Death And Rebirth

[Bloodbane]

Aneko passes her hand gently on Saii's face,he lays on her lap resting and barely able to keep his eyes open in blissful peace an tranquility, the garden of the Valkyries is eternal rest and eternal peace. Suddenly an angel descends on them both.
"Its not your time yet.."
And a surge of light envelop them both as Aneko's voice echoes.

"Hey Saii..will we meet again?"..."Will you remember me?"..."Don't forget our promise!"...
...."I Love you Saii"

...."Saii!!"
....SAIICHI!!"
...."SAIICHI CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!"
....*SLAP*
He slowly opens his eyes and immediately lays them on Sakurato,Aneko's Childhood friend.She was slightly taller than Aneko,a bit tan with Green eyes and light brown hair with thick nerdy red rimmed glasses,Her dress was of similar design as Aneko's but with different trimmings.She had slapped Sai on the face with the healing staff she was holding over him."YOU DORK!!! HOW COME YOU ARE ALWAYS MAKING HER WORRY SO MUCH!?" Then he looks to his right and sees Aneko,she was blushing as she was casting a healing light on him.She suddenly stops casting the light and crosses her arms while turning back blushing heavily and shaking her hips slightly in embarrassment."Im his woman,.his woman..Nyuu,Sqwee!!"

Sakura takes a near by chalice with holy water and chucks it over at Aneko while snarling in anger at her immaturity and she dodges it by stepping to the side and passing her finger on one of the pillars near the healing pedestal still blushing and murmuring to herself.

Saii Manages to stand up and Notices hes still only wearing boxers and looks over at Aneko again.

"Why is she acting so weird?"He asked Sakura puzzled.

"Dont you remember?,You two were supposed to get married if you defeated the baphomet." She said in a serious tone while crossing her arms,then she walks over to her,Grabs her by the arm while shes still blushing heavily and shoves her onto Saii, whom has no choice but to embrace her and she blushes even more and turns her gaze away from Saii.

"Wait... We were?"He asks nervously.
Aneko slowly nods while nuzzling him.

Suddenly the doors of the church slam open and hordes of Raydriks storm in and aim their bows at the crew as a shady figure walks in slowly, his foot steps echoed down the hallway as he walked closer, he slowly puts his hands together and softly claps, As he walked the wind softly picked up and lifted his cloak softly on the wind and revealed magical crests only Wizards of high status are allowed to wield.
"BRAVO!!! BRAAAVOO!!! The Heroes of Prontera kingdom,Oh im so Joyful to be in your presence Saiichi Bloodbane!"

Saii quickly kicks down one of the raydrik and steals its bow and quiver, immediately arming himself and aiming at the mysterious person.
The man quickly raises his hand as in a signal to the raydriks to stop and not take action.
"Why so hasty Friend? Im merely here to relay a message.
I am Lord Tripp Falcienso.And this is my army.I am the man that put the bounty over your head."
Saii in anger pulled hard on the string while mounting an arrow and aiming it at him.
"Why did you do such a thing? Why did you put my friends in danger?"
Tripp places his hand inside one of his pockets and pulls out slowly a small crystal like object, that begun to shine as soon as he took it out.
Saii cautiously slowly approaches Tripp to investigate and the stone slowly began to pulsate and glow stronger as Saii came closer.
"You see here, this is an Grandius Emperium Chanilizer,it will react at the proximity of it, the reason its glowing means the so called Essence of Pure Life aka the Grandius Emperium, is within you."
Saii slowly lowers the bow and puzzled he looks back at aneko whom is ready for anything to happen with her staff in hand and her eyes focused on Saii with a determined look.
"And what about it?"
Tripp puts the crystal away back to its pocket and raises his hand, the raydriks take aim at Saiichi as Tripp Smirks.
"I want you Saiichi Bloodbane, I want that essence!"
The Raydriks suddenly fire and he leaps up, the arrows cross one another and end up hitting the raydriks, they fall to the ground,Crumble and turn to ashes,Saii takes aim in mid air and pulls on the bow string with an arrow only to see the guy was not there anymore.

"Thats odd.." Said Saii as he walked all over the place and searched at the end not finding a single trace,the fact there were bno footprints on the carpet puzzled him even more.

