Fan Fiction ❯ The Goddess Sagas ❯ Reflection in your eyes ( Chapter 34 )

Chapter 34: Reflection in your eyes

"The group has grown quite a lot." Saiyoua commented, from were she laid in Taromeicka's lap. "They now have that little boy on their side, that makes eleven of them fighting against us."

"But, I only count ten." Taromecika began, puzzled. "Do you also include the baby?"

The dark goddess tapped her own chest, shaking her head. "No, Marie-Maya, she fights against me still. Why can't she just stay dead?"

"Saiyoua, even if a hundred armies were to come after you, you have nothing to fear, I will protect you at all cost!" The demon god vowed, causing Saiyoua to smile, not a kind smile.

"I know I could always depend on you, my faithful dark prince."

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Tommy gasped, gripping his chest in agony, as he sat up in his bed, out of breath. He breathed heavily, in pain. Slowly two small arms slipped around his waist, their loving embrace causing some of the pain to go away.

Rose's hand grazed over two scars on his chest and she sighed tearfully.

"New scars....Tommy, it's because you have the strain of both transformation crystals, that is why your body is destroying it's self. It's all my fault, I'm so sorry. Your doing this all because of me..."

"Rose, I don't mind, taking this pain to protect you. I never want to see you harmed, even if it means my own death, I will never allow you to be hurt."

"Tommy!" Rose sobbed, throwing her arms around him in an tight hug. "You do so much for me!"

"Rose..." he whispered, turning around, laying his hands on her shoulders, staring deep into her eyes. "I will always love you, I want you to know that."

"And I will always love you."

"Rose, tomorrow will be our final battle, we will take care of Ryan and his friends without exception. We will hurry, so Lexy will never catch us, then we will run away together and start a new life. But we must finish our task, or else, that unfinished duty will fallow and haunt us forever."

"Tommy, are you sure we can do it?"

"I'm sure, we have the power of love on our side."

"Tommy..." Rose smiled sadly, hugging him tighter around the waist, leaning her head against his chest. "I trust you, if that is what you say then I believe it."

The man returned the smile, and began to stroke her hair gently. ` Rose I just want the best for you, a life free from danger and pain, but I hope that someday you will understand why I have to go threw with this battle. It's a test of strength, of power and worth, I can't walk away from it like a coward. That is just something I can not do, not even for you my love'

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A demon-half, a cat-girl, a fairy-half, a fighter, a solider, a Dampire, 2 man-beasts. a sorceress, an elf, and an baby. That would be what one would see if they looked into the small restaurant in the town of Kasasan. The group had grown quite a lot, and many things had changed from the start of their journey. Life had an strange way of turning out, things came and went so unexpectedly. Like just a few days ago, the never thought they would get a new member of the team, and Carrie never thought she would get an boy friend. Colt had become fast friends with the group, and even though he knew how dangerous it was, he wanted to come and help them defeat Taromecika, as he put it..

`He could not let the woman he loved go alone.'

He was such an sweet and very sensitive kid, but hated being treated like an baby. He took quite an shine to Squall, probably considering he was a man-beast just like him, he must have found an brother or maybe even father figure in him, and he also took an big shine to Lemon, who, even thought he was freaked out by the fact that he was a boy, Colt often looked towards as a replacement mother figure. Lemon was flattered by this, but Squall was still uncomfortable about being looked at like an figure of any kind by an child. However, in the whole group, Colt liked no one more then Carrie and always found away to be by her side.

Right now were one of the quite moments the group rarely had, and they tried to avoid talks about then enemy, in hopes of letting the peace last a little longer, but it was an vain attempt, for even though they smiled and laughed at jokes, that dark blanket of fear and death, of evil still hung above their heads in an invisible cloud of darkness.

Even the people within the restaurant ate with grim faces, knowing of the evil taking place at this very moment.

"Do you think we have enough money to rent rooms at the inn?" Carrie asked, looking up from her soup.

Ryan frowned. " Yeah, but we can't keep spending it carelessly. We need this money to last until we get to Angeles."

"Hey, wait!" Genki exclaimed. " I forgot to mention! Bra's Ex-husband runs an inn around hear! He'll let us stay for free!!"

"But, iyour sister divorced him....." Mimi began.

"Ah, don't worry!! He's a nice guy, I KNOW he'll let us stay!!"

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"NO!!"

Genki and the rest glupped, covering their ears as the young inn keeper screamed, red in the cheeks.

"What the hell were you thinking, boy!? Why would I let the snot nose little brat of that slut whore stay hear for free!?" The man continued to blubber.

"But----" Genki squeaked.

"OUT!!"

" `He's a nice guy, I know he'll let us stay.' " Alex mimicked sourly. " Shows how much you know."

"Well, EXCUSE ME!!!" Genki growled.

"Awww, please, Lima really tired and need rest, pretty please!!" Lima batted her eyes lashes cutely, slurring her voice back into her stupid-stupid, dense act.

The man stared at her, and sighed. " Well....for a cute girl like you......NO!!! NOW GET OUT!!!"

Suddenly the door to the inn opened and an Imp pops into the room, laughing insanely as he pulls a gun on the group.

"YOU WILL ALL DIE, MAWHAHAHA!!!"

"Who's that ?' Ryan blinked puzzled, as well as the other members of the group.

The Imp falls to the floor, moaning. " HOW DARE YOU NOT REMEMBER I!? PRINCE OF ALL IMPS!? IT'S ME!! UNKO!!"

Genki blinks. "Unko?"

"UGH!! Read chapter 28 again!!"

Genki reaches into his pocket and pulls out the book `Shadows Of The Goddess' and looks threw the chapter.

"OH!! Now I remember, your that little Imp kid that I had to fight, that was suppose to be one of the main characters but the author forgot to write you in. So now you are nothing but a very pointless comic relief that will appear only one or two other times in this story." Genki explained to his friends, and to the readers with short-term memory.

"WHAT!? OHH, I'M GOING TO GET YOU!!! AND I AM GOING TO START BY SHOOTING A PERFECTLY INNOCENT BYSTANDER FOR NO APPARENT REASON!!!!"

