Aura. The a byproduct of the energy the soul produces in order to make the human body function. An inexhaustible flame of power with one's body being the only limit.
A double edged sword that just like a flame, it burns though the body's durability in excess but if siphoned from the body too quickly will cause death.
That's what I craved. That's what my monstrous form wanted to devour from everyone here.
I wailed making everything flinch, my voice pulled streams of blueish white aura from members of the crowd to my mouth. As their energy filled me, my broken bones mended, cuts sealed and skin faded to black. The pain from the bones that snapped back into place strengthen my agonizing wail.
"Damnit she's draining everyone, who's not a Yamaguchi, dry." Said Aunt Sayuri standing against the wind's pull.
"Nagisa look what I've done to you. It's fine. Mommy's going to fix everything."
"What are you planning to do? How are you planning to stop her?"
"I already lost my son, I'd rather goddamn die than lose my daughter too. Listen up bitches! You see that idiot? She's lost control and gone berserk but still protects her clan. She's proved herself time and time again to be worthy of the title. Now I, Ren Yamaguchi officially declare Nagisa Yamaguchi as our Future Clan Leader. Hey Nagisa! You hear that?! I'm coming to get you, ya bratty bitch!"
I stopped inhaling aura then glared at her.
"Bloodlust Drive won't cut it. It's been a while since I've done this..." She took a stance . Her hand on her bat as if she wielded a spear. "Ronin." Her aura erupts like geyser, consuming the estate mansion in her tidal wave of aura.
Everything was quiet except for the sound of metal soles that strut towards me. Drapped in samurai armor was my mother.
Her hair grew out the top of her mask and tied up in a ponytail. Her chrome bat changed into a spear. All the other women were also drenched in samari armored. Aunt Sayuri put up another barrier made of aura that was reinforced by the women of our clan. It shielded homosapiens from my pull.
Mother aimed. Her spear blasted aura at me. I evaded. My eyes scanned and searched for an escape. To go outside. To feed.
I rushed at Mother, pushing her back. She didn't attack and simply pushed me back. I placed my hand on the ground sapping away all the life out of it. It turned to dust in my palm.
Mother blasted aura. I was knocked back. Instinctively knowing I was no match for her, I went after the other family members looking for a weak point in the barrier.
She tried to capture me in a ball of aura. I escape every time. "Damn you can run away. You must have gotten it from your father."
"As I remember it Ren, you always caught me." Says a man floating over her shoulder.
She looked up to see him in a long white robe. His black hair reached his lower back where it went crimson. His face was pretty. It's not that he was feminine like my brother but just a gorgeous man. The man from my dreams, my father.
Kyaaa! My father's so handsome! The pictures didn't do him any justice!
"Malachi...!" She touched his face with her hand. The face of her mask retracted revealing her watery eyes. He smiled back at her. "You idiot! I told you to only come see me once a year!" She smacked him.
Huh? How can she hit a ghost?... Well they did have me so there's that.
"Oh! So you didn't just do it once but you've been doing it every year!" Grandma growled.
My dad sighed. "I see you're still terrible at keeping secrets."
"Sh-sh-shut up!" For the first time in my life my mother blushed.
Even in this state I was astonished at what I was seeing. Is she even the same person!?
"What are you even doing here?" She said.
"I came for my children. I've missed so much in their lives. I wasn't going to miss another big moment. I'm going to help you save our daughter."
Mom nods. "Tell me what to do." She was still trying to capture me, blasting her aura on rapid fire to ensnare me.
"Because she used up all her aura, she got hungry. We just have to feed her and she'll stop. Best part is, her buffet is just outside. Open the barrier."
"Do you always have to make things sound so simple." She glared. He smiled then shrugged. She smirked. "Do it." Without hesitation aunt on the others followed her command.
I charged past her to freedom. "Brocon!!" I heard a familiar voice from over the gate. A glowing person dropped into the courtyard and crashed into me. He held me down.
Shinichi! What is he doing here?! Oh wait, Cho's behind him.
It was probably her who instigated him to do this. Though I can't say I'm not happy to see you. I thought you'd be afraid of me after what happened but now that I look at him, he kind of seems mad.
He's pretty cute when he's pissed off. No wait he's going to die! Get away from me. "...gET...aWAy...FRoM mE... DaNgeROuS...."
