Fateful Destiny
Friday, March 16 | 0 comments
Genre// Horror, Mystery, Shounen, tragedy, and Slice of life.
Author Note//
This story is… A confusing story because I took it out from one of my series. So,
needed to read carefully or… Might get confused xD
A
loud scream can be heard in the darkness of the night where there not a single
star in the sky and the beautiful glowing moon is hidden by the dark clouds. A
young man that was walking nearby couldn’t help but to feel curious about the
sudden scream. Plus, he also noticed that humans that are walking around him
ignore the yelling or perhaps they don’t hear the scream because… The scream
isn’t from a ‘human’ but a demon and that what makes the young man feels more
curious about the scream! Yorae Ryou is the young man’s name.
Ryou
run as fast as he could to the source of the voice by jumping from a building
to another building. None can see his actions for Ryou is also one of the Demon
Returners. The Demon Returner’s jobs is to find demons that been illegally
released from the abyss and bring them back to the abyss before they could harm
both human and other demons. Being the Demon Returner isn’t an easy job as
every returner has their own limits such as limited freedom, has to devour
human’s blood, and many more. Humans that able to see demons can also become
the Demon Returner but they need to make a pact with creatures that normal
human can’t see with their naked eyes, so that the humans can harm other
demons. For Ryou, he is full demon, so his power is limited like other demons.
Back
to the story, when Ryou reached at the source of the scream, a weird liquid
flew toward his cheek and oozed to his jaw. He knows what kind of liquid it is…
“Blood.” He uttered and wiped the blood out of his face. While wiping the blood
with his sleeve, Ryou turned to what in from of him and that is what made him
more amused.
In
front of him, there is a person standing straight wearing all black clothes,
bathed with bloods and a hood, hiding his face. By judging the person’s
appearance, it’s a young boy because the boyish figure, and looked younger and
shorter than Ryou is. That boy… isn’t an originally boy by looking at the
demons on the ground. Crimson Reaper is what other Demon Returners called him.
He is a legend. He caught many demons, big and small one, and returns them into
the abyss in fatal state. Rumours said that he actually came from the abyss to
punish all the demons including the innocent one. Is he actually in the good
side or bad-side? Nobody knows. All they know is the boy kills and disappeared
without a single trace. No wonder he is a legend. Plus, this place where
illegal demons love to gather is peaceful thanks to his actions but innocent
demons also dragged to the abyss by him. Why did he do that? Who is he? What is
he? Are remains as questions to all…
Ryou’s
legs are shaken with excitement when he saw the Legendary Crimson Reaper. He
also somehow felt scared of what will the Crimson Reaper do to him. Not because
he is weak. He is strong unlike other Demon Returners. However, this person is
front of him is stronger than he is. Maybe the strongest but every fighter has
their own limit, right? The Crimson Reaper must be included or perhaps… Like
the legend said, he doesn’t have ‘limits’ unlike others. However, Ryou believes
that the Crimson Reaper also has his own limit. If he finds it, he may able win
against him. Let’s just hope that the Crimson Reaper isn’t going to beat him
first!
Suddenly,
the crimson eyes turned to Ryou which made him startled when saw the crimson
eyes that matched with the crimson-blood looking at him. At that time, nothing
can be heard at all. Not even a single cricket making its sound. The only thing
that is happening is two pair of eyes is looking at each other. When the
Crimson Reaper moved his scythe, Ryou startled again and ready for battle if
needed. However, the shorter boy turned his face away while scratching his head
and makes his scythe disappeared from both of his and Ryou’s sight.
Ryou,
somehow relieved that he don’t need to enter into a battle with Crimson Reaper.
His eyes just stared at the shorter boy, waiting till he disappeared from his
sight before he helps to finish the job for the boy by sending the almost died
demons into the deep dark abyss. Why didn’t he finish his jobs anyway? Why can’t
h-
“Aiya!”
a yelped sound suddenly can be heard.
The
taller boy quickly turns to the shorter boy and felt shocked. The Crimson
Reaper… The Legendary Crimson Reaper… Accidently tripped himself and made a
cute yelping sound. Ryou chuckled when saw that rare sight and walks closer to
the younger boy, “Need some help?” he asked.
