Bring forth the jury!
YES! FINALLY! Supreme thanks to claire_chan for doing a preliminary edit on this chapter, cause it SORELY needed it. And yes, it's winter break, so I now have time to finish off the all consuming piece of ...stuff... I dunno...what would you call this thing? A tumor? XD *is shot*
Title: Shards
Author/Penname: Kainasilversbane (ME!)
Rating: R (For this chapter, scenes of torture)
Chapters: Chapter 15 (WIP)
Pairings: Fujitaka/Kaho centered
Summary: Eriol and Kaho finally face off, who's gonna crack first?
Warning, Notes: gorey, bloody, hey, it's torture! So sue me!
Link to previous chapter http://community.livejournal.com/reviewers_inc/14915.html#cutid1
Disclaimer: All characters belong to CLAMP, the four crazy who will end up taking over the world. XD
Chapter 15
Kaho stopped after a few steps into the cave and looked around. It was completely empty, except for one person standing alone in the very center, blank eyes staring back at her, a sinister smile plastered across his face.
“Welcome Kaho,” the demon in Eriol said. “I’m actually surprised you made it here in such good shape. Tell me, did you enjoy those little obstacles that Eriol begged me to put up? He was so very insistent, saying that if you couldn’t pass them, then that meant you’d leave and wait for another day. I humored him, if only to watch him squirm as he watched you go through them. But I myself am so very glad that you were able to get all the way to me and bless me with your presence.”
“Flattery will get you nowhere,” Kaho said with a smirk of false bravado and crossed her arms over her chest. She didn’t want to make it obvious that she wanted to turn tail and haul ass out of there.
“And where are your companions? I was truly looking forward to seeing them all again,” he asked. “Eriol was too, and now he’s worried that they aren’t here because of something he did.”
Kaho’s eyes softened, “They’re all right Eriol, I sent them back so they wouldn’t be hurt anymore.” Her eyes hardened as she focused on the demon again, “And so they won’t have to witness me tearing you limb from limb when I finally rip you from his body.”
“How unladylike!” The demon laughed, “Eriol says you’ve acquired quite a mouth since you started fighting me. He says he’s never known you to say such things.”
“It’s been a long time,” Kaho narrowed her eyes. “Things have changed.”
“So they have,” he nodded. “And things are about to change further.”
“Oh? How so?” Kaho asked smartly.
“I will be changing your body, from being able to breathe, to not being able to breathe, permanently!” And with that, he rushed at her, extending Eriol’s fingernails into long, sharp claws.
Kaho slipped away just in time to see his nails embed themselves into the rock wall behind her. His left came across to slash at her, but she phased away and behind him, backing away from his attacks.
The demon wrenched his stuck hand from the wall and turned and licked one nail, “You’ve gotten good at that. There was a time when you could only do that once, then pass out.”
“I’ve had a lot of practice,” Kaho smirked as she leapt away from his next slash, not mentioning that being fueled by fear and adrenaline made phasing almost instinctual at this point.
“Indeed,” he stopped and tried a new tactic, shooting multiple red beams at her.
Again, Kaho phased away, but was stunned when he literally reached out and pulled her out of the phasing process by her arm and threw her against the wall.
“Sorry, but this monster learns,” he smiled sadistically as he crushed her against the wall. “Now, why don’t you make my job easier, and hold still!” He released her, but before she had a chance to move against, dead white, rock hard vines erupted from the side of the cavern behind her and bound her to the wall.
Like the room before this one, the vines were spelled against phasing, and Kaho was locked in its dead white grip. She struggled fruitlessly against them, trying to slip her blood slick arms through the vines, but it wasn’t going to work.
The demon laughed maniacally, “Finally, and once I’m done with you, I get to go after that new little family of yours.” He strolled up to her and leaned down and whispered in her ear. “Do you want to know what I’m going to do to them? Take that little green eyed girl. Such energy and spirit she has, and great power. I will enjoy stringing her up high on a wall and slowly ripping off her limbs.” To add to her torment, the demon projected images of the future encounters into her head.
Tears welled up in the woman’s eyes as she saw Sakura nailed to a wall with large, thick spears embedded into several parts of her anatomy, missing one arm and one leg. The other two looked ready to follow shortly after. But what hit the woman most of all, was that she was still alive, and screaming.
“And that pretty golden guardian of hers, I shall enjoy skinning it alive,” he chuckled and projected that image into her head as well. What she saw wasn’t a normal skinning, Kero’s fur had been removed and now he was literally having his skin flayed off, one small strip at a time. She noticed he was strung up in an odd position, but she didn’t focus in enough to see what it was…she didn’t want to.
