Currently Playing: Xandria - Winterhearted
"This is where so many things must be decided. It's time we make our final choices, what is good and what is bad? Phase two, begin..."
At long last I finally brought myself to look away from the window and towards Ace once more. Feeling my angelic powers flaring against my own better judgment and will. Inari-sama's powers flowing through my veins and growing within my heart. My sapphire gaze met Ace's pale blue one. "I know what I have to do. I've got to stop her before she destroys all that we have faught for so long to perserviere."
"We?" repeated Ace slightly confused.
"Our memories of the times that we have spent together. When you think about it, we really were our own guardians, we kept each other safe. We were guarding our own innocence, even when we got mixed up with everything that went on, we always faught to protect one another. An we never gave up once on each other, or on the memories we all shared in. But now, now look at how far we have come, and where we all stand now," I shook my head somberly. "An yet, someone has to right the wrongs, we are torn apart, standing on opposite sides even, but I'm not about to give up on the hope that we can still pull through this. And if we don't succeed in this life, then there is always--another."
Ace glanced at me as if I were crazy. "Sakuuya, you can't change what's happened to Kira, nor can you undo what she has already done. Look at the moon, it's almost full, and she's gone on a killing rampage. She's not the same girl we all knew, the same girl that you once knew. She's changed, Sakuuya, and I don't think there's a chance that she'll want to come back to our side. She's holding a blade in her hand, turn your back and it'll find a new home."
"Ace!" I chided sharply turning to face him with cool blue eyes. "Maybe there isn't any hope for Kira, but I've got to at least try. I'm going to have to stand opposed to her, or she'll continue in this reign, and before you know it then she'll be lost completely to the darkness."
"Sakuuya, she's killed people, and she's going to keep on killing. She isn't the same. You're acting peculiar," said Ace raising a brow.
I just shook my head, and then braced on my windowsill, throwing open said windows. "This is all of our fight, Ace, but I still have to do things my own way."
Turning away, I braced one hand on the side of the window, and drew in a deep breath of the night air. The moon sparkling in the dark sky, and a cool breeze sweeping in through my now opened window, combing through my reddish-brown locks pushing them back away from my own pale face. With another intake of breath, I closed my eyes whispering, "just, trust me," and then I disappeared in a flash of white light and feathers. I reappeared in a room that I had only been in maybe twice, though when I opened my eyes to glance around I noted the exeptionally high level of darkness in the room. I gazed into one of the room's dark corners and saw a flash of silver and crimson as a young girl with flowing black locks and crimson red eyes stepped into my line of vision. The dark aura that she was emitting was enough to make me withdraw slightly.
The young woman smirked at me. "I thought that I'd run into you here, Sakuuya."
"Kira.." I said softly gazing at my corrupt friend.
"Though, I am afraid that you're a little bit late," she wiped her hands and blade off on her black pants. I shifted my eyes to another side of the room, seeing in the moonlight, Logan's shadowy form laying still in his bed. Crimson staining the matress and blankets, his orange hair glistening with blood in the night light, and I stepped back before turning back to Kira.
"Kira, look at what you have done. You loved him, he was your boyfriend, closer than anyone to your heart. He did nothing but love you, and you turn around and stab him in the back? He never did anything to you to deserve this. None of our friends did, why are you doing this, Kira? This isn't you, and you and I both know that.You're letting the darkness control you."
"Control me?" the ravenhaired girl laughed. "I embraced my destiny, something that you seem still yet to achieve."
"Kira! Whoever said we had to do this? Whoever said we had to do anything that pertained to the Armageddon? We are opposites you and I, we are light and darkness, but why does it mean that we have to stand here like this? Instead of fighting against one another, we should be working together, like we had for those few years that we had been friends. We proved then that light and darkness, that fire and earth could get along. Why is this any different?"
Kira's eyes flashed in the moonlight as she quickly sheathed her weapon glancing at me, and smirking. "I suggest you get a move on, little angel. You wouldn't want to lose anyone close to you, now would you? I have one more order of business to attend to. So what do you say, Sakuuya? Up for a little race? Let's see who gets there first," she smirked and then was gone in a blast of dark energy.