Unko shoots at the inn keeper and suddenly everything goes in slow motion, as Genki screams and jumps infront of the rude man, taking the shot and hitting the floor.

"GENKI!!!" The whole group cried.

"MAWHAHAHA!!! MY REVENGE IS COMPLETE!!!! GOODBYE, SUCKERS!!!" Unko disappears.

The group looks away from Genki limp form which laid, unmoving on the floor, wiping tears away from there eyes, some sobbing.

"Oh my god!!" The inn keeper gasped. " The poor boy, he saved my life!! And after I was so mean to him." he begins to cry. " It's all my fault!!! If only there was away I could turn back time and let him have a room!!"

".....Can you still let me have it now?" Came a weak reply.

Everyone turned to see Genki push himself into a setting position, a plastic dart with a large red BANG sign on it stuck to his forehead. In shocked to remain standing everyone fell to the floor, breathing huge sighs of relief, some of them groaned.

Genki blinked puzzled. "Was it something I said?"

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Keith slapped Arisu across the face, sending her crashing to the floor.

"Keep out of my personal business!!"

"I'm sorry Master Keith."

"Go away, don't let me see you ugly face around hear again."

"Yes, Master Keith." Arisu whimpered sadly as he walked by her, she shivered. His whole person seemed to be made of ice.

When it was sure that he was gone, Nagisa crept up behind her.

"So what did you find out?" She whispered. " Were you able to get into the computer files?"

".....Keith is being used. But, there is nothing we can do. He doesn't believe us..."

"So what now?"

"We continue to serve him....it's all we can do..."

"Hmmmmmm....." Nagisa sighed hopelessly.

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Keith approached Rose and Tommy who he had seen acting strange all day, as if they were getting ready for battle, but as he knew all what Lexy was planning for today was getting her beauty sleep.

"I know your up to something, tell me, what is it?"

Tommy growled, taking a step infront of Rose protectively. "Nothing."

"Not nice to lie. Let me guess, you want out of mother's and Lexy's command, so your going to destroy Ryan and his group and run, right?"

Tommy's expression turned to one of lost, knowing that his plan had been ruined.

"But." Keith added. " Don't fret. I may be willing to help you, if...."

"If?"

"Let me battle Ryan first. Don't worry I'll leave him well enough for you to have an fair fight."

"....What choice do we have? I accept."

Keith smirked. " Good."

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Well, after all the hell the went threw, they finally got five free Inn rooms! They picked straws to see who would share with who.

Genki and Alex were once again, sharing a room.

Mimi and Carrie, again, shared a room.

Lemon, Pan and Squall as the family had a room together

Lima and Colt had a room together

Finally, Ryan and a very happy Mara shared an room.

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"Alex!! Stop hogging my computer!!" Genki growled, snatching his lab top away from the solider. Alex just reward him with an death glare and pulled an gun on him in response.

"Oh? So your going to kill me for it? Then go right a head!!" Genki crossed his arms rebelliously.

Alex stood up, his finger getting deadly close to pulling the trigger. Genki jumped surprised.

"Your really going to shoot me!? Ok! Ok! Take the damn thing, sheesh!!"

Genki handed over his laptop, which now seemed to belong to Alex and sat down on one of the bottom of the bunkbed's cross legged.

"You know this is really not fair...Your using MY computer, looking into MY home's files....Man! I don't believe this...."

Alex gasped surprised suddenly, drawing Genki's attention.

"What is it?" Genki asked worriedly.

".....It seems like it is reallt true, Saiyoua got three new soldiers...Birdman, and Rita, the third ones name is still not given. But I still can't help but wonder, why...why would Birdman and Rita, those two android killers team up with Saiyoua?" Alex shook his head confused. " And according to this, many people of the city is being turned into androids."

"Androids? But why?" Genki blinked confused.

"Lima is an good example of what I am about to explain. Officers in Angeles were given Cyborg implants to make them stronger and smarter so they would be of more use. The Kamertion injected inside of the people of Angeles makes turn into Robotic like vessels, with no will or mind, sure they fallow Saiyoua like dogs fallow their master, but what would be the use of keeping things around that can't fight? Like how Angeles gave their cops Cyborg implants to make them stronger, Saiyoua is turning the people into androids so, not only are they stronger and can prove of use to her, but they are also no longer human, making them ruthless killing machines."

Genki took this all in, shocked. "But....Androids, they can only be made by very talented scientists, my brother and my sisters were in charge of making Cyborg implants....they are the only one's in Angeles with the technology to make Androids, but they never---"

"Don't be to trusting, you can never trust anyone fully, or else you are doomed to be betrayed."

"But, my family would never do anything for SAIYOUA!!!" Genki exclaimed enraged.

"This is war Genki, there is something your innocent nature makes you fail to realize. Those who you love may become your enemy's, those who you hate may become your friends. In war, one's true nature is revealed. Sides are switched, friends become foes, foes become allies. You know this is true, you saw it yourself, and you can be reminded of it just by looking at our group members. In war you can't trust anyone, they can turn on you at any moment. Never give anybody your full trust, it will become your downfall."

"If that is true then I'll go on fighting believing only in myself, but I will not fight only for myself. I will fight for everyone I love, if I die protecting them, then it will not be in vein!"

Alex almost grinned at him. " You know, you could have made a good solider...if you could learn to keep your emotions under control, but then again, it is because of your emotions that I say this."

Suddenly the computer made a beeping noise and the screen went fussy. Genki and Alex stared at it, confused, awaiting it's next turn of action.

"Someone has hacked into our system. We are getting a message....transferring from Angeles." Alex informed.

An face appeared on the screen, it was a woman with a loose brown pony tail, and bright eyes, dulled by lack of sleep hidden behind glasses.

"Bra!!" Genki exclaimed, leaning closer to the screen in shock.

The woman's face took on an surprised expression, then it turned to joy.

"Genki!! My little brother! Oh, I'm so glad your all right!!" She exclaimed.

"Bra! What's going on!?"