“And that other girl, Tomoyo,” The demon said. “Pretty little thing she is, such intriguing eyes. First I think I’ll scalp her, then pull out her eyes…” he continued on as he shoved the images into her mind. This time she cried out at the horrors he showed her. Tomoyo’s limp form was thrown nonchalantly against a wall, the skin and muscles of her face we completely gone, revealing just the white bone of her skull underneath. She’d been scalped, then had had her hair plopped back on carelessly. It laid there crooked and dull, and her eyes had been given the same treatment, pulled out then carelessly balanced back in, both facing at odd angles.
“And finally, the man that you seem to care so deeply for,” he said. “What oh what should I do to him?” He paced around in front over her, rubbing Eriol’s chin in contemplation. “Ah, I know, first I’ll impale him, like how that insane Transylvanian man Vlad Tepes liked to do. Then remove the flesh from his chest and carve out his ribs one at a time. Of course I’ll have him staked out outside for all to see. Won’t it be just so entertaining?!”
Kaho shook her head, tears streaming down her face, “No!”
“Oh but it will be!” The demon danced around her, laughing at her pain and despair. “And I shall carry your soul with me so you can watch as I destroy each one of them!” He stepped back a few paces, “But to do that, first I must kill you, and you’ve danced around that fate long enough.” He pulled his hands back and red energy began to form, ready for attack.
Kaho continued in her useless struggle, the images the demon had planted in her mind tearing her apart, mentally and physically. Something, farther back, was trying to emerge, but she wouldn’t let it go, wouldn’t release it.
The sound of unleashed energy beams brought her attention back to the present and she looked in front of her to watch blinding red blasts heading straight for her.
“SHIELD!”
The energy beams bounced off the shield and angled up and away, hitting the ceiling at various points. Then her vision was covered in sapphire, a sapphire light that she knew well enough. Those sapphire lights smashed into Eriol’s body and knocked him back a few paces, a scowl spreading across his features at the disruption.
The Shield fell away and Kaho looked to her left to see Sakura, Kerberos, and Fujitaka standing near the entrance of the cavern, the two humans still in their attack and defense stances.
“What the hell are you doing here?” Kaho shouted.
“Saving your life,” Fujitaka answered smartly.
Kaho glared at him, “Why did you come back? I told you to go home.”
Fujitaka started towards her, a grim look on his face, “It seems that our telepathic link can do more than just transfer our conscious thoughts to each other.”
Her eyes widened, “What did you see?” She hoped he hadn’t seen everything. To have seen it all would have driven an average human mad with terror and disgust.
“Not much, most of it was faded and it flashed by like a movie on fastforward, but I saw enough of what would happen if the demon was successful in killing you,” Fujitaka answered as he reached out and took hold of one of the dead white vines. The vines shot out an electric shock at his sudden touch, which threw the man back near the entrance, plowing into his daughter and Kero and knocking all three of them to the ground.
There was a loud cracking noise and Kaho looked up at the ceiling and found several large rocks were cracking and beginning to fall away, right above where Fujitaka and the others hand fallen.
“Get up!” She shouted at them. “Move!” But Fujitaka was still too stunned from the shocks and Sakura and Kero were tangled together, wings and staff now allowing either of them to break free from the other.
Kaho paused for a moment, the situation looking oddly familiar, yet she knew she hadn’t seen the exact image before. No…she hadn’t, but she had seen the outcome. The outcome that Fujitaka had witnessed in his vision the day she’d helped him touch his magic for the first time.
“No…” her eyes locked onto the images of both him and his daughter crushed under piles of giant rocks, rocks that were from the same ceiling that was about to give some of itself away. “No,” she clamped her eyes shut, denial of their imminent death screaming in her head. She could hear him laughing, the thing that had been the bane of her existence for far too long. The joy he found in their deaths finally broke the final barrier she’d set up in her mind, the flood gates opening and allowing her use the most dangerous tool a magic user had available to them. It was the same thing she’d warned Fujitaka about only a week before.
She watched the rocks break away, gravity finally winning the argument.
“NO!!” She screamed as the rocks began to fall, magic she had reined back for so long exploding and sending her rational mind into turmoil.
OOOO
Short chapter, but it was kinda full of stuff, so I thought that would be better.
Suggestion for the torture scenes are GREATLY ACCEPTED cause my Word app ate most of them at one point. I'm sure you can pick out which ones I rewrote quickly. I hate them, chew them up please. Make them GROTESQUE!!!!! XD *sicko*
Yeah, you know the drill, *hands them all their own personal shredders* XD
PS~ LJ does not recognize the word 'leapt'. And we let it spell check our entries? >.<.
