a creature live and join his father."
"He has lost control before, but he's always regained his mind! Don't you think that-"
"His sword has never shattered before, has it? You are an Exorcist, Yukio! You kill demons; your brother is a demon. Your enemy."
Yukio fell to his knees. "No… I won't believe it! I can't! He would never!" he shouted to no one in particular. But that didn't cause Angel to bristle with annoyance.
Suddenly, a splash was heard, but not only a splash, a throaty growl. Angel readied, But Yukio stayed on his knees looking down and the wet pavement.
Before them stood a creature, they were not even sure if it was Rin.
His dark blue hair hip length, half falling over his left eye. Large twisted horns sat on his head, his ears as long as they were when he drew his sword before all this. His tail lashed side to side, blue flames licking it, his taloned hands and most other parts of his body. A tongue flicked over his elongated fangs. But the most noticeable change was the dark blue wings that sillueted of his frame.
He held one hand out to the side, and bunches of the fire circled down it, forming a new sword. It was almost the same as Kurikara, but the blade was pure black.
"Rin Okumura, you are going to die." Angel said with a smile and rushed forward. Rin's blue eyes flickered to his opponent, who was rapidly approaching, and flew straight at him. Sword extended, he growled right before the two blades collided.
Yukio looked up silently watching the brawl. 'Is that really my brother, why is he so… dark?'
The demon and Paladin clashed once more, and this time blue flames arched into the sky. Angel's blade rested firmly and deep in Rin's shoulder. The Teen looked down blankly at the blade protruding from his appendage. And with a grin, Rin's grip on his own sword tightened, right as it was brought to Angel's side. The Paladin withdrew his sword to block the blow on his own body.
Rin shot up into the air and smiled with glee as he heard the szzzszszszzzzhhhh sound that was his wound healing.
Yukio looked up at his bother. He had to stop him. He stepped onto his shaky feet.
The demon Launched himself back down at the man, sword beginning to arch, right at Angels neck.
He never made it.
Pain erupted in Rin's side and veins as bullets entered his side. Looking around for the source. Bunches of dragoons had their Guns raised at him, and he could see smoke lifting from them.
Eyes narrowing in hate, he raced at the other exorcists. He killed them quickly, sword impaling some in the heart, slicing off their heads, or leaving big gashes in their chests that would leave any mortal to die from blood loss.
"Stop it!" Yukio said and ran up behind the demon, pulling him into a full nelson. Rin's wings got in the way a bunch, but Yukio kept struggling to hold on. "Can't you see what you're doing!?"
Rin stopped for a moment, and then looked over his shoulder. His eyes filled with confusion, recognition, and then hate. Doing a complete turn, Rin broke free from his brother's grasp. He dug his nails into Yukio's chest, leaving deep gashes. His twin screamed out in pain as blood poured down his chest. He lifted his gun in self defense, but it was knocked out of his hand when claws racked down the arm that contained the gun.
Then, finally, Rin's new sword implanted itself deep into Yukio's gut.
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Rin POV
My mind was in a haze. I couldn't really see out. I had felt this before. When I lost control fighting Amimon, king of earth. I had lost control. Damn.
I fought the mist in my mind, pushing it away, trying to get in control.
Scratch that. I wasn't mist. It was tar. Hazy, hot, sticky tar. I clawed and clawed, and tried to break free, but it stayed. Giving up, it continued to encase me.
Sounds seemed to empermiate the walls of thick black that surrounded me.
Growling was the loudest. Some screaming, cussing, gun shots and blades crashing. I closed my eyes tight as a minor pain tickled my side where I knew I was bleeding.
"Stop It!"
Was that Yukio?
"Can't you see what you're doing!?"
No. I can't! I can't see anything.
Then I heard him scream. A blood curdling, pain filled scream.
I slowly pulled my hands over my ears trying to get the sound to leave. To go away.
But, ever-so-slowly the darkness receded and my vision was filled with my brother unconscious on the ground, bleeding heavily. I looked around for the one who must have killed him, but only found my own blood stained hands.
The blade I must have been using gone, I fell to my knees, and cried.
If only I had thought of some other way! If I had used my own power and not Satan's, I would not be here, a complete demon.
"It was your power you used, and it was inevitable."
That damn voice.
I wrapped my hands tightly around myself. This must have been one bloody day. A voice from behind me. "I told you, Yukio, He is not your brother anymore. Only a demon."
"Teach!" a familiar voice sounded from behind me.
It was Bon.
"Crap…"
Shima.
"Oh god… the fire…"
Konekomeru.
"…Rin?"
Shiemi
And to top off the cake, a voice I remember to be so, so sweet. It sounded Harsh, cold, scared.
"What did you do?"
Izumo limped forward as she said those words. Bon put up an arm in front of her to stop her. "Don't. It's not Rin. It's only a demon that looks vaguely like him."
"N…no…" I managed to whisper. A tear fell from my left eye.
Shiemi grabbed Bon's arm "But Bon, maybe he was only-"
"He's obviously choosing a side! Look what he did to his brother! His Brother! He is a demon!"
Something cracked in me. It just snapped, like a tooth pick. Maybe it was my resolve. My sanity.
I was only a demon huh? All of these exorcists around me, the ones prepared to strike; they were ready to kill me. All my friends, prepared to kill me. Fine. I would be their fucking demon.
I stood up and turned to my enemies, hand outstretched. Flame gathered once again, forming my new sword. "You think I did this on purpose? No. I didn't. But what I'm about to do, this was completely on purpose."
Flying forward, I brought my sword up, grinning wildly, waiting for the feeling of it to sink into my prey.
Suddenly, I was pushed off to the side by something. A cut, bleeding hand. "R…Rin-sama. We must be going now. Your father is waiting."
Gashes in the sky opened and I was forcibly pushed through. But all the while, I kicked and screamed, trying to kill my enemies.
"Rin-sama, there will be time for that later, but right now you are not strong enough to fight all of them. In time." The demon said holding me back as the gate to Gahenna closed; leaving the world I had grown up in to vanish in front of my eyes.
The last words I heard came from Bon himself. "Rin Okumura is dead. And I guess now we need to rid ourselves of the demon that took his place."
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I never expected such a turnout for this! It makes me SOOOOOOOO happy~! Thank you for all your reviews~! EEEEEE! Now, serious question. Did Yukio survive? Do you want him to? Tell meh what you guys think/want. (And if you guys think I should bump the rating to M because of all the death/blood/swearing?)
