As we kept fighting and getting closer to district five, a sudden waver made my heart pound in euphoria.
I clenched my right fist over my heart, 'Whoa...what was that just now? It felt like my heart was kicked.'
All of a sudden, memories of Mikaela and I together flashed through my mind.
'What the...Why am I thinking about him right now?' I shook my head, 'Now is not the time to take a trip down Memory Lane. I'm in the middle of a battlefield.'
"Here, Sayo. You take one, too," Yu said, handing a pack of pills.
I quickly analyzed them, 'Those pills, I've seen them before. Soldiers have taken more than one pill and I've seen the deaths of them many times. I wouldn't dare. Besides...I'm not entirely loyal to the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.'
"No thanks, I'm fine," I said and pushed the pack of pills towards him.
"Why not," Mitsuba demanded.
"Did you not see me take out a helicopter with my bare hands? I'm strong enough as is," I said to her.
"Don't try to force her, Mitsu. If she doesn't want to take one, she doesn't have to. It's not our fault if she dies."
"Shinoa," Yu said, staring at her with a frown.
"It's okay, Yuichiro. She has a point. If I die, it's my fault...which I won't," I said and ran ahead.
"What?" they all questioned.
"Nothing! Let's go!" I shouted behind me, still running.
~Flashback~
Sitting on a ledge of a nearly crumbled building, I stared down at the world that had ended.
'When I look at the humans..I see a want for hope, but destruction for those who are greedy. "Humans are good by nature, but can be corrupted by power." When I look at the vampires...I understand they want to stop humans from ruining the world than it already is..or was.'
Seeing a Four Horsemen of John, it was walking around aimlessly, probably looking for anything human to kill.
Raising my right hand up, a golden pentacle formed in front of my head and struck through the Horseman's heart, purifying it's soul.
"It gets a little boring sometimes.." I said to myself.
"My, my. How impressive. Whom may you be?"
Standing up, I turned around and glared at the vampire standing in the white moonlight.
The vampire noble that killed Mika, Ferid Bathory.
"...I go by the name Angel of Salvation," I responded quietly.
"You seem like one, too. I'll call you Angel. I'm curious as of to what your face looks like. May I see it?"
"No. My face must not be revealed to anyone...nor my identity. I will be frowned upon."
"Hmm? You amuse me already, Angel. You remind me of this lovely livestock girl. It's too bad I never had a sip of her blood.."
Turning around, I frowned at his last sentence, 'If he's trying to test me to see if I'm that livestock girl, provoking me isn't the way to do it.'
"This doesn't concern me. If you don't have any business with me, then I shall take my leave," I replied, taking a step on the ledge.
"Hold on," he spoke and grabbed my right hand, which made me annoyed.
"What," I demanded monotonously.
"..Hn? Your scent is alluring...Anyway, what are you? You can at least tell me that," he questioned with a sickening smile I wanted to smack off his face.
"...If you wish for me to join the vampires, request denied, and..."
I turned around, only revealing my eyes in the moonlight.
"I don't know what I am anymore," I said and felon backwards, disappearing into the darkness below.
~Flashback Ends~
My eyes narrowed, 'Why do I have this bad feeling..that he's the leader of this attack?'
"Sayo! Pay attention! We're almost near the battle!" Shinoa lectured me
Nodding, I noticed that I was running slower than the others and focused on getting there in time.
Up ahead, I could see a figure on the ground. His blade had stabbed..Guren in the left side of his chest.
"GUREN! GET AWAY FROM HIM, VAMPIRE!" Yu yelled and charged at the vampire.
Once seeing the vampire turn around, his eyes widened, and my heart felt like it stopped and my breath hitched.
My running became slow again...
My eyes widened in shock...
I felt my body begin to tremble...
And I somehow found my voice again.
"YUICHIRO! PLEASE, STOP!"
It was too late...Yuichiro had already stabbed the vampire...
With my intense hearing, I could hear what the two whispered.
"..Yu?"
Yuichiro looked up, "...Mika..."
