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"Talking"

'Thinking'

Memories

~Lyrics~

Fear

Normal P.O.V.

Once again the second the lords stepped through the door they were hit with an onslaught of emotions. Every nightmare was relived. Every fear they ever felt was relived again. It was over powering. Even Pride felt it, it was almost enough to bring them all to their knees.

"Kami! That was horrible. I vote that we do not do that again." Haru gasped.

"You're right that wasn't fun, even I felt it." Pride said back to him.

"That is bad!" Intaisho commented.

"Shut up."

"Be quite, let's just get out of here as fast as we can. This place unsettles me." Maseru snapped.

Indeed the chamber they were in was very unsettling. They were in a dark forest this time, there was loud crashes of thunder and lightning, I was cold, and if you looked closely you could see things peering out at you from inside the forest.

"I hate this place." Pride commented.

"I think we all agree with you on that Pride, this place certainly isn't inviting." agreed Intaisho.

"True, but it doesn't seem that bad, sure the settings a little scary but besides that there's nothing wrong with it." Haru added.

"You don't have a clue what dwells in here, come on let's find Fear and get out of here." as Pride finished that sentence a wolf man beast like creature came out of the forest and tackled her to the ground. It started to claw, bite, and scratch at her furiously. Pride was eventually able to kick it off of her but not before quiet a bit of damage was done. When the creature made another move to attack her Intaisho blocked it but as the creature came into contact with him Intaisho got flashes of some of his most fearful moments in his life. The creature made another move towards him and he hit it back again, once again getting memories of some of the scariest parts of his life. The creature chose not to attack again and ran off into the woods seeing as how Haru and Maseru were stepping in beside Intaisho.

"Ouch! Did I mention that I hate this place?" pride said once again.

"I can see why," Intaisho, said dryly "do you mind telling us what that thing back there was?"

"Just a stray thought, but you can't kill them or else you'll destroy Umbri's memories. Oh, and don't let your self's get hurt here. If you do it could have permanent damage on your mind, you could go brain dead. Remember if you get hurt in here it's a lot worse then getting hurt out there, you won't be able to heal and get better. I don't need to worry because I'm part of Umbri's mind so nothing really series will happen to her."

The lords nodded, and they started walking. Soon enough they started running into more memories.

Umbri looked about three. She was once again standing in front of the figure 'It' suddenly went into a rampage and started beating on Umbri. They felt confused and fearful. First 'It' bitch slapped her (back hand slap) across the face, but 'It' was holding her so Umbri wasn't aloud to fall. 'It' then started punching her repeatedly in the face. Umbri fell to the ground and tried to crawl away but 'It' stopped her and started kicking her. 'It' was screaming at her telling her to defend herself, that it owned her, that she belonged to 'It'. Umbri had been pleading with 'It' to stop the whole time. 'It' then started throwing her around. First 'It' threw her into a wall then into a tree. She went through the tree snapping it in half. 'It' then walked up to her grabbed her by the hair, lifted her up, and said, "Now you know who owns you, but just to make sure you never forget we'll do this every day." They felt fear.

They continued walking however more wolf man creatures attacked them so they started running.

~Once upon a time there was a girl

In her early years she had to learn

How to grow up living in a war that she called home

Never knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm~

Umbri looked about five, once again she was standing in front of 'It'. 'It' asked her if she had dropped her weapon during training. They felt nervous. Umbri nodded. 'It' blew up. 'It' started to beat her again, Umbri tried to defend herself but that just made 'It' attack her more, it started yelling at her "So you think you're strong enough to defend yourself against me? I guess I'll just have to put you in your place again." "No I don't think that! Onegai, yamete!" but before she could get any more out 'It' shot an energy ball that highly resembled the one Umbri threw at Ssekien. It hit her dead on, Umbri went flying through the air, hit the ground with a thud, and skitted to a stop. 'It' started coming over to her again. They felt fear.

And they kept walking; until a wolf man creature chased them, then they ran.

~Hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face

Every time my father's fist would put her in her place

*Hearing all the yelling, I would cry up in my room

Hoping it would be over soon~

Umbri looked about six. She was standing in front of 'It' again. 'It' gave her four pieces of paper and told her to draw the layouts of the taiyoukai of the north, south, east, and west's castles, and that she had ten minutes. They felt her nerviness. She started working on the layouts. Ten minutes later 'It' took the layouts from her. 'It' looked them over for about three minutes then 'It' stood up and walked over to Umbri. They felt a sense of dread. 'It' stood about five feet from her; suddenly a red glow went around Umbri. It looked the same as the blue glow that Umbri used to throw Ssekien out of her room just only it was red instead of blue. Suddenly Umbri was lifted up into the air by it. The red glow surrounding her suddenly constricted around her and she cried out in pain. "You forgot the westerns land armory!" 'It' screeched at her. 'It' kept squeezing, you could hear Umbri's bones cracking as they snapped. "Gomen! Onegai! Yamete!" cried Umbri. "Onegai, onegai, onegai, onegai, onegai, onegai, yamete…" "Shut up! You're pathetic." With that 'It' started slamming her into the castle gates, trees, and the ground. More and more of her bones were snapping. Finally 'It' stopped and walked away back to the castle, but before 'It' left it said to her, "Stay here, I'm getting my whip." They felt fear.

And they kept walking; until a wolf man creature chased them, then they ran.

~Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same

I still remember how you kept me so afraid~

Umbri looked about two, she was once again standing in front of 'It'. 'It' suddenly pulled out a sword, but it was different then other swords, its blade was pitch black, a black liquid was coating it, and even if you were a ningen you would have been able to feel the evil aurora. (sp) 'It' started speaking to Umbri, "This is the king of all evil magic based swords. No other is more powerful, more deadly, or more dangerous. It can create swords just like itself and they're called the Knight Swords but they're not as powerful. The liquid you see coating it is a poison that would send any and all youkai, ningen, hanyou, or any living thing a like running. By far this poison is the most painful way to die that exists. The stronger you are the more painful it is. If you were so much as scratched from this sword first you would relive all you painful memories, you wouldn't just feel them emotionally but as a physical pain as well, often times people go insane from this, it also takes much longer to heal from this wound then it would normally. Then depending on where you were hit a black spot will appear, it feels like it's burning skin, as you get closer to death it will get larger and more painful. While this is happening you'll start losing your power and strength, you'll get weaker and weaker as the time of your death grows near this is why its worse for more powerful beings, it could take months or even years, two at the longest to die. Depending on whoever owns the King Sword and how fast they want them to die they can choose the speed of the poison going through the victim. The last few minutes of your life will be filled with more pain then I could ever describe, when you die your soul will then go into the sword that was responsible for your death. But if need be the King Sword can call the souls that are in the Knights Swords to it making it stronger, the only other sword that can do this is the Queen Sword but she can't take the souls from the King Sword. The souls inside the swords will be tormented for all eternity. If you're scratched by a Knight or Queen Sword you may not always get the poison the chances of getting it are better with the Queen Sword, and it's a sure thing to get the poison if you're struck by the King Sword. Umbri I'm giving you the Queen Sword, if you are to do what I need you to do you're going to need all the power you can get in order to do the things I want you to do. Oh, and Umbri know this… if you ever betray me I will use the King Sword on you and you will die the death even Kami himself fears." Umbri watched as 'It' walked away. They felt fear.

And they kept walking; until a wolf man creature chased them, then they ran.

~Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave

Every morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday

And I'm Ok~

Flashes of Umbri at all ages. She was fighting giant spider youkai. They felt fear.

At this point Haru stopped. He appeared to be fighting back laughter.

"And what prey-tell is so funny?" Maseru asked.

"Umbri's afraid of spiders." Haru said chuckling.

"Hey everyone has things they don't like ok? We can't help it that spiders are creepy; it's just a fact of nature. So shut up, it's not that funny!" Pride huffed.

Haru continued to chuckle and now Intaisho and Maseru were joining in.

"It's not funny!"

They continued chuckling.

"I hope one of those wolf man beasts eat all of you and I hope that it is very painful." with that Pride continued walking, the chuckling lords behind her.

