hi everyone! =D Yay for another update that's actually a decent length ^0^ I realised after writing this chapter and needed to apologise, I never realised how erratic my writing style is with the constant pov changes an stuff like that, it's kind of necessary for what I'm trying to portray but I know it can be a little annoying for some of you =/ for that I apologise and I hope you can forgive me but in this chapter especially there is a lot going on all over the place and on a timescale it's all happening really fast so the pov changes are more frequent.

Second, I'm a little surprised to see not an awful lot of people think much of Izumo and Rin as a pairing, as in recent chapters of the manga (especially the festival) and even in the anime there are hints of Izumo liking Rin and since we know more about Izumo they make a super cute pair!3 (doing my absolute best not to spoil anything here, gomen!) I know she was a bit ooc in the last chapter, it was sort of like "I have no idea of how she would react if her bf was under control after being missing for 6 months and then satan shows up before anyone can do anything" so I kinda used how she reacter at the training camp/exwire exam as a reference which was all I could do. Again Gomen =(

Anyways, on with the story! I will upload the next chapter when this one reaches 135 reviews =P (its worth it, I'M all hyper and pumped to upload it but it isn't ready yet DX) I need a little time to finish the next chapter an the last three chapters have over 10 reviews each! (Slow motion hugs) so it's not a big gap ^^ (we're at 120 reviews right now, 2 down 13 to go (=l

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Btw, the chapter tital is the name of the battle music from ff7, if you know/remember it keep it in mind while reading XD

...yeah, I'm done. On with the fic!

Ron couldn't seem to process the shorters words. Rin said his father was...oh. He turned to the fire engulfed figure and stumbled back a few paces out of reflex. He stared from Yukio to Voldermort and back again, seeing similarities in their flames and the red glow that gave their eyes an edge.

"Did you see where Rin and Harry went?" The bespecticled boy asked, his shock and fear poorly masked.

"Vaguely." He said, breifly remembered seeing him run left after falling out of Hagrid's arms.

"Great, go inside and ask for Shiemi, Konekomaru and Shima, take them and go and rescue your friend, trap Rin and then find the snake, Koneko will know what to do. I'm asuming you have means of Destroying it?" Yukio said. Ron wondered briefly what he had planned but nodded and stood up, Hermione cought his hand as he rose and both of them ran into the school.

Satan came to a stand still twentysome feet away and cackled wickedly. Yukio aimed both his pistols at the posessed mans head. A row of death eaters stood uncertainly behind him, wands half raised in Yukio's direction but they did not register to him as an immediate threat. When previously-known-as-Voldermort spoke, Yuko was shocked to hear a twisted version of his own voice.

"Well, its about time I got the wheels on this vessel, this idiot summoned me and requested my assistance to kill Mr Chosen One but sinse the guy is so useless and once again failed to kill him I thought it was about time I settled our little deal." Satan cackled before giving Yukio a cold glare. " Yukio watched him stand there trying to process the words, what made it even harder was the fact that Voldermorts body wasn't declining, there was no blood running form his mouth, nose or eyes, he simply stood there in all of his terrifying regency.

"How is his body sustaining you? What deal?" Yukio snarled. Satan made a fake expression of offence.

"Still so cold towards your daddy, I thought you might have loosened up after trashing my plans last time!" All traces of mockery left his face, the cold glare he sent Yukio sparked a little fear in him that he smothered as quickly as possible. "As for this meat," he inclined at himself, "Simple, I thought you where smart my youngest son, this body may be just like any other human meat, powerful yes but any less mortal? No. With a small exception."

"The horcruxes." Yukio said, finally understanding.

"Indeed, this meat may not be bound to this world but his soul being bound to it makes him a lot less squishy, especially since a part of it is attatched to my own flesh and blood." He cackles. "Once my more abiding son kills scarface the oath between me and my meat will be fulfilled and I can have as much reign as I want here in Assiah." He took a leasurely stride to a nearby demon who was grovelling where it stood, terrified. Satan bent down and pet its spine covered head, not phased by the cuts it opened on his palm.

"Do you really think our kin would answer to one human? So many of them anyway." He cast a spiteful look at the salamanders guarding two exorcists and straightened, the oddly shaped thorn demon sitting at his feel, wagging what looked like a spiny tail. "He called upon me and we made a deal, I give him demons, he gives me his meat. Not all the time," he put a clawed hand to his temple, "we share a mind, I can hear him, and he can hear everything."

"So all this is your fault, you took Rin." Yukio snarled, his flames growing restless.

