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Asphiel shook his head, "My eye hurts," he saw all the warriors and then his own guards coming to help. One spoke in angelic and left, "Oh no...there's something wrong with Kai," he gave the fang to one of the guards and ran, "Sorry blue tiger you're too weak for Kai!" he stuck his tongue out as he ran off to the duel. Thais looked at all the man coming through the gate from the tower, where she fed the baby during the day. She saw the blue spot and tears ran down her face, "Byakko." she walked out of the room and to the top of the tower outside, where Asphiel used to hide his vodka before Genie cleaned it out.

Darrien shot at the man, and the man moved agily, knowing how to escape the gun shots with ease, even if it meant rolling in the ground, a smile on his face similar to Kai's, "Wife, Darrien? I'm happy for you," he shot only once, and Darrien's gun left his hand. Darrien was angry, but hearing Kaen again he looked at her, "Does it...tell me you little white demon, which one of us is your husband. I am," he said the last part in a burst and he fell to his knees, and by then the guards started moving closer, but the man with the rifle ordered them to stay away. darrien screamed in pain, holding his head. The man didn't do anything, just looked, his rifle pointing at Darrien, making sure Kai would get up again and hurt someone.

Byakko huffed, and followed Asphiel to at least find out what was going on. His eyes went wide at the scene before him, having seen many battles but never one where an angel had gone insane. He noticed Kaen standing with the gun to her head and started forward. A silver form in the air formed in front of him, forming into Hane. "Byakko! DOn't go near Kai!" she warned, putting her hands on Byakko's chest. "This is something even the strongest demons can't help with."

"You are NOT my husband," Kaen spat, eyes narrowed to vicious red slits. SHe brought the sword up into attack position, preparing to run in and knock him down even if she accidentally hurt him. When he knelt on the ground, she dropped the sword and ran forward, taking the gun out of his hand and staring at his face. Please, Kai, come back to me, she thought to herself as she watched him cradling his head and screaming.

Kai leaned forward to hide his face and gasped for air. He looked up, his eyes with tears, looking at Kaen, "What...happened..." he stretched his hands to her, "Why am I here...?" The man walked closer, keeping his gun up, then in a second pointed it at Elder, which was moving with his sword towards her. "Father, stay away from kai..." Elder pointed the sword at the man, "Hello, Toshigo. Found your brother? You must be happy..." "I'm not happy. You're here...Lady fox demon, get Kai out of here." Asphiel looked at Elder, "I'll kill him." Asphiel moved towards him with his lance ready.

"Darrien took control of you, because of him," Kaen said, turning to glared at Elder, then turned back to Kai. "Are you really with me again?" She took hold of his hands and kissed his palms, then threw her arms around him. "I'll take care of it," she said to Toshigo with a nod, already forming a portal to the demon world. "Come on, love," she said as she stood and helped Kai to his feet as well and walked him through the portal. The portal opened on a second, smaller stone shrine, this one kept in better shape than Yume and Yasuo's home. Kaen helped Kai into a small room just off the main room that was furnished with a simple bedroll and oil lamp. She sat down with him on the bed and looked at him. "Please tell me you're alright." Hane floated over to Elder and stood in front of him, hands on hips. "SO you're the one that's caused all this trouble for Lady Kaen," she growled, an unusual thing for a wind sprite to do, but it carried a crackle of thunder. She looked over at Asphiel. "So now what?"

Elder looked at the sprite and gave a slice right between her. Asphiel moved to stop the blade, pushing Elder back, "Tali's not here to kick your a**, and it's not my job to do it," he sliced his lance a couple of times and opened a gate around Elder, making him appear on the middle of the ocean in the North Pole. Asphiel looked at Toshigo, "You should leave before anyone finds more about you." "Right, say hi to kitsune girl for me. She's cute." he disapepared in light and Asphiel signalled the rest of the guards to keep moving. "Now, the ones hurt go inside the grounds in the house, the rest stay in the grounds until I find somewhere else tokeep you all safe..."

Kai looked at her with a peaceful face, touching her hands softly, "Yes...I'm....Kai..." he touched his face, "I have a headache...the last thing I remember is seeing a Society member in the store. That's it." he kissed Kaen, "I'm sorry."

