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Chapter List
- 15
- 16
- 17
Disclaimer: I don�t own X/1999, I didn�t come up
with any of Clamp�s brilliant characters, they�re the geniuses not me!

The character of Alex,
Jacob, Venus, Charlie, David and Dimitri are all mine. The Noters are half
reality. The rest belong to all the book/movie/TV stuff they came from. If you
can spot where they�re from then good for you!

Attention!!!!: all throughout this chapter, whenever you
panic and go �what the hell is she doing?!� just take a deep breath, count to
10 and start chanting �it�s all going to be alright in the end� until you�re
calm again. Believe me I�m not going to do something too radical with this
story, promise.

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Part 16 � War

Seishiro watched the sunrise through his cell�s window.

This time he felt sorry for the fact that his last sunrise will not be
fully enjoyed.

He remembered times in this dimension when he and Subaru stayed up all
night to watch the sunrise together.

The colors the rising ball of fire and light sprayed across the sky are
indeed a breathtaking show. After sunrise the usual layer of clouds dim the
light so these amazing minutes are all the dwellers of the dimension have of
their new world�s sun.

Seishiro still couldn�t decide if he wants Subaru to be
there in the last minutes of his life or not

If he is then he�ll be able to say a proper last goodbye.

But on the other end he�ll also see him die and surely that would rip
his heart and mind apart.

If he isn�t then the sight of whatever execution he�ll have will be
spared of him.

But on the other end, since Subaru was not in any condition to do
anything after the trial he was also in no condition to visit him last night.
The regret over avoiding his execution because of such a selfish reason will
eat Subaru forever.

Seishiro lit a cigarette from a new pack, chucking the cardboard
rectangle on the little desk in his cell. It swiveled a little, hitting two of
the three empty cigarette packets he smoked during the night.

His lungs were heavy and aching and his throat felt like sandpaper but
these were his last cigarettes.

Finally he sat on his cot near his table and its ashtray.

He began feeling blank and numb. He had to feel like that, he had
nothing else to feel left in him.

During the night a rainbow of emotions swapped through him as if using
his last hours of living to experience what 34 years of Sakurazukamori didn�t
allow him.

Sadness dominated most of it. At first he was surprised at how much of
that sadness he felt towards Subaru. Then he realized just how much he loved
Subaru and it stopped surprising him.

There was fear, even panic, but it was short and it happened in the height
of the night when the mind is naturally drawn to the demented and desperate thoughts.
It was over as soon as the sky began brightening.

One thing remained fixed in Seishiro�s mind; a
conversation he had with Alex earlier that night.

Alex sneaked into the jailhouse and lingered with Seishiro for several
hours. Most of the time Seishiro avoided any prodding into his own feeling by
the other man, instead he chose to interrogated Death about Subaru�s condition.

�He�s fallen into a silent depression. He�s crying a lot but only around
me, he won�t let anyone else see him cry.

�When his friends are around he�s quiet and suspicious, never lets out a
single word about himself or about anything.

�His friends are most motivating, they�re very helpful�.as much as they
can with the little help he lets them give and little help they can give
but�.�

�I don�t care about his friends�.I care about Subaru-kun�..he�ll be
broken�he�ll be torn in half and lost� Seishiro allowed himself to let his
emotions show on his face, frowning and winching as the picture of his lover in
torment passed before his eyes.

His palm clutched at the poor sheet of his cot mattress. �Alex, please�.stay
by his side, help him�.�

Alex glared at Seishiro for a moment completely enraged. Then he relaxed
and laughed a bit �Is that what you meant when you said �take care of him�? You
want me to succeed you?!�

Seishiro shot a glance at Death and gave a cunning little smile �He�s
not as shy and timid as you think he is, he�s quit
feisty in bed. I�m sure you�ll find him amusing�.�

�What makes you think I�ll need to replace you? What makes you think I�m
going to let you die?� Alex was angry again. He got up from his chair and sat
on the bed by Seishiro, staring powerfully into his seeing eye.

�I won�t let this pass Seishiro. Don�t worry, it�s going to be all
right, I promise� he placed his palm over Seishiro�s,
the one that clutched nervously at the sheet.

Seishiro stared into those deep green eyes in silence.

Hours after that Seishiro thought of the time he kidnapped Alex,
thinking him to be a lot weaker then he really is. He wondered over something.

***********************

The reason why Alex laughed a little when Seishiro thought he�s going to
die was because earlier that evening he had a similar discussion with Subaru.

Late into the night, after Sorata and Karen retired to sleep and
Yuzuriha went to her patrol, Subaru began opening up a bit.

He cried for a whole hour and a half, just weeping without even saying
anything. He half sat and half lay on the bed, held in Alex�s arms.

It wasn�t the panicked crying of earlier that day; it was a desperate weeping
that came out of the general idea of �it�s all lost, there�s nothing we could
do�. Then came the �what am I going to do?!� crying.

�Alex�.� Subaru raised a pair of swollen bloodshot eyes at Death �What
am I going to do�.without him?� he whimpered, breaking into another sobbing fit.

Alex frowned at him and cupped his chin to bring his eyes back to him �What
makes you think I�ll let him die? I won�t let this pass Subaru. Don�t worry,
it�s going to be all right, I promise�

Subaru stared at Alex with a small glint of hope in his eyes slowly
becoming a real fire as much as it could in his poor state.

Subaru has seen Alex acting under a goal, and he knew Alex kept a
promise.

