ღ chapter 12: twilight

the sun rises yet it sets

contentment for eternal shall not exist

even light forever more

shall leave us soon once vague and vain

the wind shall blow a moment deserted

a memory shall be forgotten then faded

nothing will keep it

for everything shall go and inert

rain will come then shall elapsed

eternal love will forever be false

but even a bleeding heart will be mended

yet not harmonized nor contented

an eternal life shall never be yours

for everything passes, goes and fades

others not are six feet under

forgotten they are for they have departed

one moment a poem started

now be ended as my life shall be finished

the ghost infront of you will soon be vanished

like what i told you... there will be twilight now and forever

as the sun left, teiji embrace the lady covered with blood ... or should i say, a dying girl... it was not so pleasing to see these moments passing by.... i came closer to teiji and whispered "its over... twilight came..." then he shouted "i know you have the powers to transfer souls then do it, you bitch!!!" the words that he chose were not so formal... "but how?! who will be the one to sacrifice his life?! dont tel me its you, ranmyaku!" i asked him... pressure on my chest became worse... "darn you bastard are you an idiot or what?! duh! ofcourse me! hurry up, now!" he pulled my rudely... he didnt even care how will things turn out after his insolent plan! all he knows is, if he sacrifices his life, the sand of the chaos will rise again...

such and insolent mind the ranmyaku has! "i will not tolerate this kind of insolence..." i told him. "insolent?! c'mon!!! you dan bitch, just do it, if not... i promise to kill you!" he shouted... yet i just stood there and did nothing.. he punch my stomach using his bloody hands... still, this did not provoke me in doing what he wants...

at the end of that bloody day... teiji embraced keiko until the sin had finally left us... yes, it hurts so much to see how my beloved one break down because of the one he really loves... and it makes me bleed that finally, i have proved that teiji's love for her is eternal but her life is over... i feel so sorry... i should've helped her in her battle... i already knew this is going to happen, but.. its destiny...

"i promise to make you suffer for not obeying my command... i wish your soul will be in hell soon..." this were the words of teiji to me before keiko died... i feel so sorry...

ღ chapter 11: a soul's end

they continue on fighting...well, actually... surviving!



moments after moment, blood splattered all over the place... especially keiko's bout... i bet she cant even survive this challange that yuuto planeed... what a puny manipulator! if i was the one there... i bet those S class orders are dead after 3 seconds or in one blow! darn.... now i see how much improvement we have to make to be able to beat the order!



everyone of the chaos are becomong tired... i think they'll be passing out on this... but they cant! the honor of the chaos will be at stake! darn, if only i can join that battle...



then after a while, i saw keiko... she was not really in a good mood for fighting right now... seems like she cant even hit one opponent! maybe i should help her.. uhh... wait, no! i cant! thats her battle... and if she dies... thats her own fault and maybe she really deserves it for acting that way to me...



the order was a stone manipulator... their field was a really good choice... everything was concrete around them...



the order attackerd keiko again and again until she cannot over her body anymore... still, she managed to dodge these attackes yet she was worn out...



i saw blood all over her puny mortal body... and as i glanced at her... i knew she was going to die... yet, i still dont want to help her... all rude beings deserve that, and she is a traitor that planned to use the supreme... all traitors must vanish...



i hate to admit it but chaos doesnt stand a chance with S class orders... only me and yuuto are the only ones who can defeat orders... but i cant blamae the rookies... they were just starting to discover their talents...

then i took another glance at the dark supreme, i cannot believe he finishe his own battle... then he came running to keiko... he was crying and shouting... he was really angry and ad that time... i dont know but...maybe..just maybe... keiko is dead...

i focused more on keiko and the dark supreme... the supreme was embracing keiko in his hands... and as i focus more... i saw keiko's blood all over the ranmyaku's body and ground...

what a waste! thought, she really deserves it but the dark supreme is really acting like she is not like that... maybe he thought that girl is a saint or something... an angel? more like a demon! or maybe its just because that young man really loves that girl...

it hurts so much but you have to say it... teiji does love keiko... more than his own life... and more than his own soul and powers... and i know... and i should not lie to myself... i am another mere entity use to bring apocalypse... a mere entity that teiji hates for i am the cause of his beloved one's death...