~*On another part of the world*~
A little Skinny girl,wearing a brown bandanna wrapped on her arm, with a cart full of herbs and stems from different plants runs trough a multitude of people."Excuse me, Excuse me...Sorry!, Excuse me!" She continued repeating himself, her cute young voice almost sounded as she was purring while she continued to travel down the alleys of the market in rachel.Always busy and lively where people would trade and sell and buy almost anything.
"Uncle Zraxus!!" She yelled out happily as she ran towards him with open arms and hugged the tall skinny man.
"Hey Hey ..Argh I forgot your name again!" He said as he patted her head nervously sweating and she pouted.
"Its DSL! Denise Sesler Lucian, Uncle get it right for once!"
Zraxus takes a rag from his back pocket and cleans his glasses as he looks at her worried.
"Denise, you know...How much time as it been since Papa Saii and Mommy Aneko have gone missing?"
She slowly looks down at his feet to notice a few small drops of water at his feet.
"Uncle, I know that Saii And Aneko aren't my real parents, that they rescued me from Morroc Slums and my real parents became demon spawn of Satan Morroc."
Zraxus immediately kneels down and hugs her.
"Im starting to loose my faith Denise, im not sure if they will ever come back."
She shoves him, resulting him landing on the cart of herbs and he looks over at her surprised.
"Papa Saii is strong, Momma Aneko is even stronger, and when he misbehaves she slaps him mighty ol good on the face. I wouldn't call them mom and dad for nothing, I know they promised me and will keep that promise.Now Uncle, here are the herbs for all my brothers and sisters."Zraxus stands up and wipes the tears from under his glasses and kneels down and inspects the herbs one by one verifying they are the ones requested."wow Denise, you will be a great alchemist one day, you sure learn fast!"
She Happily grins at him while pulling the cart walking towards a large old building with an old worn rusty metal sign at the entrance that reads:
"Nya Nya Orphanage,Home of Love and care."
Then a smaller sign under it:"Founder: Nya Nya Crew"

Zraxus is tackled by a multitude of kids happily screaming uncle Zraxus all over as he enters the building.
"Look look uncle, I made a drawing of poppa and momma and uncle!" The kid shows him a crayon drawn picture, he takes it and sighs as he places his hand on the kid's head.
"when will daddy Saii and Mommy Aneko come back?" Said a little girl while she held a little blanket and suckled on her little thumb.
Zraxus smiled holding back his sadness and fighting his tears he walked into the kitchen.
"WHOS UP FOR SOME PEANUT AND JELLY SANDWICHES!?!"He bellowed out and suddenly all the kids scream happily and jump in joy.

