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Title: Shards
Author: KainaSilverbane
Rating: PG-13
Chapter 1) (EDITED!)
Pairing: FujitakaxKaho
Summary:Warning: Kinda bloody, comes from writing way too much Hellsing XP
Disclaimer: I own diddly…will be working on art pieces for this story though.
Chapter 1
“Come on Dad!” The young woman said as she scampered down the sidewalk.
“Slow down Sakura,” her father laughed. Even at fourteen his daughter was still as energetic and free spirited as a ten year old.
“I want to get there and get back before Kero destroys the pie sitting out to cool,” Sakura said.
“You left it out?” Fujitaka asked.
“I had to, there was no room in the refrigerator,” Sakura answered. “There are already two other pies and a cake in there. I still can’t believe you volunteered to do all these desserts for the staff at the university.”
Fujitaka laughed, “This is easy compared the what the culinary professors are working on, I’m just enjoying myself.”
“I see,” Sakura smiled as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small pad of paper and a pencil. “So what else are we getting again?”
“More crust ingredients, lemons, and some more eggs for the cookies,” Fujitaka ticked off on his free hand.
“And Kero asked for blackberries and raspberries,” Sakura smiled. “And I’d rather give in to his wants for the healthy stuff rather than all the candy he loves to put away. He’s going to be a pudgy Guardian if I don’t watch what he puts in that hole in his face.”
Fujitaka laughed loudly, ever since the day he’d learned about Sakura’s mastery over her Sakura Cards and that he was the other half of Clow Reed’s reincarnation, life at the Kinomoto residence had never been the same. The little Guardian Beast was now forever getting himself in the middle of whatever was going on in the house, mostly with what was going on in the kitchen. “I’m sure Yue would love to fire those bullets at him.”
Sakura giggled, “I’m sure he would.”
There was a crash and an explosion a cross street away that knocked both Kinomotos to the ground. Fire erupted from a back alley as a woman darted out into the now dead stopped street. Dodging behind a car saved her from a bolt of lightning that was thrown at her before she had to sprint away again.
Sakura pulled her father to her feet as the woman closed in on them. She passed right by them, seeing them only as something she didn’t want to run into to slow her escape. Sakura recognized the fearful amber eyes they passed by her.
“Ms. Mitsuki?” Sakura stared off in the direction her former teacher had gone before turning back to look and see what was pursuing her. What she found made her eyes go as wide as dinner plate.
Eriol, eyes gone blank, riding atop a white striped and unwilling Spinel, was slowly making his way down the street in the direction Kaho had gone.
“There’s no use running, I will find you!” It wasn’t Eriol’s voice that came from the teenage body, but a deeper, shadowy voice that sent chills down Sakura’s back.
“Why do I get the feeling we shouldn’t be here?” Fujitaka asked as he took one step backwards.
“You want to blame it on the creepy voice or the fire-bolt he’s about to throw at us?” Sakura asked as she scrambled back along the path Kaho had taken, her father on her heels.
“Isn’t that the boy who split his magic with me?” Fujitaka asked as they hurried down the street.
“Yes,” Sakura said as she panned her vision out around her, looking for a place to hide. A hand shot out from the side of her and shoved her and her father away into the middle of an empty street. The sound of fire hissing on the ground and a small whimper of pain turned their attention back to where they had just been.
Kaho stood slightly hunched over as smoke rose off of a weak shield she had put up. Her face was red, signaling the shield had taken the brunt of the attack, but had given her the equivalent of a nasty sunburn.
“Ms. Mitsuki!” Sakura called out.
Kaho’s eyes locked on the girl’s, the fire of fear burning in them, “Get out of here!”
“What’s going on?” Sakura asked as she released her Star Key and released the Shield Card, giving them some protection as they stood against the brunt of Eriol’s attacks.
“Eriol’s possessed by a demon, please you must leave,” Kaho said quickly. “Please, get away from here and home, he won’t attack you if he can’t see you. Go now, I can’t explain anymore!”
“I’m not leaving you here by yourself,” Sakura said stubbornly as she studied her former teacher. She had been thin back when she had been her teacher, but she had been healthy. Now she was rail thin, her usual glowing amber eyes dull and lifeless. Her attire was tattered like she had been in too many fights with no time to recover, and an air about her that defined exhaustion. If the woman were allowed to stay out and fight on her own any more, she wouldn’t be around much longer.
