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Chapter List
- 17
- 18
- 19
Disclaimer: I don�t own X/1999, I didn�t come up
with any of their 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!

The lyrics belong to whomever wrote them for Moulin Rouge. The singing scene is
dedicated to Master Elora Dannan
who somehow read my mind about putting a singing bit in and made me write it. usually I�d be too cynical to be bothered.

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Part 18 � Rescue

It�s been four days since Kamui was taken from him. Four days of torment
and loneliness such as Fuma never experienced.

Here he didn�t even have Kotori or his father�s shrine to ease his
loneliness.

Sure, it was lonely inside the Dragon, when he tried to ignore the
monster�s existence, but he had always tried to keep himself cheered up by
watching what was going on in the real world.

It�s been three nights that Fuma couldn�t get a wink of sleep; his
thoughts disturbed him too much to enable him to sleep soundly, if at all.

What were they doing to his Kamui over there? How were they tormenting
him, those monsters?

When he closed his eyes he could only imagine the worst of possibilities.

He saw Kamui shackled and bound, bleeding from little cuts creates so
that the vampires who now clung to him could lick the blood and feed on his
poor beloved Kamui.

He saw, remembering Alex old connection to Kamui, his lover grabbed and
forced into acts that were surely not consented love making.

His feelings ate at him, his fears and worries buzzed in him like a nest
of angry bees. His aching arms meant nothing to him; his pain went unnoticed as
things more important to him gushed to his mind.

What would he do? What could he do?

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

On the fourth night Yutu prepared himself for sleep after finishing a
few small pile of papers from work. Behind him, on the
bed, Seiichiro was already sound asleep.

A deep snoring burst into the air from time to time, like a grunt from
the very center of the earth, out of the peacefully sleeping Seiichiro made
Yutu hang his head and bang it lightly on the desk. That snoring, he�ll never
get used to it�.

He remembered how the first night he slept in the same room with
Seiichiro was like.

He lay on his bed trying to fall asleep despite the constant zooming
thoughts in his head.

Satsuki was dead, she was only 14�.she died so horribly�..

Kanoe was still in their world, she just fainted, and she seemed so weak
and helpless. Now what will become of her?

Kanoe wasn�t always the strong powerful woman she made the show of.
Inside she was a lost little girl with a ball of hatred and complexes bound
tightly around her heart.

He spent nights with her just sitting there by her bed, making sure she
has someone by her when she woke up screaming about nightmares her sister
predicted of the future.

They�ve never done anything beyond maybe sitting by each other in bed,
never. Though she tried, and Yutu was sometimes damning himself for not going
for it, but they didn�t do anything. Not in 1999 anyway.

Yutu came to work at the ward office in 1996. He was young; he just
finished university and the ward office�s extra course. His suit still held the
smell of the little patch of lawn in his suburban house where his mother hanged
their laundry, though he moved to his new city
center flat a few weeks ago.

Kanoe was his first mistake in the big city. At first they�d just have
causal meetings without any emotions or strings attached. That�s how Yutu liked
it, that�s how she thought he liked it.

Apparently he didn�t know that he liked it too much, that liked her too
much.

As the year 1999 rolled closer Kanoe seemed to be rolling closed to,
what Yutu didn�t dare to form in as much as a thought, insanity. She�d rave on
and on and on about this and that. DoE this, DoH that, kekkais in the city, Clamp
campus, blah blah blah.
Oh and her sister, how she�d rave about her sister�

Yutu never bothered to listen; when he was fed up with it he shushed her
with kisses and sex.

She nearly got herself killed once, trying to get Seishiro over before
his time. She stood by the Sakura and waited, yet he didn�t come. So she broke
a branch off of the tree and found herself quickly grabbed and choked by
maboroshi vines.

Yutu had to bow down and apologies so many times he couldn�t do it a few
days later with the way his lower back muscles cramped.

Seishiro just stood there and stared at them without a word, but Yutu
was sure that behind those sun glasses he saw a sweatdrop
at how Kanoe found herself in the maboroshi.

So Yutu began edging away from Kanoe, not sleeping with her or sleeping
in her bed unless she had to have his company to ease her pain.

Satsuki was a mystery at first; she came in, sat on Beast and never
moved an inch from it for five months straight. When he tried to bring her food
he�d jump onto her seat on the great computer, place the food plate and run
away as quickly as possible�..he did try to talk to her but�

He didn�t want to think about it now, she was dead��

That�s when the first snore sawed thorough his thoughts. Yutu lay there
blinking, pretending it never happened.

Then the second one came and Yutu couldn�t help a giggle. This sure
cleared his mind from its grim train of thoughts.

By the third, forth and fifth snores Yutu was beginning to get upset. He
wouldn�t be able to catch any sleep with all this snoring going on!

Sure, his father snored at home, but back then there were walls
separating between them. Here he had to share a room with a deeply snoring man!

He got up from the bed and walked over to Seiichiro�s
bed. The man, he had noticed, was probably some mad order and clean freak. His
clothes were neatly folded on a chair by his bedside. Yutu noticed, with a
feeling of near nausea, that the different clothing parts were placed in an
order that allowed the man about to wear them the next day, to do so in the
most efficient order so that he�ll be quickly and simply dressed.

On the bedside cabinet they had to share Seiichiro�s
glasses lay, sparkling clean. Yutu remembered the man cleaning his glasses
before bedtime, so that when he�ll wake up they�ll be ready for a new day�s
use. A shudder of disgust went through Yutu, was he the only sane one here?!

