Fan Fiction ❯ Trancending Death ❯ Beginning of the End ( Chapter 60 )
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By: Soulless Wanderer 
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Fantasy / Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.13.2006 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 108 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Fantasy / Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.13.2006 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 108 | Status: Completed
“So, are you going to kill me yourself, or are you going to let me die by my own hands? So far it seems like you’re even weaker than your brother. At least he fought me head on and wasn’t afraid to fight with honor!” Alex called out when he had neared him.
“Heh, you want me to fight you? Fine, so be it. I won’t sully my hands with your blood. Instead, I’ll kill you the way I’ve killed thousands of men. You shall die by a thousand blades!”
Alex tried to contain his smirk as he heard the rustling sounds of blades slicing the air. Right as the first of the blades rained down upon him, Alex unleashed his Devil Armor. The Devil Armor’s tentacles lashed out at the spears, batting them away. Those that didn’t, clattered uselessly against Alex’s nearly impenetrable skin. One blade fell right in front of Alex’s face. Before it hit the ground Alex caught it in his right hand and launched it at Rajah. The blade sailed toward the stunned Rajah’s chest, but right before it pierced him it disappeared. The blade then reappeared in Alex’s chest.
Despite the pain, Alex laughed. He pulled the spear out of his chest and stabbed it into the ground. He glared daggers at Rajah as he asked. “You possess the orb of neutrality, don’t you?”
Rajah’s stunned appearance lasted only a second before he regained his cocky attitude. “What makes you think that?”
“The fact that every attack I throw at you comes right back at me. The orb was created by a fairy that fell in love with a human. She created the orb so that the human would never die, because any harm that would have befallen on him would then befall on his attackers. Needless to say, someone stole the orb from him and then killed him. The orb has then been passed down from owner to owner. The last one that I knew of had supposedly created a blood pact with it. Thus when he died, I figured that the orb had been lost. But evidently he didn’t make a blood pact with it, did he?”
“Heh, no. The fool was too arrogant to make a blood pact. He said that if he were to ever die, he would pass the orb onto his son. I, however, was not so foolish. The orb grants far greater powers to those who make a blood pact with it. Not to mention, if I die, the orb goes with me.” Rajah then protracted a silver glowing orb that he had kept on a chain around his neck. In the very center was a crude symbol that looked to have been created with blood.
“I figured as much,” Alex replied, shaking his head. “Someone as selfish of yourself wouldn’t have thought to have given it to your brother, even though it could’ve saved his life.”
“Don’t you dare care me selfish! What right do you have to say that?” Rajah yelled. “You killed everyone, just for some stupid ambition of yours!”
“I did it for those I cared about, I have no excuse for my actions, but I shall atone for them. You however, cannot atone for your deed. Your brother is dead due to your actions, not mine.”
Wow, judging by how angry Rajah’s looking right now, I guess Alex is turning the tables on him. Rajah was playing on Alex’s emotions, saying things that he knew would make Alex angry just so Alex would attack him. Now Alex is doing the same thing to Rajah. He’s finally thinking rationally again. Thank goodness. There’s that military mind that everyone’s so fond of.
“You failed your brother, just as I failed my mate and my child. We are no different,” Alex stated.
“We are completely different! There’s no way in Hell that you could ever compare us. I didn’t fail my brother. You killed him, not me! Now I’m going to kill you!” Rajah yelled.
“Fine then, lets see what you can do now that I know your tricks,” Alex spat. He focused his mind on his Devil Armor, forcing it to retreat back until it only covered his hands and his shoulders. He then crouched down low and prepared to launch himself at Rajah. “Your thousand blades can only rain down on me. Which means if I’m moving, there’s no way in Hell they can hit me.”
The instant Alex launched himself at Rajah, Rajah laughed. “You are a fool. You should have kept your Devil Armor on. Now you truly are a dead man. My blades can go wherever I can command them.”
Alex was already moving to fast to stop himself. Rajah open the folds of his cloak, revealing two large metal flasks that contained several more of the metallic blades. He waved his arm and the blades erupted from the flasks, all aimed at Alex.!