“How do you propose we get away without a distraction?” Kaho asked. As she said this a lightning bolt shattered The Shield, zapping them all harshly before throwing them to the ground.
“Oh, that hurt,” Fujitaka said as he sat up.
“That was a small one,” Kaho said as she stood up quickly. “Take Sakura and get out of here!”
“But…” he didn’t bother finishing his sentence as the woman ran straight for the possessed young man.
Sakura watched with amazement as raw magical energy was collected in her teacher’s right hand, then thrown straight into Eriol’s face in a wide blast, knocking him back and off Spinel.
Kaho landed on the ground and stumbled, nearly falling if Fujitaka hadn’t run up and caught her. He turned to his daughter and asked, “Can you get us out of here?”
Sakura nodded. “Loop!” She had the Card loop them to the park where she knew they’d be safe for a while, or at least long enough to call for reinforcements. Without a word to each other, she, her father, and Kaho jumped back into the looped space.
Eriol was on their tail, but with Spinel fighting as he was, Sakura was able to break the loop before the guardian leapt through, leaving it hitting the pavement back on the other street, with the possessed man spitting curses in frustration.
“He cannot be happy back there,” Fujitaka said as he stood from the kneeling position he’d dropped into after he’d jumped through. He turned to look at the other two people that had followed. He smiled at his daughter, pleased to find her a little rumpled, but no worse for wear. Just a glance at the woman made alarms go off in his head as he watched her eyes begin to fade. He caught her before she passed and turned to his daughter, “Think Kero would mind coming down here?”
“If he does, then there’s no cake for him,” Sakura said as she pulled out her cell phone.
OOOO
Her eyes blinked open to an unfamiliar ceiling. She still ached everywhere, but less than usual. Sitting up slowly she took a look around and found herself in a living room laying on a couch.
Reaching out magically, she touched each presence she felt in the house. One was Sakura, one Kero, and the other Fujitaka. She couldn’t find Toya’s presence so she assumed he was either out on an errand or possibly away at a college. She wasn’t sure.
Feeling something bound around her arms and forehead she brought up her left arm to inspect it. To her surprise she found clean bandages wrapped from the palm of her hand all the way up her arm. She found the same on her right arm and assumed a clean bandage job on her forehead.
“So how am I going to get out of here?” She asked to no one in particular. “Coming back here was a stupid idea, now I have them involved…something I didn’t want to have them apart of…I’m such an idiot…” She halted her murmuring when she heard footsteps coming in her direction and a door sliding open. She looked up and found Sakura peering at her from the kitchen.
“I was right Dad, she is awake,” Sakura said over her shoulder before sliding the door open farther so she could walk in and over to the couch where Kaho sat. Fujitaka followed her at a calm, placid pace, with a warm smile directed at the woman.
“How do you feel?” The man asked her and Kaho felt a shiver go up her spine at the sound of his voice.
“Better,” she answered without missing a beat, wondering why she had reacted to his voice that way. “Still ache everywhere, but nothing like it was.”
“I’m surprised you were walking around with the burns and wounds you had,” Fujitaka said as he posted himself against the back of the couch and looked down at her. “Thankfully what power Eriol gave me allows me to heal a little, giving me the ability to heal your burns down to the equivalent of a sunburn and I closed the slash wounds on your arms.”
“Thank you,” Kaho said with a small smile.
“No thanks needed,” Fujitaka said as he rested his elbows on the top of the couch, “So, think you can stay awake long enough to tell us what’s going on with Eriol?”
“I just…” but before she could protest that she had just woken up, she started to feel the want for more sleep nag at her body. She smothered a yawn with the back of her hand and made a face at the grinning man above her.
“Even when Dad heals minor things, like scraped knees, it always makes you sleepy,” Sakura said. “A large healing like you just had will make you want to sleep for a while more. But we would like to know what’s going on sooner or later.”
“I can stay awake for that much,” Kaho said and sighed before collecting her thoughts and beginning very bland, censored version of her tale. “…I guess it’s been a little over a year now, since Eriol discovered a hidden workroom of Clow Reed’s in his manor in England. It had been magically locked and sealed, but all of the bindings had been weakened over time, so Eriol had no problem overriding the locks and opening the workroom. Inside were instruments and books of the like he nor I had ever heard of, all seemingly harmless at the time, but something about the room to me just wasn’t right.