Then he had noticed the actual sleeping man. Seiichiro lay in bed in
complete peaceful sleep, not a care in the world besmirching his calm rest.
Yutu now noticed how actually pretty his face is. He looked down at features
that, without the glasses and the neatly, combed hair actually looked still
young and smooth. He bend down to look at the features better, feeling himself
suddenly pulled to maybe plant a kiss on the soft lips.

Then another snore came and shot Yutu to straighten his back again. What
was he thinking?! He climbed back into his own bed and fought to sleep through
the rest of the night. There was a big day ahead them tomorrow��he supposed�.

A snore yanked Yutu from his little flashback. He turned around to smile
at his sleeping lover.

Suddenly Yutu clutched at his chest; a painful tug in his heart told him
someone with a broken heart came to him. He got up from his chair and walked to
the door.

In the doorway stood Fuma like Yutu never saw him before. He was
thinner, for he didn�t and couldn�t eat these last four days. Even in the faint
candle light the room had Yutu could make out Fuma�s
skin looked gray. His eyes were small, swollen and bloodshot with big black
spots under them.

�Monou-san, you look horrible�.come inside, you look like you need to
talk� he gestured for a chair by the table where he just sat. Yutu himself
chose to sit on the bed by Seiichiro�s sleeping form.

�Yutu-san�..I can�t sleep�.� is all Fuma managed to say at first, there
were so many thing he wanted to say but his mind was in no condition to go
about things in the right and coherent way.

�I think the infirmary has some sleep inducing herbal pills, or is it
the herbs themselves?.....� Yutu sunk into his own
little babble world, placing a single finger elegantly on his cheek looking
upwards as if in deep thought �I saw them giving something sleep inducing
to patience but suddenly I can�t remember if it was herbs or if they��

�Yutu-san�.� Fuma�s voice was suddenly deep
and serious, almost threatening in its silencing words.

Yutu stared at the boy before him. As big as he might be, as threatening
as he once was, and still made Yutu feel like he should obey him, Fuma was now
Fuma and Fuma shouldn�t dare talk to him like that.

A long, sawing-like snore from the completely oblivious and sleeping
Seiichiro cut the tension in the room and melted it into nothing.

Yutu turned to look at the sleeping figure, a huge smile spread on his
face. If he was a manga character he�d sweat drop right now. �Eh he he�.� He looked back at Fuma �He�s a real disaster, it took
me some time to get used to it when we first started sharing a room�I wonder
how his wife ever got used to this building site noise� another snore
accompanied his last words.

�Yutu-san�.� this time it was a pleading tone, not the angry half
ordering tone.

Yutu turned to look at Fuma again, and felt the pain the boy had.

�I�m worried about him, Kamui, what are they doing to him over
there�..and�.I want you�I want you to help me go there and get him back� Fuma�s eyes suddenly glinted with some sort of a purpose
from the somewhat turned off with sadness way they were before.

Yutu stared at Fuma for a moment completely shocked. He really thought he�d
do that with him? He really thought they could rescue Kamui from
something like Death?!

�You�re Love right? And here we are, two lovers separated! We can travel there, to where they are and
fight to get Kamui back and then�.�

�Wow, wow, wow, hang on there Monou-san, fight
you say? I�m Love, sure, but I intend to stick around here for a while
longer then this crazy plan of yours, I don�t want to die!

�And yes, I am Love, which also means..� he was going to deal a heavy
blow on Fuma, but he didn�t care really, the boy was annoying him with his
silly plans �That I stick to the side with more love in it, and Monou-kun�when
it comes to Kamui, you�re not the one who loves him the most� he stared at Fuma
with the strongest gaze he could.

Fuma stared at him for a couple of minutes, shocked, then angry �So what
if he loves him more�he couldn�t love him more, he�s always�� his tone was
rising, nearing a shout.

�That�s enough Fuma-kun� Yutu was the one commanding now �go to sleep,
you�re exhausted and you�re crazy-talking� he began shoving Fuma gently out of
the door.

�Yu�� the boy was stumbling, shocked and miserable �but�.� He managed to
say before the door was practically shut in his face.

He stood outside it, huffing and puffing as if he just ran a
marathon�..what could he do?!

He turned around and walked down the stairs to the back yard.

Since he couldn�t climb with two broken arms he had managed to roll with
kicks (and some of Sorata�s help) several large rocks
to work as the missing stairs. With a bit of wiggling and leaning on partially
damaged arms, Fuma managed to climb onto the first stair and into his room.

He collapsed on the bed and a wave of memories flushed upon him.

�This is the duster that covered the bed. The bed is clean now and
ready for use, Kamui�

He started crying. Again.

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

The morning after Fuma dragged himself to the infirmary to get the
sleep-inducing�..anything really. Fuma would have accepted a blow on the
head as a way to send him into careless unconsciousness.

Before the infirmary, on a little half ruined porch overlooking most of
the city to the direction where Death went, stood Iceman in his fur coat and
bandages. Most of his bandages for the little cuts inflicted on him by Alex
were already redundant and so removed, the only one remaining was the one on
his neck. Speaking was not a problem anymore and the general pain resided. Only
Iceman�s ego was still deeply hurt.

He noted Fuma staring at him and the condition in which said Fuma was in
and turned to the teen. �How are you feeling Justice?�

Fuma stared at him a little more then emitted a short self-scorning
laughter �Can you actually still call me that?�

Iceman nodded shortly.