Hane de-solidified herself when Elder made the strike, and didn't resolidify until Asphiel had banished him. "I can do more surveillance for you until Kai is ready to come back," Hane said to Asphiel as she stepped over to Byakko. "And you have someone you need to talk to, don't you?" She de-solidified again and flew up to the roof area, hovered there a moment, then disappeared. Byakko huffed and started to turn away. "Thais doesn't need to see me," he said outloud, and started walking away.

"Don't be sorry. Elder tried to take control of Darrien and was shown that no matter how hard he tried, he can't control Darrien," she said, returning the kiss. Kaen put her head on Kai's shoulder. "I was scared though, that I wouldn't get you back." She couldn't tell him just yet that Darrien had held a gun to her head twice. "This place is safe. I grew up near this shrine and the priestess who lived here placed a barrier that keeps out any one with an evil heart.

Asphiel watched as all the soldiers moved through the house gate, Genie running through them, describing Asphiel to whoever passed next to her. Pidgeon looked at Byakko, but didn't stop him. Sincerely, all the angels that were close to Thais were still mad at the demon, not really for a reason he would know of, since technically Byakko didn't know how much Thais left behind to help Byakko in whatever. But for Asphiel, he was still his friend, "Blue Tiger!! I got ale inside since I can't drink. Come, we have the Society men still in the battlefield, and dragons above. I say we find people to track them before they get to the HQ here. We'll certainly have an advantage. He took out his comm and messaged Tali again, "He's as good in tracking as no one. The best," he felt as Genie hugged him from behind, so he placed the comm back in his pocket and picked up Genie, "Byakko, you remember Genie, Genie, remember Byakko the blue tiger?" Genie nodded and gave a shy wave at him, "Daddy, Acher is looking for his mommy and daddy..." "I'll be right there...something serious just happened and they had to move out for a while until Kai's head gets resettled. Stupid multiple personality s**t..."

Kai's head moved to the sides as the headache got worst, "Darrien...like...the other me...but it's me and I still can't remember...This is getting out of hand..." he looked around him, his hands growing numb, "I must've done quite some damage if I got send away...I hope I dind't kill not that many..." he tried laughing, the other personaity trying to come out, but Kai himself was too scared of what had happened. He had lost his memory before, but never to a moment that he had completely forgotten where he was and appeared somewhere else, so he cried, "Something's wrong with me..."

Byakko stopped and looked back at Asphiel. "Ale, huh? I guess I could help you take care of that," he said, walking back towards Asphiel. He smirked at Genie and nodded. "I remember the kid. How are you little one?" Byakko asked. "Is Thais....is Thais around here?" He looked up toward the tower, then at Asphiel again.

Kaen put her hands on Kai's cheeks. "You...Darrien killed 2 people and stabbed Elder. I brought you here so Elder couldn't take you," she said quietly. She put her arms around him and put her face against his neck. "Is there something I can do to prevent him from ever coming out again? I know I can get something to make your head feel a little better at least."

Asphiel looked at him as he walked backwards with Genie, a bit irresponsible of him, "Yeah, but there's nothign you can do to make me lead you to her, let alone let you get near," he kept walking, really not caring if he walked a bit fast. In the meantime Kai held Kaen for dear life, crying. He felt horrible, and he really didn't know what to do.

By the afternoon more soldiers appeared in the grounds, demons and angels, all of them getting organized. He sat with some of the higher ranking warriors, drinking ale and talking. He worked with his comm to see what was going on. He just received a mesage from the violet haired man giving them a flight patter from the dragons, and got a message that Ukiel was getting wordt by the day, and if it continued he would be dead in a week. Asphiel dropped his comm on the table and looked at his glass, wanting to cut himself bad to get the stress out, "And then there's Kai..." he put a finger in his mouth and bit as hard as he could. Having angel fangs was useful, and blood come out. He was thinking hard on what to do. "And Tali and Akeno...we needed them more than ever..."

Kai was numb after a while, his head numb, and he only held Kaen's hand, "They...might need us back home...let's go home..." he started to remove the weapons he had on, thinking now that it wasn't a good idea to have them, just in case Darrien took over again, "I did see some men walking with papers into a store in Arabia, I should keep looking at the place later, but this time with someone with me..." he played with a knife.