"DON'T KILL HIM, YUICHIRO!" I shouted and ran at Yu at max speed.
Pushing him away from the blond vampire, I made sure to wrap my arms around Yu to shield him from the ground.
Letting go of him, I tried to stand to my knees, and I did, though I wobbled a little.
Seeing Guren about to attack the blond, I found the will to run again at my inhumane speed.
As soon as I got close again, the blond turned around and swiped me off my feet, holding me in his arms as he jumped away from Guren.
I stared up at him in disbelief, "...Mikaela?"
The blond vampire hugged me close in hia arms, seeming just as shocked as me, "...Sayomi..."
"Let her go, vampire!" Yoichi yelled as he fired arrows towards us.
Mikaela put me down and pushed me out of the way, but not enough to make me fall. He jumped away from the arrows.
I fell to my knees, tears sliding down my cheeks, "...I-it worked...M-my venom...w-worked?...H-he's alive.."
Shadowing my face with my hair, I muffled my sobs and clenched my fists. One would've thought I was angry, but I am
actually happy.
The others had caught up to Yu and I, "What were you two thinking, idiots?!" Mitsuba yelled.
Yu was still a bit stunned, but tried to help Guren up; already, Guren punched him in the face.
"Don't forget we're still on the battlefield!"
No longer shadowing my face, I had wiped my tears and stopped trembling, letting the new information sink in:
That Mikaela Hyakuya is alive.
"Ah, what a wonderful reunion, is it not?" a familiar vampire's voice spoke.
Looking to who it was, I glared, feeling rage and resentment build up in me.
It was Ferid Bathory.
He stared in amusement at a still befuddled Yu, then at a glaring me.
His eyes lifted in curiosity, "Where have you been all this time, sweet Sayomi? I don't recall you joining the Demon Army."
"Well, here I am. Do you still think I'm that 'lovely livestock girl'?" I spoke bitterly.
He seemed a little surprised, "You had me fooled. So you're the 'Angel of Salvation'."
Noticing reinforcements come, I spotted Crowley Eusford with Skuld and Belle as well as more vampires.
Guren looked to me, "What the hell is going
on, Sayo?!"
I stood back on my feet and shadowed my face again, "I see..so you don't know who I really am. I've been lying just to get to this moment. I suppose..it's about time I reveal myself."
"..Sayo..." I heard Mika whisper with an emotion I couldn't read with two vampires behind him, and seemed close to him.
I no longer shadowed my face, revealing my now glowing ruby red irises.
"My name is Sayomi Seraphina Lumina Kiiro, the very 'Second Female Progenitor of the Vampires'. My mother, Estelle Lucienne Ruby, the 'Second First Female Progenitor of the Vampires', was killed by your current queen, Krul Tepes."
No one responded, so I continued.
"My mother declined her throne in the middle of October of 2012. She wanted humans and vampires to coexist. She had worked on that for over seven hundred years. This may come as a surprise, but..she fell in love with a human. So..I am a half-breed. Ever since I was born, she hid me from both the human and vampire world. She knew she'd die, so she told me to go to a place called Hyakuya Orphanage."
I glanced to Yu. He looked like he just saw some type of disturbing beast.
'This hurts me to speak the truth just as much as it hurts for you to hear this, Yuichiro.'
"Four years ago, I was acting of what you call 'livestock'. I could've escaped any time I wanted to, but I decided to stay due to a second family I willingly wanted to protect. In an attempt of escape, I lost them..but I turned the remaining one that was still living into a newborn vampire, not Tepes. That makes two of us," I said the last sentence with a frown.
I glanced to Mikaela, 'It's been so long since I've seen those blue, cat-like eyes. *Sigh* Going to hug him is so tempting right now, but not in this situation.'
All of the vampires, except the nobles, bowed down to me.
"Hail to Queen Sayomi," they spoke.
"Do not bow before me. I am neither on either sides. My goals are alterior, and if any of you get in my way, consider yourself already dead."
"It makes me wonder, Queen Sayomi, what are your ulterior motives?" Bathory questioned with a smirk.