Despite that, on the following morning when Subaru got up from a long
refreshing sleep Alex forced on him he felt numb. As numb as Seishiro, then he
began panicking again.

*********************

At 4AM in the morning Dimitri
and Kakyou were torn from their slumber by a loud muddy thud coming from
outside their cottage.

Their one and only sheep had collapsed and was now lying miserably on
her side in her pen�s ground of hey and dirt.

It was Kakyou�s only companion besides Dimitri,
that sheep, and he loved her like a pet. He saw her lying on the ground like
that and rushed to her with a cry of worry and pain.

Dimitri went out and bought her as a lamb. She was to be fed into a good
healthy state when she�ll be killed, sliced up and eaten as a meal for him and
Kakyou.

But when he showed Kakyou the she lamb the yumemie ran up to her and wrapped
his arms around her lovingly. He wouldn�t budge from her side in her months of
childhood, spending a lot of his days with her. Half his stamina now is the
result of him trying to be able to pick her up.

When Dimitri hinted she�ll be their dinner one day Kakyou made such a
horrified face that the older man had nothing to do but to cancel the idea and
rely on game meat as before.

When the sheep was old enough they took her to another farmer who kept
stags so she�ll get pregnant and bare a little lamb for them.

She was pregnant now and probably half of Kakyou�s
alarmed babbling was about that, Dimitri could only guess.

He walked to the little bird cage they received from the veterinarians
and took the message dove from there.

A few weeks ago Kazuki came over with this birdcage explaining to Kakyou
and Dimitri (reading out from a note Anthony gave her with the explanation in
Russian) about the dove. If they�ll have an emergency they�ll release the dove
and it�ll fly to Anthony and they�ll come over without the need to bring the
animal to the vets.

Dimitri handed Kakyou a note to write Kazuki about the problem. When the
note was ready Dimitri attached it to the dove�s leg then released her to her
way.

As he wrote, Kakyou wiped the tears from his eyes while taking short
worried glances at Meeeh, the sheep.

After about two hours a perky Kazuki and a ruffled, sleepy Anthony
arrived at Meeeh�s side.

While Anthony grabbed Dimitri for a chat over what happened to Meeeh, Kazuki grabbed Kakyou for a small gossip chat.

�Oh, Arashi-san�s pregnant! Well that�s nice.
I hope they�ll have a safe delivery�.say, where�s Seishiro-san? Didn�t bother
to get himself out of bed?�

Suddenly Kazuki looked sad and frightened �No�.he�s in jail�.�

�Jail?! Whatever for?�

�He�s going to die tomo�.no, today, Kamui and
Fuma put him to trial over mass murder for all the people he killed as a
Sakurazukamori and they sentenced him to death�.�

She didn�t want one of her more valuable friends to die though she was
innocent and oblivious enough to see Justice�s acts as true.

�Humph, serves him right if you ask me� Kakyou looked away frowning. He cuddled
a hen he placed on his lap as he sat on a barrel by Meeeh�s
pen.

Though he found a new lover and seemingly moved on in life, Kakyou still
remembered, with a great amount of pain, the scene he saw in his dream and in
real life: Hokuto�s chest cold-bloodedly pierced by Seishiro�s hand.

Then it hit him like a bolt of lightning: Seishiro is a Man of Death
about to be executed by Justice! His dream! And War!!!!!!!

He shot off of the barrel making the hen flap her wings madly, cackling
in the silly way only chickens can.

Kakyou rudely shoved at Kazuki as he ran directly towards Dimitri but he
didn�t care; his mind was buzzing with so many thoughts that he couldn�t care
for the little physical details.

He tugged at Dimitri�s sleeve frantically,
hanging desperate eyes at him.

�Yume?� the larger man asked him, his lover�s worried expression
reflected on his face.

Kakyou nodded and ran off, not waiting for anything more.

He dashed to the large horse, helped with the saddling by Dimitri, and
climbed on it slightly shaking. As soon as he was safely on the saddle he made
the clicking noise that meant �run like mad�, making the horse shoot off.

Kakyou never rode alone, not in this speed anyway, and now he found
himself almost swapped off the saddle by the sheer speed. He found strength in
him to hold the harness and cling as much as he can to the horse to make them
both aerodynamic.

One thought repeated in his mind on and on and on: �I will stop this! I
will change destiny! I will not be the useless dreamgazer who can only watch
and do nothing while horrors occur! I will be different! I will stop this! I
must!�

***********************

Arriving at the Seals and Harbinger�s big house Kakyou rode his horse to
the back yard and under the ruined staircase. From his seat on the horse he
easily stepped to the first remaining stair and rushed up to the door.

It was the early hours of the morning as Kamui and Fuma just woke up.
When Kakyou stormed into the room Fuma had to rush and cover himself with the
blanket as he prepared to get out of bed.

�Kakyou�..� Kamui, standing by the washing basin, stared surprised at
the yumemie.

Kamui had a lurching feeling in his stomach all along since the verdict yesterday.

Half of him wanted to kill Seishiro while the other half, the animal
instinct of smelling out danger and warning the rest about upcoming troubles,
kept nagging at him to stop the execution immediately.

But Kamui was a young man full of the sense of Justice and so he ignored
such basic things as animal instincts, preferring the voice of logic.

When he saw the worried yumemie on their doorstep those instincts turned
to the logical half as to say �see, I told you so!�.

�What is it Kakyou?� Fuma slipped his pants on as Kakyou turned his back
to allow him more privacy.