Alex twisted in mid-air, trying to dodge as many as he could. Several stabbed into his unprotected flesh, several more grazed his skin. Regardless of the pain that consumed his body, Alex wasn’t about to stop for anything. In a flash of movement Alex lunged at Rajah. Everywhere his claws struck, wounds appeared on his own body. Still, Alex ran past Rajah, falling to his knees afterwards in a pool of his own blood.
Rajah turned around to him, a smirk spread across his face. “Such desperation that drove you to madness. Attacking me, even though you knew you had no chance. You truly are pathetic. Now, you will perish. You will die by my thousand...!”
Rajah moved his hand downwards, and Alex could hear the sound of blades slicing the air once more. Now, however, he was smiling as they came. Rajah’s eyes beheld terror as he looked at an item in Alex’s right hand. There, clutched in Alex’s bloody palm, was the orb of neutrality.
“No!” Rajah yelled as the first of the blades hit Alex.
The blades completely covered Alex, but after a moment they all disappeared. An ear shattering scream of agony erupted from Rajah’s throat as the blades reappeared in lodged in his body. Blood spurted forth from his wounds, making a pool around him.
Alex stood up slowly, still holding the orb his hands. He waited a moment watching the orb, waiting for something to happen. Finally, just as he had predicted, the orb shattered into a hundred pieces. The moment the orb shattered, Rajah’s body turned to dust. That damn idiot. He really did make a blood pact with it. When he died, the orb truly did go with him, but at least he’s dead now.
Alex sighed and walked over to Aurora. He knelt beside her and with a single strike of his claws broke the restraints that had held Aurora captive. He reverted back to his human form and gingerly inspected his wounds, which had just started to begin to heal. He then looked up at Aurora with a grim smile. “I owe you some thanks. If not for you, I probably would’ve been a goner.”
Aurora didn’t know what to say, or rather, she couldn’t say what she wanted to. Either way Alex seemed to guess what was wrong.
“He numbed your vocal chords, didn’t he?”
Aurora nodded and looked away once more.
“I’ve never been one that was good with apologies, but I believe I owe you one. I know I must’ve put you and everyone else through a great deal of stress and worry during my...adventure. I’ve done some things that I’m not proud of. Attacking my friends is one of them. I was blinded by pain and grief, and my own self pity. Still, I can’t just go and give up now. Not until I know the truth. Because even while I was blinded, I too saw Brittany, but this wasn’t my Brittany. Someone was using my love for her to control me. So all this time I have been committing murders in her name, even though it wasn’t even her that I was talking to.”
Alex saw Aurora’s eyes widen with surprise as he spoke. He then stood and looked back down at her. “That is why I am skeptical of your words. The person you saw may have seemed like Brittany, but unless I can speak with her myself and know that its her, I will never be able to rest. I’m still haunted by those that I killed. I feel that the only way their anger will cease is if I kill the one truly responsible. I can find the answers I am searching for, but to do that there is something I must do. I don’t know if I’ll return, so you might want to head back down the mountain if you can. If not, just wait. Knowing Shadow he’ll come looking for you soon enough.”
With that Alex turned around and began to head up the mountain. He knew that Aurora would be fine. She was a strong a girl after all. It was then that he felt someone wrap there arms around him. Alex turned to see that Aurora was hugging him and crying. Even though Alex didn’t fully understand why, he wrapped his arms around her and tried to console. He had a pretty good idea why she was doing what she was.
She’s thanking me, and at the same time forgiving me. God I’m sorry for all that I’ve done, but knowing me, I’ll end up having to take more lives before this is all over with. Still, at least I know that my friend will still be beside me.
Alex held Aurora away from him and wiped the tears from her eyes. “Don’t worry, it’ll be okay.”
“Get the Hell away from her you fucking monster!” a voice called out.
Alex barely had time to react before a black fist came crashing down upon him. Alex instinctively threw Aurora away from him, at the same time jumping backwards to avoid being hit. The moment he did, he realized who his attacker was, even though he didn’t want to believe it.