"It's terrible Genki! The whole city has been taken over! Our brother has gone crazy...our sisters's are missing. Almost everyone in the city has been turned to dolls. I and one other are working in my lab, hidden underground, we were trying to find away to counter the affects of the Kamertion. Genki, Keith has turned evil, Saiyoua is looking to destroy us all. I don't know what to do, even if we do discover a cure for the Kamertion effects....what do we do about Saiyoua?"

"Bra, don't worry, my friends and I will take care of that. Work on your cure, try and free the people. But, Bra, with about Aria, is she ok?"

"I don't know...she went missing...I can't find her anywhere.Oh, little brother." The girl sobbed. " I was so worried about you. I was hacking into the main database, Taromecika has taken over and....I found out that Keith....all this time was a clone. You know, Keith's parents. You see his mother...use to be a scientist. She worked with a few of Taromecika's sorceress, unknowingly of course. When she got pregnant, they injected a large amount of Kamertion inside of her. That is why Keith has become the monster he is! His parents were killed shortly after that, and so was our parents. I took care of both of you, but....you know that transfusion...."

Genki nodded his head. " Yes Bra, I know. I have that same dark Kamertion as Keith has inside of him. I'm part of Saiyoua too."

"Oh, but no!" Bra disagreed, shaking her head. " Your not....Your my little brother. Sure maybe you have some that Kamertion inside of you, but it was not enough to have any effect...I just mentioned it because.....Anyway! Genki, I don't want you getting mixed up in all of this! I raised you like my very own child, and I refuse to set back and watch you die! Promise me you will not come to Angeles!! You have nothing to do with Keith or that horrible woman, you understand me!?"

"Bra, I am involved, and I must fight!"

"But...Oh!! You wont lesson to me, will you, little brother? Fine, just don't get yourself killed."

Genki smiled. " Don't worry, I wont. By the way, how did you find me?"

"I didn't know it was you. As I said, I found that another computer was hacking into the database so I decided to get a connection to it. Were are you anyway?"

"At your ex's inn." Genki grinned.

Bra turned green. "Oh, gawd.....Well, be careful, brother. I'll do all I can over hear and you do what you can over there! I love you!"

"I love you to, sis. Bye."

The screen faded, as did the smile on Genki's face. " Bra....I'm sorry I have to fight. But....what about my brother, and my other sisters? What happened to them....and what about poor little Aria? And my brother...Tenki....she said he has gone crazy....I have to go to Angeles."

"....Who was that other person working on the cure with her? She mentioned one other."

"I have no idea, if the rest of my family is gone, then I can't imagine whom it is." Genki shook his head.

"Guess it'll be a surprise then." Alex got up and laid on the bottom bed, closing his eyes. " I'm going to bed, play your games if you want to."

Genki blushed, growling and turned to the computer, but paused. He suddenly did not feel like playing any games right now.

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Squall was leaned back on the bottom bunk bed, reading an book, but was getting distracted by whimpering and sighing from Lemon who was in the bunk above him.

"What's wrong?" he finally asked.

"Squall..." Lemon sighed leaning over the side of his bed, to stare down at Squall, his hair flopping downward as he did so. " What if we can't beat Saiyoua?"

".........."

"I don't want Pan to grow up never knowing peace, that would be no way to live. Always living in fear, never knowing when you will be attack...."

Squall sighed, closing his book, and staring into Lemon's eyes. " Don't worry....When you worry it always make things turn bad, worrying never changes things. Just hope for the best, but Lemon, don't fear, even if we can't do it, Saiyoua will be defeated someday..."

"Hmmmmm......."

There was an knock on the door, and Colt stepped inside, and blushed.

"Oh! I hope I didn't interrupt anything..."

"Oh! Not at all!" Lemon exclaimed, acting cheerful. "What's up Colt?"

"Well...um, I tried to asked Lima but she just confused me, and since you two are the one's with a good relationship, I figured I'd ask you, How do I asked Carrie out on a date?"

The Dampire giggled, jumping down onto the floor. "Well, Colt! Let's see....hmmm...Squall help me on this one!"

"Hn....."

"Well, first, girls like places romantic, but you also have to consider the girl's personality. On first date's it's always best two bring a girl to a place like a restaurant or the movies where there are other people. Then, for a nice walk in a park or something. Girls also REALLY like presents. Act sweet, if they are cold, give them your jacket! But don't make your kindness seem to obvious, they might just think your trying to pick them up." Lemon smiled. " And, whatever you do when they ask you questions, like, say if the ask you `Would you be able to pass gas infront of me.' do NOT reply. `Sure! Do you want to see the blue flames?' Trust me, that will REALLY disgust them!" Lemon shuddered as if remembering something very disgusting and disturbing in his past.

"Lemon, how do you know all this?" Squall frowned, confused.

"I just think about how I would feel! Heck, I'm the closest thing to a girl in this room, that can talk and explain this stuff, so trust me!"

Colt and Squall groan, shaking their heads.

"Colt..." Squall began. " Lemon has some good points, but you also got to be yourself, and try to use some of the charm you get from your species."

"Charm?" Colt blinked.

Squall grinned, a gestured the boy forward, whispering in his ear. " Colt, girls loves animals, and rides."

Colt stared confused, but then grinned. "I get it! hey Squall....?"

"Hn?"

"Can you do me a favor? Whisper, Whisper "

Squall blushed, then tried to hide his smile. " All right, but just because us wolves got to stick together, understand that kid?"

Colt smiled brightly, nodding.

"Hey Lemon?" Squall turned to the Dampire who was desperately, but failing at eavesdropping.

"Yes Squall?" He replied sweetly.

"I'm going out for a bit, see you later, Kay?"

"Wha....?" Lemon began but Colt and Squall already left the room.

"Hmm, the nerve. Oh well......Let's see....what to do....OF COURSE!!!"

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Carrie sat at her desk, writing an poem, smiling to herself as she did so.

"Carrie, what is that, your writing, and why are you blushing?" Mimi asked, a small knowing smile on her face.

"Oh, um, it's a poem I wrote..."

"Can I hear it?"

"Ok...."

