Fushigi Yuugi Fan Fiction ❯ Gems of Blue ❯ Lapis Lazuli ( Chapter 2 )

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Chapter 2: Lapis Lazuli

Nakago returned to the palace. He felt smug. "All too easy. " He dressed in some fine Hin style clothing. It was at least another hour before sunset.
He looked at himself in the mirror and grimaced. The clothes made him look extremely handsome. Yet, without his armor, he felt weak.
"How did my people manage to stay alive so long wearing such flimsy clothing? Hmm, this will be interesting in the very least."
He took a deep breath and worked to soften his expression as the suns rays began to change their color. He left the palace and headed to the end of the marketplace where he had arranged to meet Lapis.
She stood leaning against the wall of a crumbled building. The lower part of her clothing was open, allowing most of her shapely legs to be easily seen.
"What a temptress," Nakago thought to himself.
"Ah, Lazuli. You came. I am so glad," as she straightened and blushed. She started to walk towards him when two men jumped out from the alley and grabbed her by the arms.
"Hello pretty. You are going to have some fun with us."
"Let me go! Tenko curse you!" She screamed as she struggled.
Nakago became angry and readied himself to make a life force blast. He did not want to hit Lapis. The emperor would have his head if he did not bring her in tact.
Suddenly, he felt a terrible pain in his head and everything went black. The last thing Nakago heard when he passed out was Lapis' laughter and a male voice saying, "You have done well, Princess Lapis."


Lapis bowed before the High Priest of Tenko. She smiled wickedly as the priest allowed her to raise her head.
"You are a master seductress, Lapis. This one you have brought to us is quite a beauty. I will enjoy drugging him and taking him, once you, and the other women are done trying to impregnate yourselves."
"Thank you, Lord Aono."
"As ever, Tenko has blessed you . Remember, though, Lapis, Tenko can turn on you at any time, be content with your fate."
"And you, be content, Lord Aono."
"Now, you and the others should go see to the prisoner. I am certain the incense with the aphrodisiac should be taking it's effect. His special drugged wine is already prepared and waiting for you and the others to serve to him."


Nakago woke in a comfortable room. The scent of the incense that burned made him lust for carnal pleasures. His clothes, weapons and money were gone.
"How did I get here?" he asked himself as his mind clouded with erotic images.
The only door to the room opened. Several scantily clad women from many of the Wandering Tribes entered the room and closed the door behind them. They carried trays of food and wine.
"Welcome to paradise, young warrior. You are to be rewarded for your faithfulness."
"Paradise? So I am dead?"
"Let us please you."
"Let us feed you."
"Let us give our bodies to you." The women said as they poured him wine, fed him cheese and bread, and fondled his body.
"Perhaps I am dead. Better to be dead then to disappoint the emperor with my failure." Nakago said.


Lapis cleaned her nails with a dagger as she sat in her throne of pillows. One of her men came in and bowed before her.
"Princess Lapis, you sent for me?"
"Has the prisoner said anything to the women who have been caring for him the last two days?"
"Yes. He apparently was sent by the Kutou emperor to capture you for the emperor's harem. He seems content with the constant pleasures you have provided for him."
"Has he given his true name yet?"
"Not yet, your highness."
"There is no way he could be my brother Lazuli. At first, I thought he might be, but my brother is not so stupid to easily walk into one of my traps."
"Of course not, Your Grace."
"I know my brother still lives, and that he is somewhere in that city. He is my twin. I would know if he were dead. Lazuli will come back to us and take his rightful place on the Hin throne. I am certain it will be soon."
"I am certain as well, Your Grace."
"Continue your search for Prince Lazuli. May you be content with your fate, Gallrus."
"May you be content, Princess Lapis."


Aono kneeled before small statue of Tenko.
He felt nervous.
There was something different about the prisoner. He felt the difference as the Hin Horse Lords brought the prisoner to the temple and threw the unconscious form to the ground.
"Tenko, god of ruthlessness and vengeance, please guide your high priest in this matter. Please help us to take back the lands that we once roamed freely. Help us to find our sovereign king to lead us. May all the blood and fear we gather be in your honor."
He rose and turned to sit on his bed within the yurt. He looked at his face makeup in a small mirror. He straightened his feathered headdress and looked around the room. Something was not right.
He pulled a shin shell from the decoration that adorned the statue. He opened it and looked in on the prisoner.
The stranger was trapped within the illusion Aono had created with that shell. The women, wine and food were real, but the vision of him being in heaven were not. The stranger was simply tied to poles in a nearby yurt.
Aono was a master of illusions, as were all High Priests of Tenko. Unlike his fellow priests, however, Aono's illusions were ten ttimes as strong and effective.
He did not like his strong spell on this stranger slowly breaking down.
"Perhaps I should put kodoku in the next goblet of wine. Then perhaps we can get some answers out of him. It may also strengthen my spell."
He placed the shin back in its place as he felt his side begin to itch. He pulled back the sleeve and used a hand mirror to look at the blue mark.
"Damned thing." He said, "Tenko, why was I cursed with Seriyu's mark?"