Fuma stared at him more. What was it about Lion that made this ice
sculpture of a creature to melt enough and break out with an actually true facial
expression?!

He shrugged �What were you doing up there?�

�Watching�

�Watching?�

�Locating�

�Locating? Locating what?�

�Death. His creatures and your other half�

That made Fuma jerk and run towards Iceman.
Suddenly he found himself lifted to the little porch�s level by Iceman�s
powers.

He stood by the god and stared forward at the view that held nothing
special to him. �Can�can you see them? How?!�

Iceman smiled a little, it still was a frozen smile that held no real
emotions to Fuma as were all his expressions �In my world I belonged to a cult
called the Blue Circle. One
of the things we could do was to locate one another from such distances that we
could even look up at the night�s sky and see on which planet from the stars
above the likes of us are on�

�Wow�. I can�t see anything, can you make me see?�

Iceman nodded.

Before Fuma�s eyes two small blue circles
appeared in the great distance before them. They were so distant that Fuma
hardly recognized them but as he worked his will into it he could see them;
pulsating upwards in the far distance.

�There are two of them there��

�Yes, Alex and David�

�Can they feel it when you do that?�

�Yes they can, and they can feel how close whoever tracks them is�..but
I suppose�.�

Suddenly he became quiet and something in his tone softened a bit. He
bent his head down a little, looking away from the view.

�I suppose that if I�ll think the way Alex does�he would have understood
we�ll be looking for him so he wouldn�t mind. And besides�.�

He turned to go and jumped off of the balcony to the ground.

�He could sense it�s me and know that I�m not a threat to him anymore�.�

�Anymore�.why? Did he hurt you that badly?�

�No, I�m weak but I�ll regenerate my power and become strong again� and
with this he crouched to the ground a picked up a small rock.

Without a second to let Fuma get any idea of what he might do with the
rock, Iceman opened his mouth and tossed the rock in, chewing on it as if it
was gum.

�A�.a�..ano�..err�..Iceman�.�

�That�s another thing we can do� Iceman now looked up and smiled at Fuma
almost cunningly, perhaps he was enjoying the slight fear Fuma gave off now �we
are balls of energy which took on a shape and a personality as if we were
human. Normally we live as long as we have the energy inside us to live and
that�s it. Every move, every use of power takes out a little bit of that energy
until it�s finished and we die.

�When you�re a Blue Circle
you start collecting energy from wherever you can. If the sun shines down on
you, you get the energy from it like you�re a plant. If you fall down for a
long time you absorbed the physical energy of falling and so on.�

He bent down and picked up a larger rock, taking big bits out of it as
he talked

�We are a huge inferno inside, whatever you bring into you burns and
gives off caloric energy like humans do with food. Only we�re not limited to
food; we can eat rocks, metals, whatever. That is something even those who
aren�t Blue Circles can do�

He walked over to a heap of ruined and twisted M-16s left in the pile of
metal scraps in the infirmary�s garbage grounds. �The best thing to eat is
mostly explosive and atomic matters�.

�A�.atomic?!�

Before Fuma�s eyes Iceman took out a twisted
clip, straightened it and began empting it from its bullets. From the bullet he
unscrewed the tight little head and emptied the small amount of black powder
into his mouth. �Mmmmm, it�s like those candies with
the cream on the inside�

Fuma started wishing that his insomnia started getting him to hallucinate
and that all of this was nothing but an illusion.

Iceman finished a rifle he picked up from nuzzle
to hilt and smiled up at Fuma.

�So now you�re strong enough to fight Alex again?� Fuma began gathering
his courage again as an idea started shining inside him.

Iceman chuckled a small bitter chuckle �No, it�s going to take much more
then just that to get me to be as strong as I was back then�..it�s some sword
he has there�.�

�What�s his sword got to do with it?�

�There is a kind of matter in all the worlds that contain us creatures.
This matter, somehow, it burns off our energy. No one knows how it does that
but we all know that it�s poison and watch out from it.

�Alex had somehow managed to mix this matter into the metal of his sword
and create a weapon that can kill and hurt creatures like us. It is also aimed to
kill him but�he�ll never let that sword escape his hands�.�

�If I recall what happened back there, you hurt him a couple of times
too, didn�t you?�

Iceman sighed �Yes, but my fighting skills are not as good as his, he�s
like the best trained soldier�.he has to be doesn�t he�.� Iceman looked away,
was it shame Fuma saw on his face?

�Has to be?�

�I don�t remember who explained it to me but they said that war is
something that Death should like because it�s all about killing people. So
Death has to be the best at every aspect of an army; a soldier, a general,
everything. He was in a couple of wars back in his world, so I heard, he�s one
hell of a sniper�.but I heard that he was a spy in most of them�..�

�What�s that got to do with you hurting him as well? How did you hurt
him?�

Inside him, Iceman thanked Fuma for tearing his miserable train of
thoughts from their constant self pitying. He took out his own sword, a smooth
long white gold sword that shone regally in the sun�s light. The hilt had
Nordic tribal patterns carved into the pure gold.

�This sword once helped me kill the kind Alex is�

�A blue circle?!�

�No. I was a god, a type of the creature that we are. Alex, David, Gala
and Jacob, all come from a so called �lower� kind of creatures. We gods ruled
the humans in the era known as the time of pagan religions. Those creatures who
wouldn�t rule the humans chose to live amongst them. They were thought of as
heathens, criminals.

�We drove the humans against them, ordering them to find these creatures
and bring them as sacrifice to us. Every god had a sword like that so that they
may kill these creatures�I kept my sword after the big revolution of
monotheistic religions�.� he smiled a little smile to himself.