“Over the course of a few weeks Eriol began to change,” Kaho continued. “He became withdrawn, spending all of his time locked away in that workroom working on…something…
“When he stopped coming out of the workroom to do normal things like eating or sleeping, Spinel, Ruby, and I decided to look into what he was doing.” Kaho frowned, “That was our biggest mistake. I opened the door to the workroom and was lucky to not have been sucked in. The room had been turned a dimensional rift that was, in its current state, more like a black hole than a tunnel leading somewhere else.
“This enraged Eriol…or now the demon within Eriol,” Kaho explained, “Spinel and I think there was a dormant demon living in one of the instruments or books in the room that sprang to life as Eriol used it. Whatever the case may be, he attacked me, being the first person he saw. Nakuru pushed me away before the attack could hit me, and took it herself.” She closed her eyes to try and hide her sorrow.
“It killed her…”
“What?” Sakura asked in disbelief, unwilling to believe that the bubbly Nakuru was no longer alive.
“The attacked killed her,” Kaho assured her, “and knocked out the balance of power between her and Spinel. To compensate, Spinel pulled what was left and Nakuru’s power into him, melding into the balance of both, which is why you now see him as black and white.” She paused in her story to allow them to digest all that she had said.
“The demon in Eriol is now bent on killing all of the people Eriol ever knew,” Kaho answered. “Starting with the first person it saw. Thankfully, I think it can only focus it’s killing on one person at a time, so I knew I’d be able to get to you and warn you before he decided to try harming you. Which is why I have to leave and get him as far away from you as possible, so maybe, if I can’t beat him on my own, it will give you time to prepare yourself before he can get to you.” Her eyelids were a lot heavier than she remembered them being.
“You’re not going anywhere,” Sakura said as the woman’s vision began to fade. “We aren’t going to let you fight alone anymore.”
“But I don’t want to…” Kaho murmured as Fujitaka gently pushed her back down onto the couch, “get you involved.”
“We’ll talk later,” Fujitaka told her warmly, “Sleep now.” Adding what little magic he knew to his words, Kaho slept.
OOOO
Okay, this has been thoroughly edited once, but please point out any more mistakes that I've missed, or have shown up due to scene alterations.
Author: KainaSilverbane
Rating: PG-13
Chapter 1) (EDITED!)
Pairing: FujitakaxKaho
Summary:Warning: Kinda bloody, comes from writing way too much Hellsing XP
Disclaimer: I own diddly…will be working on art pieces for this story though.
Chapter 1
“Come on Dad!” The young woman said as she scampered down the sidewalk.
“Slow down Sakura,” her father laughed. Even at fourteen his daughter was still as energetic and free spirited as a ten year old.
“I want to get there and get back before Kero destroys the pie sitting out to cool,” Sakura said.
“You left it out?” Fujitaka asked.
“I had to, there was no room in the refrigerator,” Sakura answered. “There are already two other pies and a cake in there. I still can’t believe you volunteered to do all these desserts for the staff at the university.”
Fujitaka laughed, “This is easy compared the what the culinary professors are working on, I’m just enjoying myself.”
“I see,” Sakura smiled as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small pad of paper and a pencil. “So what else are we getting again?”
“More crust ingredients, lemons, and some more eggs for the cookies,” Fujitaka ticked off on his free hand.
“And Kero asked for blackberries and raspberries,” Sakura smiled. “And I’d rather give in to his wants for the healthy stuff rather than all the candy he loves to put away. He’s going to be a pudgy Guardian if I don’t watch what he puts in that hole in his face.”
Fujitaka laughed loudly, ever since the day he’d learned about Sakura’s mastery over her Sakura Cards and that he was the other half of Clow Reed’s reincarnation, life at the Kinomoto residence had never been the same. The little Guardian Beast was now forever getting himself in the middle of whatever was going on in the house, mostly with what was going on in the kitchen. “I’m sure Yue would love to fire those bullets at him.”
Sakura giggled, “I’m sure he would.”
There was a crash and an explosion a cross street away that knocked both Kinomotos to the ground. Fire erupted from a back alley as a woman darted out into the now dead stopped street. Dodging behind a car saved her from a bolt of lightning that was thrown at her before she had to sprint away again.
Sakura pulled her father to her feet as the woman closed in on them. She passed right by them, seeing them only as something she didn’t want to run into to slow her escape. Sakura recognized the fearful amber eyes they passed by her.