ღ chapter 10: destined battle

my wounds and bruises have not yet healed neither my heart and soul... still bleeding but what can i do but to wait and let in be healed again, but it is expected to bleed again...

days have passed and the chaos society have been training very well under yuuto's supervision. i have to admit that those weaklings are really begginning to improve their skills.

one night, the team ha decided to run around the cities and try to find unkind mortals to practice their skills... i was there with them, but yuuto didnt allowed me to fight anyone for he is scared that i might kill someone. yuuto told me to wait in an abandoned hotel's rooftop. he told me to keep an eye on the orders... he trusted me a lot, he knows i can finish those insolent orders in a second... yet i still wondered if that is he real reason... so i still followed them...

i saw them going to this dark alley, then moriko asked why did they go there... no one answered. i saw every one of those weaklings have fear... i can see it in their puny eyes....

then after a while yuuto laughted like an insolent mortal... one moment after, order warriors attacked them... i guess this was not a surprise for yuuto... he planned it... he wants someone killd... not me, he told me to stay away from them... then who?

the orders attacked them... teiji, shou, ryuu and noboru kept fighting... moriko and rin were badly damaged... yet yuuto proceeded on laughing... hmmm... seems like this battle was been planned... uhmmm... where is keiko?

i saw the traitor escaped, saving her own damned life... she didnt even tried to help the others! she ran as fast as she can but the orders caught her... you are a weakiling miss keiko ikegami!

i didnt do anything but to stand there... hiding from the weakilings...i am not scared... i am letting them have their own battle for once... sheezz... sheems like they cant finish this stupid bout... insolence can really kill you...

keiko was alone fighting those orders... i want to help her but after what she did to me... i felt like she deserves it...

little by little the orders tried to kill all chaos members... yet i didnt do anything... after a while, almost all of them were half killed... but i still focused my attention on how teiji fghts... it is very impressive... after all those hits he got... he still managed to get up...

hmmm... i wonder how is ths bout going to finish....

i really should hel them but i dont want to... i know, somehow this event will teache them a great lesson... i think this is also what yuuto has in mind so i let them fight till the end of their puny lives...

ღ chapter 9: bout between two guardians

it was already dusk when i came down the fooftop. it was getting dark so i decided to hurry up... And as i go down the stairs, i saw Keiko. She was staring at me like i had done something to make her real angry, oh yah... i did... haha! then she bowed her head and smiled.

"its getting dark my crimson, wh are you still here ?*smile*" she asked
"that would not be your concern, my lady..." i answered
"well, it is dangerous to go home after dark here in japan..." she told me
"it wont be dangerous at all, *brutal smile* unless you tried to kill me..." i told her
"such a smart girl! you knew what my plans were!" she fired back

she went right towards me and whispered "if you were not here, i should have been the guardian... not the insolent sacrifice"
so i answered...
"well, just your luck!"

she attacked me using sand... covering my lower body, i manage to got out befor she could squish my body to death...

"you know, dont try to ruin my plans, ill use teiji ishihara to not fulfill the prophecies so i wont die... i know he will follow my every command cause he loves me..." she told me this while she was attacking me, i dont want to attack her, teiji might get angry again, so dodging was the best thing to do...

"you dont have to tell me, i knew it all along... and i already told him" i replied
"yah but... he didnt believe you, did he?" she said
"you are just using him! you have no rights to do that!" i shouted.
"why? cause he is the ranmyaku? or because you love him? thought i didnt know?"
well, i dont know the reason..." i told her
"he causes you much pain, still, you love him?! what an idiot!" she replied
"yah, i am..." i told her

she attacked me... there was no stopping... yet i dodged it all... i tried not to fight her but if i dont, i think ill get injured... so i used darkness to attacked here... my powers were working great cause it was already dark. i injured her a lot, me?! not even a single scratch.

i was going to kill her already when teiji showed up and attacked me... i was injured a lot...body, heart, soul... all of them were destroyed. but still, i managed to smile and talk to them.

"teiji, thanks a lot! this girl was going to kill me with no reason at all!" darn, keiko was telling lies..."dont worry keiko, ill take care of this..." teiji told her, yah, with such a sweet voice... i have nothing to do but... well, not tell anything that happened cause i know teiji will only believe that girl, keiko. he pushed me on the stair case... yet i didnt try to make a move... before they went away, teiji slapped me, i just bowed my head and silently cried.

after they were gone, some of my poster-father's bodyguards found me lying on the stairs. My poster-father told me that i was bleeding severely and was unconcious. because of this incident, he was worried someone can already kill me, i told him only one being can kill me... and that is the ranmyaku but i told him the truth that i can easily kill the ranmyaku yet i did not fight for i have respected the dark supreme...