"No, I may have just suggested that on top of using his tail hairs he might be able to attatch his soul to Rin's, I may be the king of gehenna but I still enjoyed seeing the little basdard suffer after what happened last time I tried to enter Assiah." Yukio growled under his breath and fired his pistol at the man, coating it in his flames as it left the barrel. Satan raised an alien hand and the bullet buried itself into his palm. His face didn't falter as he brought his palm to his face, examining it with vague interest as black-tinted blood oozed out. "Well, I guess that concludes our little father-son reunion. Aaaah, I believe we have company." At his words Yukio glanced around. At some point, Shura, Arthur, Bon and Izumo had joined him along with a number of other exorcists, a little further back where a number of Arias and Doctors standing readily.

"They went after Rin, all we need to do is stall him until they can kill the snake and figure something out. I hope they can." Shura said so quietly Yukio was probably the only one who could hear it. He turned back to Satan whos eyes where wide, excitement and anticipation clear on his face, death eaters behind him raising their wands. Looking down his barrel he fired the first shot while Shura shouted instructions on blocking and evading magic and what coloured spells did what, mentioning to avoid any blue ones as they could be a disarming charm of the killing curse.

"Are you Shiemi?" Said blond looked up from the injured witch she was treating a nasty burn for and came face to face with a flustered brunette. She nodded quickly and stood, brushing off her brand new standard issue exorcists coat which was almost long enough to cover her school skirt.

Shiemi watched the higher level exorcists leave them to join Yuki outside, wishing she could go with them so badly but knowing she would be much better off with her given mission and knew Yuki had sent this girl for her, Koneko and Shima for a reason. The witch and wizard, Ron and Hermione, had ran over to join her.

"Yes, what's happened?"

"Nothing yet, Yukio told us to come and find you and someone called Konekomaru and Shima, we need to find Rin and trap him and then kill a snake. Come with us and we can explain on the way." She said breathlessly. As their names where mentioned, her fellow exorcists appeared at her side.

"What did Yuki want us to do? And what was that about Okumura?" Shima asked calmly, his eyes lingering momentarily on Ron's hair.

"Lets go, we'll explain everything while we look." The three ran after the two and they explained everything as they ran out of the hall and down a half demolished corridor. As they did, dread built up in the pit of Shiemi's stomach and she finally broke her silence when they said about their friend Harry still living.

"So if Harry lived then... surely Rin can too? Someone just needs to use that spell on him?" She asked, trying to hold onto any optimism she could grasp at their ever deteriorating situation. Ron was the one to answer.

"Rin's imune to most magic including the killing curse, we need to find another way and quick before he kills Harry for real this time." Shiemi gulped and then kept running through the hallways, Hermione leading their search.

"Why did Yukio...send us three...specifically?" Koneko asked between pants, his short legs making him have to work harder than the rest to keep pace.

"Aren't you supposed to be the strategist?" Shima called in a lightly mocking tone. Shiemi watched Koneko pull a face like he was concerntraiting. "Wouldn't Bon have been the best person to send? He's even stronger than you when it comes to barriers an stuff like. I'm not the best knight and won't they need a doctor more?" Konekomaru gasped as the pink haired knight spoke and clapped his hands together.

"That's it! He said we need to trap Rin right? I can set up a barrier, Shiemi, you can get some bamboo or something strong to hold Rin right? I'm guessing you're supposed to be my knight on this mission Shima." Shiemi let out an eep at his impressive conclusion but before they could start to form a plan they heard the sound of brick being destroyed. They came to an excessively large stairway with numerous stair cases made of stone, some covered in rubble, others partially or completely destroyed. They raced up the first few flights and froze when they hit the top of one flight. A few paces ahead of them was Rin, a huge clump of stone held in his hands as if he was going to throw them and at the top of the next staircase stood a boy with glasses holding a wand in his shaking hand. Rin threw the rock and it missed the wizard by inches as he dived out of the way.

"HARRY!" "RIN!"

All five of them shouted at the same time, Rin turned his head to look at them and Shiemi gasped. What used to be bright, warm blue eyes had been turned into smoky black pits of pure darkness. She wanted to reach out to him and run as fast as she could in the other direction but every muscle in her body had frozen solid. Rin regarded them in turn as if confused and it reminded the blonde of how lions inspect animals on the ground to see if they are alive and should kill it or dead and leave it. Whatever destraction they had provided ended when the bespectacled boy cursed loudly and Rin's attention was snapped back to him. He ran at the boy who fired a red spell at him though it seemed to have no effect.

"Someone stop him!" Ron shouted desperately, Hermione shouted something foreign and pointed her wand at Rin's back. Thick chains conjured out of nothing and wrapped themselves around Rin's wrists and ankles and he grunted in surprise. He struggled against the chains and Koneko grabbed Shiemi's arm.

"Reinforce the chains with something!" He said desperately. Shaken out of her shock she looks at the little grenman who had been clinging to her jacket under the shadow of her hair.

