Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ The Black Rose ❯ The Cursed Cave ( Chapter 2 )

Japanese word translations

Ningen – human
Youkai – Demon
Youki - Demon Energy or Aura

Miko – Priestess
Gomennasai - I beg your pardon (id), I’m sorry, excuse me

Neko – Cat

Okaasan – Mother

Baka – fool/idiot

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Disclaimer- Don’t worry people. I’ll let you know when something doesn’t belong to me.

Locke: So… very… tired… How could you leave me alone with them?!

Me: Awww poor Lockie-kun.

Locke: Shut up, you’re not sorry!

Sapphire: We didn’t do anything too bad!

Locke: Liar!!!

Me: What happened?

Locke: *eyes widen* DON’T MAKE ME RELIVE IT!!!

Sapphire: Anyway, while Locke goes through an emotional breakdown… I make my appearance!!!!!! Yay for me!

Salyn: Whoop dee freakin’ doo *Rolls eyes*

Sapphire: *Sticks tongue out*

Me: I’m gonna go now and upload this chapter.

Locke: *Tying desperately to squeeze through metal bars of cage* Noooo!!! Don’t leave me in here with them!!! Not again!!!

Girls: *Evil smile*

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Her closed eye-lids twitched and with weak moans she woke up. Her vision was blurred and the light was too bright, forcing her to squint her eyes. Next to her she saw the silhouette of a woman, sitting next to her on a wooden chair.
“M-mommy?” She said hoping that it was all just a nightmare.
“Sorry little one, but you have me mistaken.”
“Where am I and how long have I been here?” Pixy asked with tears in her eyes as her vision cleared, only to prove her worst fears.
“You’re in my home on the south side of the village. My name is Miyako and I am the miko of this village. You’ve been sleeping here for about week now.” Pixy was silent looking up at the miko. “I have a few questions for you. You’re a youkai aren’t you?” She asked looking at the black dragon wings on her back and the black whip-like tail that peeked out from under the covers. “It’s strange, but I do not sense any demonic aura coming from you. How are you masking it?”
“I…” Pixy began timidly. “I’m not a youkai… I am half vampire and half dragon.”
“Dragon?”
“Just like some of your youkai can look ningen and turn into their youkai traits, some dragons can look ningen and transform too.”
“That makes sense… What is your name little one?”
“…Pixy…”
“What happened to you?” Pixy’s eyes widened as images of that terrible event flashed in her mind. Tears fell and she shielded her face within her hands. Miyako embraced the little hybrid and wished she hadn’t asked. “Gomennasai…” She whispered as she held the crying child. The miko remembered how she found Pixy. She was so badly hurt that she thought Pixy would die. Why, however, did the miko take Pixy and nursed her back to health? That was a question the miko first asked herself, but she then had no doubts. Youkai or not, she was still an injured child. The miko looked down at Pixy and sighed as she stroked her long white hair. Eventually Pixy cried herself to sleep in the miko’s arms and from that moment on Miyako decided to take the child in as her own.
Now Pixy had grown into a beautiful young woman, she helps the miko to protect the village, and she made a happy life here. Her only wish was that her brothers could share this new life with her. She rose from her seat and began to get dressed. She wore a black pair of baggy pants with a form fitting red sleeveless belly-shirt. Before dashing out of her room she grabbed her knee length black trench-coat, slipping it on as ran out.
“Ugh! Where is she?!” Cried a very annoyed neko-youkai. Her mid length green hair that was tied back into two low pigtails, swayed back and forth along with her neko-tail as she paced awaiting her tardy friend. “She’s late!” She pouted, kicking the dirt under her feet. Her neko-ears twitched when she heard the distant voice of her friend calling out to her.
“Sapphire!” Pixy waved her arm as she ran up to the neko. “Sorry I’m late, I over slept.”Sapphire sighed.
“Well at least you’re here…”
“…So let’s go to that cave we’ve heard about.” Sapphire face held a nervous expression to Pixy’s suggestion.
“Oh come on, you don’t actually believe that crap about it being cursed do you?”
“Uh let’s see; in a world where youkai, sorcerers, and who knows what thrive… do I really have to answer that?!” Pixy’s only response to that was to laugh. “It’s not funny!” Sapphire fumed.
“Don’t be such a baka. You know that we can handle practically anything that stands in our way.” She said putting on a proud smirk.
“Practically is the key word here.” Sapphire sighed in defeat, knowing full well that Pixy would not give up until she sees this cave for herself, with or without Sapphire. “Fine, let’s go.” Pixy smiled at this then began to lead her friend onward by the hand. The 18 year old neko sighed with a sweat drop to her head. “What if Lady Miyako finds out, you know she told us to stay clear.”
Pixy rolled her eyes. “And you know that if we listened to everything she told us not to do, we wouldn’t have any fun now would we? Besides… we’re 18 and 19 years old, what is she gonna do, spank us?” Pixy laughed at the thought of Lady Miyako chasing them around with a paper fan. After 45 minutes of walking they stop at the base of a mountain. The walls were covered with thick layers of vines and moss and the heavy stench of swamp made their sensitive noses burn from the inside.
“Ugh!” Cried Sapphire while pinching her nose. “Let’s find this cave and get the hell out of here, the smell is noxious!”
“Yeah I agree.” Pixy began to walk along the side of the mountain with her hand against the wall. “Now where is that damn door?” She whispered keeping a sharp eye for any abnormalities in the vines’ patterns. Then there came a draft that danced between her fingers. “Here it is, now if you would do the honors?” Pixy asked as she bowed towards her friend.
“Yeah, yeah…” Sapphire took a deep breath and stood in front of the blocked entrance. She held both arms out and closed her eyes. She focused her youki and with each breath she took, the think vines twitched more and more. Then suddenly when she opened her eyes the vines sprang outward and sunk into the ground. There… where once was a wall of vine, was an opening approximately 9’ high. “That should do it.” The neko said looking quite proud of herself, but then she looked inside. The cave was just as dark as she had imagined, an eerie darkness like that of a presence looming from within. The little hairs on the back of Sapphire’s neck stood up and she turned to Pixy. “Maybe we should go?”
“We came all this way… let’s go.” Pixy then looked at Sapphire by the corner of her eyes then smirked. “Don’t tell me you’re afraid of the dark.” Pixy’s eyes began to glow allowing her eyes to see through the cold darkness. “Gotta love genetics.” She said walking into the cave and Sapphire was close behind her, adjusting her eyes to the dark as well. The girls walked onward hearing the faint orchestra of bats, water dripping down from the stalagmites, and the sound of their footsteps echoing in the cave’s depths.
After exploring for so long the girls came to a dead end. Pixy looked up at the wall with a sigh. “Wow, this is anti-climatic.” Sapphire tugged onto Pixy’s arm with all her might, but to the neko’s dismay she was unable to move her.
“Come on!!! There’s nothing here now let’s go...Pixy?” Sapphire looked up to her friend only to see that the hybrid’s eyes seemed dead, with no emotion like she was in a deep trance. “Pixy, what is it?! Snap out of it!” She tried shaking her, but nothing worked. Suddenly she heard a slight rumbling sound and the ground began to shake beneath them. Sapphire fell to her backside as the earthquake strengthened. The ground suddenly burst open, causing the girls to fall below into the deep darkness of the scared earth. Sapphire’s screams could be heard echoing throughout the cave.