I narrowed my eyes, "To coexist with humans, and take back what's rightfully mine."
Yu approached me...then raised Asuramaru up, and brought it down. Closing my eyes, I waited to be cut down.
*Silence*
"..You do know...they're not going to willingly cooperate...right?" Yu whispered in my right ear.
Glancing at him, I saw determination in his eyes and nodded, knowing what that look meant.
We stood back to back again. I summoned Himezuru-sa.
I held up my katana in my left hand, "But I know...you all aren't going to suddenly agree with that idea."
Then, the fighting began.
Yu and I swiftly passed each other, slaying two vampires that were heading towards us.
"Chimei-tekina Ohime-sama-tachi," I said and pulled Himezuru-sa apart into the two katanas.
Five vampires charged at me and I performed the Dark Dance of Deceit.
As if dancing while striking each vampire, I dipped backwards and shoved the two katanas in two vampires' throats.
Leaning back on my feet, I kept twirling around, striking Chimei-tekina Ohime-sama-tachi into three vampires' chest.
Seeing about three vampires run towards me, I threw the katanas in the air, deciding to get my hands a little bloody.
I struck a vampire through the stomach with my right hand in a blade-like way, getting my hands bloody. Then, I struck five more times before jumping up, and kicking him with my knees twice.
Sensing someone try to sneak up behind me, I grabbed them by the neck with my left hand without looking back and pulled them forward.
One landed on the other as Chimei-tekina landed through their heads.
I handled the third vampire as she ran at me, ready to cut me down, but I ripped out her throat with my left hand.
I felt my eyes glowing the crimson color as I unknowingly satisfied a blood thirst I didn't know I had.
Catching Ohime-sama-tachi from falling in the air with my right hand and picking up Chimei-tekina in my left, I transformed them into the PM36 guns or Hantei Soshite Batsu.
(It means 'Judgment and Punishment'.)
Aiming them at the vampires that decided to either attack me, Yu or my team mates, I kept my fingers on the triggers.
Turning Hantei Soshite Batsu back into Himezuru-sa, I shoved her in the ground, creating a crack in the ground.
The cracks spread and the ground gave way in some places.
"Hey! Watch what you're doing!" Mitsuba yelled, hanging on to a street light pole.
Sensing something was off, I looked to Yu and saw Bathory using the broken pieces of the ground as platforms to get near him.
Guren and I must've thought the same thing because we both ran towards Yu.
"You're not touching him!"
I got in front of Yu and created a shield by putting my hands side by side. It was as if a rose colored Star of David with Latin words around the circle it's in.
Holding up the shield was easier said than done. Luckily, Guren got Yu out of the way. My shield was slowly cracking.
"My, you're stronger than I thought," he said in amusement.
Once my barriers broke, he reached his hand out to me, "Let's get a taste of you."
Bathory's arm was suddenly got cut off, making him jump away from me as Yu stood in front of me, wanting to protect me.
"If you touch her, I'll kill you," Mikaela said with a...very frightening look.
Too fast to comprehend, Mikaela approached us, resulting in Yu falling to the ground.
"Yu, Sayo, abandon everything and run away with me," he told us.
"I don't run away from fights!" I protested, then turned as a vampire tried to surprise attack us.
I grabbed him by the neck with my left hand and ripped his heart out with my right, squishing it until it burst.
Mika flinched at what I did to which I sheepishly smiled.
"I'm going to act as if I didn't see that, but..Run away?! Why?!"
"Just do as I say."
Somehow, he pulled Yu on to his back and picked me up easily.
"Yu! Sayo!" Shinoa shouted to us.
"Put us down, now!" I demanded.
"What is the meaning of this?! Both you and Sayomi have to explain to me what's going on!" Yu shouted.
"You can't go there..because you're being used by the humans. As for you..." Mika said to Yu, then glanced down at me.
I looked away from his gaze as my eyes turned back to its golden color. Yu and I nodded to each other slightly.
Yu jumped off of Mika's back as I pushed him away from me and fell, landing on the somewhat bloodied ground.