The
young boy turns to the older boy and blinked for a few times. “… Anou… My oniiChan
told me not to talk to the strangers.” He uttered innocently and tried to stand
by himself but falls back on the cold. “Aish… There’s something wrong with my
leg… And my hands too… I-it… hurts…” he said as if he wanted cry.
The
only thing that Ryou could do is blinked and chuckled once again. “Show me your
hands.” He said gently to ensure that he meant no harm to the boy and to his
surprises, the boy followed his words as he pulled his black sleeve and show a
small cut at his right elbow and a huge cut at his left shoulder that may leave
a scar in the future. The boy’s skin doesn’t looks like a demon’s skin… It’s
more like a human skin and a small child’s skin to be corrected. However, Ryou
ignored his thoughts and by using his skills that he learnt by his superior, he
bandaged neatly the wound at both the shoulder and elbow. “Done.” Ryou speak up
and titled his head. “Is your leg hurts too? What me to bandage it for you?”
Hearing
what Ryou said kind of makes the boy hesitate on showing his injured knee and
elbow. It’s kind of a cute sight for Ryou and he couldn’t help but to smiled
and laughed again. Who could believe this small and innocent child is the
Legendary Crimson Reaper? If he told everyone about this, he sure nobody will
believe him. So, it’s decided that it will be a secret for himself. While Ryou
is busy with his mind, the small boy looked at Ryou’s eyes curiously. Both are
in different colors, blue and maroon. When Ryou noticed the boy’s action, Ryou
looked at him with warm smile and gently patted the boy’s head that covered
with black hood. Then, when the moon finally revealed itself, Ryou saw the
small boy’s eyes which are weird. Just now it’s crimson red but now, it’s blue
or more clearly, blue as the deep-blue-sky.
Now,
Ryou become more curious about the so called the Legendary Crimson Reaper but…
Should they still call him ‘Crimson’? Because he isn’t crimson anymore… Or
there maybe something about the boy that made his eyes color changed. Once
again, Ryou titled his head and asked, “Who are you? Are you really the Crimson
Reaper? Did you beat all the demons?” If could, Ryou wanted to ask more
questions but this is just a small child. Questions are limited or this child
may panicked, which is bad.
The
boy crossed his bandaged hands and began to think. “What are you talking about,
mister? Who is the Crimson Reaper? I am not crimson reaper. Me am not a Reaper,
and my eyes are not red… It’s blue! And I did not beat the demon… Someone else
did it in flash of lightning. Annd my name is not Crimson Reaper… My name is-”
Suddenly,
a loud coughing sound can be heard. Ryou quickly turns to his back and saw one
of the demons that in fatal state gaining conscious. Gah, how can he forget
about the demons that were supposed to send back to the abyss? Quickly, Ryou
covers the young boy and always ready if battle needed, like always while boy
just pulled his hood down, almost hiding his entire face. The older boy stood
up on his feet to exam the injured demon. One thing to say that the demon is
really injured badly… Who could thought that a small child- No! The child said
he isn’t the Crimson Reaper, right? He also said someone beat the demons up in
a few seconds. So, that must be the Crimson Reaper! But the Crimson Reaper
isn’t here now. So, he is the one who need to protect this boy and he did this
willingly. Why? Mysteriously, when he saw the boy’s blue eyes, he felt like he
wanted to protect this boy from harm. It’s his first time, feeling like this.
That’s why he really needs to protect this boy.
However,
when Ryou saw the face of the conscious demon, he felt shocked, dropping this
guard down. “M-master?” he shocked. The demon that in fatal condition is his
own master… How could he not notice that? Plus, one of the superiors from the
Demon Returners Organization… Alright… What the hell is happening now?
“R-ryou!
KILL THAT BOY QUICKLY! He is dangerous!” Ryou’s master yelled thought he is in
great pain. The demon servant turned around to see the same young boy from
before just sat down without looking at him. This boy is… dangerous? But… just
now… After seeing the small boy’s behaviours, how can he believe that this
small child is dangerous? Plus, did his master mistake the boy for the Crimson
Reaper?