" When I met you, it was fate,

Or at least it seemed like that,

Perhaps it was chance?

Whatever it was, I'm glad it happened.

Your eyes of pure gold, your hair of fire,

both I hold in my mind, making a perfect picture.

But that picture can't be perfect until I'm in it too.

Is our love to be? Is that why we met?

Could it really be? Can it be true?

What a silly dreamer I have become,

But when I dream of your, it's so sweet,

I can't help it.....I don't want to help it.

Because when I'm held in your arms,

time seems to stop, and we are suspended in time,

Sure, are love to some may be a sin,

but even so, then we are the happiest sinners on earth."

"Oh, Carrie! That's beautiful!" Mimi exclaimed. " Eyes of gold? Hair of fire? Colt, am I right?"

Carrie's face turned a brighter shade of red. " Yeah...."

"Hmm, my adopted daughter is already growing up!" Mimi smiled proudly. " Fallow your heart in this, ok?"

"I will!" Carrie smiled, brightly.

*Knock, Knock*

"Who could that be?" Mimi wondered and went to answer the door. "Oh hi, Colt."

Carrie blushed more deeply, back turned to the door.

"Hi, Miss.Mimi, um...." Colt stuttered nervously. "May I speak to Carrie?"

"Sure, Colt, come inside." Mimi stood back, allowing Colt into the room. Carrie took in an deep breath in hopes to regain to composer and turned to the boy.

"Hello Colt, what is it?"

The young man-beast fumbled nervously. " Ah, um, I was wondering....doyouwanttogoonadatewithme?" he blurted out all at once.

"What?" Carrie asked, confused.

Blushing Colt repeated more slower this time. " I asked, do you want to go out on a date with me?"

Carrie looked surprised, and instantly Colt began to blubber. " I saw this really nice restaurant, and there is a nice woods around in which we can take a walk, the path leads to an hill, and it's a very beautiful night, but if you don't want to, I'll understand, and..."

Carrie giggled at the boy's actions. "I would love to Colt."

"REALLY!?" The red head was over joyed.

"Really!"

"YEAH!!!"

Mimi laughed to herself after Carrie and Colt left, shaking her head. " Romance....young love, can be so cute."

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Ryan laid down on his bed, Mara whom was sound asleep had claimed the top bed for herself, not that he minded. There was a knock at the door, and tiredly he got up and opened it, to spot Lemon staring back at him, he fell to the floor, Ryan pointed at him shocked and fell on his butt.

"You actually look like a boy!"

Lemon was in the form of a sixteen year old, dressed in black pants and an yellow T-shirt, while wearing a red jacket, his hair was pinned up so it looked short and was concealed in an red baseball cap. He had brown gloves on his hands and black boots. His face was still feminine, but because of his clothes, and the fact he did not put on any light touches of makeup on, he looked more like a young pretty-boy instead of a girl.

"Oh, Ryan shut up!" Lemon frowned, crossing his arms over his chest.

"But...." Ryan trailed off, still staring at him.

"I don't always go around dressed like a girl you know..." Lemon sighed. " I DO have some male clothing."

"But why are you dressed like that?"

"Because, I don't want to get caught!"

"Caught?"

Lemon smiled, deviously. " You and I are finally going to go rob a blood bank."

"Oh Geeze, Lemon....I swear." Ryan shook his head. " I thought you were scared of blood?"

"A little bit. But I'm SOOOOOO hungry!!!! Besides, you need some HUMAN blood to get healthy! Come on! Squall left me all alone, and I'm bored!! Lima is watching Pan. Come on....please."

"No."

"Please."

"No."

"Oh!! Please! Please! Please! Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please! Please! Please! Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please! Please! Please! Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please! Please! Please! Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!Please!!Please!Please!Plea se!Please!Please!Please!!Please!Please!Please!!Please!Please!Please!!Please !Please!Please!"

"ALL RIGHT!!!" Ryan growled, loosing his temper.

Mara groaned in her sleep, but didn't wake.

"Yeah!!!!!" Lemon cheered like a spoiled child. "Let's go! Let's go!" and instantly drug the demon-half from the room.

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Colt had brought Carrie to an very nice Spanish restaurant, and were in the middle of eating a very good meal.

"Um...Carrie." Colt began.

"Hm?"

Colt peered behind her at Squall who hid behind an plant holding up a large sign.

`YOU LOOK VERY PRETTY TONIGHT'

"You look very pretty tonight Carrie." Colt blushed, as did Carrie.

"Thank you, Colt. You look very handsome tonight too."

The waiter came and took away their main course as the finished eating, and then they ordered desert.

Squall pulled up another sign. ` COMPLIMENT HER EYES.'

"Um, Carrie, your eyes are very nice. I never seen an color quite like that brownish gold."

"Why thank you Colt." Carrie smiled flattered.

The waiter came and gave them desert, Carrie blushed shyly.

"I've been eating lots of sweets lately, you don't think I've gotten a little chubby, do you?"

Squall quickly scribbled on one of his many signs. "SAY NO!! BLOW THIS ONE AND YOUR A DEAD MAN!! THIS IS WEAR MOST MEN BLOW IT!!"

Colt read the sign, getting a little amused at it, and shook his head. " No of course not Carrie, you look very beautiful to me."

"Thanks Colt....why are you smiling though? Are you laughing at me?"

"No! No...I..."

Squall quickly scribbled on the sign and held it up.

"I just found it funny you could believe you gained weight, because you look perfectly great to me." Colt read the sign, blushing.

"Oh Colt! That's so sweet of you."

Squall sighed in relief, wiping the sweat from his brow. `I can't believe how close he came to blowing it....'

They ate their desert peacefully, Carrie often taking glances at other couples who was on the dance floor, dancing to a very lively Spanish song.

Squall scribbled quickly on his sign. ` Ask her to dance'

Colt took and deep breath, before taking Carrie's hand and kissing it very gentleman like. "Can I have this dance."

"Sure..." Carrie replied delightedly.

Squall sighed bored as he watched the two of them dance to many songs, before setting back at their table.

"That was so much fun, but I guess we should call it a night..." Carrie trailed off.