“Ms. Mitsuki?” Sakura stared off in the direction her former teacher had gone before turning back to look and see what was pursuing her. What she found made her eyes go as wide as dinner plate.
Eriol, eyes gone blank, riding atop a white striped and unwilling Spinel, was slowly making his way down the street in the direction Kaho had gone.
“There’s no use running, I will find you!” It wasn’t Eriol’s voice that came from the teenage body, but a deeper, shadowy voice that sent chills down Sakura’s back.
“Why do I get the feeling we shouldn’t be here?” Fujitaka asked as he took one step backwards.
“You want to blame it on the creepy voice or the fire-bolt he’s about to throw at us?” Sakura asked as she scrambled back along the path Kaho had taken, her father on her heels.
“Isn’t that the boy who split his magic with me?” Fujitaka asked as they hurried down the street.
“Yes,” Sakura said as she panned her vision out around her, looking for a place to hide. A hand shot out from the side of her and shoved her and her father away into the middle of an empty street. The sound of fire hissing on the ground and a small whimper of pain turned their attention back to where they had just been.
Kaho stood slightly hunched over as smoke rose off of a weak shield she had put up. Her face was red, signaling the shield had taken the brunt of the attack, but had given her the equivalent of a nasty sunburn.
“Ms. Mitsuki!” Sakura called out.
Kaho’s eyes locked on the girl’s, the fire of fear burning in them, “Get out of here!”
“What’s going on?” Sakura asked as she released her Star Key and released the Shield Card, giving them some protection as they stood against the brunt of Eriol’s attacks.
“Eriol’s possessed by a demon, please you must leave,” Kaho said quickly. “Please, get away from here and home, he won’t attack you if he can’t see you. Go now, I can’t explain anymore!”
“I’m not leaving you here by yourself,” Sakura said stubbornly as she studied her former teacher. She had been thin back when she had been her teacher, but she had been healthy. Now she was rail thin, her usual glowing amber eyes dull and lifeless. Her attire was tattered like she had been in too many fights with no time to recover, and an air about her that defined exhaustion. If the woman were allowed to stay out and fight on her own any more, she wouldn’t be around much longer.
“How do you propose we get away without a distraction?” Kaho asked. As she said this a lightning bolt shattered The Shield, zapping them all harshly before throwing them to the ground.
“Oh, that hurt,” Fujitaka said as he sat up.
“That was a small one,” Kaho said as she stood up quickly. “Take Sakura and get out of here!”
“But…” he didn’t bother finishing his sentence as the woman ran straight for the possessed young man.
Sakura watched with amazement as raw magical energy was collected in her teacher’s right hand, then thrown straight into Eriol’s face in a wide blast, knocking him back and off Spinel.
Kaho landed on the ground and stumbled, nearly falling if Fujitaka hadn’t run up and caught her. He turned to his daughter and asked, “Can you get us out of here?”
Sakura nodded. “Loop!” She had the Card loop them to the park where she knew they’d be safe for a while, or at least long enough to call for reinforcements. Without a word to each other, she, her father, and Kaho jumped back into the looped space.
Eriol was on their tail, but with Spinel fighting as he was, Sakura was able to break the loop before the guardian leapt through, leaving it hitting the pavement back on the other street, with the possessed man spitting curses in frustration.
“He cannot be happy back there,” Fujitaka said as he stood from the kneeling position he’d dropped into after he’d jumped through. He turned to look at the other two people that had followed. He smiled at his daughter, pleased to find her a little rumpled, but no worse for wear. Just a glance at the woman made alarms go off in his head as he watched her eyes begin to fade. He caught her before she passed and turned to his daughter, “Think Kero would mind coming down here?”
“If he does, then there’s no cake for him,” Sakura said as she pulled out her cell phone.
OOOO
Her eyes blinked open to an unfamiliar ceiling. She still ached everywhere, but less than usual. Sitting up slowly she took a look around and found herself in a living room laying on a couch.
Reaching out magically, she touched each presence she felt in the house. One was Sakura, one Kero, and the other Fujitaka. She couldn’t find Toya’s presence so she assumed he was either out on an errand or possibly away at a college. She wasn’t sure.
Feeling something bound around her arms and forehead she brought up her left arm to inspect it. To her surprise she found clean bandages wrapped from the palm of her hand all the way up her arm. She found the same on her right arm and assumed a clean bandage job on her forehead.