Title: Shards
Author/Penname: Kainasilversbane (ME!)
Rating: R (For this chapter, scenes of torture)
Chapters: Chapter 15 (WIP)
Pairings: Fujitaka/Kaho centered
Summary: Eriol and Kaho finally face off, who's gonna crack first?
Warning, Notes: gorey, bloody, hey, it's torture! So sue me!
Link to previous chapter http://community.livejournal.com/reviewers_inc/14915.html#cutid1
Disclaimer: All characters belong to CLAMP, the four crazy who will end up taking over the world. XD
Chapter 15
Kaho stopped after a few steps into the cave and looked around. It was completely empty, except for one person standing alone in the very center, blank eyes staring back at her, a sinister smile plastered across his face.
“Welcome Kaho,” the demon in Eriol said. “I’m actually surprised you made it here in such good shape. Tell me, did you enjoy those little obstacles that Eriol begged me to put up? He was so very insistent, saying that if you couldn’t pass them, then that meant you’d leave and wait for another day. I humored him, if only to watch him squirm as he watched you go through them. But I myself am so very glad that you were able to get all the way to me and bless me with your presence.”
“Flattery will get you nowhere,” Kaho said with a smirk of false bravado and crossed her arms over her chest. She didn’t want to make it obvious that she wanted to turn tail and haul ass out of there.
“And where are your companions? I was truly looking forward to seeing them all again,” he asked. “Eriol was too, and now he’s worried that they aren’t here because of something he did.”
Kaho’s eyes softened, “They’re all right Eriol, I sent them back so they wouldn’t be hurt anymore.” Her eyes hardened as she focused on the demon again, “And so they won’t have to witness me tearing you limb from limb when I finally rip you from his body.”
“How unladylike!” The demon laughed, “Eriol says you’ve acquired quite a mouth since you started fighting me. He says he’s never known you to say such things.”
“It’s been a long time,” Kaho narrowed her eyes. “Things have changed.”
“So they have,” he nodded. “And things are about to change further.”
“Oh? How so?” Kaho asked smartly.
“I will be changing your body, from being able to breathe, to not being able to breathe, permanently!” And with that, he rushed at her, extending Eriol’s fingernails into long, sharp claws.
Kaho slipped away just in time to see his nails embed themselves into the rock wall behind her. His left came across to slash at her, but she phased away and behind him, backing away from his attacks.
The demon wrenched his stuck hand from the wall and turned and licked one nail, “You’ve gotten good at that. There was a time when you could only do that once, then pass out.”
“I’ve had a lot of practice,” Kaho smirked as she leapt away from his next slash, not mentioning that being fueled by fear and adrenaline made phasing almost instinctual at this point.
“Indeed,” he stopped and tried a new tactic, shooting multiple red beams at her.
Again, Kaho phased away, but was stunned when he literally reached out and pulled her out of the phasing process by her arm and threw her against the wall.
“Sorry, but this monster learns,” he smiled sadistically as he crushed her against the wall. “Now, why don’t you make my job easier, and hold still!” He released her, but before she had a chance to move against, dead white, rock hard vines erupted from the side of the cavern behind her and bound her to the wall.
Like the room before this one, the vines were spelled against phasing, and Kaho was locked in its dead white grip. She struggled fruitlessly against them, trying to slip her blood slick arms through the vines, but it wasn’t going to work.
The demon laughed maniacally, “Finally, and once I’m done with you, I get to go after that new little family of yours.” He strolled up to her and leaned down and whispered in her ear. “Do you want to know what I’m going to do to them? Take that little green eyed girl. Such energy and spirit she has, and great power. I will enjoy stringing her up high on a wall and slowly ripping off her limbs.” To add to her torment, the demon projected images of the future encounters into her head.
Tears welled up in the woman’s eyes as she saw Sakura nailed to a wall with large, thick spears embedded into several parts of her anatomy, missing one arm and one leg. The other two looked ready to follow shortly after. But what hit the woman most of all, was that she was still alive, and screaming.
“And that pretty golden guardian of hers, I shall enjoy skinning it alive,” he chuckled and projected that image into her head as well. What she saw wasn’t a normal skinning, Kero’s fur had been removed and now he was literally having his skin flayed off, one small strip at a time. She noticed he was strung up in an odd position, but she didn’t focus in enough to see what it was…she didn’t want to.