"I'm being...used by humans? What are you saying? Do you know, Sayo?"
We both stayed quiet. Indeed, I did know, but I wanted his permission before stealing him away from the Demon Army.
'I just never got the chance to mention it to him...'
"Are you...Are you truly not human anymore? Sayomi wasn't kidding?" he asked him, then looked at me.
"Blame me, Yuichiro! I'm the one who turned Mika into a vampire! Kill me if you want to! I did it because I would do anything to protect and save my family!" I took the blame...
That was supposed to be taken long ago.
"...Because..of you..." he mumbled.
"It's not either of your faults! Just go already. You both don't belong here," Mika said with guilt.
"I-I won't, Mika. I'm not going. My friends are here right now-"
"Me and Sayomi are your only friends! Please, don't be fooled! The humans are using you!" Mika kept trying to reason with him, then looked to me, "And they'll use you, too! You're too nice, Sayo!"
We heard screaming from one of our friends, but I ignored it, trembling from the stressful situation.
'I...I want to agree with Mika, but I can't fully. I'm confused on what to do. They did experiments on us. There was a human prophecy, too...Dante, tell me, must I forge my own?'
'Yes, but as of now, get Mikaela to a far distance. Yu's seraph is about to activate.'
Looking up, I saw Yu's left eye turned red and black as his right turned pitch black. A dark brown seraph wing sprouted from his back as he screamed in agony.
"I knew it. The humans were using-"
Yu turned to Mika and swiftly raised Asuramaru, creating swift winds and indents in the ground. Just in time, I ran in front of him and used the same shield spell.
"Mikaela, do not interfere. Let me handle this," I said and approached Yu.
'I've never did the full transformation as a seraph. Dante, please, give me the strength to save him.'
'You know I'll always help in any way I am able to.'
"Yuichirou?" I called out to him in an angelic voice.
He stopped in his footsteps towards Shinoa, and turned around, swinging Asuramaru at me, creating more dentures in the ground and swift winds.
I wasn't phased by the amount of power as I kindly smiled.
"What are you doing, Sayo?!" Shinoa yelled at me.
I glanced to her, "You wouldn't care if I died, remember? Besides...I'm a vampire," I said and focused my attention back on Yu.
"All..s-s-sinners must die. S-Sinners must die...You're not..one..."
"*Smile* You're correct..then you may be incorrect. I don't know if I am or if I am not. You're the one who's judging and I am half human."
The seraph seemed confused to which I took the opportunity of transforming myself into a complete seraph.
A white mist suddenly came over us. I hunched over in a little pain and white seraphic wings came out of my back.
My eye color became brighter, my hair grew to my knees, my fangs had disappeared, and I wore the kimono Dante wears.
"You wish to kill humans for their sins? Not even taking in consideration for what situation they were in to commit that sin? I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
The mist had cleared and showed my form to the onlookers as I grabbed Himezuru-sa from the ground.
It narrowed its eyes at me, "What is..your purpose...Seraph of Song."
"To have humans and vampires to coexist. I promised myself to never hurt my family and friends, or any human. In the end, I turned one of them into a vampire and lied to the rest of them. I believe that's a sin. "Thou shalt not bear false witness." Though this is God's place to do this.."
I lifted Himezuru-sa in my right hand and at the seraph that was possessing my friend.
"Bring judgment down on me."
It grinned, "Despite you being a ally...With pleasure."
Asuramaru and Himezuru-sa clashed together many times as we began to fight.
'Start singing. You're the Seraph of Song. It can help you.'
'What to sing is the problem!' I thought as the seraph pushed me back.
Pressing my feet into the ground, an indent was created, so I kicked the seraph in it's left side, sending it through a building.
I ran to the building and crashed through a wall, glancing around for the seraph.
Walking around, I stopped once I heard something underneath my feet. The ground instantaneously gave way, but I flew up.
As the weak building crumbled due to the floor sinking in, I could see the seraph using parts of the falling ceiling as platforms to attack me.
Blocking each strike, I used the un-sharpened back of my blade to push the seraph out of a window forcefully.
