Ai No Kusabi Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Day ❯ Prologue of... ( Prologue )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

AN: Just the prologue. With reviews, or time, you can see my full notes in Chapter 1!

However, this is an AU Fantasy fanfic based on the characters of Rieko Yoshihara’s Ai no Kusabi, of course, and Kira Takenouchi’s Taming Riki (OMG, I loved that fanfic sooooooo much!), and a couple necessary OCs of my own. All the credit of most of the characters belong to them!

Prologue of…

Iason coughed up blood.

They shot Iason five more times as he ran, relishing the idea that it was the Sovereign of Amoi they were wounding, finally. But the Blondie continued on through the dark, heavily wooded rainforest. Who knows what sort of creatures he would eventually run into while escaping through this dangerous uncharted land.

Whatever they shot him with made him bleed profusely, and he was losing the ability to move. Tiny sticks in the mud became enormous obstacles. Once, he slammed headfirst into a tree, scratching up his face and busting his lip. He felt nothing.

The only thing that ran through his head was his need to see his Riki one more time. If he was going to die, which will undoubtedly be the outcome of this incident, he wanted to die with Riki in his arms and only if his beloved wanted it in return. At this end, he would see whether or not all his efforts over the past three years were worth it, whether his friends’ pains were worth it, the death of all those young Blondies were worth it. It was no question Riki was worth it. Riki was everything.

A mile or so ahead of him a slain tiger had his claws dug into the dirt. Behind him was a voluptuously dark cave where Riki and several others hid. Though the Grid border kept many people and other things out of Tanagura, anyone could come out. Riki ran through the Grid believing that he will be obliterated into tiny pieces, but he only felt a harsh buzz. If he tried to run back through the other way, the buzz would be enough to make his brain start hemorrhaging. A small bit of that sort of death would be owed to him, since he had helped make the Grid work.

That was years ago. When Jupiter sent the police, she seemed to also have had set the time to go by impossibly fast, though it has only been hours. When she sent the Sentinels, the whole thing blew to shit, and Riki, along with Juthian, Ayuda, Odi and the twin bodyguards had to catch up with Katze and Daryl in Midas avoid escape for as long possible. They found reprieve in Dana Burn’s forest.

All of them, with their new powers of course, were in remarkably good shape and made the usual seven hour drive into a seven hour run, ran through the grid where Juthian managed to kill himself a tiger and they made a temporary home out of her den.

They worried about the Blondies, who were all called to the Chambers.

The Chambers were a trap by the Sentinels, and probably also Jupiter, but neither group really figured out if the Sentinels and Jupiter really saw everything eye-to-eye or even who was really in charge between the two. It was known that Jupiter loved Iason, and the Sentinels found him a hindrance to the Amoian population.

Neither Riki nor Iason would have imagined in a thousand years that they would be in the Dana Burn Rainforest- or forest, woods, no one really knew. The place was inhabitable and terrifying, both of which were unverifiable since anyone who has gone into the forest never came back to tell about their adventures.

Whether the events that got them there was fate or coincidental, they were nonetheless extraordinary. However, what really got them together was some forgotten day, a story of a later time. For now, the events that happened just recently for 200-year-old Riki the Dark started when he still thought he was only ninety-three, on a day when he was supposed to be caught by a Blondie to be killed, but instead was caught by Iason, for what reason he was still figuring out.