"DOn't worry, I wasn't interested in seeing her," Byakko said coldly. He followed Asphiel inside. Byakko slipped at the ale, barely feeling any buzz from it. "So trying to figure out the poison from the fang didn't work? And I'm guessing Kaen didn't go to that tribe," he growled, finishing off his drink. He set the glass down and cracked his knuckles. "I could go...talk to them about it."

"I agree. Acher's probably going nuts trying to figure out where we went," Kaen said, standing and dusting off her pants. "I actually sent Hane to keep an eye on you, and she was the one that sent the warning about what happened. But maybe having someone more...solid to go with you would be better. We could leave the weapons here if you want." Kaen started creating a portal to Asphiel's place.

"They have the fang, they just haven't found a good antidote yet, but from what Link told me they found one potion that seemed to slow it down a bit, but they're afraid Uki might start building an immunity to it," he looked at Acher and the other orphans runnin around the soldiers, playing with the youngest child's new green ball. "You could...but Trina is determined to go herself, but we really can't wait for Trina if he only has a week, or less. I wish I could go see him. He says he looks terrible, and he's in pain. You know," he leaned back, "I wonder if demons are affected by it as well? And maybe we can use that poison for our advantage. It won't be vengeance, just..." he looked back, seeing Thais walk down the hall with a baby bottle, "Byakko...Byakko...." she called, obviusly calling Asphiel. he got up and walked to Thais, "Don't you dare get close to him. He just wants the baby's bottle," he led Thais to the kitchen, making his comm float behind him.

Kai nodded and left the weapons, taking kaen's hand before going through the portal. Once passing through he bumped into someone. Kai went straight to his side but he had left his weapons back there. Toshigo was pointing a gun to Kai's head, having the same scared look as Kai did some hours ago. Then he saw kaen and he lowered his gun, "Sorry, strangers. Thought you were Elder again," he took out a map from light and gave it to Kaen, "This is for Pidgeon. It's the route the dragons took when leaving the battlefield," he smiled and placed his gun away, "Later." he leaned back into a light gate. Kai looked rather annoyed at the man, "How dare he talk to my Kaen," he said in a childish tone.

"Whatever, I need to go outside for a bit and get some air," Byakko said, getting up and walking out the front door. He didn't go far, but sat on the porch steps, watching the guards go back and forth. "Like I'd really want to see that crying angel." He growled and stretched his legs out in front of him and laid down on the stairs.

Kaen took the map, but was watching Kai. When the man left, she finally spoke. "Who is that man anyways?" she asked, tucking the map into her pocket. "Asphiel seemed to know him and he seems a bit familiar to me too...and he knows Pidgeon's nickname." She shrugged, and ran a hand over her hair. "That's gonna be bugging me..." She closed the portal behind them and took Kai's hand. "Come on, our son's been missing us."

Asphiel finished with Thais and walked outside, ignoring Byakko and headed to the couple heading his way. Kai waved at him and let go of Kaen, "I really don't know who that guy is, and right now I don't care. I just want to see my son...." he walked to the other part of the house where the kids stayed, "Acher!!" "Daddy!!" Acher screamed, running towards his father. kai picked him up and hugged him, then pickign up higher like a plane, "I hope you didn't miss us too much!!"

Asphiel moved towards Kaen and waved, "Got a dragon tooth for you...what you gonna do about the venom thing because I have that Blue a*****e wanting to help out. Sorry, he tried talking to Thais and I got pissed off," he looked at the map, "What's that?" Thais sat down in a corner of the living room to feed the baby, singing a demon lullaby again.

"Fair enough," Kaen said with a shrug, noticing Byakko on the porch. She opened her mouth to say something to him when Asphiel walked up to her. "I can try to get in touch with them quickly. i contacted Trina earlier, but I don't know if she got my message ((aka i forgot to message her))." She crossed her arms over her chest, causing the map to crinkle. "This? I was given it to give to you by....well, I don't know his name. He's the purple-haired angel, the one that had a sniper rifle." She pulled out the map and handed it to Asphiel. "Now then, I want to go see my son." She nodded to Byakko on her way into the house, and followed the sound of giggling to where Kai and Acher were.