Squall took out a big sign, jumping up and down. " CHARM HER!! USE YOUR SPECIAL TALENT!!!"

Colt stared, holding in his laughter as a waiter seized Squall with his posters and drug him out of the restaurant.

"Hey, Carrie, first, do you want to go for a ride in the woods?"

"A ride?" Carrie repeated. "I'd love to, but what kind of ride?"

Colt smiled, leading her outside the restaurant.

"A wolf-back ride."

"A wolf -back ride?" Carrie repeated amused.

Colt grinned and turned into a wolf, gesturing with his head for Carrie to get on. Shyly Carrie did so, and the two of them sprinted off into the woods.

Squall watched them as he was still be hauled from the resteraunt. " Good luck kid, your going to need it."

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"Lemon, how you talked me into this I will never understand...." Ryan groaned as he squeezed himself threw the small open window.

Lemon looked back at him, and smiled cutely. "Oh come on, don't complain. Look, we're in, right? Look at all the yummy food just waiting eat."

Ryan sighed, peering at the blood bags in the basement of the blood bank they had broken into. His demon side was hungry...

"Fine..."

"Yeah!" Lemon giggled quietly and began to rummage threw the bags of blood, and grinned happily.

"Type B, my favorite flavor!"

Ryan looked at him strangely. "Blood has a flavor? Since when?"

Lemon looked at him in complete shock. " Ryan, your joking!! Don't tell me you starved yourself to the point you can't even taste the difference! Oh god, and I thought I was bad....Geeze....well let me explain the difference. It's kind of like wine, red wine, white wine, dry whine ...lots of different wine. You got to pick the kind you like, but that can be pretty hard considering they all pretty much have the same taste, however there is always a tiny little difference which makes one bottle of whine more likable then another, and...."

An hour went by as Lemon teaches `The Taste of Blood 101'

"And, type O has a mysterious flavor to it, kind of like and unknown spice and..."

"Shut up already!" Ryan hissed, causing the Dampire to shut his mouth.

"Ok, ok...Try to explain things and look what happens....."

The two of them drank until their stomachs were full, and still Ryan could not tell the difference between the blood, it was like Pepsi and coke, each one was very much alike.

They were just about to leave when they both heard footsteps.

"Oh!! It's probably the nighttime watcher!! Epp! Hide!" Lemon exclaimed, pulling Ryan behind an freezer.

The door to the basement opened and an elderly man walked in. He lowered his flash light to the floor and saw all the empty blood packs laying discarded on the ground.

"Dang it! More hooligans again! What is the young and their obsession with blood anyway. Anyone down hear!?"

"Oh like he really excepts us to answer." Lemon shook his head, giggling.

"Lemon, you idiot!" Ryan hissed, knocking him over the head.

"Opps, I said that out loud?"

Unfortunately for them the old man heard them and angrily approached. "So you thought you could hide from me?"

In an instant he had them handcuffed, and was leading them out of the blood bank. Ryan and Lemon look down at the rusty old handcuffs and grinned. They could break out of these things at any moment, but they supposed they would humor this old man first.

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"Oh Colt! This place is so beautiful!" Carrie exclaimed, happily, staring in amazement over the mountain edge of the town, at the grassy valley below. Up in the sky thousand of stars twinkled like millions of tiny little candles. Colt turned back into human form, smiling, as he watched the girl stare up at the pitch black sky, a shooting star passing overhead.

" Le hacen tan tienen gusto de su tarde hasta ahora Carrie?" (So do you like your evening so far Carrie?)

Carrie looked at Colt surprised. `How did he know that her naive language was Spanish?' one of the others must have told him.

"Colt! No sabía que usted sabía al español del speek!" (Colt! I didn't know you knew how to speek Spanish!)

Colt smiled, blushing. "Se hablar muchos laungages, mi madre me pense muchas cosas." (I know how to speak many laungages, my mother thought me many things.)

Carrie frowned sadly as she heard a little strain in Colt's voice as he spoke about his mother. She knew the pain he must feel all to well.

"Colt... usted debe realmente faltar a su familia....I todavÃa falta el mÃos, aunque

los perdà absolutamente un rato hace, el dolor está tan fresco. "

(Colt...you must really miss your family....I still miss mine, even though I lost them quite awhile ago, the pain is so fresh.)

"Se... el dolor, se estare siempre alli, nunca se ira, pero....at lo menos tengo

buenos freinds, y le, a ayudar a tomar el dolor ausente. "

(Yeah...The pain, i know will always be there, it will never leave, but....at least I have good freinds, and you, to help take the pain away.)

Colt smiled, reasurringly.

Carrie sighed, staring back up into the velvet sky, spotting as another star fell from it's grace in heaven.

" Se lo que usted significa, yo recordare siempre a mi familia, y siempre lo

sostendre querido a mi coraze, pero se que nunca estare solo porque tengo

mis freinds con mi, y el es todo el que truely importa a mi, tener mis freinds,

y le, Colt, con mi."

( I know what you mean, I'll always remember my family, and I will always hold them dear to my heart, but I know I will never be alone because I have my freinds with me, and that is all what truely matters to me, to have my freinds, and you, Colt, with me )

Colt blushed, and using all of his courage he took her hands into his, staring directly into her eyes. In the reflection the beautiful, slightly puzzled, copper orbs tinted with gold, gave off, Colt could see his face was pale and that he was trembling, forcefully he stuttered out.

"Nunca sere siempre con usted Carrie, yo allow de la voluntad usted a convertirse

solamente, yo voluntad siempre, este con usted. "

(I will always be with you Carrie, I'll never allow you to become alone, I'll always, be with you.)

"Colt..." Carrie's face turned crimson, the surprised expression slowly changing into a smile.

They stood, holding hands, staring into each others eyes for a few heart skipping moments, before Colt finally snapped out of it.

"Tengo un surpise para usted, cerré sus ojos."

(I have a surpise for you, shut your eyes.)

Still blushing Carrie obeyed, closeing her eyes thightly together. Colt removes his necklace, and gently places it around Carrie's neck before giving her the sign to open her eyes. Feeling the heavy weight on her neck Carrie looks down and gasps.