“Shadow, what the fuck are you doing?” Alex asked.
“I’m keeping my mate the Hell away from you!” Shadow replied venomously. He launched himself at Alex once again. Lashing out at Alex with his claws. Alex backhanded Shadow’s attacks, but instead of pressing on with his attack, Alex tried to talk some sense into Shadow.
“Shadow, she’s fine. I wasn’t about to hurt her!”
“You call that fine? She’s covered in blood and bruises, and to Hell with you not hurting her. I saw what you did to everyone else!” Shadow yelled. He then quickly spun around and caught Alex in the side of the face with his foot. Alex was sent flying to the side. He dug his hands into the ground and came to a halt, only to have Shadow’s foot connect with his jaw, sending him flying backwards once more.
Aurora couldn’t believe what was happening. She desperately tried to call out to Shadow, to tell him the truth, and to tell him that maybe they were wrong. Alex wasn’t the monster they had believed him to be. She wanted to tell him that Alex had protected her. He had saved her because she was pregnant with Shadow’s children. Yet, no matter how hard she tried, nothing would come out.
Out of the corner of his eye, Shadow saw Aurora fall to her knees. He saw her mouth moving, but nothing came out. Shadow turned his eyes angrily toward Alex. “What the Hell did you do to her?”
“I didn’t do anything to her! Someone kidnaped her after the battle and used her as bait for me to fight them. They used a drug to paralyze her vocal chords. If I did anything, I saved her!”
“Like Hell you did. I’m going to make you pay for hurting her!”
Shadow once again launched himself at Alex. He swung his hand downward toward Alex’s head, but Alex caught his arm and used the momentum of Shadow falling to deliver an even more powerful punch to Shadow’s mid-section. He then threw Shadow off of him. Alex had expected Shadow to fall from that attack, or at the very least settle down, but instead Shadow flipped back into a fighting position and launched himself at Alex once again.
Shadow tried to deliver another kick to the side of Alex’s head. Alex managed to block that, but then Shadow’s fist caught him straight in the face, sending Alex reeling backwards back into the side of the mountain. Shadow glared angrily at Alex as he wiped the blood from his face.
This isn’t Shadow, or rather, this isn’t like Shadow. Even if he was pissed, he would still listen to reason. Dammit, I can’t hurt him. He’s my friend, and even if he is all psycho right now I can’t hurt my friends, not again.
It was then that Alex noticed something in particular about Shadow. He has two auras! Shit, I bet that other aura is the same exact thing that Raza and Rire were trying to tell me about. Why didn’t I notice it earlier? No wonder he’s not listening to reason.
Alex then looked down at Aurora. His expression turned grim as he realized she too had the aura surrounding her. Fuck, this is going to make things complicated.
The instant Alex looked up, a pair of fists greeted him. Alex quickly reactivated his crystal of speed, allowing him to dodge Shadow’s attack by a mere hair’s breath of time. Shadow’s fist collided with the mountain wall, shattering the area with which he hit. Alex took the initiative, and grabbed Shadow by the back of the head. He rammed Shadow’s head into the mountain wall, stunning him only slightly. Alex then flipped Shadow around and tried to pin him to the wall, but Shadow managed to break free and grab hold of Alex’s throat.
“Now you will die!” Shadow hissed.
“Stop!”
Both Shadow and Alex turned to see Aurora, tears streaming down her face, holding onto Shadow. “Please stop this, Shadow. It wasn’t Alex. Alex saved me. He saved our pups too. Please, just let him go. He’s been through enough already.”
“What are you talking about Aurora? He’s been through enough? He tried to kill you!”
“No, he didn’t. He spared us,” a voice called out.
All eyes turned to see the bruised, battered, and bleeding form of Raion limp toward them. “That man, for all intents and purposes spared us. Another demon cam and took her while she was still unconscious. I tried to stop him, but he nearly skewered me with those damn blades of his. Let him go, Shadow it’s alright.”
“What the Hell do you mean it’s alright? You were going to kill him, weren’t you?”
