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Ryuu was at the outpost, alone. Seiji had gone out to do whatever, leaving Ryuu home after he'd promised not to leave the small clearing. Currently, he was outside, quietly nibbling on a long stalk of catnip. He could smell the upcoming rain. Sighing, he pushed himself to his feet. Brushing past a bramble bush, he froze, eyes widening. Images swelled behind his purple eyes, and he tensed. A large willow tree; the thunderstorm; the tree falling; and then the prophecy. This time, however more was added on to the beginning of the prophecy. All will be lost if the light cannot break the darkness surrounding the delicate purple flower. If the purple flower falls to darkness, the light will be endangered. Just as the lightning crushed the tree, light will crush the darkness. And then it ended. He could feel himself getting colder and colder, until he finally forced his eyes open as a rain drop landed on his nose.
Just what is the darkness? And what about light? There's no light I can muster up to defeat the darkness of my mind, and the whispers, though they've become excited recently, haven't told me anything! A thought struck him. Is... is the light... Seiji? True, he and Seiji had become comfortable around each other and Seiji no longer seemed to mind any hugs or cuddles Ryuu gave him, but was Seiji the light that would save him? Another drop landed on his nose. Ryuu was lying on the grass, and he stood up, rushing into the outpost. Seiji had tried to help Ryuu out by cleaning up the floor so that he wouldn't trip, and right now the young teen was grateful for that. Scampering upstairs, he found that Seiji still wasn't home. Just then, a loud boom of thunder scared the poor teen out of his wits, and he swung himself into the empty closet he hid in whenever there was trouble about. He may have been okay at fighting but he hated to fight, as whenever he fought he seemed to forget who he was and what he was doing. As he shivered in the closet, someone came in. Sending his senses out, he discovered Seiji.
"Hello? Ryuu?" his friend called. Too frightened to answer, Ryuu lifted one trembling hand and knocked once, loudly, on the door to the closet. Seiji had apparently heard, as he could hear him coming up the stairs hurriedly, as though afraid. It was true - he did sometimes go into what he called 'mind lock' whenever he was frightened, and he'd done it enough times to have Seiji worried if he was too frightened to speak. The door to the closet opened, and strong arms pulled him out of the closet and held him close. Seiji's warm, sort of musty-in-a-good-way smell drifted into his senses, and Ryuu held onto his friend for dear life and he shook. Sure, the tall older teen was damp, but he wasn't soaked through. He must have been on his way home when the storm started. "Shh, it's okay, I'm here now, the thunderstorm can't hurt you," the other soothed, and Ryuu relaxed his grip slightly. Seiji laid down on the bed, obviously tired, and the younger teen cuddled up to him to keep him warm. The two fell asleep like that, with the covers pulled lightly over them.
The next morning, Seiji had a fever. Tsking, Ryuu gently shoved Seiji back down onto the bed when he tried to get up.
"You," Ryuu said, wagging his finger at his now-sick friend, "need to stay in bed. Hold on, I'll make you some feverfew and borage tea, and then you'll be better tomorrow."
Seiji complained, "But your herb tea is so bitter!"
Ryuu stifled a laugh as he replied, "Feverfew and borage are suppose to be bitter! I'll mix in some lavender petals this time, if it'll make you feel better. Lavender is pretty sweet, which would balance out the sour."
Seiji groaned again and nodded once. Smiling gently, he softly stepped down the stairs and started boiling some water in a kettle. Disappearing outside, the teen gently picked some of the borage leaves off of the short tree in the yard, and collected the feverfew from a nearby bush. Lavender was a bit harder to find, but he eventually found it a little bit away from the outpost in the woods. Coming back, the kettle began to boil, and Ryuu dropped the leaves into the kettle. In only a few minutes, it was ready, and Ryuu carefully poured a cup for Seiji. Carrying it upstairs proved to be a hard task, as he almost tripped. Four times. It was alright though, he managed to not spill the drink on himself or the floor, carrying it into the room safely. Seiji seemed to be asleep, so Ryuu set the herb tea on the dresser.