�I still don�t understand how come you�re stronger then him and you
belong to the same cult yet he won over you� Fuma sat himself carefully on the
edge of the porch, trying to keep a balance as much as he could with two arms
out of order.

Iceman walked under the porch so that Fuma could hear him better. �I was
a part of this cult, an institution, but Alex in his world was a rebel of this
cult. In his world he killed each and every one of the Blue Circles that
existed, including the queen itself�..but it�s a long story and I only know
little snips of it�never mind, I guess he developed little techniques of
fighting Blue Circles�.A rebel will always win against the institution�

He turned to go.

�Iceman��do you want to come with me to try and get Kamui?�

Iceman stopped walking. He began laughing scornfully, turning to Fuma �Are
you mad boy? Didn�t you just hear me? I can�t fight Alex! �

�You won�t fight Alex, I won�t fight Alex either, I�ll
just re-kidnap Kamui under their noses!�
Maybe it was the insomnia that made Fuma so self confident, maybe it was
desperate love.

�And what will happen if you�ll be killed?�

�They can�t kill me because without me the verdict on Seishiro can�t be
changed� Fuma smiled, he was a little bit sane after all.

Iceman smiled as well, the boy had something in him, that�s for sure.

�Fine� he brought Fuma back down to the ground.

�When do we move out?� Fuma was as excited as a little boy.

�After you�re refreshed, get a sleep herb from the infirmary, I�ll wake
you up tomorrow� it felt like talking to one of his soldiers rather then to
what should be his master.

�Yes sir!!!� Fuma would have saluted like he saw the Noters do but his
arms were broken. Instead he ran off into the infirmary as fast as he could.

Finally, he had hope.

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

They set out the next early noon.

Fuma never felt better in his life; he was refreshed after almost a
whole day of sleeping, he had a large meal before they departed, he had hope
and now Iceman was holding onto him while flying above the land towards Dragon
Valley.

Their plan was to cross Dragon
Valley escorted by the Dragon
Valley�s base of Noters and then
cross Tralfamadores� craters
using the same technique Alex used.

By the time they
arrived at Dragon Valley it was almost evening time. They
walked amongst the small town streets.

Fuma had never seen
anything like the Dragon Valley Town (1) it was definitely a city in a
constant stress of war, even if the citizens showed nothing of it.

The tension was high
in the air as, from time to time, a dragon head popped out of one of the
numerous caves on the cliff walls surrounding the city and looked down at the
humans below.

Half destroyed
buildings were scattered everywhere in the city. Amongst them, and sometimes
inside them, families lived as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

In strategically
important street corners tall metal cans stood where fire was burning to allow
better vision at night for the Noters who stood guard there.

It reminded Fuma of WW2 Steven
Spielberg movies.

The Noters of Dragon Valley
had nothing to do with the Noters on the rest of the city. They had none of the
blue and red elements to them, only the lion engraved into their armor. They
were armored like medieval knights, leaving only the face revealed through the
layers of metal. They moved in heavy metallic carriages dragged by sturdy
horses, armored heavily themselves.

They stayed at the
base of Noters for dinner and a little break for Iceman�s powers.

Sitting to a little
rickety table, munching on his meal, Fuma watched as a small, seemingly sexless,
mostly boyish, obviously an officer Noter gave a bunch of Noters in their armor
what must be their pre-shift briefing.

�He�s looking rather
brave and command-ish despite being so small in size�
Fuma gestured with the chicken wing he was eating towards the officer who was
at least a head and a half shorter then the armored men he was talking to.

Iceman looked at the
direction Fuma showed him and laughed �That�s Talia
and he�s a she. Yes, she�s pretty command-ish, she�s
not the most beloved of officers here but she does her job well�.she�s a bit of
a tomboy I suppose� he laughed a little.

Talia was approached by a taller man who
looked like her commander. They spoke a bit, looking rather weary the more they
spoke.

�Who�s that?�

�That�s her commander
and the commander of the whole base�

�He looks�a little
bit worn out�

�He must have been
having nightmares again�.damn Tralfamadores�

�What did they do?�

�They tried to bring
him over to them once. Once they get into your mind it�s like a hook they have there
and once in a while they tug at it to try and bring you in again�

�What did they use on
him?�

Iceman sighed and
looked very grave suddenly �They used his memory of what happened in our world
a little before we came here. Two of his soldiers were targeted and shot down
on their post (2). He was the first one to get there and see them �.it took a toll
on him��

Fuma let the silence
take over, thinking over what he just heard. He looked at the officer, who was
now looking back at him and nodding a little �hello�.

�By the way,
Iceman-san, why do you refer to the Noters here in their real names and no
their animal names?�

Iceman glared at Fuma
a little �Do they have animal helmets?� his tone was mock educational.

Fuma blinked a little
and looked around to check it ��..no�.�

�Do
anyone but this town�s citizens see the Noters?�

��I guess not��

�So why should they
try to hide their personalities�.and besides, this is no place for child�s
play� Iceman said that while scrutinizing two Noters politely and carefully
talking a small dragon away from the town�s bordering fence.

The tiny thing had
just hatched from its egg and was wondering around innocently. The Noters knew
that if its mother was to come here and find her baby handled by humans the
whole base, along with the town itself maybe in danger and acted cautiously,
often baby-talking to the dragon.

�That�s a good
approach to them� Fuma mumbled.