“W-what
do you meant, Master?” he asked, wanting to know answers. Then, Ryou noticed
there’s something wrong with his master’s eyes. Why is it glowing with red
color? Usually if there’s a demon has glowing red eyes, it can only be meant
that if he doesn’t do something about his ‘limit’, he could go insane. After
that, he turned to the small boy who already stood up and back away from Ryou
while touching his left shoulder that have blood on it because of the wound
opened by itself. He seems like has great fear of Ryou’s master which making
Ryou comes to a conclusion by only observing. “M-master… Is your limit has
something to do with human?” he asked.
The
injured demon just stays silent meaning… It’s true. What a cruel fate it is…
Ryou’s master has always loves and always protects human but now, thanks to the
‘limit’… He has injured something that he always wanted to protect. Ryou glad
that his limit is protect his master and his master is still alive. He need to
take his master to a save place and heal the wounds. However, how can he do it?
His master, right need a human sacrifice or he will go insane. That would hurt
it more if he goes insane… Should he… Sacrifice the boy for the sake of his
master because his limit is protecting the master. If he didn’t do it, he may
also be insane. Should he sacrifices the boy who he just tried to saves?
Hesitantly,
Ryou stepped forward toward the smaller boy and due to that the boy took a step
back when he knows that his life is in danger. This has made Ryou more feels
more guilt because being a Demon Returner, it’s his job to save innocent humans
but now… Suddenly, the servant stopped walking forward. He closed his eyes
trying to calm himself as he thought he is being hasty in making decisions. He
also hoped that when he revealed his eyes, the smaller boy will took advantage
on escaping from him.
After
a few minutes of silent, Ryou opened his blue and maroon orbs. Instead of
seeing the blue eyed boy disappeared from his sight, he saw the boy really,
really close to him. Just in front of him. The boy smiled like he understand
what has happening and closed his sky-blue eyes as if he accepted that he going
to die in Ryou’s hand tonight.
Ryou
was very shocked to see the boy’s reaction. This isn’t what he expected to be
and this has made him more hesitate on captures the boy to his master. Slowly
and hesitantly with his hands shivering, Ryou approaches the boy and the
younger boy didn’t even more a muscle. Is this the right thing to do? “I… I
can’t…” he uttered, almost heard like he is doing this in forced.
“Ryou…
Stop what you are doing at once.” A familiar voice utters weakly. Both of the
small boy and the demon servant turned to the voice owner which belongs to
Ryou’s master. The demon master also smiled the same way as the human boy
smiled just now and raised his hands to the sky and then, place it on his
chest. “All of this, happened because of my mistakes. I shouldn’t attack the
boy. The innocent boy. Therefore, this burden isn’t your burden, Ryou and human
child… It is mine.” He speaks as his hands glowing and makes his breath becomes
slower than before… So that he could kill himself for the sake of the human
child and his royal servant.
Noticing
what has going on, Ryou yelled loudly, “NO! MASTER! DON’T!!”
The
demon master smiled and utters his final words, “I’m sorry, Ryou for what going
to happen next. I am… truly… Sorry… f-for… being… a… a selfish... ma… s…ter.”
In
flash of lightning, the younger boy dashed forward and toward the dying demon.
Ignoring the pain at his legs, arm, and shoulder he created a dark circle
around Ryou’s master that he just learnt from his friends. It’s a hole to the
abyss. Dark fog came out from the circle as well as strong chains come out and
pulled the demon master in. If he is thrown into the abyss, he will not die
because the abyss can only chain the demons without killing them. No killing is
allowed in there, only despairs. If Ryou’s master didn’t die, then… Ryou
couldn’t go insane or berserk because of his limit. However, it was too late.
The abyss refuses to take the demon master. The hold just disappeared without
taking Ryou’s master.
“ARRRRGH!”
Ryou yelled in pain making the blue boy shocked and took a few steps away from
the going-to-be berserk demon. Memories merged inside Ryou’s mind. The memories
of his master who also his guardian that cared for him since he was small. This
merged has made Ryou’s mind become blank as both of his eyes turns into bright
red colours. He yelled again, in pain because he couldn’t follow his limit’s
rule. The yelling won’t stop till Ryou lost his consciousness but his body
isn’t as he still standing with a smirk curved at his lip.
The
glowing red eyes turned to the boy who is really frightening right now. The
frightening boy back steps away from the insane demon while the demon steps
forward to the boy. Until the boy hits the wall behind him, Ryou strikes,
making another wound on the boy’s left shoulder that unable him to moves his
left hand. The boy wanted to escape but Ryou is in front of him… Near him and
close to him. Dread has concurs the boy.