"Nee! I need bamboo!" The greenman obliged with a happy squee and immediately shoots of bamboo shot out of his chest and at the struggling hald demon, knotting themselves around the metal and Rin's body, binding him more effectively. He struggled as much as he could but the binds seemed to hold even if it was a only temporary fix. The boy Rin had been attacking trotted down the rest of the stairs and joined the group.

"Nice work." He said off handedly as he stepped around the bluenette and observed the newcomers.

"Harry are you alright?" Hermione said checking over the bespecticled boy named Harry. He nodded glancing nervoisly at the half demon.

"How long will that hold?"

"Long enough. What do we do now?" Shiemi said with as much confidence as she could muster, trying to avoid looking at her friend because the action made their reality seem all to real for her liking.

"We need to find the snake, what's happening out there?" Harry asked, seemingly unable to take his eyes off the struggling bluenette.

"Satan posessed the snake man, the exorcists are fighting him at this minute, we need to kill the snake, figure out how to destroy this Horcrux thing in Rin and then kill Satan AND Voldermort." Shima informed. Rin gave a violent lurch and they edged away from him, wands and weapons raised.

"How do you destroy a Horcrux?" Koneko asked, evidently trying to form a plan.

"Neville has a sword that can destroy one but we don't know where he is." Hermione offered hopelessly.

"Wait a sec, you just said S-Satan is posessing- wait, Voldermort?" He said, his face pailing. "Are y-you serious?" Shiemi nodded slowly. Harry's face went blank for a moment and after a second he gasped.

"So what now? The sword of griffydoor might be powerful enough to destroy a Horcrux but what about Satamort?" Shima quizzed with a frown. Nobody found any amusement in his nickname but Harry crossed his arms thoughtfully.

'Wait' he thought, "A sword powerful enough to kill Satan himself," he spoke so quietly Shiemi barely heard his outspoken thought and his head snapped up. "I've got it! Dumbledore said Kurikara was powerful enough to kill Satan himself, I'll explain later, someone needs to go and get that sword, It's in the Shrieking Shack!" He said, fresh determination on his face. "If it's powerful enough to destroy Satan surely it would be able to destroy a Horcrux aswell." Shima raised a hand.

"I can't do much here, I'll go. You guys try and figure out how to save Okumura." He was about to walk when Hermione followed him.

"I'll go with you, you don't know the way." She said hurriedly.

"Wait, you're better off staying here and keeping Rin down, I'll go." Ron cought her wrist before she got out of range and pulled her back, they shared an intense gaze at each other, like they where about to kiss when Hermione nodded and looked at the rest of the group, cheeks flushed pink.

"Be careful," she said and Ron ran down a corridor with Shima in his stead, turning a corner and vanishing from sight.

Sweat trickled down the side of Shura's face, she hadn't stood still for more than a second since Yukio had fired that first shot. Kirigakure had taken its final form and she was struggling to fire attacks at Satan and the death eaters while maintaining a barrier consistantly. Spells bounced off her sheild of various colours and each one pushed her back an inch or so, so far she had managed to take a number of the death eaters down and a number of demons but evading Satans fire shots was getting harder and harder. Everyone was firing as everything they could at the hell king but he was absorbing, dodging or reflecting each and every one back at them. Angel zapped around trying to hit him with his zodiac slash but Satan just twirled out the way as if it was the easiest thing in the world. Yukio was mercilessly emptying clips at the death eaters, his bullets easy to tell in the rain fired by the back up exorcists as they where coated in his flames and looked like blue arrows as they zipped past and buried themselves in the ground or flesh of their enemies. He pulled a grenade from his belt and threw it at the blue clad figure and for a moment he stopped his attacking, grimacing as his skin blistered and smoked. The sneer he had been wearing turned into a snarl and he seized all activity and raised both hands in the air. He brought them down and hit the floor, causing fissures to split the ground and his flames erupted in every direction in roaring waves. The wall of flames hit Shura's sheild, launching her back. Her head hit a wall painfully and she slid to the ground, world spinning and ears ringing and she caught a glimps of the other exorcists being pushed back before her conciousness slipped away.

Yukio braced himself against the flames that charged towards him but they swept over him like a burning hot wind. He squinted through the dense fog of blue that coouded his vision and saw everyone the flames connected with blown off their feet and slammed into a wall, some falling unconcious, others landing in a heap and awkwardly dragging themselves to their feet. He felt the rush of air to his left and shot in the direction, turning just in time to see Satan's host move around him at clasp a hand around his throat, lifting him off the ground. Satan's lips curled at the edges in a malicious grin.