I took a quick step forwards, but she had disappeared long before I could get too close to her. "KIRA!!"
But I was left alone standing before one of Logan's blank walls, my eyes fell downcast as I glanced back over at where Logan laid still as stone. My heart tightened and I tore my gaze away, and looked towards the ceiling pondering what Kira had just said. But in doing so my heart gave a nauseated churn. "Rae!" I gasped quietly into the room. I cast one last look in Logan's direction before shifting out once more in a flash of white light and angel feathers, and then reappearing in Rae's room.
The brunette boy turned in his slumber, and then ended up turning and facing me. Lifting an arm up over his comforter, he glanced at me sleepily. "Sakuuya? W-what are you doing?"
I glanced frantically about the room breathing in a relieved sigh that Kira was nowhere to be seen. "Rae?" I asked in my usual soft tone of voice, and the boy sat up glancing at me with his soft blueish-green eyes.
"What's wrong, Sakuuya?"
"Rae, listen to me, we have to get out of here. Ace, Jake, and Logan are dead, and you're next. I have to get you out of here before she gets here."
"Before who gets here?" asked Rae.
However before I could answer a sultry voice said from the doorway, "Me," and Rae spun around to face Kira.
"Oh Kira, w-what are you doing here?" Though before Kira could give him an answer I reached out and grabbed the boy's arm, pulling him behind me, and then meeting my friend's cold gaze with my own warming one.
"Kira, you have to stop this. What are you hoping to accomplish by all of this? These are our friends, they're your friends. Why are you doing this to them?"
The dark haired girl just met my gaze with an unwavering glance, as from her boot she withdrew a blade tossing it back and forth between her hands. A taunt. "Why am I doing this? Why, is that all you can say, is that all you want to know?" her eyes flashed coldy. "You know why, Sakuuya. For them it's time to pay the pied piper. Judgment day has come, and they've sinned, it's time they were punished."
I shook my head. "Dammit, Kira! This is not you! The darkness is messing with your mind, it's corrupted your soul and trapped your logical mind somewhere inside of you. It's frozen your heart, and turned you against those you once swore to protect."
Kira just grinnned maliciously at me. "That being the case, sweet Sakuuya, then perhaps I ought to remind you that your little friends have sinned, and that death is their punishment."
"Who says you have any right to condemn them? Who are you to judge? Just take a look around, and try to remember, look and see what you have done, Kira. Is this honestly what you want? Is this what your heart desires, more than anything?"
My friend's eyes flashed. "What ever happened to me not possessing a heart, Sakuuya? Hm? Someone having second thoughts? So then, which is it, Sakuuya? Do I, or do I not posses a heart?"
"Kira, that is beside the point. Of course, you posses a heart, but right now it's tainted by the darkness, and by the urge to destroy. It's changed you, but it still hasn't taken away your humanity. Whatever happened to the girl that I met over the Internet? The one who I use to stay up late and talk to, till the dawn broke on the horizon? That girl, smiling in that photograph with her friends. Don't you remember any of it, any of them? Any of us?"
Again the other girl's eyes flickered bitterly. "Time's up, Sakuuya, ready to say your goodbyes?"
"Kira, stop this. This is madness, are you even remotely conscious of what you are doing?"
"Does that look as if it matters, or as if I fucking care?"
I winced, holding my tongue, and glancing aside as quickly as if I had been struck. My eyes turning soft and downcast. "I can't believe this.."
"Then don't. Go back to living in your world of make-believe, Sakuuya. Retreat back into the recesses of your mind's memories, and lock yourself there. Don't face this, run away, like the coward that you are," said Kira coldly, crimson eyes flashing in the moonlight. The amount of anger and negativity that she was emitting was powerful enough to make me wince, as I turned back to face my former friend. My own twilit blue eyes narrowing coldly.
"No, Kira, I'm not going to run away. Not this time," I said levelly meeting her gaze, and keeping it unwavering.
