Tsubasa Chronicle Fan Fiction ❯ You're the One to Take Me Away ❯ The Two Gods ( Chapter 15 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Title: You're the One to Take Me Away
Rating: M
Pairing: Kurogane/Fai
Warning/Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Tsubasa. If I did there would be alot more Kuro/Fai moments
Author: Youkohiei_fan (LJ), Tsubasa_fan (FFN.Net)

The two had hastily returned back home to relay the information they had just received from Madoka. Syaoran and Sakura were esctatic about the news and the group made plans to set out the next day to retrieve the feather.

Rays of sunlight washed over the country as morning descended upon the land. Outside stood Kurogane and Syaoran, each had a backpack stuffed full of supplies. Sakura, with Mokona and Yuki tucked securly in her arms, soon came out of the house. Fai followed after, locking the door behind him as he held Ryu in one arm. Using the map that Madoka and gave them they set out for the mountains in the distance.

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They had been walking for hours, the traveling had become harder as the began to reach the mountains; the land becoming steeper as they progressed. Dusk was approaching and they had yet to meet their destination. Deciding against going any furthur at night especially with the twins, they set up camp. Mokona had said that it sensed a feather though it couldn't be for sure, something else was covering it up.

Luckily the good weather held up and the following day the packed up and set out for the mountain in hopes it would reveal a feather. After a few more hours of trekking through steep forested terrain, the family arrived at the mountain. Over the edge of the mountain, Kurogane looked over to see not more rock as expected, but a large crater instead.

As he and Syaoran helped their significant others down the slope, clouds of dust and ash flew up into the air. Once they had made it to the center of the crater Fai was the first to point out the thick layer of ash and what looked like broken glass everywhere.

"But Fai-san, why would there be glass here?" Sakura questioned, confused at the blonde's findings.

"According to the story, a pheonix and dragon fell here, if that's true and there was dirt and sand here than the intense heat that would've hit here would have created the glass and ash here." As he said this Fai bent down to examine the ground closer. Sifting his hand through the ash and dust, he discovered that it was very warm, warmer then what it should have been, even in direct sunlight.

"Kuro-pon, Syaoran-kun, could you dig a hole for me?"

"Why the hell should we?" Kurogane barked back, Syaoran squatted beside Fai and felt the ground.

"The ground feels almost hot here, there maybe be something buried here thats causing it."

The ninja grumbled, and with his student, devested so they could dig. Mokona jumped from syaoran's head and added the two in their digging. Sakura and Fai circled round looking at the perimeter of the black ash. After what seemed like ages a yell from Kurogane alerted the others.

"Fuck, stupid shit burned my hand!" The shinobi leapt up clutching his hand, seething in anger. Fai examined the burned appendage for damage. Syaoran looked at the hole his sensei had dug and saw something white sticking out.

"We need something to dig whatever this is up." Syaoran decided on using Hein's scabbard, scraping through the layers of soot he uncovered most of what Kurogane had touched. Poking through the surface was a skull. It's snout pointed upwards, jagged teeth were exposed from the top jaw, a hollow eye socket glared up at them.

"Oh, Syaoran-kun, what is that? A monster?" Asked his princess.

"No I don't think so, if the legend is true then this could be a dragon skull."

"But why is the ground around it hot? I thought the dragon was a water god?" Sakura was looking around pondering this information.

"Maybe it's because of the pheonix god, it was made of fire after all." Mokona stated as a matter of factly. Fai hugged the creature kissing it and cooing over it.

"Then we'll just have to dig some more." Kurogane rolled up his sleeves and got to work and by mid-day, he and the others had uncovered another skull a few feet from the bones of the dragon. The intense heat that radiated off of it along with the large beak told the others that they had found the pheonix.

Syaoran was in full archeologist mode by now and was examing the small number of unearthed bones. Poking and prodding he noticed how the two skulls seemed to be circling around something. Digging some more found a great pile of ash and soot.

"Kurogane-san, take a look at this. It looks like this might be were the stones might have hit." Wiping sweat of his brow Kurogane walked over looking into the hole the boy had dug. Inside appeared two rocks. One a deep royal blue, the other a garnet red. Everyone felt the power radiating off of them. Slowly Kurogane made to pick them up, but to no avail.