The seraph hit the ground, creating a smoke screen, and I flew out of the building.
I kept searching for my target through the smoke screen.
'Now! Now's your chance! Sing now!' Dante told me.
I inhaled, "~I don't want nobody to get killed.
~I'll come and get you, I'm always ready to fight,
~So don't take all of the blame, we're always swept away,
~Don't take all of the weight, you always do. There will always be something you cannot control.
~We will overcome, your salvation has begun.."
With that being said, the smoke screen cleared up, revealing the seraph in white chains by the neck, wrists and hands, being held into midair.
"Stop singing!" it screamed as the chains in the ground began to rattle from his rage.
"~No signs, no lights, such a mess all over,
~Don't kill your hopes.
~You make me realize who I need.."
The more I sung, the more pain was inflicted to the seraph by the chains.
Somehow the seraph broke from my sacred chains and charged at me, ready to swing Asuramaru at me.
I dodged, clashing katanas again with Asuramaru at an unseemly speed.
"~I'll be there, hold on!
~They changed you somehow, so where are you no_w?!
~I'll reach you by dawn, before you can be turned. Illusions are to_rn!"
The seraph growled at me, then charged at me again.
This time, it used its one seraphic wing to jump in the air and come at me.
"~The fallen angels you run with don't know, that it's the pain that makes us all human after all.
~Warm, old sepia photographs show,
~Our fragile, precious world. Must protect it, respond to the call~."
My grip on Himezuru-sa tightened before letting go of her, immediately falling to the ground.
Then..I felt the blade pierce through the middle of my chest.
I smiled up at him, "I...I could never...hurt one of th-the...people I-I...love.."
Hugging Yu's body closer to mine, I choked on my own blood as Asuramaru's blade went deeper into my chest.
I knew Yu had come back to his senses because his seraphic wing went back into his back, leaving a lot of blood behind.
We fell downwards.
The hard winds blew against our faces and I glanced down a bit to see an unconscious Yu in my arms.
With what little strength I had left, I wrapped my wings around him, making sure he didn't get hurt.
I braced myself for impact as we collided into the ground, making a large hole.
-Mikaela's P.O.V-
Knowing Yu wouldn't get hurt since Sayo protected him, I couldn't help, but to worry for her safety when they hit the ground.
I knew she was a vampire, but she never told me she was the first progenitor's niece and his sister's daughter.
'She could've escaped Sanguinem whenever she wanted..and I knew that, but...she stayed with us.'
I gritted my teeth and shook my head lightly from frustration, "...She cared for us...and loved us..and still does...but I just had think of something so naive...as escape.." I whispered to myself.
-Sayomi's P.O.V-
Sitting up slightly, I still held Yu in my arms with my wings embracing him.
Looking down at my
chest, I slowly pulled the Cursed Gear known as Asuramaru out of my chest, letting it fall beside us.
Noticing the dust had cleared up and a presence nearby, I looked up to see Shinoa leaning over the edge with a terrified expression.
"..Y-you're..."
I pulled Yu over my left shoulder, "Alive?" I finished her sentence.
Using the last straw of my strength, I flapped my wings twice and with a slight jump, I boost up back to higher ground.
"He'll be okay," I told her with a smile as she crawled back a little.
Looking over to where the blond vampire known as Mikaela Hyakuya, he stared at me with hopeful and relieved eyes.
I gave him my most relieved, genuine smile, 'I'm glad you're alive. I can communicate with you like this when I sometimes take this form. I don't want you dying on me or Yuichirou now. I want to keep protecting you and him..'
"For I..am your seraph...a..and will protect you both..." I whispered, knowing he could hear me.
The last thing I saw was Shinoa, Mitsuba, and Yoichi coming towards Yu and I..and the last thing I heard...
Was Mikaela shouting my name.
(Whooooo! I hope you all liked/loved this because I did!...despite taking two days to write it. I love this newly recreated chapter! It's better than the one on Bookwriter! The next chapter is the last chapter for I Am Your Seraph, then I Am Your Angel of Salvation begins.)