Another bitter flash zipped through the dark haired girl's eyes. They narrowed ever so slightly, and the blade glittered. "Then face your destiny, Sakuuya. An always remember," she disappeared in a blur of shadow, her voice dangerously close behind me. "Never turn your back," there suddenly came the sickening sound of flesh being torn, and the splattering of blood. Turning swiftly on my heel, I spun to face my reflection, finding her to be holding Rae in her arms. The blade having been imbedded into his chest; she grinned evilly at me, and then let the boy go, with me catching him as he fell.
"Welcome to Hell, Sakuuya," said Kira in a mocking tone of voice reappearing infront of me, and grinning. She placed the blade to her lips and licked the life fluid dripping there. "You've a good taste in men, Sakuuya, a very good 'taste.'" Just the way that she said the final comment was enough to send tremors of shivers down my spine, but I was cast too deeply into disbelief to say much, just holding Rae as tightly and as close to myself as was humanely possible. The tears rimming the bridges of my eyes, as I snapped a bitter look at ravenhaired girl, and my tears turned from sorrow to anger. But all she did was smile, wave, and then disappear in a flash of black light and feathers, her mock laughter echoing in my ears at her departure.
"Come and find me, Sakuuya. Come and find me, at the place where the Saviour lyes."
"Where the Saviour lyes?" I said softly, shaking my head. That was exactly what Yami had said when I last spoke with him. Shaking my head, I turned to glance at Rae's dying form. His eyes losing their usual luster, and being replaced with a deadness. His body turning cold in my arms, and my powers completely useless to stop the cold from taking him. "Oh Rae," I said softly, nuzzling at the boy's hair. "I'm so sorry, I never wanted or asked for this for you..I'm so, so sorry."
He just looked up at me and smiled weakly, raising a hand to the side of my face. "It's all right, Sakuuya, because now you have found the courage and strength to face whatever has been laid out for you. It's up to you, and besides, it's not like you're alone in this fight." His hand caressed my face lightly, fingertips turning ice cold. He gasped painfully, and then that hand fell limp, and my tears came in a torrent, as I buried my face in his hair. My own back at the time beginning to pulsate with a hot pain, I winced gasping before there was a brilliant flash of white light, and instead of two wings appearing on my back, four did. I had ascended to the second level of angels, from guardian to archangel. Rae's form finally fell completely cold in my arms, and I watched as his soul departed from the body, appearing in the room. The spirit turned to face me, smiled softly, before turning back to the window and disappering as if to be nothing more that a silver silhouette against the night.
"You must hurry, Sakuuya. Time is running out," a gentle voice whispered causing a ripple of some emotion to flicker throughout my wings. Bringing my gaze up to face the window, I gazed into the night sky, Rae's body still being held in my arms. This was all the final straw, there was no more running away or trying to find alternative routes to solve the problem at hand. This was how far we had come, and this now was where we were at. An as I gazed out the window, a shooting star zipped across the sky before finally going out in a single ember. Though, as I gazed out that opening, my heart had never felt so heavy in my entire life. Nor do I ever remember ever feeling so utterly alone.
"You are not alone. Remember that, Sakuuya. You are never alone," Rae's voice whispered lovingly in my ear. His voice seeming so far away, yet at the same time he still felt so unbelievable close. Of everything that we had all ever been through, nothing was as double-edged as this; whereas in Kira's acts I was actually brought closer to my friends, she was infact pushed so very far away. The double-edge? In order for this to have been reached, Kira needed to breakway, and in order for me to get closer the break had to happen, and this was my final push. Rae's death was it. My body felt cold, and I trembled, yet I glared as I turned to face the now almost full, and completely bloodred moon. Kira's shadow gazed back at me from within the crimson and black, her cruel eyes reflecting sadistic amusement at the game she had just set up for me to play. For a moment, I just kept staring, Rae's body disappearing in a collection of silver sparkles, and white feathers. My hands outstretched and now rested on either side of my split knees; my eyes reflecting determination cloaked with sorrow and anger. As the area surrounding me turned much more darker, my form illuminated in the moon's grisly light.
Again, I repeat that I don't fully understand all of this. Choices need to be made,and when they are is only when we continue pressing onwards. Onwards, towards the inevitable end.
~Phase Two Completed-
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