�hmmm�

�This way he�ll
remember that humans are nice and kind and won�t try to hurt them in the
future�

�His parents will
change his mind�

�Maybe, but I heard
these are intelligent creatures. If so then this baby will always remember the
humans are nice.�

�What change can one
dragon bring?�

�A
lot.
Especially if it�s done one dragon at a time�

Iceman stared at Fuma
for a while, contemplating his words.

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

Justice and his
helper stayed in the base for the night�s time as well, sleeping in the little
base�s extra beds. If Fuma wasn�t Japanese he would have minded sleeping on a
mattress on the floor.

He did mind the
slight cold blowing in through a broken window in the common club where he
slept. He could ignore that though; his mind was on Kamui.

That evening he was
sitting with the rest of the Noters, slightly aloof from them, listening to
their chatting. He thought he started learning their language and began picking
up a word here and there.

Suddenly a great boom
sounded from outside the room, making Fuma almost jumped out of his skin. He
was sure something was happening and prepared himself to crawl under a sofa or whatever
to seek protection, or run outside to see what he could help in.

Instead a Noter casually
walked in with his rifle�s extent which allowed him to fire flares. He was
dressed only in boxers while the cold outside drove Fuma in the common club
shivering. The Noter gave Fuma a strong pet on the back which nearly sent him coughing
and gave off a big smile, laughing as if he did nothing but set a little
firecracker off.

Fuma looked at these
men and women and thought to himself that he�ll never really understand them.

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

Yutu lay in Venus�s
flower field thinking about Fuma. The silly boy decided to go and get Kamui
anyway�.was he trying to kill himself?

Then again, despite
the fact that he wasn�t the one who loved him the most, he did love
him�.

But couldn�t he
really help him? Sure he wasn�t going to leave all his duties here and throw
his life on the line just like that�. is there really nothing he could
do?

He stared up at the
moon�s crescent and the moon�s replacement. Tara shone out in the sky like a huge
beacon.

He liked Tara; she worked with his Blue Fairy.

Speaking of which,
Blue Fairy sailed her little boat towards Yutu smiling brightly at him. Yutu
smiled back at her, making himself glow.

�My my, you glow like you should be up there instead of Tara� her voice was like little silver
bells ringing beautifully. Yutu enjoyed having something like Blue Fairy
amongst his people.

Unlike Death who
controlled the dead and rotting, murderers and the undead, unlike Justice who worked
with the forever aloof and secretive Noters, he, Love, worked with the
brightest and happiest people around.

Fairy looked up at the
heavens above her and called Tara down �It�s okay honey, you
can take a small break I think� she looked back at Yutu and exchanged smiles
with him.

�Jesus you guys,
you�re really scary when you smile like that� Tara dusted off her dress, slowly
chanting to reduce her light spell.

�What�s wrong with
smiling Tara darling?�

�Nothing, it�s just
that there�s a time to smile and a time to�..not always smile�.�

It only made Blue
Fairy and Yutu laugh. Tara sneered and sat down with her back to them, playing
with a daisy.

�Like there�s a time
to sing and a time not to sing Tara?� Blue Fairy managed to say once she calmed her breath
from laughing.

Tara glare at the fairy then turned
her back on her again.

�What does that
mean?�

Blue Fairy looked at Tara again �Can I explain it to him Tara darling?�

�Whatever, as long as
you�ll stop calling me �Tara darling�� she nipped the daisy from her bud and
threw it away. A new daisy immediately appeared on the beheaded bud.

Blue Fairy turned her
beautiful eyes to Yutu again �Once upon a time, when Jacob and David first
arrived, they had a rivalry to pick with�.who was it again Tara d�.Tara?�

�It was a rivalry
between them and a version of Alex they had in their dimension. They came here,
saw him and decided to kill him. So they kidnapped me and made me cast a spell
on the whole damn town�.�

�What spell?� Yutu
rolled on his stomach in the flowers, picking some to make a crown as he
listened.

�A spell that makes everyone
sing out Broadway-like songs about their true emotions until the intensity of
their feelings made them burst into flames and die�

Yutu became silent
suddenly, an idea formed in his head �Can you still do that?� he asked
suddenly. �I mean without the bursting into flames bit�.?

Tara turned to him and shrugged �I
guess I still can�.�

�Teach me how� he was
glowing with a purpose now, frightening Tara a little again.

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

�They�re at the
oriental town� Iceman declared after a long time of watching the view. He was
standing on a high rock in the middle of the infinite grassland that spread beyond
Tralfamadores� Craters.

Fuma, who was recovering
from being violently sick, reared his head up from where he lay to rest.

There was something
about the Tralfamadores that made him sick. He spent about half an hour of
throwing up everything he had in him.

�Huh?� his mind was a
bit of a blur.

The trick they pulled
with the Blue Circle banner worked perfectly and now
they lay in the infinite sea of green before them.

�In the oriental
city, it�s where Arab and Indian citizens brought here gathered to live
together. I don�t know what they�re doing there but that�s where they are right
now. It�ll take us about a day or so in flight�..though I am getting weak�.but
I�ll bring you to the city rims�.after that�.� Iceman was getting a bit
breathless lately with all the flights. He tried eating but he was still
spending more energy then he was bringing in.

�Take it easy on
yourself Iceman-san�.please�

The god looked at
Fuma, surprised and amazed, then he smiled �Yes Justice�.

In their traveling
they met the tracks of Death�s horses in the grass, leading a trail from one
camping ground to the other. Leftovers of campfires and meals cooked told them
there was some sort of life in these stopping spots.