“I
will save you.” A voice said with full of determination.
Suddenly,
Ryou regain conscious but only half-conscious. In his small conscious sight, he
saw the dark sky in front of him which meaning, he is laying on the ground
right now. Then, he saw a boy that covered with blood, looking him down at him.
Ryou’s hand that was placed on his above waist moved to reach the boy, wanting
to know is the boy saved or not. But then, he saw his hand is covered with
blood. Is it his blood or the innocent boy’s blood? In confusion, Ryou looked
the boy with hazy and blur eyes. “Are you… the Crimson Reaper?” he asked when
saw the boy that standing next to him has crimson-blood orbs. “Did you save the
kid? Is the kid alright?” he continued questioned but his consciousness is
fading again. Why can’t it cooperate with Ryou just for a little while till he
knows the blue eyed boy’s condition?
The
final thing that he saw before he lost conscious again was… a pitiful face from
the Crimson Reaper for him. “Send thee’ to the deep abyss.”
-
“Are
you sure this is the right thing to do?” a boy in black clothes said, wanting
to make sure that what the three of them doing is the right thing to do.
Before
the question is answered, another one of them become really scared with his
legs are shaken with fear. “Hey, let’s stop. That person you hated isn’t even
in the Demon Returner. He never will! I’m sure you’ll be stronger than his
later on!” he suggested to the leader of the trio.
Annoyed
by what his coward friends utters, the leader of the trio replies in angry
tone. “Shut up. If you are such a scaredy cat, go away.” Really! Why should
they follow him anyway if they are this coward? They should just go back to
their dorm or back to their mommy! A Demon Returner should be brave like he is;
though he clearly knows what he is doing right now is a forbidden thing to do
in this academy. However, what ‘that person’ did to him is unforgivable even if
he isn’t one of the Demon Returner but his friends are. “I’m not doing this
only just to revenge him. His friends TOO! They made a fool out of me!” he
stated in what his mind speaks.
The
leader looked proud of the summon circle he just made. He had been doing this
for three days straight and even researches his father’s work to make sure that
the summoning will work well. His father doesn’t mind him very much because he
knows and believe his son and his son will surely make him proud if this
summoning is a success. The aim of the summoning is to call upon and powerful
demon that chained with a limit and the limit is freedom. The demon needs a
master to fulfil the limit and of course the master will always be the person
he summoned, right? Oh, the leader just couldn’t wait to he sees the begging
face of those peoples who fooled him. “Heh heh.” He began to day dream but
snapped right away. It’s going to be true anyway. There’s no need to be day
dreaming.
Slowly
with the feeling of excitement, he bites his thumb to draw out some of this
blood to prefect the ritual of summoning. When his blood fall on the summoning
circle, it glowed in red colour before lightning strikes and a black hole
appear, releasing dark fog through it. Then, with another strike of lightning,
something black appeared, standing on the circle. This has made the leader
become really amused and curious on what kind of demon he has summoned.
When
the fog disappeared and so does the lightning, a dark figure can clearly see on
the summon circle. The demon has an appearance of a young man with dirty
dark-blue hair and this person has blood scent around him. The leader of the
students; smirked, feeling proud of his works. He stepped forward and
announced, “Demon, I am the one who summoned you here to the world from the
abyss and that, you are now officially my demon servant. Now, bow to me.” Right
after the leader commanded, the demon faced the human who summoned him and
knelled down to show respect of his new master-to-be. All they need to do is
shares their blood and then, they are a master and a servant.
The
leader just stand and waiting for his new servant-to-be shows his blood for him
to drink but the demon servant didn’t more a muscle after he had been summoned.
This has made the leader annoyed, “Show me your blood of royalty, demon!”
Hearing that, made the demon turned up to his master-to-be face without any
emotion. When the leader saw the servant-to-be face, he shocked. Not only was
the demon’s face familiar but also… The demon eyes are glowed in red colour
which means…
Before
the leader of the three students; could do anything, the demon grabbed his neck
single hand and pushed him to the wall. And with that, the other two students
ran away while dread has concurs the leader. Is he going to die here?