“Yes, I was, but that was before I knew the whole story. I would’ve been here sooner, but someone stopped me,” Raion then turned and looked at Alex. “I’m truly sorry my Lord. I didn’t know just what was going on.”
Shadow looked at Raion, then at Alex, then to Aurora, and finally back at Alex.
“Do you think, you know...you could quit choking me now?” Alex asked with a smirk.
Shadow reluctantly released Alex, and stood embracing Aurora. He glared at Alex as he spoke. “You want to tell me just what in the Hell is going on here?”
“I wish I knew. All I know is, is that I’m sorry for the pain I have brought to you, Shadow,” Alex said softly. “But I can’t quit, not now. Not until I see Brittany, and kill the bastard that controlled me.”
“Wait, someone controlled you?” Shadow asked. This new bit of information peaking his curiosity.
“Yes, someone did. I believe you’d best let me explain,” another voice called out.
Raion nodded and pointed to whom the voice came from. “This is the guy that talked to me. I believe you’ll be interested to hear what he has to say.”
“Raza, what the Hell are you doing here?” Alex asked. He was becoming increasingly impatient with everyone showing up and delaying his finding the dagger.
“I’m here to help, that is, unless you want your friends to be continued to be puppets of the person that once controlled you. I’m sure you know how it feels to be freed, so I suggest you let me do what I have to. Then I’ll explain to them what’s going on, once they have ears more willing to listen,” Raza calmly stated.
“Heh, fine.” Alex turned his back to them and looked up at the mountain peak. “Is that where the dagger is?”
“Yes, but I’d suggest you not going without waiting for us first,” Raza instructed. When he looked back at Alex, however, Alex had already launched himself up onto a jagged cliff, heading toward the peak.
“I said wait for us!”
“I’ve waited long enough to see Brittany. You hurry your ass up and use the five star pentagram thing that Rire used on me. I finally get a chance to see Brittany, do you really think I’m just going to twiddle my thumbs when it is this close?”
Before Raza could reply Alex launched himself higher up the cliff. Raza shook his head and smiled. “Trust me, she’s waiting for you.”
Author's Note: Okay, for those of you who read my notes waaaay before this one. I had said that I was watching the Yugioh Millenium World episodes, and used the whole ancient Egyptian theme for one of my chapters. Well, the next set of updates will be about that, so I hope you enjoy it!
“Heh, you want me to fight you? Fine, so be it. I won’t sully my hands with your blood. Instead, I’ll kill you the way I’ve killed thousands of men. You shall die by a thousand blades!”
Alex tried to contain his smirk as he heard the rustling sounds of blades slicing the air. Right as the first of the blades rained down upon him, Alex unleashed his Devil Armor. The Devil Armor’s tentacles lashed out at the spears, batting them away. Those that didn’t, clattered uselessly against Alex’s nearly impenetrable skin. One blade fell right in front of Alex’s face. Before it hit the ground Alex caught it in his right hand and launched it at Rajah. The blade sailed toward the stunned Rajah’s chest, but right before it pierced him it disappeared. The blade then reappeared in Alex’s chest.
Despite the pain, Alex laughed. He pulled the spear out of his chest and stabbed it into the ground. He glared daggers at Rajah as he asked. “You possess the orb of neutrality, don’t you?”
Rajah’s stunned appearance lasted only a second before he regained his cocky attitude. “What makes you think that?”
“The fact that every attack I throw at you comes right back at me. The orb was created by a fairy that fell in love with a human. She created the orb so that the human would never die, because any harm that would have befallen on him would then befall on his attackers. Needless to say, someone stole the orb from him and then killed him. The orb has then been passed down from owner to owner. The last one that I knew of had supposedly created a blood pact with it. Thus when he died, I figured that the orb had been lost. But evidently he didn’t make a blood pact with it, did he?”
“Heh, no. The fool was too arrogant to make a blood pact. He said that if he were to ever die, he would pass the orb onto his son. I, however, was not so foolish. The orb grants far greater powers to those who make a blood pact with it. Not to mention, if I die, the orb goes with me.” Rajah then protracted a silver glowing orb that he had kept on a chain around his neck. In the very center was a crude symbol that looked to have been created with blood.