An hour passed. Seiji had awoken and drank the tea gratefully, but now he seemed to be having a hard time falling back asleep. Maybe I should've added poppy seeds.... nah, that would've made him throw up, with the feverfew, boarage, and lavender in there. Still, maybe a dandelion leaf...
"Do you want to hear the song of me and you?"
Seiji made a slight humming noise, saying that he approved without upsetting his sore throat.
Ryuu sighed, and began to sing.
"I'm so sorry for being alive. A habit I keep on saying. I've always been silently complaining... A meaningless existence. Everybody I've ever met is a normal person... I'm an outcast, trying to hide from the world."
Here, Ryuu paused, letting the words sink in before continuing.
"Deep in the forest stands an old, twisted tree. I like to go there and pray to Din. Living all alone is very sad. I just want someone, anyone to be my friend..."
He paused again, tears pricking his eyes. He forced himself to continue on with the song.
"I helped him so long ago... It began when I pulled my brother up off the ground after he'd been in a fight with my other brother. Before long, we grew close... but he is very different from you. He was the only sibling I ever knew, but he was the best brother... Everyone loved him for his kindness and skill at protecting defenseless little me. "
"'Why are you being so kind to me? Are you just pitying me for being weak and inferior to you?' He gently held me as I cringed from the words I just said... 'I protect you because you're my brother and I love you.' I began crying right in his arms."
Pausing again, he wiped away the tears coming down his face as Seiji laid a burning hand on his. Forcing himself to continue, he sang softly,
"Even if the whole world laughed and pitied me... I had someone who loved and needed me, and that was enough to make me happy. We ran away from the village to live in the forest. Even though everything seems unfamiliar, it's okay because we're together. We both learned how to care for the other, him hunting and me healing... it was something we did in order to survive. One day, a big man came upon us, though I wasn't seen. Their encounter twisted everything. He seemed nice enough, and he even gave my brother training. Enough training that he left us for a while."
"And then he came back with a gun. His master gave the order; I knew because of my dreams. 'Find the younger child, and kill him before he finds out too much.' Everyone, everyone was gone. Except for me, the healer of shyness. I wish I could have died in your place. Why... why?"
"I'm so sorry for being alive. A habit I keep on saying. I've always been silently complaining... A meaningless existence. I started living at the edge of the forest in a field. I heard a rumor that a tall male teenager was stealing things from the town. I met him in town. It began when I saved him from the guards by pulling him into an alleyway. Before long, we became close. But me and him are very different."
He stopped talking here, not wanting to finish the song. However, Seiji's gentle gaze urged him to finish the song.
"In the silence of the night at my brother's grave... I heard the snap of a twig behind me. No! H-How can this be?! It truly was... The man who shot my brother. I dropped onto all fours, ignoring him as he spoke. I begin closing in on him."
"I leap at him, but I'm hit away into a tree. I leap again, latching on... I sink my teeth into his throat... There's something I have to apologize to you for. I made you worry after I went into mind lock."
"I'm still the child I was back then. A very, very lonely teen. Living all alone... Is very sad. That friend who was worried for me... Helped me get better quickly."
"The encouragement he gave me... Stopped my nightmares. At the moment in the forest... I saw something behind my target. I know exactly who that white-haired teen was."
He ended his song, smiling as one lone tear disappeared down his face as he turned his sightless gaze on his friend.
Seiji had gotten better rather quickly with his herb tea, and Ryuu had finally allowed him out of the house. Of course, Seiji had immediately gone off to do whatever in the town, probably stealing food, leaving Ryuu alone as he slept. Right now, however, he was awake, awaiting Seiji's return like a puppy, sitting about 2 feet away from the front door, his senses trained on the door. He could hear someone clomping around outside. And it wasn't Seiji hoping to surprise him. His happy pants turned to whimpers of fear and he backed away from the door, struck with terror as someone came in. This person was large, he could tell that much. From the way the person moved towards him as he backed away further, the person was muscular. The scent told him that the person was female.