Suddenly,
something huge and white came, toward the demon, making the demon release the
grip right away. Then, the white furry animal pushed the demon down on the
floor by standing on its prey. “Good job, Sol!” a voice uttered happily and it
belonged to a young boy with sparkle teal orbs and silky dark-brown hair that
seems to have the exact age as the leader but shorter in height. “Night, you
dumb ass. Why did you summon the demon?” the boy sneered at the leader called
Night.
Knowing
who his saviour is, the leader stood up and yelled, “It is YOUR FAULT! HOW CAN
I NOT BE PISSED IF YOU STEAL MY BENTOU, MY CHOCOLATE, AND ALL MY FOODS! AND MOST
IMPORTANTLY, YOU AND HIM BUSTED ME WHEN I WAS ENJOYING-”
“Yeah,
yeah. Whatever…” the dark-brow haired boy cuts Night word and rubbing his poor
cat-like ears that was listening to Night’s complains. More importantly he
needs to concentrate to the demon Night has summoned. He has to admit that
Night has done a great job on summoning the demon but this demon… Need just a
little more time to cure from the limit side-effect. All he needs to do now is
buy some times for the demon to recover before he kills somebody in this academy.
“Night, draw out your sword.”
Night
shrugs, “Why shou-”
“JUST
DO IT!” he yelled. He has to admit that he couldn’t fight this demon alone. He
really needs Night’s help or… Both of them may die here.
Surprisingly,
Night nodded as if he understands what the teal orbs boy thinking. “I never
thought you can be this serious, Kuroba.”
“Rarely,
I just need to use you if things looked bad and just call me Kizuna. Don’t use my
family name.” Kizuna mumbled as he dashed forward to help his guardian, Sol the
white wolf. When the dark-brown reached to where Sol is, he looked carefully at
the demon beneath Sol, analysing the demon. One thing to say, the demon’s
condition is really bad. There’s even a huge scar at the demon’s chest. Wonder
what happened before he was send to the abyss? Nevertheless, almost most of the
demon that was summoned by humans has huge scars like this and at the same
place. Ah, now he is really curious what happened to them before they are
chained.
The
demon that was summoned, struggles himself beneath Sol but unavailable as Sol
is much stronger than he is but he kept on struggling to gain freedom for
himself.
The
white wolf noticed the demon action. This action can’t be continued because it
will harm himself if he kept on thrashing. Suddenly, Sol accidently slipped his
paw making the demon’s hand free. He quickly grabbed Kizuna’s right leg and
pulled it hardly making Kizuna falls on the ground. Kizuna yelped in pain when
the demon gripped his leg hardly.
Hearing
Kizuna’s yelling made the wolf releases the demon and stomped at the demon’s
hand that was gripping Kizuna’s leg. However, the stomp was a fail when the
demon moved his hand away from Kizuna and jumped away from both of the wolf and
half human and beast gen. Then, he looked a way of escaping and he found it.
Without wasting more time, he makes a quickly run, away from the foe and
outside the cave.
Instead
of chasing the demon, Kizuna just smiled and laid himself against his guardian
wolf. “Hehe, finally… ”
-
Memories
triggered inside the demon’s mind. The memories before he failed to fulfil his
limit. In his mind, there is one boy that has blue orbs like the clear-blue-sky
colour. The boy that made him feels; for the first time, he wanted to protect
but ended up killing him. That boy died, right? After seeing the face of the
Crimson Reaper before he was send to the deep abyss. If can, he want to die because
knowing the boy has die at that time has made he feels like half of himself
already disappeared and empty. All there’s need to do now is waited for the
side-effect limit to end and then, perhaps… Get killed by the boy from before
or if that dark-brown haired boy won’t kill him… Ryou will kill himself.
Suddenly,
the demon startled when heard a loud sighing sound just outside the cave.
“Where is that neko… He is late.” A young male high school student said lazily
with a loud sigh again. Then, suddenly the two pair of eyes meets with each
other, staring at each other. The student blinked and waves his hands hesitantly.
“Umm… Hey?” the boy mumbled along with a sweat drop.