"Colt... pero Úste es...."

(Colt...But this is...)

"Carrie, quisiera que usted lo tuviera. Nunca sentia esta manera sobre cualquier

persona antes en mi vida entera, y quisiera que usted lo tuviera.)

(Carrie, I want you to have it. I never felt this way about anyone else before in my whole life, and I want you to have it.)

Carrie shook her head. "Colt... pero este collar, es tan vaulable..."

(Colt...But this necklace is so vaulable...)

Colt grew serious enough to finally get over the worst of his shyness. Gently he held Carrie by the shoulders, staring deep into her eyes.

"Carrie, me haria feliz verle desgastarlo, porque....well, yo le aman Carrie."

(Carrie, it would make me happy to see you wear it, because....well, I love you Carrie.)

Carrie blushed, and smile so big that one would think her face was made of plastic, in an matter of moments she threw her arms around Colt in an hug.

"Y le amo, Oh, Colt, gracias, yo nunca lo quitara."

(And I love you, Oh, Colt, thank you, I'll never take it off.)

Colt smiled, eyes twinkling with love and joy as he held the young sorroceress in his arms, stroking her soft downy blue hair with one of his ruff hands, as gently as one would pet a newborn kitten. He had lost his family just a few weeks ago, but he had gained something else, something wonderful. They both had.

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Mara yawned, opening her eyes, looking around herself, not at first remembering where she was. It came to her easily after an few moments, and laid back down and listend. She did not hear the soft snores that usually accompanied Ryan's sleeping. Drooping over slightly to see the bottom bunk, she gasped.

"Where's Rya!? ......He better not be getting himself into trouble again....I better go find him, can't let any girls try and claim him...."

The cat girl dropped onto the floor, leaving the motel in a light jog.

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Ryan sat leaned up against the seat, yawning tiredly, Lemon was asleep, leaned up against him, head on his shoulder, mouth allowing drops of drool to escape onto Ryan's defenseless green tank-top. The old officer was quite, and Ryan saw no point in starting any kind of chit-chat with him. The demon-half slowly began to drift off asleep when suddenly the cop squinted his eyes, furrowing his brow confused.

"What the hell?" The cop muttered.

Ryan reopened his eyes. It all happened in a flash, he could see Keith standing in the middle of the road, hand out stretched. Ryan's took a quick glance out sighed of a gas station.

"Oh god...." The demon-half's eyes grew wide with realization. In a matter of moments he snapped the handcuffs that bonded her hands together, apart, and grabbing the startled and confused and just awakened Lemon, he threw them from the car, just as Keith's fire magic was unleashed, striking it's target, causing the car and the gas station to go up in an fiery inferno.

"What the...? Huh? Eh?" Lemon blinked confused.

Ryan turned to Keith right away, clenching his fist. "Keith, what in the hell are you doing here?"

The dark boy laughed, tauntingly. " To amuse myself, I want to check on your power."

"I'm not hear to amuse you, you bastard..."

Keith's eyes narrowed into dangerous slits. " Be careful of your mouth Ryan, remember, I can take control of you any time. Come on, resistance is useless. Fight me, show me what you got."

"Why should I do anything you say!?" Keith lifted up his hand, sending an arrow made of fire towards him. The demon-half stood his ground, not about to show any fear, but then the dagger turned slightly to the right. It took Ryan a moment to realize what it was doing, but when he did it was to late.

Lemon cried out in pain as the arrow pierced threw his chest, sending him falling to the ground.

"Lemon!" Ryan cried, horrified.

"I'm ok...it missed my heart...I...." Lemon whimpered as he tried to pull himself back up, but feel back to the ground in a pitfall heap. " It hurts to much...t...to move."

"I'll kill him, if you don't agree to fight me." Keith grinned.

"I'll not only fight you Keith! I'll kill you." Ryan spoke dangerously, drawing his sword.

"That's more like it!

Ryan runs at Keith slashing at him twice with his sword, but the other was able to effortlessly avoid the two attacks, as if they were nothing, and deliver two punches and a kick to the stomach to Ryan before the demon-half could even see if one of his blows had hit. Keith grinned at him, grabbing Ryan by the leg, stopping a kick in midair, before sending a kick of his own to Ryan's head. The boy had only seconds to block that attack with his arm, and grunted with strain as Keith pressured the blow. Desperately, Ryan send an slap to Keith's face, causing him to crash to the ground.

Keith did not even appear angered, but simply extended his hand, sending a blast of fire magic to Ryan's eyes, leaving the boy momentary blind. Keith took that time to Slash him down the chest with his gun-blade, leaving is enemy in a setting position, bleeding on the ground. The wound was luckily, shallow, and was not bleeding to much.

"Hey come on! That's fighting a bit dirty, don't you think!? Guess it's just like you to do so." Ryan snarled.

Keith laughed. " Haven't you gotten all psyche up now?"

Ryan's snarl deepened. " Yeah, sure. I have this sudden need to bash your head in."

" You always loved trying to defeat me before. How you loved our battles. But you know, all of them were fought using earthly things, such as our bodies, our magic, our weapons, why not we try something different?"

"Different...how?" Ryan blinked, confused, but still tense as he waited for an attack.

"How about we show each other our threw powers? How about transforming into that form again? That body you took on in Meedle, that time when I took control of you.

"Other form....?"

FLASH BACK

Ryan closed his eyes, allowing the golden light to consume his body. When it vanished, a boy, completely human, was standing

in his place. Slowly a pair of gold wings unfolded from his back and he took off into the sky, his sword drawn.

FLASHBACK

"I don't know how to transform back into that state...." Ryan trailed off. "Was that even real? Or are you just trying to trick me again?"

"N...No, Ryan, it....it is threw.....that day, you had golden wings....and you became human....fully human." Lemon mummered weakly.

Ryan looked over at him shocked, eyes growing wide. What Keith was saying was true? It had to be....Lemon would not lie about something like that.

"I think I know what will cause you to transform..." Keith grinned, darkly. " You transformed before to protect you friends, let's see."