�I�m sorry to interrupt you in such an early hour of the morning but�..I
do apologies, it�s all my mistake, I had that dream a long time ago but I
brushed it off because it meant so little sense and was so fuzzy and confused
and�.�

�What dream?� Kamui now gestured for Kakyou to turn his back as he
changed from his nightgown to his clothes (the good old Clamp campus uniforms,
only now he didn�t bother with the tie anymore).

Kakyou felt a little wave of relief. They seemed to want to listen to
him so surely they�ll cancel the execution. He will become the good efficient
oracle he wanted to be.

�In my dream I saw a man about to be executed by you, Justice. Then
Death came along and protected the man before he was hanged and then�.and then
a war started between Justice and Death�.�

A bell rang in Kamui�s mind; Alex said if
they�ll try to execute Seishiro they�ll start a war��this is what Kakyou�s talking about�..

The bell rang in Fuma�s mind as well, sending
the same old shivers down his spine like the ones he�d get whenever Death�s
name was mentioned.

So he looked at Kamui who froze as he buttoned up his white shirt.

Then he changed his mind from canceling it all over again.

Kamui had this strange look in his eyes, not only fear but recognition,
calculation. Fuma saw that look in his eyes when they first spoke of judging
Seishiro. The look was there because
Kamui knew Alex, knew him well.

Fuma wasn�t oblivious to the two�s past together and how deep their
relationship ran at the time. And it chilled him, disgusted him to think
that once Kamui was one of Death�s creatures.

That�s when emotions ran into the picture once again, just like they did
when Kamui remembered Seishiro threatening to hurt him because he�s holding
Kotori and can�t defend himself properly.

Fuma was jealous of the time Alex had Kamui and of the way it meant they
will always have something between them which only they know of.

Fuma hated it more then anything. He wanted Kamui all to himself, which
was completely natural and understandable.

But just like the love to Kamui made Alex blind to anything but his goal
as he traveled world after world in search of his lover, so did that love blind
Fuma now.

It blinded him with anger and pride. Pride is never an emotion to have
when considering human life.

Fuma had Kamui now; he won the boy by love and not by violence. Alex
didn�t have Kamui and so he didn�t have the right to occupy Kamui�s
thoughts so much, not now, not ever!

�So you had a dream about it, big deal, it�s a dream to frighten us and
nothing more.� Fuma got up from the bed after sitting on it musing for a while.
He began putting his shirt on �The dream is merely a warning of what fait plans
for us�

He tapped Kamui lightly on the shoulder to snap him out of his freeze
and help him with the little hooks of his school uniform shirt. This was always
a work too delicate for his slightly big and rough fingers to handle. Once
Kotori used to do it for him while babbling about this or that or simply
staying quiet and kind as she was.

Now as Kamui did the same with fingers as thin and delicate as even
Kotori would wish she had.

Fuma looked down at what was his and spoke on, inspired by beauty.
�Kakyou-san, I stood aside while fait had its way with the ones most precious
to me�

He cupped Kamui�s chin shifting the mauve eyes
from the hooks to his eyes. There was a hazy surprised look in them like only
Kamui could produce when looking at his loved one.

�And I won�t stand aside now, I will fight destiny and get what�s right�

Kamui�s eyes glazed over with love and Fuma
felt himself suddenly like those strong macho male figures he saw on TV who
give out a long �we�ll win� speech and impress the lovely looking girl by them
into complete admiration.

Kakyou turned around, frantically trying to make himself
heard, he felt like he was talking to a brick wall, �But Fuma, I think destiny
might be different in this world I think�.�

�Weren�t you the one who told the Dragon that �the future has yet to be
determined� and believed it while all around you believed that the future is sealed
in stone and cannot be changed? �

That stopped Kakyou dead on his tracks, he didn�t see this coming. He
just stood there with his mouth slightly open as if about to speak, his pose as
if he�s about to take another step but stopped in the middle.

Justice stared at him like that for a while before they realized they
don�t want to keep their morning organizing with the Yumemie frozen like that
in their room.

�Kakyou-san� Kamui�s voice and eyes were soft,
pitying, as he placed a hand on Kakyou�s frail
shoulder �you told us your dream and we listened, you�ve done your job now let
us do ours� and with that he gently pushed Kakyou out of the door before
closing it after him.

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For a while Kakyou stood there thinking about things.

He was tired, after all, he didn�t sleep fully this night and he did go
to sleep late (Dimitri didn�t help with that at all). Trying to stay on the
horse while it rushed madly forward also took a little bit off of his physical strength.

Then it flashed him again, the sight of the huge explosion-like effect
the war was represented by. Lady Destiny knew what she was doing when she
showed a Japanese man something that looked exactly like an atomic explosion.

She did mean it; she wanted him to stop it at all costs.

As it flashed before his eyes again, and his guilt over not telling
about the dream to whom he should have until the very last moment, made Kakyou
start moving again despite his exhaustion.

An idea flashed in his mind; if he can�t talk to one side he�ll talk to
another.

But how can he find Alex in time? The only answer was through his
Creatures of Death who can sense where Alex was.

The onmyoujis were not anything to speak of since they were in no
condition to be talked to or make a coherent answer by what he heard from
Kazuki.

And so, when he knew where he was heading, Kakyou sped down the staircase
and onto his horse again, riding madly towards the main Rescue Team�s house.

***********************

Tara is a witch and a part of the Rescue Team. It
is nothing people that aren�t on the night patrol would notice, but at
nighttime she�s there working along with Blue Fairy. She levitates herself into
the deep blue night sky and emits a light to add to the moon�s
shining, helping those who are lost or newcomers find their way home.