Nakago felt himself being watched as he enjoyed the constant comforts of this heaven.
Yet, something about this place was wrong. He felt it in his bones.
The more he looked, the more this room looked like the room in the emperor's harem, where he spent much of his later childhood. It brought back memories of pain. The pain of the emperor forcing himself upon him.
The sight of the gentle women helped to banish the pain, but it did not make him completely at ease.
"Sweet, ladies. It has been so long since I have seen women dance for me. Will you sing, and dance?"
"Of course, brave warrior."
The women formed a half circle. They beat on small drums and shook small rattles as their bodies swayed seductively for Nakago.
"Giver of lust, giver of life. Working forever to cure our own strife. Take up the fear, take up the knife. Working forever to cure our own strife. Give us our anger, give us our fight. Working forever to cure our own strife. Blood for vengeance, blood for life. Working forever to cure our own strife," the women chanted as they danced.
"I know this." Nakago said as listened to the throbbing chant. "I know this! This is the chant my mother taught me before, before, I killed her! The cadence to Tenko. I, I no longer serve him, I serve Seriyu. This is wrong."
He tried to stand.
"Oh , no blessed warrior," One of the women who was not dancing helped him to sit back down. "If you leave this place, you will suffer only torment and pain."
"What is my name," he asked the woman.
"Pardon?"
"You heard me woman! If this is truly heaven you would know what my name is!"
"I, do not know."
"You do not know my name is Nakago! Then this is only an illusion created by one of Tenko's Priests!" He shouted as the harem melted into the inside of a yurt. He was held to a pair of poles by strong leather straps.
The women called for guards, who tried to keep him restrained. The blue mark on his forehead flared up and he blasted several of them to provide an escape.
As soon as he ran out of the yurt, he came face to face with Aono and Lapis.
Lapis was dressed in the adornment of a Hin princess, with an arrow poised to fire.
"Stop! Your highness! Look at the mark! He is a celestial warrior!"
Lapis lowered her bow as Aono stepped in front of her to shield her from the oncoming blast.
The blast hit Aono, but was only powerful enough to singe his outer robes.
Nakago fell to the ground in an exausted heap. He tried to catch his breath and the strength that had eluded him.
Aono bared his side to show his mark. "Celestial warrior! I also hold the mark of Seriyu! I apologize for our actions, but I will not allow you to harm your sister!"
"Aono, that is not Lazuli!"
"No, it is your older brother, Nakago! The one we all believed had been turned to ash in the fire with his mother! Your father's queen above his others!"
"It can not be!"
"It is , Lapis! Nakago has always had the mark of Seriyu as do I! You did not find Lazuli, but you did find our King! All hail Nakago! King of all Hin! King of the Wandering Tribes!"
Nakago stood there dumbfounded. He was kept with his mother as a child, as all Hin children were. He did not remember the importance of his father. He did not remember his father at all.
The Horse Lords cow towed to Nakago and pledged their eternal allegiance.
"I am sorry, my dear brother." Lapis said as she bowed. "We were searching for my twin, Lazuli. We did not know you had survived, Your Majesty. This is my fault and my fate. You may kill me if you wish, Your Majesty."
"No, I have something else in mind." Nakago said as he regained his composure. "Our enemy, the Kutou emperor has put his complete trust in me. I wish to turn it on him when the time is right. I want you to let him impregnate you, then escape the palace. It would be ironic to put a child by one of his most fierce enemies on his throne, wouldn't it?"
Lapis rose and gave a wicked smile, "You are indeed my older brother. Yes, I will do as you order."
"The rest of you. I will give you positions as mercenary Kutou soldiers, and pay you well. When the time is right, we will take back what is ours."
"Your Majesty, I am Aono, Celestial warrior Tomo of the Seriyu Seven. I am at your service."