Whimpering, he managed to avoid her attempts to grab him, escaping upstairs and into the closet. He could hear her calling out for him, but he remained silent. If she knew his name, then maybe he'd come out, but if she didn't, then she couldn't be trusted. Encounters with people had left him wary after he met Seiji, and he wasn't about to be captured and used against Seiji. The woman was searching the house. He shrank back into a corner of the closet, fervently hoping that she wouldn't check up here.
"What are you doing here?" Seiji's surprised and angry voice sounded from below. "What have you done with Ryuu?!" He could hear Seiji getting angrier. Then, sounds of fighting ensued. Ryuu sneaked out of the closet and quietly slipped downstairs. He stayed put on the stairs, and flinched when something shattered on the ground near him, which caused little glass pieces to cut into his hands. He shrank back, frightened. A whimper escaped him. Immediately, the fighting stopped. The female was shoved roughly; she snapped at him. Seiji carefully picked up the frightened blind teenager, and he could feel the glare that the woman shot at him, sharp as daggers. He visibly winced.
Seiji must have returned the glare, because the woman's gaze withered quickly as Seiji held Ryuu closer.
"You may have had your friend to back you up this time, Shikari, but next time, you're dead meat. Dead meat!" The woman disappeared, and for a second he thought she was a magic user. Then he remembered her scent - she was human. Seiji didn't smell like she did; he didn't have the earthly scent of all humans. Instead, his musty smell was light and airy, as though he wasn't a human but instead something else. I can't think of the name right now... kind of like a bird's scent but... different somehow...
"I thought she had hurt you," Seiji whispered. He breathed a sigh of relief and held Ryuu close. Shoving his face into Seiji's shoulder, Ryuu wished that he really was okay. There was no doubt that this encounter would bring more nightmares.
Ryuu awoke with a start. With a jolt of realization, he realized he was dreaming. The dream forest he'd been visiting for the past 3 weeks had not changed, except to get darker than before. This dark forest was beginning to scare him. A twig snapped and he whirled around, ready to face whoever was behind him. No one was there. Then, the constant whispers in his ears became loud. "Run away, run away, Seiji will hurt you, run away!" they shrieked. He woke up for real this time, panting. He turned his sightless gazde to his friend before getting up and opening the window. I'm sorry, Seiji. I'm only following the orders that the whispers gave me. I'm sorry. With that, he hopped out of the window, landing on all fours and rolling to dissipate the energy. With that, he ran into the forest, looking back only once at the edge of the forest.
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A black-haired, blue-eyed spirit, a little older than Ryuuka, stepped into a white-haired, red-eyed teen's dream. The place was full of snow, and he shivered. Sighing, he hoped he had done the right thing to alert this person of Ryuu's disappearance. darn those spirits, always whispering in his ears! he cured silently, before giving a tentative call into the darkness. "Seiji? It's Illusion here. What I have to say can't wait until tomorrow. It's about Ryuu, my brother."
Ryuu sat wearily beneath a tree. He'd been running for two days straight without rest, and he was still lost in the forest. Being blind made it harder to move through the forest, and he had tripped plenty of times. He began to cough, and after a bit blood dripped out of his mouth. It's too cold to be out here... but I can't go back. It was the middle of winter, and Ryuu was freezing. It had begun snowing about an hour back, and now it was beginning to become a blizzard. He had to keep moving, so that he wouldn't die of cold. Sighing, he shoved himself back onto his feet and continued walking.
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Seiji was panicking. He'd heard Illusion's warning that Ryuu had left for the forest, and he'd awoken shaking. Glancing over to where Ryuu usually slept, he was gone. There was nothing there. He couldn't even leave a note because of his blindness, which prevented him for writing intelligibly. It was snowing outside, and while he may have been happy about this at a different time, Ryuu could freeze to death outside. He was still underweight, and probably wouldn't be able to fight off sickness. His red eyes landed on the open window. So he'd sneaked out the window then. Seiji sighed, and left the outpost. He had to find Ryuuka before he caught ill. Or worse...