~*Back at Prontera Street*~
Silk tosses his Axe in a boomerang like fashion hitting many of the Raydriks, they kept pressing on even though many were turn apart they kept insisting on attacking,suddenly in the blink of an eye all of them turned to ashes and the ashes slid across the cracks and crevices of the brick like street.
"Are they...running away? Said Silk as he passed his hand over his forehead wiping the sweat away.
'I guess so...Blast...Now im hungry!" Said slate while checking his shield for any damaged metal plates.
"So now, boys, mind explaining me what the hell were those things and why were you guys being mauled at?" Inasad said as she grasped her wip and looked over at Silk menacingly.
~*One hour of explaining later*~
"I guess they went to the church? Id go there first if it was me." Slate was always ahead of the crew thought wise but no one really seemed to notice, for his age he was very wise.
"are you guys listening to me?"
"Slate not now dude, im like..trying to think where could have Aneko and Saii gone off to."
"VERY WELL THEN!! Il go ahead and search for clues." Said Slate as he walked off headed to the church while mumbling to himself and cursing under his breath.Silk continued to try and think while Inasad seemed to have already lost interest and was drawing herself a tarot reading on a near by bench as Silk was scratching his chin trying to think and lost completely in thought, as if i a complete other universe, he didnt notice the royal guards that passed by him and were checking the aftermath of the battle.
~*Back at Prontera church*~
Saii lays sitting on the pedestal where he was originally was being healed,his body was covered in many scars, most of them he had received while protecting Aneko, but some new ones were seen and as she was healing, she couldn't help but weep in silence and feel guilty.That man that stood in front of her had sacrificed so much just so she would be safe,he even saved a whole kingdom and denied the status of nobility.Saii had noticed she was crying and he also felt guilty,he felt as if even though he had done so much,the fact he would always get hurt protecting her was a sign of weakness, he was very concerned the fact that he would one day would not be able to protect her.So he remained in silence as the green light covered them both and their necklaces with the Engagement rings shone with a green luster.
Slate whom is at the church entrance had grown tired of knocking at the door.It was probably too thick to even make a sound anyways so he decided to give it a nudge to open it.
* THUD...Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak....BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!*
The door had fallen off its hinges and crashed on the ground crumbled.The thousand year old oak wood door had seen its end.
"Argh Blasted old doors!!!"
A Huge cloud of dust lifted up and traveled down all the way to where Aneko,Saii,Sakurato were and they react nervously to it.
Saii immediately jumps up and grabs the bow and arrows to arm himself instantly already aiming at the cloud of dust,Holding with his left hand the bow and with his right he had 5 Arrows already ready to be fired.
"Who is it?, Answer before i shoot all these arrows."
"Its me, Slate, you Twit!"
Saii lowers his bow and runs back to Aneko,then hiding behind her.
"I bet hes here to kick my ass too!"Said Saii in his wimpy tone,She pulls him by the arm while walking down the aisle.
"Thanks again Sakurato! I owe you an ice cream!"
Sakura grabs one of the parchments and tears it apart in anger.
"BITCH YOU PROMISED ME THAT ALREADY 40 TIMES!!!"
Aneko turns back and sticks her tongue out at Sakura while closing her eyes, and she immediately runs out the church while dragging Saii and leaving Slate behind puzzled,Saii barely able to keep up.
~*Back at the hotel*~
Faint knock on the door, and Saii opens it slowly.
"...How does it look?"He said nervously. sporting his new ranger outfit.His newly Designed Outfit was provided by Heii, whom was a member of the Border Rangers Squad, His leather pockets were more detailed,the chest area seemed a lot sturdier, the sleeveless suit Allowed more movement than his previous one, and he had also a side pocket for smoke bombs and acid grenades and all sorts of small knickknacks.There was also a note on the side pocket.He picks it up and reads it briefly but places it back into the pocket."Hmmm...Landon eh?"
Aneko stays silent blushing and she suddenly tackles him into the bathroom, shoves him onto the floor and pins him down while pressing her lips passionately on his.He has no option but to give into her passionate kisses,the kisses continue and she starts to undo her dress, she unbuttons her top part and drags it down till her shoulders and continues to kiss him while breathing heavily,she was blushing but her look of lust and desire was present.He seems confused and nervous, as he has never done such a thing with her, although it was bound to happen since relationships do involve this kind of things.Suddenly a large thud is heard on the bathroom door, a metallic like crashing next in the living room, and the wood creaking under them.
"...You wont be saved next time."She whispered into his ear while passing her tongue on his neck and winking.He felt a shiver down his spine due to the moist warmth of her tongue and the saliva leaving a cold sensation on his neck.
Aneko slowly opens the Bathroom door and tries to button up her dress again as she didn't notice who was in the room.
A Young man like voice with a Spanish accent bellows from the door.
"Saii you dog! where you aut bish?!"
Suddenly Saii jumps from the bathroom,runs three steps verticaly on the wall,back-flips onto the door,Kicks the young man in the face making him fall backwards,then spins a bit grabs the door handle and closes it kicking the lock closing it and landing a back-flip at the same time as he lands in a battle stance.
"Nope, Not gonna take none of that crap today."
He quickly grabs Aneko by the waist,Leaps through the window and runs over the buildings jumping over one and the other.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!! PUT ME DOWN SAII!!!!!"She yelled out as she started punching his back in fear and anger.
He stops and lands at the market place and sets her down from over his shoulder, she stands and tries to fix her dress a little and passes her hand on her hair trying to make it look nice.
"Next time just warn me beforehand honey..."
As soon she looked, she realized he had walked off already, he was looking at a forger making swords."she walks over to him angrily, closes her hand in a fist and swings for his head,he ducks and dodges it without looking at her and he continues to talk with the Blacksmith forger about a bow made of steel.She gets much more angry and swings again and again and again for random parts of his body.Then she grabs his butt gently and he jumps up squealing, then she punches him on the head.He turns around an flicks her nose in anger and turns back again to barter with the blacksmith forger.She stays arms crossed as he continues to talk."So do you think you can have it done by tomorrow?"
"Yeah sure, although those kind of metal ores might cost you a bit."
"No worries, I have money to spare, Just make sure you make it exactly the way i described it and also make sure the seams are sealed."
"Yes sir,Come by tomorrow and it will be done"
"Alright thanks"
He turns back at Aneko whom was had her face red in anger,He walks over to the banker and signs some papers,then comes back with a checkbook,then hands it over to Aneko.
"Whats this for?"
"Remember how we always used to share the money 50~50 when ever we did a mission and Etc.?"
She nods and continues looking at him.
"Well,there was a reward for defeating the Arch Baphomet..."
"Wait..How much we talking about?"
"Well, take a look at the balance in the checkbook."
She opens it and reads the 8 digit number in it and faints,he manages to grab her and hold her patting her face in an attempt to wake her up.
~*Over at Geffen*~
A large building that stands tall and mighty compared to the many others, with a large sign on the entrance."Rune Midgarts News Network"
A Young man with a feminine like look and a feminine voice walks out the main door accompanied by a??male Gunslinger carrying a camera and a crusader female carrying some boxes with equipment to a peco carriage , he was a skilled scholar, and news reporter,Also a local celebrity.
"But Sir Aaronock,Isn't Saiichi Bloodbane a dangerous criminal?"Asked the Camera man nervously, as he felt he was going to be in danger with this interview job.
Aaron pokes him on the face and places his hand on his hip while he passes his other by his medium-long hazel colored hair,looking at the nervous crew member with a look of confidence he has no words to say, although his look of determination was enough to encourage the cameraman to continue and proceed without any worries."Il protect you" He meant with his eyes.
"Now then,Lets get this interview GOING!"his young feminine like voice bellowed as the Pecos dashes with all their might dragging the carriage down the road.