"You can't save him you know." His own distorted voice met his ears with something like an imitation of pity and he stopped struggling, seething hatred bubbling inside him like lava. "That piece of this meats soul has been in gehenna for months attatched to your brother's heart, in my domain, its so deeply embedded with the gehenna's atmosphere, its essence, it might as well be his own souls second skin, the only way you will separate him from it is by killing him." Satan sneers, his eyes lighting up with malice. He throws Yukio to the ground and stamps a bare food on his stomach, knocking all the air out of him. "Admit it, even you, my youngest child, even you can't think of a way." He put more pressure on his stomach and Yukio tried to push against his inhuman strength with his own, slowly inching away from the ground.

"You're wrong." He spat, voice strained.

"I beg your pardon?" Satan said with a mock English accept. Yukio ground his teeth.

"You're wrong. Harry was a Horcrux and he is alive, I know you knew. And I will find a way to save Rin." The determination in his voice made Satan's sneer drop and his eyebrows furrowed in distaste.

"You know, your mummy would have been very dissapointed in you for disobaying your father." He removed his foot from Yukio's chest and kicked him in the side and. He rolled over several sides, gasping at the pain of a potentially cracked rib or two. "You two took her away from me." All traces of amusement or gloating erased from his voice now, his words where cold and held something that sounded almost human as he walked towards him. "You took my one chance at making mine and Yuri's dream becoming a reality." He kicled him again and Yukio definately felt something break around his shoulder. He looked up, hands scrambling for the pistols he had dropped, and met Satans eyes, the only emotion there was one of murder. "I'm going to enjoy watching you die and your brother ripping each and every one of your friends to pieces."

Izum scrambled to her feet, Uke and Mike looking at her worriedly as she clutched her head, thankful that she had been further back away from Satan and not getting thrown as far as the other exorcists. The fire retracted to its commander and she saw Yukio being kicked across the ground.

"Uke! Mike! I pray to the godess Inari, show Thine ememies we will not yield. Show them the wrath of wind and earth!" As she chanted, jogging towards Satan who was standing over Yukio with a murderous expression. Uke and Mike speak ahead of her and spiralled around each other, they formed a small typhoon between them and pulled in pieces of rock from the floor into it. "NOW!" She shouted and her familiars shot the rocks at the posessed man with as much speed and power as a bullet from a gun. Satan looked up miliseconds before the pellets hit and threw up a defensive wall of flames, Yukio took the moment to pick up his falled gun and fired two bullets which buried themselves in the host bodies shoulder. Satan roared in fury as Yukio scrambled away and put a few feet between him and their enemy. Not sparing a moment to let up her attack, Izumo ran and positioned herself so Satan was directly inbetween herself and Yukio. She pulled a handful of summoning papers from her pocket and bit her finger, swiping all of the little papers with the blood that welled out.

"I humbly appeal to thee, oh goddess Inari, grant my request, leave not my wishes to be unfulfilled!" She called, the words rolling off her tongue in rapid succession. A familiar warmth swept over her and took her breath away as ten, twenty, thirty foxes manifested around her, standing defensively around her and awaiting her orders ,the results of her hard work over the past months had certainly paid off. Some almost the size of lions, others small like cats with cute features. If the circumstances where different she would have smiled at how far she had come with all her extra training but this was life or death and she wouldn't be able to face Rin if she didn't work as hard as he had, struggled through all these months to stay alive. "Trap him!" She screamed, pointing at Satan and they charged forwards, happy to obay her. She saw one especially small one, a tiny little fennec fox swept past and she reached out and caught it by its collar. "Shift, you stay here." She called the fox by its pet name and it jumped to her shoulder with a happy yip. Her foxes evaded the rain of blue fire that Satan shot at them, some hit true and the foxes dissolved but the rest reached their target and sunk their teeth into their target. Satan slashed at them with his claws, growling in rage and Izumo opened her palm for the tiny fennec fox to jump onto."Shift, can you turn into a spear?" She asked, giving the fox's ear a scratch as an 'offering'. The fox obliged, jumped into her hand and bounced up and down excitedly. A moment later she flashed a bright white and in her hand sat a white spear that quivvered with power. She let her own energy flow into the spear and raised it above her head, aiming at the struggling dark lords chest. Her foxes where slowly loosing the battle as they where battered away or slashed and sent back to where they came from. Izumo concerntrated and put everything she had into throwing the speak. It shot through the air and she watched, fists clenched in hope. The spear sped through the air and, unbelievable, pierced through the upper left part of of his chest. He froze where he stood, looking down at the spear in disbelief and the foxes evaperated around him and reappeared behind Izumo and she could feel their pride. "How dare you...HOW DARE YOU..." she shreiked at the form, angry tears threterning to fall. "Don't come back next time, we will just keep sending you back." Satans livid gaze fell on her and he bared his jagged teeth in a snarl, one hand reaching to the spear still sticking out of his chest.