“And that other girl, Tomoyo,” The demon said. “Pretty little thing she is, such intriguing eyes. First I think I’ll scalp her, then pull out her eyes…” he continued on as he shoved the images into her mind. This time she cried out at the horrors he showed her. Tomoyo’s limp form was thrown nonchalantly against a wall, the skin and muscles of her face we completely gone, revealing just the white bone of her skull underneath. She’d been scalped, then had had her hair plopped back on carelessly. It laid there crooked and dull, and her eyes had been given the same treatment, pulled out then carelessly balanced back in, both facing at odd angles.
“And finally, the man that you seem to care so deeply for,” he said. “What oh what should I do to him?” He paced around in front over her, rubbing Eriol’s chin in contemplation. “Ah, I know, first I’ll impale him, like how that insane Transylvanian man Vlad Tepes liked to do. Then remove the flesh from his chest and carve out his ribs one at a time. Of course I’ll have him staked out outside for all to see. Won’t it be just so entertaining?!”
Kaho shook her head, tears streaming down her face, “No!”
“Oh but it will be!” The demon danced around her, laughing at her pain and despair. “And I shall carry your soul with me so you can watch as I destroy each one of them!” He stepped back a few paces, “But to do that, first I must kill you, and you’ve danced around that fate long enough.” He pulled his hands back and red energy began to form, ready for attack.
Kaho continued in her useless struggle, the images the demon had planted in her mind tearing her apart, mentally and physically. Something, farther back, was trying to emerge, but she wouldn’t let it go, wouldn’t release it.
The sound of unleashed energy beams brought her attention back to the present and she looked in front of her to watch blinding red blasts heading straight for her.
“SHIELD!”
The energy beams bounced off the shield and angled up and away, hitting the ceiling at various points. Then her vision was covered in sapphire, a sapphire light that she knew well enough. Those sapphire lights smashed into Eriol’s body and knocked him back a few paces, a scowl spreading across his features at the disruption.
The Shield fell away and Kaho looked to her left to see Sakura, Kerberos, and Fujitaka standing near the entrance of the cavern, the two humans still in their attack and defense stances.
“What the hell are you doing here?” Kaho shouted.
“Saving your life,” Fujitaka answered smartly.
Kaho glared at him, “Why did you come back? I told you to go home.”
Fujitaka started towards her, a grim look on his face, “It seems that our telepathic link can do more than just transfer our conscious thoughts to each other.”
Her eyes widened, “What did you see?” She hoped he hadn’t seen everything. To have seen it all would have driven an average human mad with terror and disgust.
“Not much, most of it was faded and it flashed by like a movie on fastforward, but I saw enough of what would happen if the demon was successful in killing you,” Fujitaka answered as he reached out and took hold of one of the dead white vines. The vines shot out an electric shock at his sudden touch, which threw the man back near the entrance, plowing into his daughter and Kero and knocking all three of them to the ground.
There was a loud cracking noise and Kaho looked up at the ceiling and found several large rocks were cracking and beginning to fall away, right above where Fujitaka and the others hand fallen.
“Get up!” She shouted at them. “Move!” But Fujitaka was still too stunned from the shocks and Sakura and Kero were tangled together, wings and staff now allowing either of them to break free from the other.
Kaho paused for a moment, the situation looking oddly familiar, yet she knew she hadn’t seen the exact image before. No…she hadn’t, but she had seen the outcome. The outcome that Fujitaka had witnessed in his vision the day she’d helped him touch his magic for the first time.
“No…” her eyes locked onto the images of both him and his daughter crushed under piles of giant rocks, rocks that were from the same ceiling that was about to give some of itself away. “No,” she clamped her eyes shut, denial of their imminent death screaming in her head. She could hear him laughing, the thing that had been the bane of her existence for far too long. The joy he found in their deaths finally broke the final barrier she’d set up in her mind, the flood gates opening and allowing her use the most dangerous tool a magic user had available to them. It was the same thing she’d warned Fujitaka about only a week before.
She watched the rocks break away, gravity finally winning the argument.
“NO!!” She screamed as the rocks began to fall, magic she had reined back for so long exploding and sending her rational mind into turmoil.
OOOO
Short chapter, but it was kinda full of stuff, so I thought that would be better.
Suggestion for the torture scenes are GREATLY ACCEPTED cause my Word app ate most of them at one point. I'm sure you can pick out which ones I rewrote quickly. I hate them, chew them up please. Make them GROTESQUE!!!!! XD *sicko*
Yeah, you know the drill, *hands them all their own personal shredders* XD
PS~ LJ does not recognize the word 'leapt'. And we let it spell check our entries? >.<.