But that�s on nights when the moon is not full enough to light the town
below properly. Last night the moon was full and huge and so this morning she
was in the house�s kitchen cooking a pie from leftovers of their rations.

Kakyou burst through the door. He managed to grab the doorknob before he
might crush down to the floor.

The witch walked over to him and aided in supporting him back to stand
up straight. �Are you alright?� she stared up to him through his long hairs
falling over his face.

�Yes, yes I�m fine�.Alex�s vampires, where are they?�

The witch frowned a bit �They�re asleep now,
it�s daytime��

�I must find him quickly and they�re the only ones who can sense him and
can talk to me�.where are they? Please�

Now she could see, as he raised his face, his desperate and determined
eyes �They�re over there madam� she pointed towards a room with it�s door closed.

�Thank you� he huddled away from her aid and walked into the room. He
was in too much of a rush to correct Tara for her
mistake.

The air in the room was stuffy and slightly hot as the new day�s fresh
sun beat down at the floor through cracks in the closed shutters on the window.
The heavy fabrics on the walls did not help the heat in the room at all.

In the room stood a large double bed matching in decoration to the
tapestries around it. Against the other wall of the room stood a simple single bed
with simple white sheets, the pillow was missing and so was the blanket.

Kakyou couldn�t make out where the lid of the coffin was in the large
bed and he wasn�t strong enough to lift or move the whole bed and so he turned
to the simple wooden one to his left.

The mattress itself lay on a layer of wood that was obviously larger
then the bed itself so that it could be moved and opened.

Kakyou lifted the lid to discover the vampire who was Yuzuriha�s friend, curled up on a pillow and covered with a
blanket like she in a normal bed rather then a coffin.

Victoria twitched her face
in her sleep; the heat the sunlight�s rays in the air bothered her. She opened
her eyes.

There wasn�t a single sign of recognition in her eyes or of self awareness;
she looked like something taken completely by instinct while the mind itself
was shut down.

She sent her hand quicker then Kakyou could prepare himself, and grabbed
him by the neck, starting to strangle the dreamgazer.

His life flashed before his eyes. They were so empty and meaningless
when he overlooked the painful memories that, for a moment, Kakyou thought of
not fighting the hand that slowly closed down on his pipelines.

His vision started blurring, the edges blackening as if slowly burnt.

Just before he sank into oblivious dizziness he heard a hoarse
commanding voice from the doorway. Then the hand which held him in such an iron
grip let go of him. Kakyou�s body crushed on the
floor with a light thud as only such a frail body can produce.

�Never try to open a vampire�s coffin when they�re asleep, are you
trying to kill yourself or what?�

It was Alex, he found him and he must talk to him!....but he couldn�t,
the air that suddenly flood freely into his lungs have yet to reach his brain
and the adrenalin rush made Kakyou suddenly crippled again. He lay there on the
floor, reaching out faintly towards the doorway where Alex stood.

�A�..Dea�..I�..have to talk to you� he finally
managed to mutter after many attempts

�Not now Kakyou, there are more important things for me to do now, I�ll
talk to you later�

�No�..� a small whimper is all Kakyou could manage; he was too tired and
too weary. He watched as his last chance to be useful turned around and walked
out of the house.

All Kakyou could do was to drag himself to sit on the floor, leaning on
the wall where the shut window cast
tiger like golden stripes on the floor over his exhausted, useless legs.

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The execution site finally selected, after several harsh words exchanged
between Justice and David (with the undertaker threatening Justice might they
choose to turn his graveyard into an execution site), was behind the court
itself, on a patch of land which was exactly in the middle between the prison
house and the court.

Seishiro was brought there on foot, surrounded by court Noters with
their rifles ready to fire.

As he walked, Seishiro looked up to the bright morning sky and his
surrounding. After all, these are his last moments of life and he better use
them to the fullest.

Kamui and Fuma also arrived at the spot by foot, after going through the
court to meet up with the Noters who would act as the execution�s shooting
squad.

After a short briefing from Iceman, Justice, the execution team and
several other heavily armed Noters walked out towards the execution site.

Subaru, picked up from his home by Alex and escorted by the remaining Seals
and Harbingers, got there by foot.

The closer he got to the place the more Subaru felt numb and cold. The
moment he saw the little group already gathered at the spot his heart began to
race and the thoughts began zooming madly through his mind again.

This time Alex didn�t hold his arm to restrict him, he was confident of
what Subaru might do if Justice will not listen to his advice and warning. He
was confident of his own reaction might Justice try to pull this off fully.

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The moment the Seals and Harbingers arrived there the execution�s team
turned their eyes to the little delegation. The tension in the air rose to new
and extreme levels.

Fuma scanned over the faces of those who came to watch �Ah, we�ve been
waiting for you� he tried to smile but found it inappropriate�.luckily for him.

�That�s ever so kind of you� the smile Yutu sent with his words was not
his usual, it was bitter and scornful.

Kamui turned to Fuma and whispered to him �Let�s get this started, the
more we linger is the harder they�ll try to stop us�

Fuma nodded and gestured for Iceman to begin.

Iceman turned to the firing squad and gave them a command to get into
position.

Seishiro was already standing before them with his hands un-cuffed.

�You really want to pull this off?� Alex cut through the command, he was
looking at Justice.

The Noters in the firing squad hesitated, as they were about to aim
their rifles into position the long machines were shaking in their hands.

Justice did not react, didn�t even look at Death.