The
demon frowned, thinking is the boy wanted to dig his own grave or what? He
tried to hold himself for not attacking the young student but it seems like
it’s a fail because the side-effect is stronger than his senses. Without
hesitations, Ryou’s body moved toward the student and pushed him against a huge
tree. The boy only blinked twice and confused what is happening to him right
now. Ryou kinda surprised that the boy looked calm… very calms even though his
life is in line right now. Maybe it’s because the student is stronger than Ryou
is. That’s why he looked as if he doesn’t care about his life.
The
demon sighed, figured that finally; it’s the time for him to die in this boy’s
hand. While thinking, his hand moved as the hand changed into a dragon claw. He
knows that when he makes this move, the student will protect himself by killing
him or something like that. To Ryou’s surprises, the student just stared at
Ryou’s glowing red eyes with his blue orbs or more clearly, blue as the
deep-blue-sky. Then, the student closed his eyes as if he accepted his fate
that he going to die in his hand. Thanks to student’s action, he has made
Ryou’s hand shivered. He doesn’t want to kill this boy… That looked the same as
the boy he killed.
However,
his body suddenly moved again by itself. Ryou closed his eyes trying his best
to not let the limit controls him. Before the harmful claw could reach the
student’s face, it stopped. “Why? Why are you doing like this? Don’t you want
to live?” Ryou asked with his body shivering all over. “WHY DO YOU WANT TO DIE
WHEN YOU DID NOTHING WRONG AT ALL?!” he yelled to his heart content.
The
male high school student blinked and shrugs, “That’s not it…” he mumbled and
continued with a warm smile. “I did it because I trust you. I know deep in your
eyes that won’t kill me.” The boy stopped talking, wearing the same smile. The
face that looked exactly the same as the boy Ryou killed. However with just
five words from the student, Ryou’s intentions of dying disappeared completely,
“I really trust you, mister.” With that, Ryou noticed that the student’s face
has the same face as boy’s face. No wonder he didn’t realize it. He has been in
the abyss for a few hours in abyss’s time but in many years in the world’s
time. To make sure the students is the boy; Ryou ripped the boy’s sleeve and
saw a mark. This mark… is the mark that Ryou’s pervious master leaves when he
lost his senses. He didn’t die… That’s a good thing to know.
While
Ryou felt relieved, the boy blinked nervously. “W-what are you doing, mister?
My brother going to be mad if he knows my academy’s uniform is torn…” he
mumbled. “A-and why are you staring at my scar like that? And how did you know
I have a scar there? The only person that know about it, is my brother, Kizuna,
and…” suddenly, the male student stopped his words and stared at Ryou’s again,
looking deeply through the glowing red eyes that slowly turning to its original
colours. Its steel-blue colour while the other-side is maroon colour… Smiling
happily, the boy glomped the demon, making him fall on the ground, “You ARE
THAT GUY! IN MY DREAM WHEN I WAS LITTLE!” he shouted happily, glad that the
meeting isn’t an illusion but a reality. “It wasn’t a dream…” he utters, almost
sounded like he is going to cry.
At
that time, Ryou was really surprised by the boy’s action. He moved his hands and
glad that the side-effect finally worn out. He can finally move his own body
freely. With the freedom at his side, he returned the hug by placing both of
his hands around the human child. This still isn’t over yet. He needs to find
himself a new master but… maybe… “Nee… Can I be your servants?” Ryou asked,
releasing the hug and looked at the grown boy.
Suddenly,
the boy shrugs and shook his head. “No way. Why should you be my servants when
you can be my friend?” he asked which made Ryou chuckled. This boy… really! How
can he act like this as if he doesn’t have a clue about the demons at all?
However, no matter what, Ryou has decided that this boy will be his new master
no matter what. When if this boy is a human child.
“Anyway,
I’m Yorae Ryou. What’s your name? Can you tell me your name?” Ryou asked while
ruffling the boy’s silky white hair with a gentle smile.
The
boy closes his eyes when Ryou is trying to mess his hair and when the question
is asked, the male student revealed his deep sky blue orbs and smiled. “I’m
Kazeha. Yuuzora Kazeha.” He introduced himself. After the male student
mentioned his name, in Ryou’s eyes, he saw something else or more correctly,
someone else in his sight; a person with bloody crimson orbs. Ryou sighed with
a small grin. “Thank you… For saving me, Yuuzora Kazeha.” He thanked after
remembered the voice that was told by him a long time ago from his new master.
(TSUZUKU)
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