Asphiel finished with Thais and walked outside, ignoring Byakko and headed to the couple heading his way. Kai waved at him and let go of Kaen, "I really don't know who that guy is, and right now I don't care. I just want to see my son...." he walked to the other part of the house where the kids stayed, "Acher!!" "Daddy!!" Acher screamed, running towards his father. kai picked him up and hugged him, then pickign up higher like a plane, "I hope you didn't miss us too much!!"

Asphiel moved towards Kaen and waved, "Got a dragon tooth for you...what you gonna do about the venom thing because I have that Blue a*****e wanting to help out. Sorry, he tried talking to Thais and I got pissed off," he looked at the map, "What's that?" Thais sat down in a corner of the living room to feed the baby, singing a demon lullaby again.

"Fair enough," Kaen said with a shrug, noticing Byakko on the porch. She opened her mouth to say something to him when Asphiel walked up to her. "I can try to get in touch with them quickly. i contacted Trina earlier, but I don't know if she got my message." She crossed her arms over her chest, causing the map to crinkle. "This? I was given it to give to you by....well, I don't know his name. He's the purple-haired angel, the one that had a sniper rifle." She pulled out the map and handed it to Asphiel. "Now then, I want to go see my son." She nodded to Byakko on her way into the house, and followed the sound of giggling to where Kai and Acher were.

Asphiel looked seriously at her, "You of all people shouldn't know that man's name. And try erasing him from your head," he waved at her and walked back to Byakko, opening the map in front of him, "This is the route. I want you to go to dragon town to house 32 and get Tali here. I want to know if this hq is real and we can stop them from attacking this close to home," he rolled the map back up and walked inside to place the map on a table to study it a bit further. "In the mountains, quite common for the society..."

Kai had sat down and was telling Acher a false story about him riding camels in Arabia. When he saw Kaen, Kai smiled, "Hello, Kaen, I was telling Acher about the camels..."

"The camels? Oh right," Kaen said walking over to Kai and Acher. She sat down next to Kai. "Camels are perhaps the strangest things I've ever seen....besides demon camels of course. I'm sorry for skipping out on our game, sweetie." SHe reached over and ruffled Acher's hair. "We can play a game a little later if you want."

"I'll get the game!" Acher said running to the living room where the games were. Kai waved goodbye and looked at Kaen, "So, what now? Maybe I should go to the hospital to get my head checked or something. I don't want something like this happen again." he then saw Asphiel walk inside and grab Kaen lifting her up, "Kaen you brother kidnapped Tali and we really need him and Hane to check something for me...he's probably eaten half of Tali by now." Kai gave a strange grin, "Or Tali eaten him whichever works fine for them." "Kai, this isn't funny. I need all the help I can get until the Light Realm gets enough soldiers." "I know it's not funny but right now Tali is in a very sensitive condition, even though he's probably having a good time with my brother-in-law..." he tilted his head, "But you know if he gets too stressed he might relapse and die. Now let go of Kaen. I'm no mood to play tug-o-Kaen." they both started pulling, Asphiel grabbing her under her arms and Kai her legs. "Let go Pidgeon!" "No, you let go. She's helping me out!"

Tali gave an evil grin at Akeno, "Nope. I will do it again, but you won't know when. It'll be a surprise, and you won't know what hit you..." after trying her best at an glare she smiled and jumped on Akeno to get her comm, "You won't know what hit you..." she said in a ghostly tone. She turned the comm on and looked at the messages, her eyes opening wider with every message, "Akeno...a battle occured in Byakko's territory...and other things..." she showed the comm to Akeno.

Kaen looked sad and put her hand on Kai's hand. "We can go get you checked out later if you want," she said as Asphiel walked in. She yelped when he picked her up. "What the hell is your problem?" she asked, squirming around to try to get him to drop her. "Nii-san didn't kidnap Tali; Ukiel told him to take Tali to Dragon town so they could get some rest. And you should give the whole Akeno-eats-angels thing a rest. He's my brother and you don't see me doing the same thing, thought if you don't put me down, I may start!!" When tug-a-Kaen started, she winced as the pulling caused her stomach to start hurting. "BOTH OF YOU STOP!!!!!" she yelled, flailing her arms and legs to make them let go. She gave a groan of pain that turned into a very pissed off growl and tried biting Asphiel's hands.

