Villains Ch 7 Razed
A/N: I do not own.
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Five Years ago
"Alright, I give up. What's with the pigeons?" Light asked when Beyond loped in, a bird in hand. He had long seen the coop outside but never thought to ask… Beyond went into the kitchen area. He held the bird down as he drew out a knife.
"Hey, Ryuuzaki… What are you doing?"
"Puppy might want to avert his virgin eyes."
The bird made horrific noises, blood and feathers went everywhere. Then Beyond began to systematically dissect the bird.
"THAT'S what you do to your pigeons?" Light said, horrified.
"They're not my pigeons. I just leave food out. The door is always open. They can leave anytime they want to. Not my fault if they're stupid enough to come back…. Helps me deal with urges, not everyone can be as lucky as you, boy."
"Wha-?" What does he mean by urges and… he thinks I'm LUCKY?
Beyond ruffled his hair. It might have come off as more friendly if said hand wasn't stained in bird's blood "Maybe when you're older."
"The hell?"
"Yes, little Light is much too young to play in the dark."
Beyond then gathered up the entrails and mixed it with the pigeon food.
"Th-that's sick!"
Beyond shrugged "There's the door."
***
"They've given you a name now…" Beyond said when he came in with the newspaper.
"Who has?"
Light looked up from his manic scribbling as he sat in front of the cheap black and white TV. He had discovered that, while not necessary, it helped if he had the target's name and face. If he could visualize the death he had more control and was less likely to make a mistake that way. He could control how his victims died and even the actions leading up to death. Focus and control was the biggest issue. Through trial and error he learned that it was helpful to visualize the kill ahead of time by writing out what he wanted to happen. Beyond got him a plain black sketchbook for his fourteenth birthday. Light carried it everywhere.
"Everyone… You didn't expect so many healthy criminals dying of heart attacks to go unnoticed did you? They're calling you Kira."
"What from the English word for Killer?" Light looked unhappy about that. Beyond couldn't see why. It was a perfectly apt description.
"Really? But I was thinking it sounded so very… pretty…"
Light shot him a look.
"…feminine…"
"You can shut up now."
"Yes the sparkly Light."
"Really."
"So, why heart attacks? I know you can kill them in far more creative ways than that…"
Light shrugged. "What? It's easiest… and you said I should practice…"
Beyond was glad the kid had finally gotten over whatever moral hang-ups he had before. Now if he didn't know better he'd think he was just talking about his latest homework assignment…
"…and I was kind of hoping it might dissuade people from committing crimes. They'll realize that 'doing this will get me killed' and they won't commit crimes anymore."
The look on Beyond's face was priceless.
Light smirked; assured that even his unpleasable mentor must have seen the genius of his plan...
Beyond threw his head back and laughed and laughed.
Light scowled.
"Aw," Beyond wiped tears from his eyes as he continued to giggle "you're so adorable."
"I fail to see what's so funny..."
This set Beyond off again… and even more disconcerting, Ryuk joined in.
"Consider this… when they catch you, you'll be sentenced to death…"
"Yeah, I know." That's why Light had no intentions of being caught…
"Ah, so that threat of death isn't going to dissuade you from killing more people then, eh?"
"What are you getting at?"
Beyond sighed "That for a genius you can be pretty thick sometimes..."
"Don't listen to him. It's a fine plan Light."
"Thank you, Ryuk." At least someone understood his genius…
"Because it's sure to be entertaining and get us into lots of fights."
…or not.
"I haven't had a good fight in centuries."
***
"What are you standing there for? Fight me!" Beyond demanded as he swung at Light with the pole. Light barely got his hands up in time to protect his face.
"But I'd kill you!"
"You don't have to use powers to fight," Beyond said exasperated, "And if you do… then make your pet tapeworm earn his keep."
"HEY!"
The pole came down again. Ryuk let out a gleeful laugh as Light leapt out of the path of the wooden pole only to be caught in the backswing. Yes, of course Ryuk was having loads fun. Light didn't really see the appeal. Because Beyond was a lot stronger than he looked, especially when in the process of beating him with a stick… sorry TRAINING him to fight.
WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!
Light felt the blows even through symbiote armor. Tendrils shot out and snagged the pole just before it connected with Light's head, snatched it away and snapped it in half.
Apparently Ryuk had finally got bored of watching his human suffer.
"Why the hell is beating me up with a stick part of my training?" Light demanded indignantly.
"I didn't want your alien buddy ruining my knife collection."
"That's not what I-oof!"
Light doubled over in pain as Beyond hit him in the stomach, having somehow produced another stick.
"Tsk tsk, you let me distract you. Mind your surroundings!"
Light got back up in a crouch and then did a back flip up onto the side of the building, out of range of the stick.
"Though if you have a problem with the stick I think we might be ready to graduate to guns. Have to go someplace remote for that though… Someone just might report us."
"No really, that's okay. The stick is fine."
"Aw come on. I'll just shoot you for a little while. Then we can go hunting together. We'll make a day trip out of it… anyway I'm putting the dreaded stick away for now. It's safe to come down."
"Ha ha, very funny." Light said as he leapt off of his perch on the wall.
"I didn't know you could do that."