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"Get up, kid. Come on, you're gonna freeze to death." Ryuu groaned and found himself colder than he'd ever been. He hadn't meant to fall asleep. He must have fallen asleep while walking through the forest. The woman's voice was unfamiliar, but soft. He blinked open his unseeing eyes and tried to locate the woman. He heard her gasp in shock, and then he was being picked up. Fear and panic surged through him, but he was too tired and too weak to struggle. And then... and then warmth. He had fallen asleep again, and she had brought him somewhere warm.
"Good, you're awake. Now maybe you can tell us what you were doing in the snowstorm?" Ryuu flinched at the voice. The voice belonged to a male, and was rough.
"Father, stop it, you're scaring the poor mite." His savior was back, but he couldn't help but be frightened. A hand was laid on his head softly.
"What were you doing in the snowstorm, though? Surely you aren't alone, what with being blind..." For some odd reason, the mention of his disability as though he couldn't take care of himself shot fury through him.
"I can take care of myself!" he snapped, and the hand jerked back instantly. "I'm grateful for your help, but I've been alone for most of my life. I know how to take care of myself." The two were confused, and while they tried to figure out what he meant, he made his escape, darting out of the bed and back into the snowstorm. He ignored the woman's calls to come back, and the man's explanation to the girl. Long after he'd left them, he felt something touch his back, colder than anything on Hyrule. He stiffened and whirled around, frightened and ready to attack. However, no one was there. He continued on with a determined sigh.
Something brushed his hand. A rock with a bunch of small carvings in it. Familiarity with the place shot through him, and he crouched, looking for something. The stick, where's the stick? Surely it can't be gone? And then his hand brushed wood. The stick. He pulled it out of its hiding place. The stick had many small lines in it, some of them were crossed out with another diagonal line, while some were left unmarked. He hadn't discovered what it meant yet, but he wanted to. He picked it up and climbed under the rock with it. It was warmer under the rock, and he fell asleep.
When he awoke, he burned with fever. Unfortunately, there wouldn't be any herbs to soothe it. He was vaguely aware of someone carrying him, and Seiji's scent. He must have been found. Sighing in content at how warm Seiji was, he snuggled in Seiji's chest and fell back asleep.
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Ryuu awoke with the familiar outpost scents around him. He could scent Seiji sleeping next to him. Immediately, worry flooded his mind. Had Seiji caught his fever? He tried to move to check, but he was suddenly aware that Seiji was sleeping halfway on top of him, trapping him along with the terrible aches in his body. Seiji was warm, and he was freezing cold despite the fact that he could feel heat pulsing off of his body in waves. He shifted closer to his friend, trying to get warmer before finally giving up and falling back asleep.
"Ryuu?"
Seiji's urgent speech awoke him.
Ryuu pushed him away with a burning hand. "Let me sleep..."
This seemed to appease Seiji somewhat, but as he shivered Ryuu could feel Seiji's relief fade away into worry and panic. He wanted to reassure Seiji that he'd be okay, but he couldn't force the words past his frost-scorched throat. He shifted onto his stomach and shoved his face into the pillow, wanting to go back to sleep. Luckily, Seiji did not ask what he'd been doing, wandering off into the forest, but instead tried to help in any way possible. Questions wouldn't help at all, and Seiji knew that. Ryuu yawned and curled into a ball, trying to conserve any body heat he had, and try to keep any heat coming off of him from the fever nearby to keep him warm.
"You're lucky you didn't freeze to death," Seiji chided gently when Ryuu had apologized for running off. "Just stay here, with me, for a few days. Once the snow melts, you can go back outside." Ryuu knew that Seiji was being logical here. His disappearance had frightened Seiji beyond belief, and now that Ryuu was ill, with no medicine, he could die. Seiji had taken to simply sharing the bed with Ryuu, which he was grateful for. Seiji was warm, and he was cold. Therefore, having Seiji share the bed made him warm.