Before Ryan could move a muscle, Keith used a magical force-field, trapping Lemon inside of it, lifting the helpless boy into the air, whom tried to struggle but found himself paralyzed. Lemon cried out in pain as Keith sent dark magic coursing threw the prison, burning the Dampire.

"Lemon!" Ryan screamed, and turned to Keith demanding he stop.

Keith laughed taking pleasure in Lemon's anguished cries. "You know Ryan, I'll torture all of your friends this way."

The son of darkness sent more power to harm the Dampire, causing the screams to be come more agonized.

"Stop it..." Ryan growled, but the screams and cruel laughter continued. "I SAID STOP IT!!!"

Keith and Lemon gasped shocked as golden energy surrounded Ryan, and he transformed, fist the golden wings appeared then the demon qualities vanished, and an human boy with wings as bright as the sun stood before them, throwing his sword to the ground he stared at Keith intensely. Keith just grinned, tossing Lemon out of the force-field, smashing the weakend body into a wall.

"That's more like it." Keith removed his trench coat, glowing black as a pair of pitch dark wings grew from his back.

"I will kill you, Keith. Prepare to meet your end."

"No, Ryan. You wont kill me yet, it's far to soon in the game for either of us to die. Just think of this as a little `Training Game.' "

Ryan dashed forward, doing quick cartwheels, his body glow golden as he lifted his arm into the air, it was glowing with bright energy as he shouted

"BAZZOR ENERGY!"

He smashed Keith his arm, who shield his face from the blow, both seemed to be flying backwards as one attacked and the other blocked. Keith grinned, quickly dashing into the air, escaping from Ryan's on onslaught. Ryan gasped and twisted around trying to spot him. Before he had a chance of spotting him in the air however, Keith sent an magical attack, smashing the ground beneath his feet. Ryan jumped into the air to avoid getting hit by the attack, and flew into the air towards Keith, attacking with Bazzor Energy again. Keith quickly moved out of the way and grabbed Ryan from behind, whispering in his ear

"Better run away."

Keith flipped him over, sending them both crashing the ground, which was far below their feet. The dark one flew away from the golden, just as Ryan smashed into the ground with a sharp cry. Keith watched threw the dust, grinning.

"Well, I guess that's about it."

His face suddenly turned sour, as Ryan flew out of the side of the smoke, a magically made golden spear within his hands.

"It's not over yet!"

Keith growled, charging up an dark spear, both blocking each other's attacks with their own. The sheer energy from both sides were causing the ground beneath them to crumble as the stayed locked in combat to gain power over the other one. threw their struggle Keith laughed.

"Isn't this fun?"

Ryan returned the dark grin. "Absolutely. Compared to this, all our past fights, were nothing more then child's play!"

"That's the spirit."

The power around them intensified, but Then suddenly Keith stopped, jumping up into the air behind Ryan, aiming a powerful blow to the back of his head.

"Damn!" Ryan swore, twisting around as he noticed his mistake.

"Keith! Hold it!"

The battle stopped in an instant. Tommy and Rose stood on top of a building, staring down at them.

"What you were doing is our job. Remember our deal, Keith. We are the ones to destroy Ryan." Tommy spoke icily. "Leave the rest to us."

"Sure, if you want." Keith turned to Ryan, with a sickening grin. " They will play with you now. Our game will continue later."

"Keith!! Get back hear!!" Ryan demanded with a growl as the dark one disappeared.

"Well, shall the fight begin?" Tommy asked calmly.

"Why? I have no reason to fight you!"

"They...are on Taromecika's.....side....." Lemon choked.

"It is true, but after we kill you we can go free." Rose spoke seriously.

"Why not just leave now! I don't want to have to fight you, after all, we were in the same class, I would hate to have to kill past allies."

"You'll have no choice once I take in initiative."

"You really want to force it huh?"

"Ryan..."

He looks up shocked as Tommy continued to speak. " Do you wonder why you have wings? And why you can take on an human appearance. You may have already heard From Keith, but whether you can fully utilize your inner powers as the gaurdian of light, depends on your emotions. So I have a question for you. What do you think is the most powerful state in humans?"

"Who knows."

"The main purpose in all living creatures is to reproduce. It is to love someone and have a child with them. Who you love is most important."

Tommy and Rose turn to each other to stare within the others eyes.

"To protect the one you love, you use an ultimate power. Don't you think?" Tommy turned back to look at him.

`I am fighting to protect the one I love....Ruto. I'm fighting to save Ruto.'

"It seems like you don't understand."

`Like hell I don't understand.'

"Not to worry that is why we're here. We will show you what the power of love is all about."

Tommy and Rose hold each other's hands, and floated into the air, energy crackling all around them. Ryan who had never seen them transform before stared in surprise.

"Wha...? What is this?"

A bright light flashed, blinding him and when his vision finally cleared he was looking at the giant monster which were the twins.

"This is the form of our love, isn't it beautiful." They began in an double voice. " Well, as we promised we will show you the power of love!" The twins sent a mighty punch to Ryan's stomach, even though he had blocked, it still did much damage, sending blood flying from his mouth as he was tossed up into the air. Swiftly, almost to swift for the eye to see the twins flew upward. Desperately Ryan sent out to energy blasts, both hit, but neither of them were even able to slow the twins down, let alone do any damage. The monster was now above him, and sending it's two mighty fists downward, it smashed him over the head, sending him crashing down into a building, completely shattering the side of it. Luckily it was empty, or many would have died from the impact.

Ryan weakly lifted himself out of the rubble, knees shaking, unable to lift himself fully up from the pain. The twins landed in front of him and Ryan tried to stand but fell back to his knees. In an flash of bright light Ryan transformed back into a demon-half.

" Is that it?" The twins asked, almost mockingly. " You don't measure up to our standards. Now we'll kill you, sleep well."

They lifted out an hand, grabbing him by the head, lifting him up into the air, sending electricity flowing threw his body. Ryan screamed out in pain, blood streaming down his face as he was being fried alive. The twins grinned.

"Goodbye, Ryan...."