�They�re
feeding�..that means some of them are still alive� Fuma exhaled in relief.

�What do you mean?�

�Well�..if they were
all vampires that would be a good advantage to Death wouldn�t it, because he�s
be able to control them better�

�He was able to
control the defendant and his boyfriend as well, and they were human�

�I mean Kamui; I
thought he�d force him to be a vampire like he did before, that monster�

This
made Iceman become silent. He looked away uncomfortably.

It didn�t go unnoted
by Fuma. �What?....Iceman-san, there�s something you
know and I don�t?�

�Justice,� Iceman
sighed �Kamui wanted to be a vampire; I overheard him talking to Tara about it when he was here the
first time. He was in love with Alex and knew that for some reason Alex can�t
have him unless he�s a Creature of Death�..they were quite the pair when they
were together. All it took is them two and they�d beat anything�..� he noted Fuma becoming angry and when he was
angry, Iceman knew by now, he was almost physically deaf to whatever he didn�t
want to hear and accept.

Fuma looked away,
involuntarily moving the broken and bandaged arms to fold them on his chest.

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

�Here we are,
Oriental Town�.or India Town�or Arab Town�however you call it� Alex gave his
men a briefing, noting that most of them weren�t even paying attention.

The group (without the vampires) were looking sideways,
following things with their eyes. their surrounding was way too interesting to
not look at.

They were in the
middle of the Kasbah, a marketplace, the most sensual place they were ever in.

Colorful things
bobbed and walked around them as fabrics were offered for sale, people�s
clothing and ornaments walked past them with the bodies who wore them. The
smells of the oriental dishes cooked in stands around them and the smell of
spices for sale hung in the air in a wonderful enchanting cocktail.

�Now, please don�t
scatter too far away so I won�t be able to keep an eye on you, and don�t try
anything stupid� he aimed that at Kamui who in return shot a glare back at him
�and when you shop don�t forget to haggle or they�ll rip you off�..now, go and
have a good time� he smiled at the bunch of men before him. In
a second they voomed away, each to their own
direction.

Alex knew this would
be a good place to take his little group. First because it was a nice place to
see and buy nice things in, nice things such as none of the men ever saw before.

But most of all he
knew Kamui would love this place. From what he knew of the boy, adventures and
new experiences was something that Kamui just couldn�t turn down no matter
what.

Here he saw how the
different and new experiences of the Kasbah were making Kamui change almost
completely. From the brooding miserable and glaring bitter young man that he
was so far he turned into a little boy in a candy store, just waiting to get an
approval to go out there and see what this new place offered him.

He himself had only
one thing or two on his shopping list.

Since it was daytime
and the locals would find it kind of strange that suddenly the sky above them
cloud over enough to allow the vampires to awaken, Alex thought maybe getting
things that Letsate would like. Victoria gave Alex a long description of a
jewel she wanted to bring Yuzuriha as a souvenir, Alex only had to find a jewel
close enough to her fancy.

He noted the two onmyoujis
standing at a bazaar offering a large selection of rings.

The amusing thing
about them was that both were examining the different rings up closely and that
both didn�t notice that the other was doing the same thing. It was so cute Alex
could just melt.

When they�ll return
he�ll talk to Yutu about marrying them off.

Finally, somehow,
their gazes met and each jumped away a little, staring at the other confused
and slightly frustrated at their ruined chance of surprise.

David didn�t do much
of shopping; he walked around and stared at things mostly. There were very
little things he needed in this world and those that he did need were far too
great for anything he knew to get him.

The citizens in the
town made him edgy and even more aloof then he usually is.

As he strolled David
was the one who spotted the other half of Justice, sneaking around after
spotting Subaru, trying to spot Kamui as well while not being seen.

Kamui at the time was
mostly hypnotized by a curtain made from strings with sparkling beads of glass
and jewels which stood for sale. He looked at the world beyond a piece of light
blue glass.

Suddenly, in that
beautiful light blue city, he saw Fuma emerging from behind a corner, looking
around. Kamui straightened his back and saw Fuma existed in the multiple colored
world as well�..FUMA!!!!

�FUMA!� he
couldn�t help emitting, it wasn�t the smartest thing to do.

In seconds all the
group turned their heads to see Justice, standing a small distance from each
other.

Alex swore under his
breath, pulling out his sword, ready to charge at the other man. Seishiro
stopped him, he mounted his horse and called his shiki �Let me do it, I have a
score to settle� he said and rode towards the two boys.

�Don�t hurt him!� came an order from behind him. It was Seishiro�s
turn to curse.

A mad chase began;
noting his capturer Kamui began running between the different stands, trying to
follow the direction in which Fuma was also running, beckoning him to follow
his steps.

Fuma, as slightly crippled
as he was due to his condition, had a hard time navigating through the crowded
Kasbah but he managed, looking over his shoulder to see if Kamui was following
him.

Kamui had a large
advantage over Seishiro when it came to a place such as this. He was small and thin;
he could duck down and move between and under stands in the bustling mass
around them, while Seishiro on horseback had his limitations.

Their chasing started
a little chaos in the Kasbah as Seishiro�s horse
didn�t stop over obstacles such as carriages, stands and people. If a stand was
in his way his horse jumped over it, sometimes kicking it, causing a huge fuss
around it.

They neared the town
itself where it was less crowded and messy.

Seishiro sent his
shiki flying, disturbing Kamui�s view and brandishing
his claws at the boy, keeping him in the maze of stands and goods for sale.