~*Somewhere in the desert of the Schwartz republic*~
"Sekaru Careful nigga, this Zakuna guy means buisness!" Said Pyronic nervously while pressing his hand on a cut wound over his shoulder,in pain due to the deep gash he had received, he was never hurt this way,proof Zakuna's skill as an assassin was well over Pyronic's.
"I Know I know Bro,chill I got this covered." Said Sekaru in his relaxed tone, his tone of confidence as he approached,he was holding one sword on one hand, and his trusted bone dagger on the other.
"Phantom Sword Barrage!!" Roared out Sekaru as he swung his sword at almost not visible speed at Zakuna.
"Cross Ripper Slasher!!"Howled out Zakuna as he unleashed a relentless barrage of slashes at Sekaru, both weapons meet and a surge of many sparks and shards of super heated impacted metal fly by them.Pyronic is amazed at the fact he was evenly matched with Sekaru.
Sekaru suddenly fade steps onto Zakuna's back and attempt a backstab,Immediately Zakuna backslides and unleashes another barrage of blades on Sekaru whom this time was barely able to keep up.
"CRUD! Ive gotten so Rusty!"
"SEKARU!! BEHIND YOU!!!!"Yelled out Pyronic as Hisa was behind Sekaru casting a spell, she was halfway through due to the light amount accumulated on her hands.Pyronic has no choice but to dash and attempt to kill her before she lands her magic on him.
"DIE WHORE!!!" Roared Pyronic as he plunged his blade onto her back and twisted it then pulling it out lathered in black blood.
Zakuna stops fighting to look over at Hisa,at the same time he does so, Sekaru plunges both his sword onto his chest and his bone dagger on his neck.
A moment of silence follows then suddenly a crackle of laughter from both Zakuna and Hisa as both stand up.
Zakuna dusts himself and then pulls the sword from his chest and then the dagger from his neck,then the wounds seal themselves off with a dark vapor like haze.
"We are neither dead or alive.We are dark spawn."
Sekaru immediately knowing this battle was one sided,casted his honor aside,Grabbed hold of Pyronic and blasted the floor with a few smoke bombs making a smoke curtain to ease their escape.
"Tunnel Drive!!" Yelled out Sekaru,as the smoke cleared, there was nothing left but a deep and steep hole that seemed to lead to an underground cave system.
Hisa begins to charge up a spell when he interrupts her abruptly by grabbing hold of her hand.
"Let them go,It will be fun later on."
She nods and both continue walking towards the north,Rachel.

~ To be Continued >>>