"Now child" he hissed and a shudder tried to make its way down her spine. "You still don't seem to get it." He gripped the spear and it vanished and Shift reappeared in Satans hand. "This meat is immortal, anchored to Assiah by your little boyfriend." His claws sunk into the terrified fennec and she squeeled before exploding into white mist. His gaze flitted to Yukio and followed him as he dashed to Izumo's side, one pistol pointed at the Gehennian king, other resting on his chest while he tried to catch his breath. A cheshire grin split the serpentine mans featured and his eyes widened gleefully. "I'm hear to stay." He pulled something long and thin from his robes and pointed it directly at her, grinning madly.

"Avada Kedavra."

Yukio saw the spell coming, after he spoke the invocation a small ball of light gathered at the end of his wand, it grew like it was charging up and Yukio felt the raw powder of it send a prickling sensation across his face. The huge ball of blue light reached the size of a bowlingball and shot from the wand, his robes whipping behin him in the backlach. He threw up a wall of flames in front of him and Izumo before it hit its target. Izumo uttered a quick chant but her foxes didn't erect their barrier before the spell hit. It smashed against his flames and the the shock of collision shook through the barrier and him. He threw out more flames, grinding his teeth against the strain but it did nothing. The spell tore through the barrier and exploded when it came into contact with the tamer before she could dodge it and she hit the ground, skidding across the floor as the force sent her back. The front of her jacket was burned to nothing and the skin underneath blackened. When she came to a stop she didn't move, eyes slightly open with a look of shock frozen on her face. Yukio called her name in horror but he stopped himself from runnining to her at the sound of laughter.

"If killing people wasn't fun enough now I can do it with magic words." He threw his head back and cackled and Yukio felt his demon side stirring, rising and taking over. "And I'm sure Rin will be feeling everything that passes through his heart."

Yukio growled and cast his pistols aside, he roared and pounced at the body inhabiting his father, claws raised and fangs bared, ready to rip him particle from particle.

Shiemi jumped in alarm as an ear splitting cry made everyone wheel around. She covered her ears against the noise and turned around looking for the source. When she looked around her eyes widened in shock and horror as her eyes found Rin on the floor, fangs bared as he screamed. Her instinct told her to run and check him over but he began thrashing violently with new determination to free himself, an odd greenish hue seemed to ripple over his skin for a second and then vanished and Shiemi wondered if she had really seen it or not. She noticed a thin trickle of blood running from one of his nostrils and she looked at Koneko hoping for an answer.

"W-what's going on?" She said through trembling lips, not knowing what to do and hating the uncertainty of what was going on. Koneko shook his head rapidly, mouth slightly open.

"I-I d-don't know." He said. The shorter exorcist turned to Harry who was fixated on Rin. "Can you destract him when he breaks free? We can set up a trap that will hold for s lot longer but we need about two minutes to set up."

"Why him in particular?" Hermione asked, raising her wand at the struggling bluenette.

"Voldermort told him specifically to catch Harry, he completely bypassed us earlier, he barely even looked at us." Koneko said with a sad undertone. He shook his head and looked hopefully at Harry. The blackette nodded and turned around, sprinting off at full speed up the staircase. Shiemi's head snapped back at the shreik of metal tearing and Rin got to his feet with some effort. Shiemi took a slow step back but the half demon didn't regard them, shoving past them and chasing after the blackette. Hermione turned away from them and faced them with a burning determination Shiemi couldn't help but admire.

"Ok, what do you need me to do?" Koneko pulled a piece of chalk from a ponch full of it attatched to his belt and dropped to his knees and began drawing a web of lines and a combination of kanji and latin characters.

"I'm going to draw this circle, once it's done we need Harry to lead Rin back here. When he does you can create those chains again and trip him, when he falls into this circle I will speak the mantra and activating it. If that works, Shiemi I need you to reinforce the chains with bamboo again."

"That's brilliant!" Hermione praised, watching in fascination. "What is this circle?"

"It's a containment field and barrier for demons, it's the strongest I know. Once I activate it I need to keep up a recitation to keep it active, if any of those black robed men or demons come can I trust you two to protect me?" He asked with a slight smile. "Harry could go and find your friend with the sword after that and him, Shima and Ron can find the snake. Is that okay with you two?" Shiemi couldn't help but smile but it fell quickly, Hermione seemed to read her mind and she wondered if wizards had that kind of ability.

"You're strategy is perfect but what about after we kill the snake? What do we do about Rin?" She asked and Shiemi bit her lip. Nobody said anything until Koneko finished drawing the circle, about three feet wide and big enough to contain a number of people.