It worked, Kamui
tripped on a piece of fabric that fell from one of the stands and fell flat to
the ground. In that time a carriage taking a whole stand and all the people
working around it came in between the line of view Fuma had with Kamui and they
lost each other.

For a few good
minutes they were completely cut off by two lines of different stands. They
could only see each other through slits in the products or fabrics that acted
as the back of each stand. Calling out of each other, they ran in parallel
lines leading them to the end of the row and the end of the Kasbah.

By then Alex already
caught up with Seishiro, running side by side with him after the onmyouji
descended his horse. He had managed to gather the rest of his men with him. He
began working the clouds above to allow the vampires in their camp to rise and
come to their aid.

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

Suddenly Kamui and
Fuma were in clear view from each other; standing in the city itself in a side
street. All they had to do was to run towards each other and they were together
again!

Hope sang like a mad
bird in Kamui�s chest. Fuma�s
head was dizzy with happiness.

Just a few more steps
and they were together, Kamui�s arms were wide open,
ready to crash into his lover. Fuma prepared to feel the gentle body of his
beloved banging against him.

He watched, as if in
slow motion, how his Kamui was suddenly grabbed from behind and yanked
backwards. A man he charged of mass murder held a black ofuda to the delicate
neck he so loved, ready to slice through the soft skin.

�FUMAAAA!� his
lover called for his help. He remembered he was here to fight if he needed too.

He clenched his fists
in his arms� bandaging cradles and began taking big steps forward, wearing a
look he remembered made all the bullies and whoever tried to make moves on Kotori
shake in their school uniforms.

�Let him go!� he
ordered.

But Seishiro was no
school bully, nor was he anything that Fuma ever experienced in his little days
of being himself and not the Dragon. He only smirked, feeling Death and his
companions at his back.

�I said let him
go!!!� Fuma was getting close; Kamui stared at his lover, amazed at the
bravery and slight foolishness of his deeds.

Alex noted Fuma
getting almost within reach of Kamui and Seishiro and decided to end this right
there. He noted the vampires arriving and smiled to himself.

Working his powers he
began letting a part of himself drift away to melt along with the essence in
the rest of his men.

Before his eyes Fuma
saw each of Death�s creatures begin to glow in turquoise, an electric turquoise
aura glowing from them.

Their
auras met and joined together to form a huge aura creature, much like Kazuki�s dress spirits. Only this creature was in the
form of something feline, and huge.

An enormous tiger of Deathly
aura stood on it�s hind legs, kicking the front ones
and roaring, ready to pounce down on him. Fuma noted, inside every leg floated
a creature with Alex floating in the head of the beast, glowing until his
features were almost unseen.

Within the beast�s
chest floated Kamui, held captive by a smirking Seishiro.

�Fuma!!! RUN!!!!� came Kamui�s scream as the tiger began closing the distance
between it and Fuma.

�I won�t!!! I came
here to rescue you!!!!� he screamed back, noting Kamui could hear him.

Kamui began shivering;
sobs escaping his lips, sobs he didn�t want Seishiro to hear. �Run away!!! I
don�t want you to die!!!!� he whimpered �Fuma, PLEASE!!! Run!!!!!�

Fuma noted something:
on the ground under or inside one of the tiger�s feet laid a dead body he
didn�t note was there before. Somewhere in his mind it was earlier registered
as a woman who watched them as they ran towards each other before this whole
mess began.

But she was alive back
then...now as whatever it was this aura is touched her she died�.. He now
realized why Kamui told him to run��

He turned around and
began running like mad.

With big thuds that
shook the ground under him, the tiger chased Fuma, quickly speeding up to catch
him. The roars it emitted sent vibrations through Fuma�s
body until it blurred his vision. All along this chase Fuma could hear Kamui, screaming
and crying at him.

It tore his heart
out; he was on the run again instead of rescuing Kamui as he promised to himself.
He was defeated instead of winning.

His head was sunk in his
thoughts so much he didn�t notice he was running almost face first into a wall.
He managed to dodge it, only his body�s lack of stability took it�s toll. He stumbled
a few steps sideways and fell to the floor, feeling his fatigue setting down on
him like a heavy blanket and the ache in his broken arms returning powerfully.

Above him the tiger
sent its paw down on him, emitting another vengeful roar. A little to the side
of the slowly descending paw was his Kamui, captive and crying. That�s all he
cared about and that�s all he saw.

Even in his state of
almost no self thought, Alex could feel happiness as he saw Fuma�s
impending death; he couldn�t help smiling to himself as he could already feel
the killing of the man who took his Kamui away from him.

This glee was taken
from him as Iceman, using whatever power he managed to gather while he was
resting, flew like a jet right under the impending paw and snatched Fuma from
certain death.

The tiger and its
inhabitants could only watch as Justice�s other half flew away from their reach
and back to safety.

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

Iceman used his
little force left before he�d completely collapse to summon his chariot. He hollered
the half-fainted Fuma onto it and ordered his horses towards the city.

They rode silently
for an hour or so before Fuma emitted anything coherent �Why did you save me?�
his voice was faint, flat and emotionless. He was tired, physically and mentally.

�Did you want to die
there?�

�They wouldn�t have
killed me�

�Oh
really?�
Iceman allowed himself to finally vent his anger at the boy. He sent a reprimanding
glare at Fuma from across his shoulder.

All Fuma could do was
look away at the view below them and cry.