Byakko had just got up to go back inside when he heard the scream. "Hey! Put her down!" he yelled, charging at the man holding Thais. He didn't see Thais, or at least didn't recognize her, as he grabbed the man by the throat. "Release her," he growled, tightening his grip enough to show that he meant business.

Kai and Asphiel both stopped, both looking at her worried of what they did. "Look what you did, you big drunk!" "I did, you were the one who grabbed her legs! Er, you know, forget it," he noticed that kai was getting madder by the second, so it was better to just stop. He moved back, "Come on, kaen, it's fun. I get to make silly little comic where Akeno is completely evil..." Kai hissed at the angel and then moved Kaen to sit down, "You okay?" he rubbed Kaen's stomach, "You want to lay down?" he jumped when he heard sounds outside. Asphiel moved to the window, seeing many guards with their weapons raised, "What the hell?!" he ran out, "No fighting in my land!" he saw the man being held by Byakko, and Thais, still squirming, now a gun pointed at her head, "Thais!!" "We got a spy, Pidge," the Angel General screamed at Asphiel, "Shoul we take him in like the others?" "You touch that man and I'll kill you." "Thais sin't important, he's a broken angel." "Say that again and I'll remove your face." The spy was ready to pull the trigger, "Just let me leave and I'll let go of the thing." Thais didn't like it when the spy talked, like if she could remember something.

Kaen curled up when she was set down. "I should be okay. THe muscle hasn't completely healed I think," she said with a weak smile, then perked up when she heard the commotion outside. She got up carefully and went to the window, and watched from there, leaning heavily on the window sill. Byakko growled at the man, but spoke to Asphiel. "He started it by attacking...," he started, then turned to see the man's captive, his eyes going wide when he noticed that it was Thais. He turned attention back to the man and tightened his grip further. "If Thais is a spy, let the master of this house deal with it instead of taking matters into your own hands," he growled.

"Thais isn't a spy. The poor thing can't even remember her own name. Look," he made a sword appear and pointed it at the man's face, "In my opinion you're the spy," he pulled Thais away and made him look, "Thais, what's your name? What's your name?" Thais looked scared and fell to his knees making sure the baby was safe by using himself as a shield. Asphiel held the man's clothes and lifted him up with one hand, "You touch him again I'll break your arms. General, take this man to the prison Uki made." the General looked anoyed but did as was told. "For the rest of you, I suggest you treat your hosts with respect or I'll personally throw you out." the soldiers were back to their spots and Asphiel leaned next to Thais, petting him in the head, "It's okay, Thais. Let's go inside. I'll make you some food." Thais kept crying, screaming 'Byakko', like he always did.

Byakko removed his hand and shrugged, turning away from Thais, wincing every time the angel said his name. "Why's he screaming? He should know by now I don't want him near me," he growled, stalking off around the side of the house, if nothign else to get away from all the people. If the angels didn't want him near Thais, why'd Asphiel ask him to stick around? He wondered this as he found a nicely shaded spot in the back yard and laid down. Inside, Kaen watched everything happen and shook her head as she went back to sit down as Acher ran in with Monopoly. "Do you still wanna play this one, mom?" Acher asked as he set the game up, making Kaen smile. "It seems like a fun game, so sure."

Kai looked at all the pieces and things, taking the man on the horse in his hand, looking at it, “This one is mine,” he placed it back down and got up, smelling his clothes, “I have to shower. I’ll be back soon,” he walked away from his family. He didn’t remember the killing, but he got the scent of blood on him. When heading to his room he heard the comm. and seeing his brother-in-law, he moved back to the room, thinking that his wife might want to talk to him. Once back in the room he gestured to Kaen that he had a phone call. He answered, “Hey, Akeno. You two doing okay?”

“Byakko…” Thais said one last time, now being picked up by Asphiel. He kept the baby close to him, making sure it wouldn’t fall. Asphiel moved close to where Byakko was and said in a very calm voice, knowing Byakko could hear him from there, “Thais only remembers the last things before they broke him completely. Oh, and, Link will send someone to check your territory to see if you can set camp back there. I’ll prepare a group to help you. Promise me you’ll be safe and ready for those bastards, blue tiger,” he moved back to the house, placing Thais down on the couch and moved to see what he could cook. Thais watched the soldiers move around, not liking being with all of them. He started playing with the baby, making the baby laugh.