“I figured as much,” Alex replied, shaking his head. “Someone as selfish of yourself wouldn’t have thought to have given it to your brother, even though it could’ve saved his life.”
“Don’t you dare care me selfish! What right do you have to say that?” Rajah yelled. “You killed everyone, just for some stupid ambition of yours!”
“I did it for those I cared about, I have no excuse for my actions, but I shall atone for them. You however, cannot atone for your deed. Your brother is dead due to your actions, not mine.”
Wow, judging by how angry Rajah’s looking right now, I guess Alex is turning the tables on him. Rajah was playing on Alex’s emotions, saying things that he knew would make Alex angry just so Alex would attack him. Now Alex is doing the same thing to Rajah. He’s finally thinking rationally again. Thank goodness. There’s that military mind that everyone’s so fond of.
“You failed your brother, just as I failed my mate and my child. We are no different,” Alex stated.
“We are completely different! There’s no way in Hell that you could ever compare us. I didn’t fail my brother. You killed him, not me! Now I’m going to kill you!” Rajah yelled.
“Fine then, lets see what you can do now that I know your tricks,” Alex spat. He focused his mind on his Devil Armor, forcing it to retreat back until it only covered his hands and his shoulders. He then crouched down low and prepared to launch himself at Rajah. “Your thousand blades can only rain down on me. Which means if I’m moving, there’s no way in Hell they can hit me.”
The instant Alex launched himself at Rajah, Rajah laughed. “You are a fool. You should have kept your Devil Armor on. Now you truly are a dead man. My blades can go wherever I can command them.”
Alex was already moving to fast to stop himself. Rajah open the folds of his cloak, revealing two large metal flasks that contained several more of the metallic blades. He waved his arm and the blades erupted from the flasks, all aimed at Alex.!
Alex twisted in mid-air, trying to dodge as many as he could. Several stabbed into his unprotected flesh, several more grazed his skin. Regardless of the pain that consumed his body, Alex wasn’t about to stop for anything. In a flash of movement Alex lunged at Rajah. Everywhere his claws struck, wounds appeared on his own body. Still, Alex ran past Rajah, falling to his knees afterwards in a pool of his own blood.
Rajah turned around to him, a smirk spread across his face. “Such desperation that drove you to madness. Attacking me, even though you knew you had no chance. You truly are pathetic. Now, you will perish. You will die by my thousand...!”
Rajah moved his hand downwards, and Alex could hear the sound of blades slicing the air once more. Now, however, he was smiling as they came. Rajah’s eyes beheld terror as he looked at an item in Alex’s right hand. There, clutched in Alex’s bloody palm, was the orb of neutrality.
“No!” Rajah yelled as the first of the blades hit Alex.
The blades completely covered Alex, but after a moment they all disappeared. An ear shattering scream of agony erupted from Rajah’s throat as the blades reappeared in lodged in his body. Blood spurted forth from his wounds, making a pool around him.
Alex stood up slowly, still holding the orb his hands. He waited a moment watching the orb, waiting for something to happen. Finally, just as he had predicted, the orb shattered into a hundred pieces. The moment the orb shattered, Rajah’s body turned to dust. That damn idiot. He really did make a blood pact with it. When he died, the orb truly did go with him, but at least he’s dead now.
Alex sighed and walked over to Aurora. He knelt beside her and with a single strike of his claws broke the restraints that had held Aurora captive. He reverted back to his human form and gingerly inspected his wounds, which had just started to begin to heal. He then looked up at Aurora with a grim smile. “I owe you some thanks. If not for you, I probably would’ve been a goner.”
Aurora didn’t know what to say, or rather, she couldn’t say what she wanted to. Either way Alex seemed to guess what was wrong.
“He numbed your vocal chords, didn’t he?”
Aurora nodded and looked away once more.