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

Kamui lay in a little
ball on the floor by his bed in his tent, crying his eyes out again. The bowl
of broth he didn�t want and didn�t have the force to eat stood redundant by
him.

He had to tell Fuma
to run away from him�..it hurt him like someone drove a stake through his
heart. Each sob sent the pain to a new height.

Outside his tent Alex
stood glaring its entrance.

Subaru stood by him,
torn from the inside between wanting to come in and comfort Kamui and staying
here with Alex who looked like he needed to talk to someone himself.

Alex did eventually,
as the sobs became stronger and stronger. �I can�t stand to hear him cry, it
hurts me as if I too feel his pain� he snarled.

Subaru preferred to
just listen; he knew silence was the best thing Alex needed now.

�But I always end up
hurting him, I always end up making him cry�.why?!� he clutched the wall
he leaned again, scratching deep tunnels in the stone with his fingers.

�Why the hell did
that stupid boy try to come and get Kamui?! Just when Kamui was starting to
enjoy himself�.now he�s crying��god damn it!� he pounded the wall
creating a hole in it �I�m not enjoying this Subaru! I
don�t like hurting him but I have to because of this stupid
charge�� he hung his head.

Subaru wrapped his
arm around Alex�s back trying to comfort him.

From inside the tent Kamui�s whimpers tore through the silence, through Alex�s
heart.

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

Two days later Fuma
and Iceman arrived back at the city, landing by the infirmary.

Fuma was escorted for
a check up. He couldn�t really remember it all since he couldn�t care enough to
be coherent and responsive. Somehow he ended up back in his room and in his
bed.

His
bed with no Kamui.

Why bother living
anyway? He�ll just stop eating, won�t get out of his room and lock the door so
no one can come in and that�ll be it, he�ll kill himself�..

Fuma began crying for
the god-knows-what time since Kamui was taken from his the first time.

By the end of the day
he vaguely heard a knock on his door. He didn�t want to open.

�Monou-kun, let me in
please� came Yutu�s soft musical voice from the other
side of the door.

Fuma couldn�t really
refuse him, there was something about the guy that just couldn�t let you have a
fight with him or say �no� to him.

He dragged himself
off of his bed and gruntingly opened the door.

Yutu stood outside
smiling brightly as ever.

Fuma considered using
the fact that Yutu, in his genki mode, had his eyes
closed and couldn�t see if he�ll raise a certain finger at his face to vent his
bad mood.

Instead he waited
until Yutu began talking and opened his eyes. There was a powerful a purpose in
the beautiful bright green eyes. It made Fuma listen.

�Monoue-kun,
I remembered your pain and your need of some sort of a solution to your love
problem and I believe that I found something. I�m sorry that I can�t bring you
two together again but�.� And with this he held his hand towards Fuma�s chest, it was glowing. He touched the teen where his
heart lay.

Suddenly Justice felt
like he was filling with something wonderful and beautiful. His heart filled
with warmth, spreading to the rest of his body. He was lightheaded, dizzy but
in a good way.

It was like a bird
beating its wings for freedom in him, seeking to break out. It wasn�t alien; it
was from him and his. It needed freedom and he needed to let it loose somehow.

Yutu exited the room
but Fuma didn�t notice. Justice clutched his hands at his chest, slowly
realizing how he would be able to let this amazing thing within him out.

He began singing.

�Never knew I could feel like this

Like I've never seen the sky before�

As he started singing, he could see a picture clearing before him. It
was Kamui sitting on the floor somewhere, crying. Then he understood suddenly;
the more he sings the more he sees of Kamui.

Kamui suddenly raised his head; he thought he heard Fuma�s
voice. His lover was singing�.singing?!

�I want to vanish inside your kiss

Every day I�m loving you more than this�

He noted the view before him: it was Fuma, standing in his room!!!
Somehow something was making them see each other and Fuma�..Fuma was singing to
him!

�Listen to my heart, can you hear it sings

Telling me to give you everything�

Kamui got up and ran to the man before him. He tried touching Fuma but
his hands only passed through this ethereal body. Still, Fuma could see him and
respond to what he did because his eyes followed him, and a beautiful smile
played across his lips as he sang.

�Seasons may change, winter to spring

But I love you until the end of time�

�Come what may

Come what may

I will love you until my dying day�

The amazing feeling, the bird of a song, the colorful, wonderful,
beautiful feeling filled Kamui�s heart as well. Now
he began singing his love as well.

�Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place

Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace�

They joined real fingers with ethereal ones, each in their own location,
singing together.

�Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste�

Fuma stopped to listen to Kamui�s donation to
the song.

�It all revolves around you�

They sang together again, staring powerfully into each other�s eyes. They
didn�t care if those outside the tent and in the house heard them singing.

�And there's no mountain too high

No river too wide

Sing out this song I'll be there by your side

Storm clouds may gather

And stars may collide

But I love you until the end of time�

Outside the tent Alex tensed, suddenly hearing, yet not sensing, that
Fuma was inside with Kamui.

�What on earth?!� he moved to enter the tent when Subaru stopped him.

They exchanged looks before Alex gave up.

�Oh, come what may, come what may

I will love you, I will love you�

Kamui sank into an ethereal hug, still singing as his heart melted with
happiness and love. He sang, almost to himself.

�Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place�

�Come what may

Come what may

I will love you until my dying day�

(tbc)

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(1) Dragon Valley and it�s Noters are based on Hebron, the city and the
base of MPs that�s in the vicinity.

(2) this really happened, the girl amongst the
two of them was a friend of mine.
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