Fan Fiction ❯ The Last Tear ❯ Part Eleven ( Chapter 11 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
Author: Antoinette Robins
Date: Saturday, July 05, 2003
Warnings: none (for once)
And now, on with the show!
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Early the next morning, Sin awoke before the sun as he usually did. He quietly slipped from the giant bed where his brother still slept. Sin padded across the room and put his socks on so he could muffle his already silent steps. Then he went over to the large window and opened it effortlessly, lifting his small figure out of the frame and onto the roof.
Once upon the roof, Sin went to its height. He stood, listening and watching. The tides rolled in and out and the breeze tousled Sin's blue-silver hair. All together, everything portrayed its normal serenity. But as the light grew over the horizon, Sinthellocius's sharp blue-silver eyes noticed something missing from this picture.
Jumping down to the lower roof and then swinging into the room where Syth was now sitting up, yawning in bed, Sin said, "There's something wrong."
Syth was automatically awake. "What is it, Aniki?" he asked as he hopped out of bed.
"The bird is gone," Sin responded as he moved swiftly to the door, securing the Qus-Shak to his right arm as he went.
Syth grabbed his chakram from its hiding place and followed his brother. Ydrib always stood guard, never once did he ever leave. Not without Syth's explicit permission and/or accompaniment. For Ydrib to be missing there would have to be serious trouble.
Once outside of their room, the boys split up, each checking a room. When neither found Amarette sleeping in any of the rooms, their concern doubled. Splitting up again, Syth slid out a window to check the perimeter. Sin, meanwhile, cautiously proceeded downstairs.
Once downstairs, he noticed that there was nothing really out of the normal. The doors were open, sun and air wafting in. But something in the air was out of place.
Sin stepped away from the stairwell to start for the music room, but hung back. Slowly he turned in the opposite direction and cautiously wandered into the library. Reaching the wide-open double doors, Sin saw Amarette sprawled on the floor.
Blood was coming from her ears, drenching her long golden hair. On her face were dried trails of what appeared to be even more blood. "Amarette?" Sin was almost surprised that he knew her name. "Syth!" he called for his brother, who was there in an instant.
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Concern...worry...panic...anxiety...were all of these...for her?
Inside of her head, Amarette was well aware of where she was. It was like paralysis; no movement, no communication. She had control of nothing. It was all together creepy, along with the minor feeling of peacefulness at being inside her thoughts. But now she was feeling these things from the outside. Someone wanted her back in the real world.
But it's not real, Amarette reminded herself as she began to regain consciousness.
"She's coming to!" she could hear the excited and relieved squeak of the tolerable twin. The worry and concern were still lingering however. But if the nice one wasn't worried, then that would mean...
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Sin quickly released an inaudible sigh of relief as Amarette groaned and opened her eyes. For some reason he couldn't explain, he hadn't really been able to breathe properly while Amarette had lain unmoving.
Amarette attempted to sit up, but gave up. Her head hurt like hell. Reaching up to her ears and bringing a hand away covered in blood, Amarette stared. Then she blinked in remembrance. "Oh yeah..."
"`Oh yeah' what? What the hell happened?!" Sin demanded angrily. His tone was more for himself than for her, and he struggled to keep the blood from rising to his dark cheeks.
"No yelling, please kid, geez," Amarette moaned, sitting up with Syth's help.
"What happened?" Syth repeated the question gently.
Amarette was about to answer the boys, but stopped, staring out to sea. Instead of responding to their question, Amarette took in a shuddering breath and said, "Those are awfully big birds."
Looking out to the sky above the ocean waters, Syth and Sin's expression both dropped into ones of surprise. Glittering dark heads and brilliant white wings that had more than a seven foot span.
"Those aren't birds," Sin said as he and Syth pulled Amarette to her feet. "They're Archangels!"
The three ran through and out of the other side of the house. Syth ran down to the shore and began doing something Amarette couldn't quite make out. Meanwhile, five angels were swiftly approaching and Sin was tugging on the strange rigging on his right arm.
"Um...we need to leave," Amarette warned, watching the oncoming threats.
"We know," Sin responded nonchalantly. At about that time the group of angels spotted the three, and began to move into a strategic formation.
Amarette stumbled backwards. "Like, NOW!"
"We know," repeated the little demon. He now glanced to the sky as two of the angels dove for him.
Dodging their movements, Sin swung his arm after them, releasing the living steel of the Qus-Shak. Both angels fell, dead, to the sand as the chain pulled itself from their limp bodies. Amarette thought that she might be sick, but didn't have the time as she suddenly felt herself being lifted from the ground by one of the three remaining angels.
"He~~y! Leggo! Help!" screamed the girl, as she was taken even higher into the air. Sin watched in frustration. He couldn't reach her, but something had to be done. Then his eyes widened in horror at the next event.
A second angel had arrived to help hold the yelling, screaming, and struggling Amarette. Then the third and final angel appeared before the hovering group, a sword in his hand. The third angel then charged. He never reached his target, however, because at that moment he burst into flames.
Everyone stared in shock at the place where he had been. Sin smirked and turned to his brother in time to see the boy catch his chakram by its leather handhold. The weapon was laced with the potent poison of Dragon's Blood, which is what had caused the Archangel to combust.
One of the two that was holding Amarette drew his weapon and flew at Syth. The demon prince smiled cheerfully and stepped aside as the not-so-bright angel flew right into the gaping jaws of the sea dragon Syth had summoned.
The remaining angel drew his knife in preparation to slit Amarette's throat and escape. Amarette wasn't going to wait for him to do it though. She began twisting, wriggling, kicking, hitting, and doing anything else that would cause the being to loosen his grip. The angel was unaffected by any of this, with the exception of the fact that he couldn't stab her properly with all of her movement. So flying further up, above the first thin layer of cool, white clouds, he dropped Amarette in the hopes that she would splatter on the ground below.
Whilst plummeting, Amarette began shrieking at the top of her lungs. Below her, the boys were watching her falling figure calmly.
Sin help up one of his hands. He put one finger down...then another...and another, counting down. When all of his fingers were down, he swung his right arm out at his brother. The Qus-Shak created a net with itself of its own accord, using little Syth and Sin as supports. Amarette's fall was stopped as she landed in the chain net (owwie).
"Com along, time to leave," Sin said in a mock parental tone as he recovered the Qus-Shak, dropping Amarette to the sand.
Rolling over painfully and standing up, Amarette limped after the boys. "Aren't you forgetting something?" she asked as she pointed to the once again visible angel.
Syth spun around, sending his chakram whirring towards the retreating figure. The three watched intently as the angel disappeared in a shimmer and the chakram returned clean. The angel still lived.
"All aboard!" ushered Syth, pulling his brother and Amarette onto the back of RyuuShuuu, the master dragon.
"Where are we going?" Amarette called over the wind as they soared away from the little house and island.
"No idea," Syth admitted cheerfully.
"How do I got to Bmot Naidisbo Eht?" Amarette asked.
Syth and Sin nearly fell off of the dragon in shock. Bmot Naidisbo Eht was the true name for the Black City, used only in ancient texts and speech. How did Amarette know it? Unless...
"You remember?" They asked her in an astonished unison.
Amarette nodded. "Nearly everything. I think I know more than you do now. Details are still fuzzy, so I'll explain later, but I know that I must talk with the scholar-priest at Bmot Naidisbo Eht."
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