"I don't know, we'll figure something out. Alright, everybody ready?" He asked as he jumped to his feet, looking at the circle and nodding to himself. The three nodded. "Ok, lets shout as loud as we can, Harry shouldn't have gone to far, we said he needed to come back." He counted to three and they all shouted as loudly as possible, Hermione crouched behind the balcony while Koneko and Shiemi stood against the wall ready to do their part. They waited in silance, twitching at the tiniest of sounds when two sets of heavy footfalls reached their ears and got louder and louder. A moment later Harry appeared at the bottom of the stairs, face red and sweat giving his skin an oily look. "Keep running, try to avoid the white circle on the floor!" Koneko warned the blackette. He sprinted up the stairs and trotted around the circle, coming to a stop just on the other side of it. A second later Ron charged after him, Hermione shouted the same strange words she had used earlier and chains wrapped themselves around Rins ankles, he tripped and fell forward, skidding accross the floor and landed in the circle. Konekomaru sprang to life, wrapping the prayer beads he pulled from around his neck around both of his hands and began reciting a mantra with impressively precise accuracy. The circle glowed a faint white and each and every marking lit up. Hermione conjured more of the chains than last time until Rin was all but cocooned in them and Shiemi held Nee towards the circle, bamboo shoots thicker than last time shooting out of his little arms and coiled around and between the chains. The three froze, only the sounds of Rin straining against the chains and Konekomaru's chanting breaking the silence as they waited with bated breath. Seconds trained by and Rin's struggles slowed and Shiemi's shoulders loosened a little.

"It worked.." Hermione breathed, looking at their set up with wide eyes, a very slight smile curling her lips. Harry rejoined them, his face sweaty and his chest heaving.

"I'm going to go and find Neville, we need Griffindor's sword." He said and broke into a jog.

"Be careful!" Hermione shouted after him and watched him disappear from sight. She sighed and looked around the room solemnly. "And now we wait." The brunette stood at the top of the staircase, glancing back at Rin occasionally to make sure her chains where holding up. Koneko remained near the circle and Shiemi chose to stand by Hermione, her mind buzzing with questions and she tried to clear her mind and orgamize her thoughts.

"I-iI hate this," she mumbled under her breath, casting a guilty look at her friend and her heart felt like it was being squeezed, she had to make a mental effort not to let the frustrated tears clowding her eyes fall. Her ione looker at her in alarm and she put a comforting arm around the tiny girls shoulders and pulling her into a hug.

"It will be over soon... we have to do this." The brunette said quietly and Shiemi was surprised by the guilt she felt voiced in the taller girls voice. She sniffed andrubbed her eyes.

"You and your friends where the ones to save Harry wheren't you?" She asked warmly. The brunette caught her eye and flushed, brushing her hair behind her ear.

"Uum, yeah, we had help. He save our house elf friend and myself from Bellatrix, the death eater with the big hair. We owe him a lot too." Shiemi chuckled at the description.

"T-thank you, I don't want to think about what might have happened if you hadn't. I wouldn't even want to think about what Yuki would do if anything happened to him." Hermione's bushy eyebrows furrowed and she turned to Shiemi with a serious expression.

"Listen, I don't want to say this but we're not out of it yet. Our friends are out there fighting Satan for pete's sake! I never would have believed he even existed, I'm still having trouble with it." They fell into silance as she thought the words over with growing anxiety.

"How are we going to destroy the Horcrux without...hurting Rin?" She asked, staring into the other girls eyes. She bit the inner flesh of her lip and averted her gaze, taking a minute to check the - thankfully - still struggling Rin.

"I...I don't know...it was different with Harry, Voldermort would have used the killing curse on him but... if we where to use any of the swords it would probably...even if he is a demon I doubt he is immune to Baselisk venom or a sword capable of killing S-Satan..." she trailed off into silence and took a slow breath. Shiemi had to repress a sob, not wanting to show her weakness, her eyes burned again but she squinted in an attempt to hold herself back.

"W-what if we C-can't do it? W-what if w...we have to.."

"Ssh," Hermione's expression changed and she put a finger to her lips. Shiemi listened, fear flooding her as she tried to find what the brunette had heard. She looked around and noticed a quiet hissing sound barely audiable over Koneko's continues chanting. Hissing. She raked the floor with her eyes and spotted something emerging from behind a pile of rubble inches away from where Rin lay struggling. The snake reared its head and Shiemi's blood ran cold, It's body was thicker than her hips and if stretched out, would easily be long enough to wrap itself around her small frame many times. Hermione spotted it and shot a spell at it which bounced off and hit the wall behind it. Shiemi scrambled, raking her mind for something she could summon that might help hold the snake back but coming up empty. The snake hissed threterningly and slithered closer to the circle, straight towards Rin.