Iceman barked another order at his men. They raised their rifles to
level with Seishiro�s chest and heart.

Subaru began shaking again, and still Alex did not move to grab him or
stop him. I fact, as Yutu was about to do so Alex stopped
him.

The next order sent the Noters to take their clips (1) and feed them to
their rifles.

A little earthquake-like movement under his feet sent Kamui into a last
spree of thoughts about canceling it in the last minute.

Another order was shot and the Noters pulled at their rifles� loading
handle (2) and switch the safety catch from �safe� to �semi-automatic� (3)

That�s when Subaru cracked. He shot off from Alex�s side and threw
himself at Seishiro, wrapping his arms around his neck clinging to him madly
with his back to the barrels of the Noters� rifles.

Yutu reached out to garb him but was harshly stopped by Alex. He turned
a crazed and angry glare at the bigger man �What do you think you�re doing?!
He�s��

Alex didn�t bother looking at him. Instead he looked on at the shooting
site, looking further ahead then that �If that won�t stop them then surely
there�s no other way��

�What are you doing Subaru-kun?� Seishiro sounded faint and tired.

�I can�t stay here without you. If you go then I go too�

The older onmyouji felt the collar of his shirt soaked with tears. The
body he instinctively held in his arms shook.

A little smile appeared on his face �Well, at least I can die hard�.�
The cold determined gaze he got from the Justice side of the two groups around
him made the smile disappear.

The next command was �Fire�

*************************

After having enough of a rest to calm his thoughts into a bit of
optimism and relaxation, Kakyou could allow himself to open his eyes and try to
stand up.

The moment he was on his feet the earth began shaking violently under
his feet like it never did, even in his home world of broken kekkais�. It sent him falling down on his rear end again.

In the execution site the earth shook as well and the only one remaining
calm and stable was Death who glared directly at Justice, his eyes glowing in turquoise
and his fighting gear completely on.

�It is your very last warning, call the execution off!� he shouted over
the slight panicking voices of those who came to watch and the rumble of the
earth under their feet.

In times of stress the ones with forces of destiny can call out their
creatures and men to come to their side and help them. Without knowing it,
Justice called out to their men.

From each base Noters poured out via on cart,
horse or foot. They were without thought of themselves; they only ran towards
the execution site with a white light surrounding them like a halo.

Out of the prison, along with its Noters, Gala flew towards the site,
and landed in Alex�s path to the onmyoujis.

�Iceman! Do it! Give out the command!� Justice
yelled in two voices.

Iceman, who was still under his own control, turned to his men and barked
the command.

Behind each of the Noters in the firing squad, from the earth itself, a
zombie came out and grabbed the men. One hand grabbed the Noters across their
chest to draw in their arms; the other hand twisted the barrels of the rifles
upwards. As the shot was fired the ruined rifles exploded, killing the Noters
who held them and harming the zombies that held them.

Other zombies erected from the ground to form three tight rings around
those in the execution site, excluding those who came with Subaru.

The remaining Seals and Harbingers, grabbed by the dead called out to move
again, were knocked into unconsciousness and thrown aside to clear them away
from the mess.

Kakyou sat again in the partially lit room and noted that it wasn�t even
lit anymore; through the cracks in the shutters he saw the sky suddenly became heavily
clouded until it was almost black.

He wondered about that, in his mind that was still slightly dazed and
confused from what he�s been through.

Then it all became clear to him as the coffin lids of the beds on both
his sides opened and the vampires in them sat up and climbed out of their
resting places. They ran out of the room in amazing inhuman speed.

He wanted to reach out to them but the pain in his neck was still too
vivid to do anything. He could only sit and watch, again.

He noted, as he sat there crying and whimpering for them to stop, screaming
madly when his throat allowed him to do so, that the long haired fancy dressing
blond male vampire walked over to the wall near the kitchen and took off a
large piece of paper that hung on the wall, before he hurried out like his
sister to the dark blood.

The vampires� mind, just like the ones of the Noters, Gala and Iceman,
were now completely vacant of all thoughts. All that was there were their
master�s commands.

Death�s command to the onmyoujis were to hold tight to each other and
form wards around them to keep anyone from nearing them that wasn�t of their
kind.

Gala charged at Alex from her high spot in the air but was quickly grabbed
from behind a few meters from hitting Death, by David who hurled her powerfully
to the earth away from Alex.

The undertaker landed near her, his wings fluttering in the air
powerfully, wielding his shovel like a weapon.

They began to fight on the edge of the tight rings of zombies
surrounding the site.

The Noters on the outside of the ring shot at the goons, pushed and
shoved at them to try and rescue their masters. But bullets couldn�t hurt a
body that was already dead, only open greater holes in the rotting flesh that
regenerated back again under the powerful aura of their master.

The Noters weren�t fought against, only pushed, grabbed and hurled
backwards and away from the ring by the living dead. The rings were not
penetrated.

After some wild exchange of blows between Gala with a sword she used,
and David and his shovel the sword was knocked out of the warden�s palms and
shot way back outside the ring, straight into the rows of Noters outside it.

She was grabbed again, restrained and carried to Death by the
undertaker.

Death turned to look at her, a malicious fanged grin on his face. Her
neck was offered by David and slashed cleanly by Alex with one whiff of his
sword.

Suddenly it became clear to Justice, as the situation switched from
their advantage to their own future fall, just in how much danger they
were right now. Fuma grabbed Kamui instinctively and surrounded him with his arms
like Seishiro with Subaru.