ღ chapter 8: hell or heaven?

so as i quietly bleed and cry... somebody asked me "are you the deep crimson? lying weak and almost lifeless? how pathetic!" hmmm... sounds like and order... well, i ont want an opponent getting so naive just so he or she can fght with me... though everything seems to be destroyed... i can still fight as an assassin, only brutality keeps me alive...

i stood up with my head bowed on the floor "shall we start the game? *brutal smile*" while i was turning my head up... i saw the fear in his eyes, hmmm... he must heard a lot about massacres by me... haha! blood shall come out from his weak body... "y-y-ya-yaaa-hh! l-l-l-e-eet--ts s-st-a-ar-ar-art!" he muttered... i walked slowly towards him...

what an insolent manipulator... yah, he had such wonderful sound manipulating skills, and yes, he knows how to handle it... yet it is not that powerful with such a use! well, i guess this power will be mine... as the usual plan.. play then kill...

he hit me more of his sound waves... his techniques are very good to use in long range battles but he still havent mastered it yet, and so... he cant even hit one strand of my hair... weak! hmm... oh well... prepare to die!... brutally

i ran towards his ears and whispered "hell or heaven?" i saw his tears... like he wants to back out... too bad i cannot take control of myself darn! if i can! i feel pity... yet i felt thirst... blood... power...brutality... i love them... they make me stronger... yet colder...

another...another one... he hits me again... and again... but it wont o anythings... my soul wants his blood... i cannot take control... words came out of my mouth without my concern "i am sorry dear order, may your soul rest in peace together with the others i've killde... hell? maybe! wahahaha!!!" i dont know what am i doing... such a power rage through my body that i cant control...

myself or my soul? i say, my soul... made many spinning spheres... they were black and i know they were dangerous! they are so many of them! they were all around me... then they all went revolving and i was in the center... i know they were gaining strength... yah...more dead souls to get! the spheres attacked the sound manipulator... and the order went lifeless after that... no clue how i killed him but it should have been more lethal if he angered me causing me to release my real strength...

well, another one of those powers... i get more powerful everytime i kill... then i transferred his soul onto my body.. to gain more power... and for my soul to eat...

yah, call me a monster... a demon, i suppose. i dont care... because i know this is not my real soul... somewhre hidden in the deepest trenches and the darkest cornets of my world... waiting to be felt... maybe... but i know it was destined to be unlocked... my soul...

here i am again, lying and crying because of the words he told me... such fear i felt when he shouted using his voice... or such pain i felt when he hated me... i dont know...

ღ chapter 7: Blood sheds

after a few days, i manage to got our of that mansion and went straight back home... mr. Yuuto Ikegami just told me to comeback, which my poster father knows yet he didnt do anything about it. weird but good, my poster father is becoming good to me... but i think its just simple kindness...

before i left the mansion, teiji told me "doesnt mean you are the deep crimson, you can alreaday take keiko;s position as my guardian... she might be worthless for yuuto but you are more worthless for me... so please, if you dont want to hear ore harsh words, step back!" hurt? yah, i got hurt... its been a long time since i felt such thing... but no matter what teiji says to me... even if he cursed me... i will protect him... and if he kills me, my last words would be ~yah, i am dying but atleast you are the one who caused it... not just anyone...~ i dont care if he hates me... i just want to love him... no matter what happens, i'll do everything... and anything just for him... yah, i know... it is stupidity... but not mere benevolence... i am so stuoid.. falling for a person that doesnt even care for me! and even wants to kill me! but its ok... as long as those are his wishes, i cannot do anything but to follow his orders...

right now, i am at the rooftop of the school... thinking about how stupid i am... for a cold human being like me, loving is such a wonderful experience... getting hurt but atleast you dont feel empty...

i was staring at the skies when i saw teiji... he was also gonna watch the day sky... i guess he likes it too...

"you know... i really hate people that makes keiko feel so depressed...yah, YOU!" he shouted.
"well you see, i dont have anything to do about those things..." i replied
"i dont care! you made her depressed and i hate you for that!" he shouted... uhmm... hate me?! just because of stupid positions?! he really loves this girl, enough to make him look stupid... and again, he spoke harsh words...
" you?! ahahahaha!!! the eep crimson? darn! i cannot even believe that! i see it in your eyes, you are brutal and has a cold heart! and i know you will someday kill us all... i already know you're a traitor!" ...
"i already told you, it is not my fault..." i answered with a soft voice... i was scared...
"not your fault?! c'mon... i saw keiko's tears and i didnt like them... she told me it was because of you!" he fired back.
"how caould you love a person that doesnt even love you truly?! how can you love a person that is obviously just using you?!" i told him...
then...
"darn you! how could you say that?!" he then smashed winds at me and walked out of the rooftop...

so i was there... lying, my soul was half dead and my heart was bleeding severely... not because of the pain caused by wounds... but cause of his words... but its true, how can you love a person like that?! i tried to sit and then quietly cry... i cannot believe this is happening, tears fell down from my eyes, i feel like... dying... he really hates me... that keiko is so clever, using her charms to kill me... sich a good strategy... well, what can i do?! i really love the ranmyaku... no... i love teiji ishihara... i saw some blood in my shoulders and some on my knees... but i cannot feel the pain caused by these wounds... only by his words...