~I often wonder why I carry all this guilt

When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've

Built~

They saw two figures that looked a lot like Umbri; each one had one feathered wing and one dragon wing. Both of them had Umbri's eye color in one eye. Half of the flame on their forehead was light blue while the other half was black; same went for the stripes on their cheeks. Half of there hair was brown with blonde highlights and the other half was black. (They were opposites, ex. One had the left wing feathered, the right wing dragon the other one had left wing dragon right wing feathered, this went for all the stuff) one seemed to posses the other, and they became one. In front of them stood a new figure that greatly resembled Umbri. Her hair was black, instead of feathered wings like Umbri has this one had black leather dragon wings, she also had a black flame on her forehead, and two crimson red stripes on each cheek. Her head was looking down so they couldn't see her eyes they got closer. She suddenly lifted her head up and looked straight at them, her eyes were completely black no other color. Her eyes were filled with a great hate, and they were looking right at them. They felt fear.

~Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door

The echo of a broken child screaming please no more

Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done?

To you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on~

They saw more and more fears Umbri had but all of them were mainly of the figure. Eventually the memories stopped.

"Where's fear?" Intaisho asked. "We've been looking for awhile now, why hasn't she shown herself?"

"She's afraid of us, she's most likely hiding.," answered Pride. "But I know where she hides so it shouldn't be a problem, it won't be too hard to get her to come with us."

"Why's that?" Maseru asked.

"You'll see soon enough." said Pride.

They continued walking, and before long they heard whimpering.

"Fear?" Pride called softly. "Fear it's me, Pride. Please come out. I'll make sure 'It' doesn't come out to get you."

~Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same

I still remember how you kept me so, so afraid~

"No one can stop him.," a small voice answered back. "It's impossible, you can't stop him he owns us. He's proven it so many times, I don't want another lesson."

"I brought friends with me, they'll keep 'It' away. Don't worry, please come out." Pride continued in a comforting voice.

"What if they can't stop him?"

"They're very strong, I think they can take 'It' on. So what do you say? Are you going to come out?"

"Ok." The voice squeaked. In the tree above them a small figure jumped out. It looked like a three-year-old version of Umbri, there were tear streaks running down her face, her eyes were big, teary, and fearful. When she saw Pride she ran towards her and jumped in her arms as Pride leaned down.

~Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave

Every morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday~

'It's just a pup, a young one at that.' All the lords thought at once, they felt bad for the frightened pup.

"It's so scary here! Those scary wolf men kept chasing me, and 'Its' always looking for me. I don't like it here please take me away!" Fear said as she sobbed into Pride's shoulder.

"It's ok, I'll take you away from here." with that Fear turned into a dark green mist and was absorbed into Pride. And as before Pride's appearance changed, she looked younger had a bit more of a lost child look, and once again she was breathing heavily, like she had just run one hundred miles.

~It's not so easy to forget

All the marks you left along her neck~

"Pride what's wrong?" Intaisho asked. He was now worried about her as he was sure the other lords were too, she just seemed to be getting more and more tired as they picked up more emotions.

"It's nothing." Pride answered.

"Don't lie to me!"

Pride took a deep breath.

~When I was thrown against old stairs

And everyday afraid to come home in fear of what I might

See next~

"The emotions aren't supposed to be separate or out of the heart as you know. The heart takes some of the weight of our emotions off of us. It's very hard for me to absorb the emotions and take their weight without the hearts help. It's also hard to take all the memories and feeling and squish them all together inside of me. It's wearing me out, but there's no need to worry I've done this many times by myself and I've always managed to do it. I should be fine." sighed Pride. "Now come we only have three more chambers to go to."

"What are they?" Haru questioned.

"I'll tell you them when we get to them." Pride answered.

"Well then where are we going now?"

~Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same

And I still remember how you kept me so afraid~

"Sadness and regret." With that question answered Pride walked over to the tree Fear had been hiding in and uprooted it. The door to the next chamber appeared to them.

"Come on, we don't have much time before Umbri's body shuts down." Pride hurriedly walked into the next chamber and the lords once again followed.

~Strength is my mother for all the love you gave

Every morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday

And I'm ok

Mmmm, I'm ok~

End Chapter

Next Chapter: Sadness and Regret

Another chapter completed! Wow I'm coming out with these really fast! PLEASE R&R

Glossary:

Onegai - please

Yamete - stop

Gomen - sorry

Heh I actually remembered the glossary this time lol ^_^