~Samuel, Ariela, and the big, bad, wolf
[notice, edits made to part one, please read dat shit]
~~Samuel
It was, in that exact moment, that Samuel realized the dire nature of his current situation. A smile spread across his lips and his eyes closed, as he prepared to strike. After a moment they shot open and he saw it all. His eyes glowed a dark violet as he pushed his spirit to its limits. His hand shot out, latching onto the wolfs paw and sending a shock of electricity threw its body. The creature leapt backwards, snarling at him as it did so. Samuel let out a dark chuckle as he slowly rose to his feet. He took a moment to brush off his jacket and correct its placement upon his shoulders. "Now, now, now." He spoke with a mocking tone, making his confidence clear to his opponents. "Do you two honestly believe that you can defeat me? Honestly, I am the pique of perfection.." He took a moment to run his fingers along the life chord of the wolf's kage. It pulsated at the touch of his fingertips. "..and you two... are but children, powerless before me as all others have been.." A wicked smile broke across his lips as he cackled madly.
He grabbed the kamikage's chord of life without warning and wrenched it forward with all his might. The wolf screeched in pain as it began to lose its form. "Yes..." He remarked "... abilities that act in a trans-formative nature tend to rely on perfect balance between the host and the kage's spirit. Even the slightest tug can cause the two to fall out of balance.." Samuel pushed the chord wolf's chord of life to the ground and stepped on it. He ground his heel into it as the kage's chord fluctuated in response. He was, in theory, cutting off the flow of spirit between the two beings. He cackled as the wolf returned to it's true form, that of a little girl.
"Hahaha! I was speaking theoretically earlier, but it would seem that both of you are indeed children! What a pity it is that-"
~~Ariela
Rage filled Ariela's heart as her form crashing into the evil man's caused him to be cut off mid sentence. Ariela rolled past him and landed in a crouching position behind him. She had had countless prectice fighting those larger than her, and her mobility in this body was perfected. She had killed hundreds, but this time she would do it for different reasons.
"Why you li-"
She cut him off again with a kick to the stomach. The man coughed in pain and snarled as he got to his feet with surprising quickness. His hand shot out, and before she could dodge, latched onto her right ankle. The man through her across the hall. she tumbled, just barely managing to prevent her limbs from breaking. She shook her head and stood up once more, only too see the man standing about eight feet from her, brushing off his jacket with an angry look.
"You have done it now you little pest, I was going to let you sit and watch patiently whilst I dispatched your friend, I even thought about letting you have a quick and painless death.." a dark anger projected from him as the color of his eyes darkened. ".. but now... now I am going to make you feel it..." The man's voice began to change, taking on a deeper and more feminine nature.
Ariela was not fazed however, she had fought many hosts like him, she would use his confidence against him, she would- "Eah!" she yelped as the man grabbed at the air and pulled, and her own body followed, planting her face on the floor.
~Samuel
Samuel snarled at the child, who now lay pitifully upon the ground. "This is your own doing pest. I am going to show you true pain." In the corner of the hall the other girl lay, barely conscious. She had clearly used up her spirit and had become useless in this fight. Samuel pulled a small surgeons knife from one of his jacket pockets. He had recently acquired it from a trip to a local hospital in search of weak survivors he could feast upon. The spirit of the desperate tasted, sweeter somehow. He did not know how to word it, but he felt.. fuller when he took from the weak. Perhaps it was all in his head.
He approached the girl, kneeling down and pulling her up by her hair. "Now, shall we have a little fun together?" he asked whilst running the blade upon her cheek. To Samuel's discontent the girl looked neither afraid nor depressed. Instead a look of pure hatred filled her eyes, and it grew with every moment that past. "Well, well," he remarked. "you are quite the impudent child.. Your parents would be displeased with your defiance.. perhaps we shall have too.. train you.." Before proceeding he looked into the girls eyes. They were blood red, and it was clear that she had no conventional form of sight. As he looked deeper a great chill travelled through him.. this girl was more than she seemed..
Samuel smirked as he drew the knife to her lips. "Let us see what lies behind those eyes..." He slit the sides of her lips, dragging the cut half an inch deep before releasing. He then did the other side and proceeded to bring the knife to her ear. The girl did not even blink, all that grew was the anger in her eyes as he continued his torture. Samuel was greatly disturbed by the child's lack of proper reaction and dropped her too the floor. "You have proven to impudent to save my dear, all that can be done now is too put you out of your misery..."
Misery...?
The voice was deep, foreboding, and ominous. It did not match the child that had now begun pushing herself to her feet. Samuel!? Miralda warned in exclamation. He immediately knew what it was she spoke of...
This voice..
could belong to only one Onikage..
Yes... I do believe you could call it that... The little girl's head shot up, her eyes now completely black, relate-able to only that of a demon's. You spoke of pain before.. did you not?
Samuel could not respond as his hands began to tremble and sweat broke out across his body.
Yes... This, my child.. Is true fear... Learn it well, for you will live with it for an eternity.. Forever I shall hunt. The small child stepped forward, her steps were heavy, and her shoulders hung down as she dragged herself along, an Ebony blade dragging behind her as she slowly approached him... Do you fear me..? Or is it... Something else?
The girl's lips did not move once, the voice seemed to bounce of the walls, causing Samuel's eyes to dart from side to side, searching for its source. His eyes shot back to the little girl but in her place his sister's zombie like corpse stared at him with dead eyes, black eyes. Half of her jaw hanging lose and swaying back and forth as she stepped closer. "Samuel..." the raspy noise came from his sister's throat as the half of her jaw that was still attached formed a sickening grin. "Come back to me Samuel..." It was then that all the others he had killed took place beside her, their zombie like figures filling the halls, and stumbling towards him. "Join us..."
Samuel screamed and fled from his ghosts. But when he turned he came face to more of them. They were everywhere, The woman at the tea shop hung at his waste, her legs were missing. "My baby.." she wept "what have you done with my child!" She shrieked and clawed at him, tearing his pant leg. He pulled free of her grasp and ran into the crowd. The hands of the dead clawed at him from all sides, his clothes fell from him, leaving him entirely naked. His skin was torn off, leaving his flesh bare. He screamed and jumped from the darkness of his own insanity...
[end of part 2]