ღ chapter 6: Annals of the deep crimson

moments... passed so slow. wondering why? i dont know the answer... i am here right now... near the god of death that i befriended since i was born but this time i think we will probably play in hell... i want to heal fast... i want to use my powers already... yet i cannot stand, cant even raise my finger... i am innocent about my weakness and fears... and i want to know them, to face them, mabye... or just find another weak spot to kill my own soul...

now, i am here... lying almost lifeless in this bed...
"do you already know the deep crimson, my dear?" yuuto asked
"sorry sir but im not familiar with it..." i replied
"let me tell you the annals of the deep crimson...listen...because you might iss a detail... not just about your identity but also your soul..." he told me... then he started with the tale... no, not a tale! my history... my life... my identity... my soul...

"after the vengeance of the chaos... the surviving members were never found again... and alas! vowed to return with more power to kill all mortals, manipulators and gods that betrayed them... but a sacred moment was kept a secret for a long time.. the death of the dark supreme's wife... this created massive chaos to the soul of the sacred one, he vowed... he will kill all beings for the cause of his beloved one's death... only the last words ~my blood and soul shall be yours again~ was heard from her beautiful lips...

after generations, as chaos faded... a promise from the honorable gods were made... ~a drop of blood and a piece of soul shall return to the world of the sinful and save all the sacred one's people... and again... to fulfill the real prophecy made a long time ago...~ everyone was joyous because of the news that was heard! another comrade knew this was the reincarnation of the supreme's wife for he heard the last words of this woman..

but as years passed, everyone seemed to have forgotten this promise... everyone... well, except for the ancients that named this lady as the deep crimson... for this was the same color as the blood of the dark supreme... they tol the gods to put a mark... a black dragon... on the shoulder of the deep crimson... the ancients gave powers for her soul... not just one... but there was a whole bunch of them... all of them were specially made for the crimson...

the ancients waited... they waited until their time has come to be fetche by the soul reaper... after that... no one ever heard of the deep crimson... will, until now i guess..."

he finished his story... i dont know but i think they know i am the sacred one's wife of something... but as a brutal assassin, i cannot take this insolence...

i know he was lying... i know he expects me to leave my poster-father then got to him and help him rule over chaos... yah *brutal smile* i think i'll stay... and kill this insolent man! i know what he wants for chaos... i know what is he up to! i dont want these innocent beings killd by his plot... he onle wants chaos to rule... not to change... then blood shall be my sacrifice to save chaos... and to save teiji ishihara... my dark supreme... and... and...*tears falling down* ... let us not mind about my feelings... i should not show my weakness and fear... to... death...

ღ chapter 4: the sacred dark supreme and his beloved deep crimson

the truth shall set you free, they say... but to know the truth i need to use blood... do i nee to hurt the ranmyaku... yes, it would not be proper to do that but... its the only choice i've got... the only thing that can tell the truth... sorry ranmyaku but i have to o this to prove to myself that you are already here, right infront of me... sorry my sacred dark supreme...

"the ranmyaku, you say?! such insolence... a very poor child you are... do you even know the real power of the ranmyaku? you, child, will pay for that disgrace!" i told him....

"if i am speaking insolence, why should i tell such true statements, crimson?" he fired back, huh?! crimson? i dont know this name... tsss... not even familiar!

"such innocence was lost my deep crimson... you are the gift of the gods to let the prophecies come true... i see such violence in your eyes, who did this to you?" the soul of the sacre dark supreme, i cannot be mistake! but what happened to the guy, teiji ishihara that ust told me he wants to end all the prophecies... weird? maybe the soul of the past ranmyaku is within the new generation's ranmyaku...i dont know what to do but to wait what he will say next...