"Alright, love," Kaen said, setting out the money while Acher sorted the different cards. "I'm gonna be....this one!" Acher said, picking up the dog piece with a huge grin. "The puppy, huh? Then I'll be the top hat," Kaen said, taking both pieces and setting them on Go. She looked up when Kai came back in and walked over to him. "Nii-san? How's Tali?" she asked, looking into the comm.

Byakko opened his eyes and waved a hand. "Yes, sure. I can sit here until that gets taken care of," he said, ignoring the part about Thais' memory. "I can see if Kaen and Akeno will let me borrow some of their men for a bit. They've had more practice fighting since they're from a heavy war zone." Byakko closed his eyes and resettled himself against the tree trunk as Asphiel walked away with Thais.

no explainig...they're my angels...

I think the peach thing is definitely genetic as well. It's between liking peaches or having someone close that likes peaches.

I cropped the chibi drawing of asphiel, cleaned the lines, and put it as my computer background. yay.

"Kai wasn't suppose to snap," Asphiel said as he moved to his comm to look for more information, "Go do your work. Now I have more work in my hands...and I was suppose to have been booted out by Ukiel. I distinctively remeber that," he gave a look at Tali before going to the kids for a second to make sure they were doing alright. Tali adjusted his shirt and gave a look at Akeno, "It's okay, I have a feeling the Society is too busy moving than to look for tiny old me..." he smiled and watched as three angels moved towards him. He tied his hair back with a lock of his won hair before walking out, "Hey, have fun at whatever you will do."

Toshigo didn't know where the house was, "Uhm...bad idea...I don't know where the house is..." he sat on Kai and held him down, making Kaen move away, "You open the gate and I'll throw him in..." he smiled, trying to look as calm and composed as he could, a bit nervous since his superiors might be mad at him for not obeying orders, "The angels better give me credit for this.

Akeno glanced at the new angels and nodded. "We'll just have to make sure that we're where they can't find you in case they find somewhere to stay," he said to Tali with a smile. "Do you know where the new map needs to be of? We've been a bit out of the loop, so I need to know where the new bases are." He looked over at the demons hanging around. "I still need to select two of them to help protect Tali."

Kaen blinked at him, then blushed and nodded. "Yeah, I didn't think about that, sorry," she said and opened a portal to the house. She stepped through the portal to make sure it was clear on the other side, then stepped back through. "It's clear, let's go," she said, reducing the weight of the chains. "You should be able to lift him now. If they don't give you credit, I'll personally yell at Ukiel and Asphiel and who ever else I need to." She reached out her hand to Toshigo, putting one on Kai's head. "Just keep a hold on my hand as we go through, otherwise you'll be lost to the shadowed-between."

Asphiel stopped working on his comm and looked at the angels. A glare similar to the kitsune came to his eyes. Those angels were of the other General's batallion, not of Ukiel's men. He knew better than to trust them with Tali. They talked awful things about the angel, not really liking him, considering him dirty, trash that should be thrown to the side. He bet anything they didn't want to be paired with such a being. Asphiel took a deep breath before answering to Akeno; who taught Ukiel to take a deep breath before talking? None other than Asphiel. He taught that the best words said were the calmed ones. "Well, since they attacked us with dragons the most certain thing is that there's a base in the mountain area near Byakko's territory. They're probably moving to make sure they're not traced to the original base, so that's why I need Tali to make sure we find both areas, so Uki's men can destroy them, erm, yours as well. Sorry, but I've never worked with demons in battlefield, strategy-wise," hegrabbed one of the angels and threw him out, "I don't want you three with Tali, you mgiht try to touch his butt and his lover might kill you. Go get one of the King's men. They're more capable. You want me to come, Tali?" Tali was staring at him and at Akeno, "Uhm, no, they need you here. If I need you I'll beep you, alright?" "Akeno,choose the most undesirable demon for Talidzfer." Asphiel smiled, Tali's face went red, mad at hearing his whole name.