“I’ve never been one that was good with apologies, but I believe I owe you one. I know I must’ve put you and everyone else through a great deal of stress and worry during my...adventure. I’ve done some things that I’m not proud of. Attacking my friends is one of them. I was blinded by pain and grief, and my own self pity. Still, I can’t just go and give up now. Not until I know the truth. Because even while I was blinded, I too saw Brittany, but this wasn’t my Brittany. Someone was using my love for her to control me. So all this time I have been committing murders in her name, even though it wasn’t even her that I was talking to.”
Alex saw Aurora’s eyes widen with surprise as he spoke. He then stood and looked back down at her. “That is why I am skeptical of your words. The person you saw may have seemed like Brittany, but unless I can speak with her myself and know that its her, I will never be able to rest. I’m still haunted by those that I killed. I feel that the only way their anger will cease is if I kill the one truly responsible. I can find the answers I am searching for, but to do that there is something I must do. I don’t know if I’ll return, so you might want to head back down the mountain if you can. If not, just wait. Knowing Shadow he’ll come looking for you soon enough.”
With that Alex turned around and began to head up the mountain. He knew that Aurora would be fine. She was a strong a girl after all. It was then that he felt someone wrap there arms around him. Alex turned to see that Aurora was hugging him and crying. Even though Alex didn’t fully understand why, he wrapped his arms around her and tried to console. He had a pretty good idea why she was doing what she was.
She’s thanking me, and at the same time forgiving me. God I’m sorry for all that I’ve done, but knowing me, I’ll end up having to take more lives before this is all over with. Still, at least I know that my friend will still be beside me.
Alex held Aurora away from him and wiped the tears from her eyes. “Don’t worry, it’ll be okay.”
“Get the Hell away from her you fucking monster!” a voice called out.
Alex barely had time to react before a black fist came crashing down upon him. Alex instinctively threw Aurora away from him, at the same time jumping backwards to avoid being hit. The moment he did, he realized who his attacker was, even though he didn’t want to believe it.
“Shadow, what the fuck are you doing?” Alex asked.
“I’m keeping my mate the Hell away from you!” Shadow replied venomously. He launched himself at Alex once again. Lashing out at Alex with his claws. Alex backhanded Shadow’s attacks, but instead of pressing on with his attack, Alex tried to talk some sense into Shadow.
“Shadow, she’s fine. I wasn’t about to hurt her!”
“You call that fine? She’s covered in blood and bruises, and to Hell with you not hurting her. I saw what you did to everyone else!” Shadow yelled. He then quickly spun around and caught Alex in the side of the face with his foot. Alex was sent flying to the side. He dug his hands into the ground and came to a halt, only to have Shadow’s foot connect with his jaw, sending him flying backwards once more.
Aurora couldn’t believe what was happening. She desperately tried to call out to Shadow, to tell him the truth, and to tell him that maybe they were wrong. Alex wasn’t the monster they had believed him to be. She wanted to tell him that Alex had protected her. He had saved her because she was pregnant with Shadow’s children. Yet, no matter how hard she tried, nothing would come out.
Out of the corner of his eye, Shadow saw Aurora fall to her knees. He saw her mouth moving, but nothing came out. Shadow turned his eyes angrily toward Alex. “What the Hell did you do to her?”
“I didn’t do anything to her! Someone kidnaped her after the battle and used her as bait for me to fight them. They used a drug to paralyze her vocal chords. If I did anything, I saved her!”
“Like Hell you did. I’m going to make you pay for hurting her!”
Shadow once again launched himself at Alex. He swung his hand downward toward Alex’s head, but Alex caught his arm and used the momentum of Shadow falling to deliver an even more powerful punch to Shadow’s mid-section. He then threw Shadow off of him. Alex had expected Shadow to fall from that attack, or at the very least settle down, but instead Shadow flipped back into a fighting position and launched himself at Alex once again.
Shadow tried to deliver another kick to the side of Alex’s head. Alex managed to block that, but then Shadow’s fist caught him straight in the face, sending Alex reeling backwards back into the side of the mountain. Shadow glared angrily at Alex as he wiped the blood from his face.
This isn’t Shadow, or rather, this isn’t like Shadow. Even if he was pissed, he would still listen to reason. Dammit, I can’t hurt him. He’s my friend, and even if he is all psycho right now I can’t hurt my friends, not again.