Before them, in Death�s path towards them, Iceman stood with his own
ancient sword pulled out before him.

Alex and Iceman, Gala, Jacob and David too, each in their own dimension
had a cult to their kind called the Blue Circle. That
was a cult of supreme warriors who gave power and fighting skills to those who
joined their ranks. Each of their own mostly selfish reasons joined the cult
and then ran after gaining the power of the cult.

But they also gained power and fighting skills, the fighting skills that
Iceman now used as he fought Alex for his masters.

Those movements, which Alex learnt, were now used against Iceman as Alex
remembered them and knew what weak spots they create in his opponent�s defenses.

It wasn�t easy, and they moved faster then a normal human eye can see,
but slowly Alex began to take the upper hand as he used the little breaks
between the defensive swings and attacks to slash here and there into Ice�s
body.

In the meantime the vampires arrived at the scene, placing themselves
one at each side of Justice, snarling and hissing as they neared them to tare
them apart from each other.

It drew Iceman�s attention to the new threat and so, when he was not
looking directly at his nemesis, Alex rammed his sword straight the god�s his
neck.

For a moment they stood there, one holding a sword and one impaled on
the sword, frozen in the pain. Everything froze within the ring as if something
big was broken in the world and a moment of silence in mourn was called for.

Iceman spat blood as he tried to speak.

He merely gained a glowing turquoise scornful glare. The sword that
connected to him swung sideways. He was swooped aside and cast there like a
lifeless doll, struggling not to become one despite his injury.

And so, with big heavy steps, erasing the grin and changing it into a furious
expression, Death approached Justice.

Circled all around them by Men and Creatures of Death, cut off from
their men and rescuers, Justice could do nothing but try and protect themselves as best they could.

The psychic powers their world�s destiny gave them faded a long time
ago; Justice, True Justice, needed no protection of themselves
for they are just and pure and so will be seen by anyone who looks upon them.

Fuma tightened his grip on Kamui, glaring powerfully at the man
approaching him. He wore nothing but his school uniform and his magistrate
robe, had no weapons but his own human body which was trained only to shoot
hoops at basketball tournaments.

He clutched to Kamui as forceful as he could and turned his back to
Death, checking the monster�s progress across his shoulder.

Nearing him was a creature a thousand times more powerful then him,
dressed in armor he surely didn�t need, with huge wings that only a gush of air
from one could send him knocked to the ground and a sword in his hand.

Death didn�t use his sword; he pressed a hidden button on its
hilt and changed it to a long slim metal rod. He began spinning it with one
hand until the rod itself could not be seen; only created a sort of darkened
circle of fast moving metal around his palm.

The swing of that rod as it spun now Death aimed first at one of Fuma�s arms, breaking it in a sickening painful crush.

Fuma gave out a hoarse painful roar, making Kamui cling to him
desperately, but with his healthy arm he did not let go of Kamui as the other limb
dangled, mangled and useless by his side.

Death began spinning the rod again, his victims trying to step away but
banging into David who placed himself behind them to keep them from running
away.

Alex didn�t even change his expression, didn�t even talk, as he swung
the rod at the second arm. Fuma felt bright white pain as David grabbed him by
the hairs and swung him away from Kamui.

Once free Death took the last step, grabbed Kamui by his arm and yanked.
He looked straight at Fuma who was trying to make things stop swirling in front
of his eyes with the mind numbing pain. �You gave the wrong judgment to a
person who isn�t in your jurisdiction�

The earth that stopped roaring under them began shaking again, only a
little lighter.

This time it was horses, at first rotten and motionless, then slowly
regenerating. The horses emerged between the feet of each Creature of Death,
thus taking them upon their backs as they arrived

Under Death another horse appeared; black as night, his rider pulling
Kamui to the beasts� height. Death swung the screaming and kicking Kamui across
his shoulder like bounty. �Let�s see what good justice you�ll make when apart,
my dear twin stars�.

He turned his horse around and away a bit, followed by a limping
relentless Fuma. Now he turned to Kamui who screamed at him.

�LET ME GO!!!! LET ME GOOOOOOOO!�

�No Kamui, not until you will clear this man of his charges and declare
him innocent will you return here to your court and your Fuma�

�NEVER!!! We are True Justice
and our decisions are true and right! Now LET ME GOOOOO!!!�

�Very well then� Death smiled again and clicked his horse into a fast
canter. The horses carrying Victoria,
Lestate, David and the onmyoujis (who rode together on the same horse with
Seishiro at the back) followed him. The tight zombie rings cleared a passageway
for them.

Whatever Noters didn�t make it in time to move away from the passage got
stumped upon.

Fuma allowed himself to finally collapse to the floor and succumb a
little to his injuries. Then he raised his head once more to see his Kamui
drawing away from him on his kidnapper�s back, reaching out for him with tears
in his eyes.

And screaming �FUUUUMAAAAAAAAAAAA�

***********************

They headed towards the cliffs before Dragon
Valley and Tralfamadores craters. As they neared the dangerous
cliffs they didn�t stop nor slow their progress.

Kamui, who�s throat
became hoarse with screaming , now lost his ability to even think straight as the
horse his kidnapper rode took off the cliff like a plane and began to descend,
still riding in the air, downwards towards the dragons bellow.

Back in the city the
zombies sunk back into the ground and the Noters could start assessing the
situation.

They had half of
their driving force sitting badly injured on his knees crying like a little
baby mumbling his other half�s name.

They had one of
their officers squirming on the ground battling to stay alive despite his
injuries.

They had a good few
soldiers injured and a good few dead.