"And as long as I touch Kai, he won't be able to use light to kill us. Yay! We deserve white wine and peach pie after this," he picked Kai up and stood a second not knowing what to do, so he just placed his lightweight brother under his arm and took Kaen's hand, "Wasn't Uki sick? You mean Asphiel, and Pidge is scary for the Alliance as it is, so there won't be any trouble. An angel that can trick radars into not seeing him, scary." he passed through the portal and stared at the house, "Japanese house, nice. I always wanted one of these. Reminds me of my mother." He threw Kai on the floor when he tried biting Toshigo.

Akeno nodded, making a mental note to check that area. He was about to make a comment when Asphiel threw the angels out; instead he smiled with approval. "Well done. Now that I know what some of those who might harass Tali look like, I know who to watch out for now," he said with a grin. Akeno laughed at Tali's reaction to Asphiel's comment. "Don't worry, I'll find exactly the right demons to watch Tali. I have a couple in mind, in fact. The insane red fox siblings. Extremely trustworthy, a little...unusual in their methods, especially Yume, but excellent fighters. I just wish there were more of them. I saw them hanging around here, so they won't be hard to find."

Kaen closed the portal and stood next to Toshigo. "Kai insisted on a Japanese house. Probably cause that's about the only type of house I feel comfortable in," Kaen said holding the door open. She closed the door when TOshigo tossed Kai to the ground. "Hey! Be careful! The chains could damage my floor!" She stood with her hands on her hips, glancing down at the hardwood and tatami floor that spread across the room. "What do we need to do now?" she asked as she brushed her fingers against the chains around Kai, making them heavy once again. She looked down with sad eyes at Kai, hoping that her Kai would come back soon.

“You guys treat me like a King or Queen or a very stubborn child.” “But you are a stubborn child,” Asphiel said hugging Tali, then letting go when he saw the new angels coming in. The one in the middle looked a bit like Asphiel, but bigger and more robust. The second he saw Tali the two other angels grinned and watched the big one. The angel covered his mouth and looked away, “I am heartbroken to see that destiny brought us together again but I can never have you in my arms,” he said in a very dramatic way, a really bad acting. Tali looked a bit embarrassed as he gave a small wave, “Hello Amilfer…” “I also heard the rumors that you had a lover. Let him come and we’ll fight for you!” Amil said, standing in a heroic pose with his sword at hand. Tali looked at Akeno, a very embarrassed face, “Yeah, I’m taken, and no, there’s no fighting…” Amil just sighed, “Then I’ll just guard you on your mission, just stay close to me and you’ll be fine,” his friends cleared their throats, “Oh, we all will keep you safe.” Asphiel was holding in his laughter, “The perfect guards. You know, the Spartans had lovers in battle so they would fight better.” Tali wanted to punch Asphiel but just tried his best to scratch his wings, “We should go…” The other angels, on the other hand, as they prepared for battle, were playing grab the tail with the other demons. Trying to get their minds out of battles was a good thing.

Toshigo watched as kai’s hands shook. He knew what that was. Soon, Kai would just pass out, shaking wasn’t fun. He watched as Kai stopped moving, the blank expression in his face coming back, like the one in the Alliance base, “Crap,” he let go of Kai and sat down, staring at him, “I have a bad feeling, but we’ll just have to wait and see, and hope Elder doesn’t come around looking to see who did this mess,” Toshigo really didn’t know now, but he did notice that Kai had taken his own medicine. It was still in the base. Not good. “Well, better introduce myself. What manners I have…” he got up and stretched a hand to Kaen, “My name is Toshigo, I’m your brother-in-law.”

Smirking at Tali, Akeno turned to the new group of angels. "Spartans, hm? Interesting," he said to Tali. He looked at Amil. "I'm Akeno and before you ask, yes, I am Tali's." Akeno could feel his cheeks burning slightly at actually saying it. He cleared his throat. "So we just need Yume and Yasuo, and we can get going." Almost on cue, two red fox demons wandered into the room, the female one grinning widely while her brother had a small smirk on his face. "Well, hello there," Yume said to Amil and the angels, looking them over. "I hope you are helpin' in this protectin' thing." She looked up at Amil slyly, Yasuo shaking his head. "Down girl," Akeno said calmly, though he had a smile on his face. "Well, it looks like we're ready to go." He looked at the gathered bodyguards, noting with amusement that Yume was now doing a full visual inspection of Amil.