"Koneko, Watch out!" She shouted at the bald monk, pointing at the snake that lay within striking distance if it where to turn to him. He followed her finger and his voice stumbled over the words of the mantra as he slowly edged away, hands shaking. The light that illuminated the chalk Miwa had drew flickered with his recital and Rin seemed to stir, struggling a little harder than before as if whatever energy the circle had suppressed from him was lifting. The chains and Bamboo binding him creaked with strain as he fought against them. Shiemi watched as the snake edged to the outer line of the circle and turned its head, its beady eyes fixating on the trembling monk and it slowly slithered towards him. Hermione shot more spells at it but it only angered the snake, its hissing becoming more agitated and its body twitching, coiling ready to spring. "Koneko! Move!" She shouted as the snake lowered itself and shot forwards. Miwa broke his chanting and dived towards the girls, the snakes teeth missing him by milimeters and Hermione shoved the two behind her, wand raised as she urged them to back away. It reared its head again and hissed and they flinched away, Shiemi almost missing the top step of a staircase and toppling down them if not for Miwa grabbing her sleeve and holding on until she regained her footing. They backed up down the stairs and Shiemi gasped when her back met cold stone.

"W-what n-now?" Miwa asked, panic clear in his voice. Shiemi trembled with fear, she wanted to look around for an escape but was to terrified to look away from the still approaching reptile. It loomed a few feet away and she closed her eyes, waiting for its sharp teeth to sink into her.

'yuki...help us..'

Someone let out what she could only describe as a war cry and something that sounded metalic scraped the floor and struck something fleshy. There was a sound she could only compare to the sound of a waterballoon popping and something sludgy speckled her face. She let out a terrified shreik and clapped her hands over her face, not wanting to open her eyes.

"N-Neville!" Hermione's relieved voice made her stop shaking but she was still in to bad a state of shock to remove her hands or open her eyes. Hermione moved away from her and a hand grabbed her wrist, most likely Konekomaru's as it only just wrapped around her wrist.

"I-it's okay," he stuttered. She slowly dropped her hands and opened one eye in time to see Hermione leap forward and wrap her arms around a dark haired boy holding a silver sword covered in something black, slimy and foul.

"Neville! You did it! You actually did it! How did you find us?" Hermione cried gleefully, ruffling the taller boys hair and practically choking him with her hug. A goofy grin broke over the new comers which painfully reminded her of Rin's and he looked at the pile of sludge where the snake used to be.

"I did it, I...really did it... oh, Harry told me where you where." he stammered, his face positively beaming. Shiemi glanced at Koneko who looked shaken but gave a relieved sigh. Shiemi wanted to join in with their small celebration but all relief drained from her before it had a chance set in. She stepped around the hugging two and avoided stepping on the snakes remnants and ran up the stairs, taking them two at a time. When she got to the top she gasped, one hand clapping over her mouth in horror and she wheeled around to the others who had sobered, eying her curiously.

"Rin's escaped."

Shura watched dazed as Yukio charged at Voldermort/Satan, having abondoned his pistols in favor of his claws. She cursed out loud, wondering what Satan had said to make him lose control and stood up. She charged forwards as the two collided and Satan grabbed both of Yukio's outerstretched hands, twisted his body with unimaginable strength and threw the half demon into what little wall around the courtyard still stood. He bounced off it and collapsted to the ground with a grunt. Satan paced towards him, dark amusement in his face and Shura ran, aiming to put herself between the two. Before she reached her targed, Voldermort/Satan stilled, his expressing changing from one of interest to one of shock and fury. Shura wondered what was going on in his mind but pushed it aside and jumped as high as she could, touching down a few feet in front of Yukio with Kirigakure back in its final form. Something disturbed the air next to her and an irritating but reassuring presence made her smirk.

"How yer holdin' up baldy?" She asked, glancing sideways and making a mental note to mock him for how much of a mess the paladin was in. Blood, his own and their enemies, splattered his usually pristine white coat, his normally shiny blond hair was dirty and dulled, one patched darkened to brown with blood from a large cut on the side of his head. Somehow he still managed to crack a grin and flicked his hair over his shoulder.

"Please. I'm the paladin for a reason."

"Well it's certainly not for your brains or depth." She snarked. "What do yer suppose just happened?" She asked, humor gone from her tone. Arthur's face hardened and he pulled one of his dulled hairs from his head and offered it to Caliburn which cooed approvingly.

"I don't know but it can't be good." As if to answer their question, Satan spoke while looking at his clawed hands which where...shaking slightly?

"What is this?" He asked nobody in particular. His hands balled into fists and he stood tall, face grim but one side of his lips curling upwards. "No matter, I still have the most important one." He hissed and his flames reared around him with more ferocity than before. Shura braced herself, hoping the kids had done what they needed to do and raised her sword, unleashing a war cry of her own before unleashing her attack.