After a few days, the fever got worse without treatment. Ryuu found that he couldn't focus on anything, and sometimes he would cry out in fear whenever he thought that Seiji wasn't nearby. However, Seiji would always be there, right next to him, to calm him back into the restoring sleep. He began to hallucinate, unreal sounds and scents coming to him, and one time Seiji had to stop him from climbing out the window again. Something similar to "But Illusion's outside" sprang from his mouth, and Seiji worriedly closed the window and put him back in bed. Ryuu heard the click of a lock locking. Ryuu began to stare off into space frightfully, as though something was there. Whenever Seiji questioned him, he would answer, "Don't you see the monster? You have sight after all." Sometimes, a slight note of bitterness would edge his words as he spoke, but Seiji dismissed anything he said as the fever's effect unless he was totally sure that Ryuu was being serious, separate from the illness.
One day, he awoke to find that he could focus again, and that there were no sounds or scents other than the familiar ones of the outpost. He could sense Seiji clearly beside him for once, and Seiji's light breathing as he slept. Ryuu gave a small smile, and he could have sworn that Seiji knew right before he fell back asleep.
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Finally, as the snow melted, Ryuu also got better. Seiji now sometimes left the outpost, but never for long. However, one day Seiji had to go out for a while, and he allowed Ryuu to play out in the clearing. Happy, the first thing he did was check the catnip. It was disappointing to find out that it had been scorched by the frost and that it had died. The coltsfoot and tansy were doing okay, but they had been damaged. The feverfew and borage had done the best; only a few leaves had wilted and even less had been scorched. A crack in the forest alerted him to something, and as he swung his head towards the sound he already knew that the person was not a threat. Or, in that case, the fox. The fox trotted towards him, and he crouched to meet it. It nuzzled his face affectionately, and he immediately recognized it. The fox's name was Kitsune, and she had always been a dear friend of his. She had taken care of him for about half a year when Illusion first died. Given he had not heard from her in about 2 years, he was happy she had managed to find him.
"Hello, Kitsune!" he barked out happily, and she returned his greeting with a sharper bark.
"Hello, Ryuuka! It's nice to see you again. Winter was harsh, wasn't it? Harsher than usual."
"Now that you mention it, it was. I hope that you managed okay."
"I managed okay, but you didn't. I led your friend to you when I saw you while hunting. He was trying to follow you but you were about 2 miles away from him, and I could tell he wouldn't check under the rock."
"Thanks, Kitsune. You know, you smell... different. Did you have cubs?"
"I did. They came with me, in fact."
After she barked that to him, he felt two wet noses sniff at his legs. He reached down a soft hand and nuzzled behind their ears.
"What are their names?"
At his question, she gently led his hands over them to tell him which fox kit she was talking about.
"The big dog-cub is Bear, and the small vixen-cub is Mallow."
"After the herb, mallow, right? She must be such a sweet little one then."
Kitsune laughed quietly, and nuzzled his face again. She gave him a soft goodbye and rounded her kits to him. They were about to leave the clearing when he called for Kitsune to wait. He carefully piked a few feverfew leaves off the tree, and crouched down near Kitsune to give them to her.
"Mallow seems like she has a fever. Give her that after her next feeding, alright?"
"Alright. Thanks, Ryuu. Bye."
He watched them go, and turned back to his herbs. He felt a small glimmer of happiness, but it was immediately washed over with concern for his herbs. Almost all of them were ruined, which meant that until spring there would be no herbs for sickness or strength. At least the burdock root is doing okay, he thought bitterly, and then remembered about the feverfew and boarage. So, not everything was bad. He pulled out his dagger and began to play a dangerous game called the Knife Game. He stabbed his dagger through the spaces between his fingers, reciting an old rhyme.
"Oh, I have all my fingers. The knife goes chop, chop, chop. If I miss the spaces in-between my fingers will come off. And if I hit my fingers, the blood will soon come out. But all the same, I play this game, cause that's what it's all about."
Ryuu sped up then, as the song told him to.
"Oh, chop chop chop chop chop chop, I'm picking up the speed. And if I hit my fingers then my hand will start to bleed."
The knife just barely grazed his skin as he stabbed it down as he stabbed where his hand should have been. He felt a surge of pride at winning the game flow through him, and he stood up from where he was playing on the forst bitten ground and headed inside. Once inside, he fell asleep.