Suddenly a figure jumped into the air, ramming a pair of razor claws, and quickly jumped away. The sudden blow caused the twins to drop Ryan to the ground, and they looked around for the second attacker.

Mara stood on one of the buildings, arms folded, razor claws shining in the moonlight.

"Leave Ryan alone! I wont let you hurt him, what kind of cowards attack when someone to weak to defend themselves! Leave him alone!!"

The twins lifted out one of their hands, blasting the building Mara was standing on.

"Oh no!" The cat girl gasped as the buildings crumbled and she hit the ground on her knees.

"You fool! Mara run away!" Ryan warned, weakly from where he lay on the ground.

"Here I come!" She exclaimed, cocky, raising her hands into the air. " DEATH BLOW!!"

Fire blasted from the ground beneath the twins feet, engulfing them in a ball of fire.

"I gotcha!!" The cat laughed, but suddenly as the flames died down and hand reached out grabbing her by the neck, squeezing.

"No! Stop it! Let me go!" Mara begged, struggling, but it was very useless.

The twin's eyes narrowed in thought.

"If you harm her...I'll kill you even if it means my own death!" Ryan snarled, reaching out to them, from where he lay beaten and battered on the ground.

"This could be interesting." The twins commented. "People are strongest when they must protect a loved one. We can make you understand what that means."

Mara whimpered painfully.

The twins smirked. " Although I don't think you can even stand in that shape."

Electricity flowed mercilessly threw Mara's body, causing her to scream in pure pain.

Ryan's eyes snapped open, growing wide. "MARA!"

The electricity stopped, and Mara coughed weakly, burnt and in pain, staring at him threw half closed eyes.

"Is that Rya....? Rya...."

Ryan got to his feet, hunched over weakly, face covered in an dark shadow.

"I'll kill you."

Energy began to crackle around his body, and the twins stared at him in surprise, as suddenly he changed back into the winged form of an human.

"What!? His fury cannot be....?" The twins began to startled surprise and horror.

The glowing power around Ryan's body intensified as a scream escaped his lips.

"No!" The twins threw an arm up infront of them, in a desperate attempt to protect themselves, using their other hand to try and blast magical attacks back at Ryan, but the sheer power surrounding the boy devoured them. In fear the twins threw Mara, who crashed to the ground on her butt, cutting her hips up on the stone, and threw both arms infront of them to shield themselves. Mara looked up in horror as Ryan dashed towards the twins, glowing with golden energy.

Inside the twins combined form, Tommy and Rose starred at the oncoming attack.

"Rose." Tommy whispered, never removing his eyes away from Ryan's golden form.

"Tommy!" Rose whimpered, fearfully, tears shimmering in her eyes.

Ryan struck, causing an explosion.

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Carrie and Colt gasped as they spotted to explosion from where they sat on the hill side.

Squall turned towards the light from where he stood in town.

The group at the inn quickly rushed out the doors, to see what was going on.

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After the dust from the explosion cleared, Ryan walked forward almost in an daze, he was back to his demon-half form, and was bleeding pretty bad.

"Rya."

He looked towards the voice and saw Mara staring at him smiling, weakly.

"Thank you."

There was a sound of crumbling rock and both turned alarmed, spotting the twins setting on an high piece of crumbling building, Rose was setting up, holding the limp form of Tommy in her arms.

Tommy weakly stared up into her eyes, eyes reflecting only love and guilt, her gently brushed his fingers over her cheeks before his eyes dulled lifelessly and his hand fell back to his side. Their was no reflection is his eyes now...only the look of death, as his eyes now stared at infinity.

Tears fell from Rose's eyes onto Tommy's dead and pale cheek.

"I've always known that I was everything to you, my dear Tommy. Just as you were everything to me." Rose's voice shook with tears. " But now, I no longer have anything."

Ryan's eyes went wide with surpise. He killed him? He didn't want to do that? He thought he was just going to cause them to spilt apart, so they would not be the giant monster anymore. So they would not have the power to kill him or his friends. He did not want to....Kill him.

"But...But I thought..." He began, trying to explain himself, but knowing it was in vain.

Rose's voice turned hateful. "If we never got involved with you. If only Miss Lena did not bring you to Marlo School, if only you've never came into our lives."

She glared at the, eyes reflecting only pure hate, as she bit her lip so hard blood began to trickle down it. " If only you didn't rebel against Saiyoua!"

Ryan stared, mixed feelings running threw him, as Rose sobbed throwing her head back to the sky.

"MASTER TAROMECIKA!!!"

An red light appeared from the sky, engulfing her and the dead body of her lover. Rose turned to Ryan, pure hate rolling off of her thoung.

"We will meet again. One day without a doubt!"

Ryan and Mara just stare as Rose, the dead body of Tommy and the red light disappeared.

Ryan fell to his knees, just as the rest of his friends arrived at the sean.

"No! I didn't mean to kill him."

"Ryan." Mara said in sympathy.

"I' I never meant to...it's because of that damn `power' I used....the power of those golden wings....of that form." Ryan gripped the talisman of light which dangled from around his neck. "Because I used the power of the light...I shouldn't use the power of good to do evil. I should not have been given this."

`Ryan...y...you did not have a...c...c...choice." Lemon coughed, as he weakly walked over to the group. " They would have killed you, and Mara...me...all of us....this town. You killed one person to stop the deaths of hundreds. How can that be counted as evil?"

The strain of walking became to much for the Dampire and he dropped to his knees weakly.

"Lemon!?" Squall gasp, racing over kneeling next to the boy. "What happened to you?"

"Got beat up by Keith...."

"No, I mean, you actually reassemble a boy."

"....Squall....shut up..." Lemon sighed weakly with a mild laugh before closeing his eyes, resting weakly in Squall's embrace.

"Ryan, it's all right. You did what you had to do." Mara whispered, kneeling down next to the demon-half, warping her arms around him, smiling gently. " You did what you had to do to protect me, thank you Ryan. Thank you for saving my life."

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Rose sobbed quietly, laying down in the bed she and Tommy had shared. A bed she would have to herself from now on.