“So how am I going to get out of here?” She asked to no one in particular. “Coming back here was a stupid idea, now I have them involved…something I didn’t want to have them apart of…I’m such an idiot…” She halted her murmuring when she heard footsteps coming in her direction and a door sliding open. She looked up and found Sakura peering at her from the kitchen.
“I was right Dad, she is awake,” Sakura said over her shoulder before sliding the door open farther so she could walk in and over to the couch where Kaho sat. Fujitaka followed her at a calm, placid pace, with a warm smile directed at the woman.
“How do you feel?” The man asked her and Kaho felt a shiver go up her spine at the sound of his voice.
“Better,” she answered without missing a beat, wondering why she had reacted to his voice that way. “Still ache everywhere, but nothing like it was.”
“I’m surprised you were walking around with the burns and wounds you had,” Fujitaka said as he posted himself against the back of the couch and looked down at her. “Thankfully what power Eriol gave me allows me to heal a little, giving me the ability to heal your burns down to the equivalent of a sunburn and I closed the slash wounds on your arms.”
“Thank you,” Kaho said with a small smile.
“No thanks needed,” Fujitaka said as he rested his elbows on the top of the couch, “So, think you can stay awake long enough to tell us what’s going on with Eriol?”
“I just…” but before she could protest that she had just woken up, she started to feel the want for more sleep nag at her body. She smothered a yawn with the back of her hand and made a face at the grinning man above her.
“Even when Dad heals minor things, like scraped knees, it always makes you sleepy,” Sakura said. “A large healing like you just had will make you want to sleep for a while more. But we would like to know what’s going on sooner or later.”
“I can stay awake for that much,” Kaho said and sighed before collecting her thoughts and beginning very bland, censored version of her tale. “…I guess it’s been a little over a year now, since Eriol discovered a hidden workroom of Clow Reed’s in his manor in England. It had been magically locked and sealed, but all of the bindings had been weakened over time, so Eriol had no problem overriding the locks and opening the workroom. Inside were instruments and books of the like he nor I had ever heard of, all seemingly harmless at the time, but something about the room to me just wasn’t right.
“Over the course of a few weeks Eriol began to change,” Kaho continued. “He became withdrawn, spending all of his time locked away in that workroom working on…something…
“When he stopped coming out of the workroom to do normal things like eating or sleeping, Spinel, Ruby, and I decided to look into what he was doing.” Kaho frowned, “That was our biggest mistake. I opened the door to the workroom and was lucky to not have been sucked in. The room had been turned a dimensional rift that was, in its current state, more like a black hole than a tunnel leading somewhere else.
“This enraged Eriol…or now the demon within Eriol,” Kaho explained, “Spinel and I think there was a dormant demon living in one of the instruments or books in the room that sprang to life as Eriol used it. Whatever the case may be, he attacked me, being the first person he saw. Nakuru pushed me away before the attack could hit me, and took it herself.” She closed her eyes to try and hide her sorrow.
“It killed her…”
“What?” Sakura asked in disbelief, unwilling to believe that the bubbly Nakuru was no longer alive.
“The attacked killed her,” Kaho assured her, “and knocked out the balance of power between her and Spinel. To compensate, Spinel pulled what was left and Nakuru’s power into him, melding into the balance of both, which is why you now see him as black and white.” She paused in her story to allow them to digest all that she had said.
“The demon in Eriol is now bent on killing all of the people Eriol ever knew,” Kaho answered. “Starting with the first person it saw. Thankfully, I think it can only focus it’s killing on one person at a time, so I knew I’d be able to get to you and warn you before he decided to try harming you. Which is why I have to leave and get him as far away from you as possible, so maybe, if I can’t beat him on my own, it will give you time to prepare yourself before he can get to you.” Her eyelids were a lot heavier than she remembered them being.
“You’re not going anywhere,” Sakura said as the woman’s vision began to fade. “We aren’t going to let you fight alone anymore.”
“But I don’t want to…” Kaho murmured as Fujitaka gently pushed her back down onto the couch, “get you involved.”
“We’ll talk later,” Fujitaka told her warmly, “Sleep now.” Adding what little magic he knew to his words, Kaho slept.
OOOO
Okay, this has been thoroughly edited once, but please point out any more mistakes that I've missed, or have shown up due to scene alterations.