Ryuu awoke to a resistance against his face, and realized, with a blush, that the resistance was Seiji's chest. He must have come in and also fallen asleep. The younger teen couldn't even move due to the way that Seiji was holding him; Seiji's arms were locked around his back, which prevented him from moving away without waking up the older teen. Deciding to make the most of it, he snuggled deeper into Seiji's shirt. He felt the older teen's arms move to hold him closer, and realized faintly that Seiji must have been awake. Then the darkness of sleep claimed him again.
When he woke up again, Seiji was awake and gently shaking him awake.
"Wha' is it?" he mumbled, half-asleep. Seiji laughed quietly at the smaller boy's half-asleep question before answering.
"It's time for breakfast." And then Seiji was gone, most likely back downstairs. The blind teen stretched before sitting up, quietly blinking sleep out of his eyes as he tried to make sense of why the room was so cold. Yawning and mentally shrugging it off, he slid out of bed with an unusual pain in his chest. He stood up and almost immediately fell. I must have slept too long. Satisfied by his own explanation, he nearly fell down the stairs to where Seiji was waiting in the other room.
After eating, Seiji left and Ryuu stumbled outside to his plants. They were doing better now that the weather was getting warmer, and the coltsfoot was growing well. Very nearly collapsing beside it, he picked off a stalk and quietly chewed it, wanting the pain in his chest to lessen. Before he had finished, he heard a crack in the woods. His head shot up and turned to the forest, the coltsfoot hanging out of his mouth. Another crack, and Ryuu was darting back to the outpost like a frightened rabbit with the coltsfoot still in his mouth.
Once inside, he fumbled with the lock on the door, vainly trying to lock it. Finally giving up, he scampered upstairs and disappeared into the closet. Still not feeling safe, he felt around for something to brace against the door. A thin metal rod was what he found, and a thin metal rod is what he shoved into the the small metal ring-like things on the doors. Something(or someone) was trying to get inside; he could hear them fumbling with the lock. An image flashed in his head.
A teenager. This teenager was shorter than Seiji, though he had the same flashing red eyes that Ryuu had seen in dreams a few times. His hair was a dark grey-blue and hung over his right eye as a wall of fringe*. He was apparently trying to open the door, but when Ryuu saw this teen's hands, it was obvious why he couldn't open the door. The teen's hands were merely shadows, as though he was some sort of shadow experiment. The grey-blue-haired teen's fingers ended in points like claws. His left shoulder and right leg were also just shadows, which was rather strange.
The shadow leg apparently supported his body, and the shadow shoulder apparently kept his arm on his body. A black tattoo was on his cheek, an VIII. Eight. That voice again...
The vision vanished, and Ryuuka nibbled on the coltsfoot stalk. Downstairs, the the door flicked open, and the teen who entered spoke with a soft, gentle voice. "Hey, it's alright, I'm not here to hurt you or do anything. I know I have the Mark of the Organization on me, but... please, just listen to me?" Deciding to take a chance, he removed the metal rod and slid out of his hiding, making sure his feet thumped on the floor.
The other seemed to relax a little bit. "See, that's it. I'm not gonna hurt you. Could you... come downstairs?"
Ryuu complied rather warily, keeping his back pressed against a wall. He gave the other teen a suspicious look before speaking. "I'm here now. What do you want to say to me?"
The stranger took a step forward, but kept out of Ryuu's biting range.
"I just wanted to see the Prophet of Legend that I'm always hearing about. The Organization doesn't send me on missions, probably because I'm their test dummy. They need me around for when they conduct experiments. I'm Zexion**, could you tell me your name?"
"Prophet of Legend? I'm not a prophet nor am I a legend. I'm Ryuuka. Why are you here?"
"Oh, just to do this." He gave a sharp whistle, and before Ryuu could ask what he had done, he was tackled to the floor. Something was shoved into his mouth and tied around his head to keep him from biting. Growling, he lashed out with both sets of sharp, hooked nails and drove them away from him. Crouching, he sprang at one of the people who had knocked him down, and tore at his face and chest. All the while, he was slowly biting through the fabric in his mouth.