"I didn't know I could do that either. Ryuk, why didn't you tell me we could CLIMB WALLS!"
"Hyuk, you never asked."
"It's important to know the weapons in your arsenal" Beyond admonished.
"Yes… Is there anything else you'd like to let us know, Ryuk?" Light said; arms crossed in annoyance.
"I don't really think of it as powers since it just stuff I do… uh I think you guys know… I'm stronger than most of you humans, you know I can help you heal fast, and protect you from damage, I can camouflage us, scale walls, assume various shapes and form various constructs, fly…"
"Wait, we can fly?"
"Really?" Beyond asked… as he kicked them off the roof.
Light landed on the roof of the taxi cab with a crunch.
As Light slowly tried to extract himself from the piece of yellow twisted metal that was piercing his chest he continued his internal mantra of We can't kill him. We need him. We can't kill him, there's no one else, we can't….
"You said you could fly!" Light said to Ryuk, accusingly.
"Well I have to make the wings first!"
"HEY POODLE, YOU STILL ALIVE DOWN THERE?"
Light groaned in agony.
"Are you sure we can't kill him?"
"No, we CAN'T kill him…"
"ONCE YOU'RE HEALED UP… SINCE YOUR OUT ANYWAY, GO FETCH ME SOME JAM!"
"However… you do have my formal permission to kick the crap out of him."
"ALRIGHT!"
Kira laughed madly as Ryuk manifested as black and white symbiote armor tendrils writhing in excitement at finally being let off the leash. The enraged, relentless predator swiftly scaled the walls of the high-rise building. They caught Beyond by surprise and slammed him roughly up against the wall.
"You pushed us. Off the roof. OF A FORTY STORY BUILDING!"
Beyond shrugged. "Well you could have flown!"
Beyond could see that Light meant business this time… Well, well. Puppy has fangs. Time for a change of tactics…
Beyond took advantage of their closeness, shifted his hips…
"The HELL?" Light sputtered, he was blushing under the armor.
Light was freaking out and had loosened his grip. Success.
"Oh, and I don't see any jam." Beyond said as he took Light's moment of embarrassment as an opportunity to kick him off the building again.
***
Believe it or not what happened next wasn't Beyond's intention… It was just Poochie was developing an attitude problem and Beyond figured it was time to put him in his place… and that place was either serving Beyond or six feet under…
It began as just another nasty argument, which naturally turned violent, resulting in bruises for Beyond, gaping (though swiftly healing) wounds for Light, but more importantly irreparable property damage. Beyond didn't even remember what he said to Light that he let Ryuk off the leash again, but this time Beyond had prepared for this eventuality.
"Emotional Control!" Beyond shouted as Kira came at him. He sidestepped him at the last moment and hit him with the pole, hard. "It's especially important for you and not just because of your powers… you let your passions rule your actions, you wear your heart on your sleeve and your weaknesses become obvious to anyone who cares to look…"
Beyond dramatically drew back a blanket and revealed a recently stolen stereo system…
Only then did Light notice that Beyond was wearing ear plugs…
Light lunged for the remote too late…
Loud music came ripping out of the speakers…
Light fell to his knees and screamed.
Ryuk was being ripped out of him a tendril at a time.
Now Light's own clothes had long since turned to rags… though he hadn't noticed because of Ryuk he always looked his best. But now with Ryuk powerless it left Light naked and defenseless on the floor...
Now that was embarrassing.
Light might have cared a bit more if he wasn't in so much pain…
Beyond easily overpowered Light in his weakened state, he crawled on top of him and put a knife to his throat. Light looked up at him with scared, sad eyes.
Now if he didn't have this powerful child, this Godling completely at his mercy.
Oh hell it was turning him on.
And though weakened and in pain, Light was still squirming, fighting beneath him…
Oh, he's a feisty one.
Light's eyes comically widened as he felt Beyond's hard on through his jeans.
"Wha- What the hell are you doing?"
Beyond pulled down his baggy jeans-he knew full well that he was playing with fire.
Beyond whispered in his ear "You could kill me at any time, remember? If I'm still alive after I do this…"
That was all the warning there was and Beyond roughly entered the boy.
"I'm going to assume I have your permission then…"
"NO! STOP IT!"
***
Beyond had been considering killing the brat but after experiencing the best fuck of his life he decided that no, as an annoying as poodle was he could stay…
Beyond looked over to where the boy lay trembling on the floor and put an affectionate hand on his shoulder. Light winced.
"You'll heal."
***
Present
Red
It was Beyond's favorite color but he knew he was still using too much of it for this particular painting…
He was leaning forward in his precarious squatting position on the stool, brush in hand to correct it when he suddenly felt the eyes on the back of his neck.
Beyond turned around slowly….
A crack of lightning revealed the familiar stranger standing in the doorway. The scrawny brat had really filled out. He'd grown into a form that was lithe but iron strong (that Ryuk had apparently taken the form of a nice Romani suit helped add to the image.)
But the most striking change was in the eyes. That glint of innocence they once held was long gone. They were hard, tinged with red, and burning with some unnamed emotion as they met his own…
"Hello Beyond," said Light.
Beyond chuckled darkly, "I knew it. I knew you'd come home."
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