Miles above the battleground.

"Big brother?"

"What is it Amaimon?" Mephisto sipped tea from a delicate fine china teacup and uncrossed and re crossed his legs, his expression an uncharacteristic mix of excitement and concern as he observed all the individual battles below. Amaimon shuffled where he hovered in the air, shoulders tense.

"Remind me why we can't join in?" The king of earth asked, irritably raking through his pockets for a lollypop and coming up empty. There was a puff of pink in front of his eyes and one popped into existance before his eyes. He snatched it out of the air and ripped the wrapper off hastily and shoving it in his mouth, the comforting flavour he loved so much taking the edge off his anxiety. Mephisto sighed and rested his chin on his palm.

"Not this time, father would not tolerate us interfering in his plans. If the children fail do you wish to be at his mercy now that he has another body here in Assiah?" Amaimon flinched at the thought and remained silent, knowing his big brother was right. As much as he loved playing with his little brother, against him or at his side, he wasn't worth centuries of torture.

Dun dun duuuuuuuun! So this didn't has as bad of a cliff hanger as my last few chapters so I hope it doesn't drive you insane lmao!

So as before, I'll upload the enxt chapter when we hit 135 reviews as I need a little time to write the next one, IF ANYTHING DOESN'T MAKE SENSE PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL FIX IT IN THIS CHAPTER! I've proof read it to the bedt of my ability as usual but if I missed anything I hope it's ignorable =(

REVIEWS =D

chatno1r

I've already replied to your review so I'll keep this short ^^ mwahahaha, will they indeed! XD he's only at half power but he can use magic aswell which kinda makes up for it haha. and yes, my poor ickle Rin is still under control T.T (and it's looking pretty bleak mwahahaa, I'm sorry bro! I'm buy you cookies to make up for it! DX) LOOOOL! I'd love to see it XD i got this mental image of a someone shiemi's size trying to creep up on Satan and meyowing before he blasts them away with a fire explosion! lmao! that made me giggle XD Hope I didn't make you wait to long T.T will update when the review limit is hit (asuming I've finished the chapter by then) thank you for reviewing as always! hope you enjoyed this chappy =D

BlackWitchesCat

Lmao, snap! As powerful as voldy is he's still himan haha, demons are a completely different story XD They could do but Rin would be immune to the flames as he has his own even if he can't use his own. Hope you enjoyed =D

DevilMayCareGirl

hehe, Hope my vrsion of that explaination was satisfactory. When Voldermort used avade kedavra on Harry he destroyed the horcrux and any connection or power he had over Harry. thank youu =) hope you enjoyed this chappy =)

Guest

Yeah, sorry about that =( It didn't turn out as well as I had wished but hope this chapter was better. Glad you enjoyed it anyways =)

WhispersOfWings

XD yeah, it was supposed to be an aaaaw shit, daddy's here lmfao! Like a "well shit, could this get any worse?" XD so happy you're enjoying this =D I'm super into writing it atm so chapters will be fairly frequently uploaded =D Lmao, (cackles melicously) ...i love cliffies XD this wasn't too bad at the very least lmao! and sorry the last chapter was so short T.T it was supposed to be the first part of this chapter but I thought what the hell XD it's an excuse to drop another bombshell #dodges rocks# anyways, hope you enjoyed =D

Nixie the Bloody Pixie =D

hope this chappy wasn't a dissapointment, didn't have the best time writing it but hope it turned out okay =/ hehe, no Rin becoming normal in this chapter mwahahaha, this fic hasn't got long to go (obv cause its mainly hp cannon) hope you review again =D

Thorn D. Cinni

haha, yep. Hope you enjoyed this chappy =D

Fukushima Hayate san

Haha, sorry she was so ooc =/ she's definately back in character here (I hope) being all badass an everything ^^ well yeeeeeah! Yukio, as much as I hate him, is badass in his demon form haha. An Satan is all missunderstood an stuff, I actually wish he had merged assiah with gehenna because it was all for Yuri which is so die hard romantic! omg! XD Hope you enjoyed this chapter anyways =D hope to hear from you again x

animegeek220

teehehehe, I just like leaving them, keeps people interested lmao! plus it feels like I'm getting a little revenge for all the cliffies I've been left with XD Hehe, will do after this one, almost done here T.T Atleast you updated! was so happy to see that chapter update! hope you can update again soooon! Hope you enjoyed this chappy and thank yeeee for reviewing!

Sincerely The Sign Painter

Hehe, yeah, things got a little more evened out haah. Thank you for reviewing and hope you enjoyed this chapter =D