He managed to claw over one eyes before he was tugged off, and he twisted to scratch at the one who had pulled him off. Just then, the fabric in his mouth snapped from his biting. Free to attack with biting, he sank his teeth into the shoulder of his opponent. Kicking at the soft belly, he ripped and tore, all the while taking hits. Finally, he was flung off; he crashed into a wall. Blood came out as he coughed, sending a chilling smirk at the four opponents.
"Oh, you're gonna be sorry you did that," he cackled, his normally soft as honey voice rough as nails. "You're gonna be so sorry you did that..." The people only just began to realize that they'd messed with him on the wrong day when darkness flashed in his eyes. Not the darkness a normal person might have when angry or depressed; no, it was the kind of darkness that you only saw when you were a child, the shadows in the darkness of your room that moved when your parents weren't around. A demonic kind of darkness. Screeching in insanity, the darkness-overcome blind attacked swiftly and viciously, without mercy.
When the three newcomers that had tackled him had fled, the darkness realized that Zexion was trying to escape outside. Leaping past him, the door shut with a dread-filled slam. Ryuu grinned maniacally, and then pounced. Zexion didn't stand a chance when he crashed into the older teen's chest. However, Zexion did manage to escape the enraged darkness' wrath by throwing him off and managing to open the door without a second to spare. He was beginning to relax, the darkness in his eyes fading, when he sensed another intruder. Snarling, the darkness sprang back up, ready to protect its vessel from death.
It was needed. One of the guys he'd injured had come back, ready to fight again. The grey-red hair was knotted and mussed from fighting, but the darkness didn't care. He tensed, baring blood-stained sharp teeth as his own blood dripped out of his mouth. His victim came closer.
He pounced like a cat would on a mouse.
It was over in a second.
He chased away the intruder, having very nearly killed the guy. Hissing, he slunk back inside and closed the door. Beginning to lick at his own wounds to clear away the blood(because what use was a poultice on a load of drying blood?), he kept alert, sniffing the air every few minutes to check from unwanted scents like a wild animal. He probably looked rather feral, the way he sat among the blood that was splattered on the floor. Checking that the clearing was safe, the darkness-overcome Ryuu stalked to the garden to find his marigold patch. He picked some of the petals from the overgrown patch of marigold flowers and chewed them, licking the juices into his cuts. When he was done, he spat out the petals and the unused juice into the patch to help it grow. Alerted to a sound coming form the forest, the darkness turned, claws raised, ready to take on whatever was coming to kill its vessel.
Growling deep in his throat, he stalked towards the sound. Whatever it was panicked and ran when it saw him coming closer. Smirking, he turned, looking over his shoulder every minute, and walked back to the house. His mouth continued to drip with blood from the injury he sustained in his mouth. It was a small cut on the roof of his mouth, and it pained him faintly. The darkness' hold on his weakened the pain, and, tired, slid back to where it was supposed to be, in the deep recesses of his mind. Yawning with tiredness, Ryuu curled up on the floor, too exhausted from fighting alongside the darkness to crawl back upstairs.
His eyes blank again, he closed them. Just before he fell asleep, he heard a shocked and panicked voice.
"Ryuu?!"
((*Think Zexion!)) ((**I really hope you saw that coming.)) ((Okay, so, 1512 words total in this chapter! I was originally going to split this into 3 chapters, but meh. So, we finally get to see the side of Ryuu that we never see - his darkness-infested side! So, supposedly, the darkness isn't as bad as it seems. Protecting Ryuu from death certainly isn't a crime. But what are its real intentions? Why help Ryuu when all its done is plague him so far? What does it have to gain? By the way, with this Author's Note, the chapter is 1614 words. XD))
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I was originally going to split this into 3 chapters, but meh. So, we finally get to see the side of Ryuu that we never see - his darkness-infested side! So, supposedly, the darkness isn't as bad as it seems. Protecting Ryuu from death certainly isn't a crime. But what are its real intentions? Why help Ryuu when all its done is plague him so far? What does it have to gain? By the way, with this Author's Note, the chapter is 1614 words. XD))