They had one head
warden dead.

Lion, who was the
first to clear his head of the chaos, sped towards Iceman. He knelt by him,
supported the man on his knees holding his hand before he called out to his
children.

He ordered his men
to gather all they have and start chasing after the forces of Death. They were
heading towards Dragon Valley where there�s another base of
them, and then there�s the Tralfamadores� craters where they surely can�t run
to.

Again, whoever was on
a cart or horseback began riding madly towards the Valley.

**********************

Alex turned around to look at his men before entering the territory
officially called Dragon Valley.

It is true that he had some sort of a language with the dragons living
here, and his dragon-like wings were only something to be looked at positively
there. These intelligent creatures valued his inhumanity and the dragon features
in him and turned their ears to him once, they can do it again.

Flying over straight into the valley and not through the long and
dangerous zigzag rout built into the Cliffside to allow entry and exit to the valley
gave the Death�s riders time over their chasers.

Now it was time to put another difficulty in their way.

Sensing humans in the presence of their caves, the keeper of the valley�s
entrance crawled out on his huge lizard like legs.

Kamui, now revived from his shock, twisted himself enough to see the
huge blue dragon that edged his way towards them, blowing smoke from it�s nostrils and growling in such a low tone it sent
vibrations through his whole body.

The dragon drew its enormous head towards Alex who stood with his horse
at the arrowhead of his group. The nose was about a good deal of height bigger
then the man and his horse sniffed Alex, the horse and their captive.

Death did not flinch, didn�t move a muscle.

Dragons communicated through telepathy and a series of various shrills
or growls that only they could produce. Alex, having physical difficulties with
producing such sounds, relied on telepathy to get the message through to the
creature before him.

For a moment there the dragon seemed enraged, opening his wings (as
small as they were to the rest of his body, they were still three times bigger
then Alex�s wings) and jerking his head sharply here and there.

Kamui began to have hope, he looked up towards the cliff top and saw his
men gathering there and slowly pouring carefully in through the little
passageway down to the valley.

Then, with a final blow of stifling thick smoke from the dragon�s
nostrils, it moved away and into a different cave entrance from where it exited.
Kamui�s hope was shattered into tiny little fragments
as his kidnappers began riding again, faster then his men, down the cave.

**********************

�Justice, Justice, can you hear me?� Owl was trying to snap Fuma into
coherence without causing him too much physical pain.

Fuma opened his eyes and all he could see was darkness. The clouds above
him that gathered to allow Death�s vampires to move in daytime slowly cleared
enough to bring normal sunlight pouring on the destructed site. But Fuma
couldn�t care about such things when Kamui was gone.

�Kamui�.�

�Taken sir�.Justice, sir�.they�re heading towards Dragon
Valley�.in fact�wait�� Owl moved
away, calling Lion over to explain the devastated man the situation that now
began to form.

Lion moved from the rows of Noters, dead and covered, towards Fuma. He
was hard and cold and seemed to be in his own mournful trance. But he took one
look at Fuma and at the medics� cart that carried Iceman traveling away towards
the infirmary and snapped out of it.

He walked over to the man bandaged on two sides by medics. �Justice,
Fuma, listen to me and clear your head to really understand what I�m saying�
his deep voice was charged with commanding and confidence.

Fuma raised pain filled eyes to the man before him, he was listening.

�Alex and his creatures rode from here towards Dragon
Valley. We thought we could use our
base there to stop them but apparently they�ve managed to talk the dragons to
showing them into their tunnels around the city and our base in there. Now the
last thing that can stop them is the Tralfamadores. There is not a chance they can get in there and if they
will get in there�.and if they will then�they�re
either trying to kill themselves or commit themselves to those aliens�

�That didn�t
encourage me one little bit� Fuma�s voice was bitter
but indicated that he was thinking clearly.

Lion held back a
small shout he felt like unleashing at the boy before him. He took a deep
breath and finally spoke once he calmed himself enough �The truth hurts, it�s
difficult and hard. The way things are at the moment there�s indeed nothing to
encourage you� and with that he got up and left to mourn for his lost children.

**********************

Tara noted Lestate and Victoria leaving.
She noted the earthquakes too and saw the zombies. She had seen Alex�s power
and knew there is not a chance in the world that she could do anything against
them.

And so she stood on
the porch of their house and watched whatever she could from there. Not until
Kakyou whimpered enough to be heard did she remember his existence.

She walked into the
now vacant room and found the yumemie on the floor wallowing in tears and
completely lost in his rambling and mourning.

She sighed deeply and
took him to the infirmary, noting little involuntary twitches in him that meant
that his muscles were collapsing with over exhaustion�. Or
maybe a mental breakdown?

********************

It seemed like
forever of endless winding, tangling and intertwining huge tunnels through
which they rode for days as it seemed to Kamui.

He was now exhausted
from fighting with all his might to escape Alex�s iron grip on him. Now without
his powers he was but a skinny little 16 years old and as thus he was rather
weak and fragile compared with his capturer.

His head buzzed with
the excitement and anxiety of the day�s events. It was only about four hours
since the execution began and here he was now like the world flipped
upside-down for him.

He allowed himself to
dose off a bit, knowing he�s too valuable to be dropped by accident.

The sound of horse
hoofs pounding the ground echoed from the walls of the tunnels where they rode.
They pounded in Kamui�s bothered, restless mind like
they pounded the ground. Endlessly.