"Argh, they won't budge." Syaoran started digging away at the dirt with his hands, scooping clumps of ash out of the way.

"I have an idea, Syaoran-kun, hold onto Ryu." Syaoran stood, taking his little sister and standing back wondering what Fai's plan was.

"Okay Kuro-pin, I'll grab hold of the stones and you wrap your arms around me and we'll pull together." Fai smiled, shooing the ninja from his attempts at unearthing the gems.

"Fine, and stop with the nicknames!" Kurogane stood, while the blonde dug his hands in the loose dirt atop the stones. "Okay, Kuro-pup, pull, just don't pull mommy's arms off."

"Idiot, hold still and stop squirming." Fai was twitching and wiggling in Kurogane's arms stiffling giggles.

"S-sorry, it tickles."

"Just hold on damnit!" The two pull and after a few curses and snorts of laughter from the ex-vampire, the stones came loose. Sakura gasped and the twins, along with Mokona, laughed as the two adults fell backwards, Fai holding a stone in each hand. Groaning Kurogane rolled the magician off of him.

Fai shook it off and exchanged the gems for Ryu with Syaoran.

"We may need to take these back to Madoka."

"Wait, Mokona senses a feather!!" Mokona screamed, from its perch atop Syaoran's head.

"Where is it Moko-chan?" The manjuuu waddled towards the blonde, who was still clutching the stones. It tapped the stones and turned to the group.

"They're inside these things, though I can barely sense them, we need to crack these stones open!"

"We should take it back to that girl, she seemed to know alot about this."

"I agree with Kuro-pyon, Madoka-san will know what to do." Kurogane took his the cloak he had been wearing and scooped the two stones inside, weary of being burned again.

"Then we should head out, before it gets dark." Syaoran drapped his

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It took another day before they returned. Going inside Madoka's shop the saw the young woman standing behind the front counter leaning against it, her sister resting her back against it.

"Hello, Fai-san, Kurogane-san, and your friends."

"We found what we came here for, but we don't know how to get it out." Mokona stated from Ryu's little arms. Kurogane unwrapped the stones, letting them fall on the table.

"Oh, I see, I'll take them and in a few days come back, what you want from them should be uncovered." She took out a clothe from under the counter, wrapping the red stone in it. Arisu took both in the back.

"So we'll be able to get the feathers from them in a few days?" Asked the archeologist.

"How will you get them out?" Sakura asked, worried as always.

"It's not important, but don't worry, the stones will not be broken." Madoka said she would get started right away, and walked towards the doorway her sister had just left through.

Reappearing moments later she came back with a book in hand. Opening it and laying it down she searched for a certain page. Arisu emerged, both stones now placed in glass containers. She left just as suddenly, heading to the back of the shop.

"The power that fell from the sky, in the legend, was incased in these gems, keeping their immense powers from destroying this world." Arisu had brought an assortment of things with her, including flowers and some kind of blue shimmering powder.

"So the stones are protecting this world?" Sakura remembered what happened in Acid Tokyo and the feather she had left behind.

"Yes, just like the gods who sacrificed themselves for this world, but once you take them, the world will be at balance once again." Madoka smiled reassuring the princess.

She lit a nearby candle holding a dried leaf above it, watching it burn, the smoke swirling in the air. Syaoran and Sakura watched amazed at what the sisters were doing. The others had seen spells done like this before.

A brief incantation from Madoka and Arisu, and the stones seemed to glow. A delicate hand passed over each, a feather emerged as if being pulled from water. The feathers then floated towards Sakura, as if knowing who they belonged to. She absorbed them and immediatley feel into a feather induced slumber. She was caught by Kurogane, who handed the sleeping maiden to her most precious person.

"There you are, she has received her feathers, and now all of you must continue on your journey, oh, and do say hello to Yuuko-san for us." Syaoran stood beside her assuring her that the very next chance he would.

"At least its two less we have to search for now." Fai said as he shifted a sleeping Yuki to his other shoulder.

"Watch out, its a long ways down!" Cried Arisu as she smiled at the fleeting forms of the group. They didn't have enough time to ponder the girls words.