It was then that Alex noticed something in particular about Shadow. He has two auras! Shit, I bet that other aura is the same exact thing that Raza and Rire were trying to tell me about. Why didn’t I notice it earlier? No wonder he’s not listening to reason.
Alex then looked down at Aurora. His expression turned grim as he realized she too had the aura surrounding her. Fuck, this is going to make things complicated.
The instant Alex looked up, a pair of fists greeted him. Alex quickly reactivated his crystal of speed, allowing him to dodge Shadow’s attack by a mere hair’s breath of time. Shadow’s fist collided with the mountain wall, shattering the area with which he hit. Alex took the initiative, and grabbed Shadow by the back of the head. He rammed Shadow’s head into the mountain wall, stunning him only slightly. Alex then flipped Shadow around and tried to pin him to the wall, but Shadow managed to break free and grab hold of Alex’s throat.
“Now you will die!” Shadow hissed.
“Stop!”
Both Shadow and Alex turned to see Aurora, tears streaming down her face, holding onto Shadow. “Please stop this, Shadow. It wasn’t Alex. Alex saved me. He saved our pups too. Please, just let him go. He’s been through enough already.”
“What are you talking about Aurora? He’s been through enough? He tried to kill you!”
“No, he didn’t. He spared us,” a voice called out.
All eyes turned to see the bruised, battered, and bleeding form of Raion limp toward them. “That man, for all intents and purposes spared us. Another demon cam and took her while she was still unconscious. I tried to stop him, but he nearly skewered me with those damn blades of his. Let him go, Shadow it’s alright.”
“What the Hell do you mean it’s alright? You were going to kill him, weren’t you?”
“Yes, I was, but that was before I knew the whole story. I would’ve been here sooner, but someone stopped me,” Raion then turned and looked at Alex. “I’m truly sorry my Lord. I didn’t know just what was going on.”
Shadow looked at Raion, then at Alex, then to Aurora, and finally back at Alex.
“Do you think, you know...you could quit choking me now?” Alex asked with a smirk.
Shadow reluctantly released Alex, and stood embracing Aurora. He glared at Alex as he spoke. “You want to tell me just what in the Hell is going on here?”
“I wish I knew. All I know is, is that I’m sorry for the pain I have brought to you, Shadow,” Alex said softly. “But I can’t quit, not now. Not until I see Brittany, and kill the bastard that controlled me.”
“Wait, someone controlled you?” Shadow asked. This new bit of information peaking his curiosity.
“Yes, someone did. I believe you’d best let me explain,” another voice called out.
Raion nodded and pointed to whom the voice came from. “This is the guy that talked to me. I believe you’ll be interested to hear what he has to say.”
“Raza, what the Hell are you doing here?” Alex asked. He was becoming increasingly impatient with everyone showing up and delaying his finding the dagger.
“I’m here to help, that is, unless you want your friends to be continued to be puppets of the person that once controlled you. I’m sure you know how it feels to be freed, so I suggest you let me do what I have to. Then I’ll explain to them what’s going on, once they have ears more willing to listen,” Raza calmly stated.
“Heh, fine.” Alex turned his back to them and looked up at the mountain peak. “Is that where the dagger is?”
“Yes, but I’d suggest you not going without waiting for us first,” Raza instructed. When he looked back at Alex, however, Alex had already launched himself up onto a jagged cliff, heading toward the peak.
“I said wait for us!”
“I’ve waited long enough to see Brittany. You hurry your ass up and use the five star pentagram thing that Rire used on me. I finally get a chance to see Brittany, do you really think I’m just going to twiddle my thumbs when it is this close?”
Before Raza could reply Alex launched himself higher up the cliff. Raza shook his head and smiled. “Trust me, she’s waiting for you.”
Author's Note: Okay, for those of you who read my notes waaaay before this one. I had said that I was watching the Yugioh Millenium World episodes, and used the whole ancient Egyptian theme for one of my chapters. Well, the next set of updates will be about that, so I hope you enjoy it!