"Who the hell do you think you are..." He glared at me. "All this time you had me fooled, thinking that we were on the same level. This entire time you've been holding back on me...I've tried so hard just to be able to match you, even as far as believing in the occult powers of my family's ancestors. Just in case you ever went out of control. Then you show me that I can't do shit against you. How the hell do you expect me to feel!?" I could see it in his eyes, the pain from his ego being shuttered. His ruined sense of pride. Anyone anyone in his shoes will probably feel the same way, as if their world has been turned upside down.
In some strange way, I could get where he was coming from.
This was a chance, an opportunity to have some common ground with the guy who made my heart ache. "...It's not my fault that you're weak."
But I just had to ruin the moment. Behind me I could hear the groans and sighs off my clan members.
No! That wasn't me that was my dark side! Retry! Do over!
"You're so God damn infuriating." He headbutts me. Then out of nowhere pressed his lips on mine??? I embraced him. His energy flowing into me. My chest warmed and filled as my whole body melted. "There, we're even." He pouts then looked away. He got off me then turned his back.
My first kiss... I touched my lips, relishing the feeling of his. The tingling sensation ever so soft. Wait, we're even? Does he think he's doing me some sort of favor?! I sat up. "What do you mean where even?! You kissed me remember!"
"You kissed me first this afternoon!"
"That was on your cheek, ya dick!"
"No it wasn't! You kiss me on the lips you brawling brute of a brocon! Violating my purity! My first kiss was stolen by a yakuza!" He weept.
"What's wrong with that?!"
"You're a criminal. I'm pretty sure you go around stealing kisses from all the boys. I'm surprised you didn't take my money and clothes too! What were you trying to do? Steal my heart?!"
"I can't steal your heart because you've already stolen mine!"
"Oh yeah, well mine too!" He said.
Everyone stared. "Well well, Yamaguchi curse at it again.
"Couldn't resist you some of that Yamaguchi ass could you, cop boy?" The faces of my clan members were smug.
"Nothing new to have a cop on our payroll, though this is the first one that'll be paid in booty clapping." It became super awkward real quick.
We turned our backs to each other. "Huh? I'm completely out of excess Life Essence. My fat is completely gone." He said staring down at his lean build.
My skin was back to normal. "What the? I'm not hungry anymore. The void, it's...filled."
We spun around. "What did you do to me!" We said.
He sighed. "Look I don't care if you're stronger, faster or the queen bitch of crime! I won't stop coming after you until I take you and your family of criminals down."
I smile. "I have to admit. You chasing after me is kind of hot." He blushed. "But don't ever call me a bitch." I slapped him to the ground. "Chase me as much as you want, I'm not running.... You're already mine anyway..." I whispered the last bit.
"They remind me of us when we were younger, that is before I tamed you." I heard my mom say to my dad.
"I see you're still telling childish lies." He looked away.
"It was not a lie!"
Out of the ground a beam of light shot up into the sky. An image formed under the clouds.
"GGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The bellowed echoed through the mansion and ruptured eardrums.
Everyone was startled but dared not take their eyes off the image in the clouds. Gray flames formed a pillar behind some people with black wings.
A black metal gauntlet punched a blond man square in the face. "FUCK OFF!" Said the one who sent him flying straight into the wall.
Everyone was baffled. "Kai!?" We barely recognized him. His messy crimson hair was now slick back. The usual pale skin tone took on a new shade. Pitch black. His arms were equiped with black gauntlets lined with gray patterns. Above his wrists on each hand was smoky gray gemstone. They glowed 'II'.
"Is that really him?"
"It has to be." Said our fellow clansman.
"I'd recognize my son anywhere. It's him, our Kai." Said Mom.
"Is he fighting someone?" I asked.
"Our son can fight?!" Dad was astounded.
"What's that he's fighting? Never heard of that kind of angel." Said Aunt Sayuri.
"It has four wings. Do angels normally have that much?" I looked at Mom.
"It's a Fallen Angel. Four wings means its in the Second Sphere. It would take all of us here just to match it in combat yet our Kai-chan's holding his own."
My father was confused. "I'm sorry I'm lost here. Didn't he get these powers two months ago?"
"One month, two weeks and four days." Answer my mom with creepy accuracy. "If he's gotten this strong in such a short time span then we have a lot of catching up to do as a clan."
"Mom how are we seeing this?"
"Although our clan is originally from the middle east, we migrated here four generations ago because we were drawn to this island. It has a mysterious connection to our clan. In other words, I can't explain jack shit of why this is happening."
"Okay so I guess it's pointless to ask you why is there a plane about to crash land on my brother!"
_Chapter End_