"crimson, why are you so quiet? destiny might have separated us but time brought us together... it means, finally, little by little... the prophecies are beggining to take place... and apocalypse will come... isnt that great my crimson?" he told me... i know the prohecies but not those other things... i think he is the real ranmyaku... but still... i need to burt him to prove that he is the sacred one...

i attacked him with ark slashes... it was so fast, i bet no one can beat its spee... not even the ranmyaku himself... but one split second he dodge my attacks! i felt that i made a fool out of myslef, he was powerful... i cannot beat him... i think ill be passing out after this bout... i cannot make it happened, i cannot beat him, now, i believe... teiji ishihara... you are the sacred one...

i attacked him again... again and again... but none of those powerful attackes wounde him... yah, not even a scratch...

i thought, i will meet the ranmyaku honorably... and show him how great i have become but i didnt know that i had to hurt him and kill myself to prove that he is the one.... sorry my great ranmyaku...

then i saw blood all over me... i was not scared, this is blood... the only difference is this time it was mine... and its my own death thats going to take place... i never thought of someone beating me, not even a heavenly being... but i guess the ranmyaku is powerful than a heavenly being...

huh?! what is the sacred one doing? he is carrying me?... why?! i thought he can never forgive me of what i did... then the soul of the great one talked...

"rest my crimson... i know the reason why you did that... dont worry such innocent eyes will never be wasted... never... i will always be here right by your side... you will help us make the apocalypse come true... my only love... my crimson... the gift of the gods to the chaos... rest my beloved one..."

then i closed my eyes and tool a deep rest... eternal? maybe... i dont know...

ღ chapter 5: envy

as i opened my eyes, i only saw darkness... it was deep and brutal darkness... i wonder why did the heaven still want me to live? i want to give up my life but no one can kill me, not even myself. Not even the gods, but only the ranmyaku that will never lead me to my own death. i dont want darkness, not even brutalilty but what cai don, i bet i was made for these things... at least i have a purpose; killing and torturing other people... well, my poster-father tells me worthless people are meant to killed... so i want to have a purpose... even if means killing innocent souls...

i closed my eyes again, i dont want to witness this deep darkness, it scares me... for the first time. maybe because i thought of my death. it maybe my fear... the only thing that can scared me... or the only thing i cannot have as long the one who can only do this doesnt want to. i want to sleep... with serenity...

i saw dawn as i opened my eyes, not anymore darkness that... i adore?! no... that i fear! but ti be honest, i really dont know which i want to have and the one i fear... darkness or dawn... i really dont understand my own soul.

"finally you're awake, as the soul had told me...~take care of my deep crimson~... i cannot fail the sacred one... i must follow his every command" an old man entered the room and tol me this. "please let me introduce you to the chaos society" the 7 weaklings i fought that dusk entered, i cannot believe they are the chaos but at least we have the soul of the ranmyaku... "i welcome you to our society" he told me. i have nothing more to say but thanks... all my life, i want to be in this group... all my life i have told myself i must find them... i dont know whats happening... my fantasy or reality! i am very thankful to the gods...

"deep crimson, this is your destiny!" the old man told me
"who is this deep crimson? i dont know anyone by that name" i replie
"you have a mark of a black dragon at your shoulder... it is the sign of the bravery of the gods.. they gave you to finally fulfill the real destiny of chaos... you are the guardian of the ranmyaku!" he told me...
"if she is the guardian, then what does that makes me?!" the girl name keiko ikegami shouted
"nothing but a mere sacrifice to know if the prophecies are finally taking place... sorry my grandaughter... but you were only raised to die..." he replied. she ran out of the room in tears, then teiji ran after her... maybe to comfort her... teiji may have something special for keiko but i think this girl is full of envy and selfishness... he should not love a wolf under sheep's clothing... she moght be beautiful but her soul is a piece of the sun's fire...

"i am sorry for the trouble that i caused you all... i didnt mean to hurt a chaos member; i just got carriedaway by my dark personality. i am so sorry, all of you! and please o tell that girl i am so sorry, and same to the dark supreme...i am so sorry..." i told them.

"its not your fault, my grandaughter is really rude! i am sorry crimson... in fact, we all do accept your sorry. we are al grateful that we finally met you. At last, we can fulfill our true prophecies and give way to apocaylpse... thank the gods for this wonderful blessing... i thought we will never find the crimson... but now, she is infront of us, saying sorry for her violence..." he told me.

"i dont know... but i think he is pertaining to me as the deep crimson... i dont have any knowledge about her or anything that can describe her...i slowly realized that the mark on my shoulder is important... i its a sign that i have a special position in making the apocalypse come true...

am i really important? seems like teiji doesnt like me a lot... did i do something wrong? i dont know what i did... it is not my fault that girl is a mere entity... i have no choice but to accept my realy position... it was not my fault *devilish smile*