************************

Here was a problem,
the wall of blue thin fire that kept the Tralfamadores from venturing out and
luring any more humans into their traps. They could pass through the wall
without a problem, what was on the other end was a different story.

Alex stood there
thinking, wondering if his plan will work.

The Blue Circle, the cult that raised the best of
many dimensions� warriors, didn�t breed their men for no reason. The Blue Circle would venture out into space
around their planet to conquer and create an empire with the colonies on every
planet they�ve landed. In his dimension and in all of the dimensions Alex saw
Blue Circles in it was the exact same story.

These conquests made
the Blue Circle fearful in the eyes of almost all
alien species, even the mentioning of the name sent many races into a frenzy of
self defense and protecting operations.

It was that effect which
Alex counted on to put an obstacle in the way between the forces of Justice and
forces of Death. If he�ll put the craters behind them the Noters and every
other person from the city will be completely stopped from chasing them.

He worked his power,
creating a huge Blue Circle symbol in the air as a banner
above them. Like that he began riding into the craters. He ordered David to do
the same and ride as the last in their convoy.

And it worked, the
little creatures saw the banner like symbol and ran away, clearing a path and
canceling any plan they had of capturing them. It would take another half a day
of riding to get to the other side and so Alex ordered the living-dead horses
to speed their canter into their fastest.

************************

Kamui woke up a few
more times during their ride through the craters and everything he saw made him
sick and dizzy. Lights danced around his head, creatures he never saw ogled at
him in a look that made him want to throw up.

He looked at the
little group riding after him. Their eyes were glowing in turquoise, their
faces were blank. He knew he had no one to talk to, not even Alex. He had no
hope and no way to resist.

As he slept he
thought to himself �I have to stick to my decisions, I will never forgive that
murderer, never! No matter what they put me through, no matter where we go and
what they do! I�ll see Fuma again and I will win!�

*******************

He was shaken into reality
finally as they arrived through the other side and crossed the wall of blue
fire that locked the craters on the other side.

On the other side the
clear moonlight shone on huge tracks of endless tall grass spreading to all
directions.

Kamui found was
thrown to the ground and into a bitter, harsh new reality.

He got up glaring
fire at Alex, cursing under his breath.

The Men and Creatures
of Death snapped out of the control forced on them and began looking around at
their new surrounding.

�Where are we?� Victoria slowly spun on her heels to get
as much of the green endlessness around her.

�Apparently we�re on
the other end of the Tralfamadores� craters� Alex answered her, getting off of
his horse and glaring back at Kamui.

In a moment tents
appeared around them to form a campsite for the nighttime. Small round tents
made of black velvet modestly decorated in silver and turquoise embroidery. One tent for Alex, another for Kamui. A
tent for each vampire and a tent for David. A tent for
the onmyoujis.

In the latter the two
completely woke, opening their eyes to allow the sights to filter into their
minds.

They loosened their
grabbing on each other enough to look into each other�s eyes.

�Seishiro-san!� Subaru�s eyes began tearing.

�Subaru-kun�

They kissed.

In his tent, where
Kamui also stood rubbing the bruises caused to him by the journey and his rough
landing, Alex called out to Lestate.

The vampire walked
merrily into the tent �Tres� bian
Alex!� he clapped his hands merrily �tents so lovely made of velvet�

�I didn�t want you
bitching about how crude everything is around you�

Lestate pouted
jokingly �I don�t bitch, I never bitch soldier boy�

�Did you bring the
map?�

�As you told me to�
Lestate reached into his fancy jacket�s coat and pulled out the large piece of
scroll-like paper Kakyou saw him take off of the wall in his house.

The scroll was a map
of the entire dimension that Ace traveled through once upon a time. These days
where the big forest Dimitri and Kakyou live in there was the city from which
Ace started his traveling. The world changed only a little bit from the days
the map was drawn, the people in the map though, changed a lot more. It had Dragon Valley and the craters so that Death
could explain the journey they took.

David walked in over
to the crude little table Alex created there so they could make their plans. He
looked down at the map and listened to Alex�s explanations.

Finally the undertaker
gave out a long whistle �Phew, we went through all of that distance? Amazing�

�Yes� Alex began glancing
sideways at Kamui who sat on a bench and began glaring back at him.

�So, what do we do
now?� Lestate raised his eyes to Alex. He really did admire his Death, not just
because of his force. Because, as a man that has been through wars and should
know of them, he was a good strategically thinking general without the
patronizing such a position might lead to.

�Yes,
what now Alex? What are you planning to do with me� Kamui hissed, amazed at his own
voice�s bitter hatred.

Alex straightened his
stand from leaning over the little table and glared right back at Kamui. �From
now on we�re going to make the distance between you and Fuma as big as could
be. It�s a whole planet we�re talking about here Kamui, and most of it is yet
to be discovered. Not until you�ll chance your judgment of Seishiro will we
turn around and come back to the city.

�Kamui, I�ve warned you
and you did not heed and so I�ve started a war. A war you are now the captive
of�

(tbc)

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(1) Clips in American, magazines in British English. Anyways what it
means is the bullet holding thing you shove into the rifle to load it.

(2) In an M-16 to get the bullet into the firing mechanism itself you
need to pull a handle that loads the rifle completely��you learn a new thing
with everyday, ne?

(3) Actually, fire regulations in a non-battle situation such as
practice shooting or disarming a rifle (making sure there isn�t a bullet in the
mechanism, I don�t know the exact word), there�s a pause between pulling the
loading handle and the switching of the safety switch but never mind!

A.N: my head hurts�.my head REALLY hurts�..
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