Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Purgatory ❯ No ( Chapter 5 )

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Purgatory

 

Kento heaved a huge sigh. This was the last night of his guard duty. Good, he was really tired. Freakin' hell. He stole a glance at Mia's clock, Ten-thirty. It was too early for the dreams but as he had learned anything was possible. Speaking of Mia…

 

She lay still on her bed, sleeping peacefully. For now, later she would become a raving hellion that he had to cope with for the rest of the night. She had picked up the habit of going to bed a little early so that she could get a little bit of peace in her sleep. Kyra had agreed with this, saying that her soul needed the seclusion and peace of natural sleep to restore her conscience mind and ragged sprit to proper alignment. Whatever the hell that meant.

 

Letting the comic book slip out of his hand Kento sat back and began to think seriously about this situation. He placed his foot up on the nightstand and tilted his chair back. Looking at the ceiling he thought about some of the rougher times in the past. Mia had once tried to lock them out of her bedroom and sleep by herself but they had broken in and stopped her from cutting herself with a piece of broken glass while encompassed in a dream. She had even become so depressed and stressed over the dreams that she tried to kill herself. Sage had been with her on that day, she had gone into the kitchen with a bottle of pain relievers. The sound of a glass crashing to the floor alerted him. He found her on the floor in the kitchen muttering that she couldn't be strong anymore, that she couldn't handle it. She had downed over thirty pills and wouldn't have stopped if he hadn't interrupted her. He raced her to the closest help he could think of. Sage had gone to the Dynasty looking for Sekmhet. The half demon had helped by giving her a draught that had induced vomiting. When she was out of danger he and the others had asked for an explanation.

 

Now, four months later, the former Warlords knew of the problem that haunted Mia. They had even volunteered to take up shifts in the night watches. This was when they truly began to believe. Dais had walked out of Mia's bedroom on that first night of his watch with a black eye. Cale now had a broke arm and Sekmhet now sported multiple bruises. Kyra had meditated, prayed, blessed, chanted, and who knows what else and even she had walked out the next morning with a split lip. When she was gripped by these dreams Mia's strength increased ten-fold. Kento thought of all of the bruises he had sustained when watching over her sleep. Wearing his sub-armor had become second nature again.

 

This was getting ridiculous, but there was nothing that they knew to do other than tie her down. In fact they had tried that but Mia had broken the ropes and the bed. Sedatives didn't help anymore and knocking her out with force usually made matters worse. He was getting to be the only one who could honestly take her in a fight and come out relatively unscathed. Cye had once used his…. Abilities to calm her down, but that had completely exhausted him and he couldn't finish his last night of the watch.

 

The stress was the worst part. It was bad on all of them, worst of all on Yulie. The kid was getting into fights all the time at school, teachers calling asking why his behavior was so bad, lousy grades. Ryo had dropped out so he could get a job helping support the household. Mia had a huge bank account left to her by her grandfather, but they couldn't access it because Mia was restricted to how much she could get out each month. Two thousand dollars was a lot of money but not enough to cover bills, food, tuition, books, and other living and school expenses for a four-month period. And to make matters worse Yulie had come home one day with nasty rumors that Mia was whoring herself out to all of the guys and the strange men seen at her home. The guys all had heard something close to this but it never got to this point. And topping on the cake was that these rumors were getting back to Yulie! Idly Kento wondered at how anybody had seen some “strangers” at her home. She lived in the freaking middle of NOWHERE! Nosey assess.

 

It wasn't long before he began to hear heavy breathing coming from the bed. With a sigh he braced himself for the hell that was sure to begin. Another ten minutes passed and still nothing, just the constant panting. Kento leaned closer, cautious of a sudden blow. Mia's face was twisted in the pattern that was so familiar yet so alien. Rowen had once tried to identify the face but it had eluded him for weeks. He had finally backed off but it still bothered him. She was now panting as if she was running a marathon. In fact…. that is what it seemed to be exactly what she was doing. It sounded like she running and running hard from something. A moan escaped from her, it was a terrified sound, and it was a sound of absolute fear. Gut instincts told Kento to back off and go get help but another part told him to stay and help. How he was going to help he didn't know, but he stayed. Reaching out he took her hand and brushed the sweaty hair back from her forehead. For a long time she remained like that panting and sweating. Hours passed and still no violence.

 

Suddenly Mia threw a punch towards Kento, leaning back it missed him by inches, yet it seemed that she had connected with something. Then a new burst of excited breathing came from her. This was a more controlled breath. Like a fighters exact and excited breath, it was like she was fighting someone in her dream.

 

Listening Kento felt a strange sensation pass over him. Looking at her face and hearing what sounded like a harsh battle brought back memories. Odd ones too. Not the cookie cutter fights he had with Dais, all the same yet different. No these were of a specific battle, with another Warlord, His sanity lost and mind totally controlled by another. This reminded him of his fight with Anubis, and defeating him. Her face… that was what was so familiar! It looked like the face…. And her breathing pattern was the same… as Anubis's! That was how he learned to tell when he would strike, his breathing gave him away! And just like in that fight not so long ago Kento was able to tell when Mia would strike and when he needed to dodge.

 

A sudden scream ripped out of her throat. Bloody Murder! That was a scream of BLOODY MURDER! Kento once thought he knew what those words meant; now he really knew. Violent and raw was the sound. Like a final battle cry before a devastating blow or the last sound a one makes before they are swallowed into death. Mia lunged towards him with the posture of holding something…a sword??? And then she collapsed into his arms, shaking and whimpering with primal fear. Holding her tight he waited for a struggle, but there was none. Then she collapsed totally no sound coming from her at all. Is she okay? Did she win? Did she lose? If she lost does that meant she died in her dream? Wait, if you die in your dream you die here to right!?!?! No, No, No, No, No, NO! Don't be dead! NO! You can't be… NO! MIA! PLEASE!!!

 

All of this and more passed through his mind in nanoseconds. Hands racing to check for life signs. Dimly he heard the others asking questions but his mind was totally on her. Mia, please be okay.