Monster

Easter part two for you all ^_^ They\'re short I know but you try writing two chapters back to back at 12:40 at night >.< my brain is elsewhere (bed), read and have fun!

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Kari ran through the woods, her hand tightly pressed to her chest as she weased air into her wounded lungs. Something was wrong, something was so terribly wrong, and she wasn’t about to leave her Master alone when he needed her there. Kari stumbled into the clearing where the small shed once stood, falling to the ground in pain and weakness. It was gone, it was all gone, the shed had been torn to bits and on the small pile of rubble stood her Master. He was shirtless, and panting with effort, blood spilling out of his chest and from an exit wound in his back. He had been stabbed! But the wound didn’t last, he allowed his bestial side to peak at her, allowed his fangs and his claws to appear and strike menacingly at the being above them. Hanging in the air by a pair of black membrane wings was a beautiful woman, long silver hair pouring over her shoulders and down her front. He looked at her, fear apparent in his eyes for only a moment as he looked to her pained and weakened form.

“How adorable brother, you’ve taken a Sali, better late than never I suppose.”

She cackled at him as he struck out at her, weak attempts to tear her from the sky.

“Shall I torment her? Shall I break her mind and watch you bathe in her blood brother?”

A maddening pain struck her brain, wrapped around her mind and suffocated all thought from her as she screamed out for her Master. Flashes, images of blood and death and torment of thousands upon thousands of people. Striking her brain again and again each deeper than the last. Kari held herself as tears began to pour down her cheeks, she had lost all comprehension of a world outside her pain, lost all thought of anything but the stabbing of sorrow and destruction.

“Stop it Kanaya!”

The witch had been distracted as she played with her, giving him a moment to grab her leg and rip her from the air, breaking a wing in the process. She screeched in pain, loosing her grip on Kari’s mind as she directed her attention to her own hurt. Her Master gripped his sister’s throat tightly in his clawed hand, speaking through his clenched jaw as she fought desperately to get away.

“I have taken a Sali, A Sali and no other. Send my regards to mother, sister Kanaya, I shall end this eternity.”

She screamed as he crushed her throat in his grasp, ending her cry in a gurgling crunch and a sad whimper. Kari watched this action fearfully from where she laid boneless on the ground. She hadn’t attempted to move since the release of her mind, and the pain in her head prompted her to stay where she was. His gaze having fallen to her, he released his blood-hungry side and ran to her, fearful of her state. She smiled at him as he carefully lifted her, reassuring him that she wasn’t dead. He seemed to relax at the sight of her smile.

“It hurt…it, I could feel…”

He silenced her with the brush of his fingers, moving her hair from her face as he held her. It was then that she realized the magnitude of this accident. He was outside, the sunlight fell broken through the trees laying patterns against his light skin and shining hair. It was even more beautiful in the light, where it was allowed to shimmer in the sun and move with the air. He smiled at her as she examined his features again.

“We can’t stay here much longer little bird. We’re in danger here. Soon someone will be sent to check that I am still where I’ve always been, and I won’t be there. They will try to kill me and kill you for being an accessory.”

Kari thought on his words as hard as her wounded mind would allow, which wasn’t all that hard. But she was still able to reply to him, even as disoriented as she was.

“What…was she?”

His smile faded as he looked over to his sister’s body, it would be ash soon, blow away in the air to leave no trace of her once being. His eyes were cold again when he looked back to her, it hurt her when he was like that so deeply.

“She was my sister, a Blood burner like me. Tell me little bird, is the moon large these nights?”

Kari thought back to her nights at the school, when she could look out her window at night and see the moon staring at her.

“Quite large Master, much larger than when I was a child.”

Concern crossed his face as he looked away from her to his drying sister.

“Then the hour is late, the turn has already begun. We must leave now little bird and find my other sister, Sulin. She is the danger to us, if we end her we end this battle. We must prevent a second Thousand Year War.”

Kari blinked at him as his words struck her like a giant boulder. A SECOND Thousand Year War? It was like everything that hadn’t been making sense in her brain connected, everything added up now. The growing moon was a sure sign that the Blood burners were stirring again, when it turned red it was the dawning of the war. A red moon meant the beginning of the war between four siblings, two pairs of twins born all of one womb. They would begin to take Sali, hundreds of them to be their army as they attack one another. Once large enough they would pillage and plunder the five kingdoms and claim their lands to defend from one another. A bloody battle of sibling rivalry, with strengths to madden those who oppose them, make them bite their own tongues off in madness or drive them to suicide with images. Kari was pulled from her nightmare by the warm embrace of her Master, his chin resting on her head as he lifted her to him, gently rocking her against his chest.

“Don’t fear little bird, I shall end this nightmare. I swore when I went into my tomb that I would never resurface again, that this monstrosity would end with me. But it seems my siblings have a different plan, it seems, that I must return to the world of the living.”

Kari pulled away from his chest to look at him, tears falling down her cheeks. He had fought his siblings before to end the war, he was the only one of the four that had been born with a heart and now, because of his sins, it didn’t grace him with a beat. She cried so hard for him then, lost in her pain for him and his tormenting past. His body bore no scars, no marks of battle, but his soul had taken cuts too deep to ever heal again.

“I want to go with you Master, I want to help. Please.”

He held her tighter at her weak and sobbing words. His own chest was aching to release tears, but he wouldn’t cry for himself, if he cried it would be for the girl in his arms. If he cried, it would be for the mortal heart left cold in his chest. If he cried, he would never be able to stop. He stood bitterly, forcing back the human urge to show such a weak emotion. Kari went with him, limp in his arms as she shed her tears against his chest.

“We can’t stay here little bird, we must leave now.”

She nodded and tried to stand on her own, but found the ordeal a bit too much for her to handle. He smiled at her and turned his back to her looking at her over his shoulder.

“Climb on, I’ll carry you.”

She nodded her agreement and pulled herself onto his back, her arms wrapped loosely around his neck as she rested her cheek against his shoulder. She would sleep, for the time being, and let her wounding mind rest before the hardest journey of her life began. The bad guys could wait until then.