"I can set up some warning alarms around the fence line," Kaen said, looking out the window, then back at Toshigo and down to Kai. "Wh-what happened?" she asked, starting to panic as Kai stopped moving. "What were those pills?" She started tearing up and wiped at her eyes, trying to keep herself calm. "Toshigo? I think I remember you from before. You seem to at least know my name. I'm Kaen." She sat down on one of the chairs and took a deep breath, feeling abit calmer.

Tali's cheeks went red. He didn't expect Akeno to even mention that. Amil's mouth went open for a second, "I have seen him fight. And he turned into a bigger version of Miss Kaen on fox steroids," Amil looked at the two demons and smiled, "I am Amil, these are Ren, short for Reniel, and Cass, short for something very long." the other two angels bowed and moved out. Amil placed a hand on top of Tali's head, "We'll take good care of Tali." "I am not a child! Hello! I can move a mountain with my fists! I can take care of myself." "Of course you can. Now lets go." Tali led them out to the outside of the house, but Amil was the one to open the gate, "I saw the area and I think it's around here..." Tali was still mad. He just gave a wave at Akeno and passed through. They were in an open field. The angels set around him to inspect the area. Tali just sat down on the floor, taking his gloves off. Asphiel hugged Akeno, "Now that he's gone we can make out." he was joking, and his voice said so clearly.

Toshigo got up and hugged Kaen, "Asphiel keeps me informed of most of Kai's things. The pills? They keep the identities down and leaves the real identity have control. I have a feeling the man you know as Kai is an identity," he felt bad to mention that, but it was true. Kai was trying to focus his vision a bit. Toshigo just tried to ignore him, "He just needs to fuse his identities. The Kai you know and this one is the same person. What he has is a broken personality that looks like many people. He'll be fine."

"In my defense, I've had that form longer than Kaen," Akeno said as Yume and Yasuo left with the other two angels, Yasuo practically dragging his sister. "I'll follow in a minute." When Asphiel hugged him, he chuckled and shook his head. "I don't know, Tali might be very upset," he said, moving Asphiel's arms. He held onto them and looked at Asphiel seriously. "Do you trust those three to not try something with Tali? I need to honestly know that." He let go of Asphiel's arms and crossed his own arms across his chest and waited for an answer.

Kaen cursed under her breath, shuddering lightly at Toshigo's words. She looked at Kai as he started to move again, then back at the purple-haired man. "How long will it take? So I can only hope that when this...fusing is over, the man I fell in love with is still there." She got up out of the chair and wandered around the room, needing something to do other than sit. "Do...do you want anything to eat? I need to do something, I can't just sit there, if I do...." She looked at Kai, then looked away. Everytime she looked at him, she felt horrible for chaining him up and forcing something down his throat, as necessary as it was.

Asphiel looked a bit confused, "I was joking about that, of the other angels. They don't care for him. Actually, they think he's disgusting. As for Amil, he is just joking around. He has always made fun of Tali for being short and too pretty for an angel," he pointed out, "The demon boy might make a move faster...anyway, changing the subject, the General will move out soon, and you need to find Byakko to see if he wants to get his land back. After seeing Thais he freaked out and left. The b*****d pretty much obligated me to give Thais away to some demon temple for a while..."

Tali watched that the angels were done inspecting. He gave a look at the demons, "I'm Tali." "Tali, get to work." "Leave me alone, Amil." Tali closed his eyes and touched the ground. The angels just kept their eyes open. "We're a bit far away from the real entrance, but there is a pathway...and I can sense the dragons. There' s a bunch of moving. I think we got here at the nick of time." "They're moving the dragons. Perfect, we'll just follow them." Amil was a bit excited. He liked ragons.

"I need desert. No joke. You have anything sweet?" he got up and followed her, "You can let go of him. I don't think he'll do anything," he took out a small little device and hid from Kaen. After a minute, and a beeping sound, he came out and smiled at her, "He'll be fine, trust me. He had it under control until just now, so he can control it again without any trouble. It'll be dificult, but Elder's children are well known to not give up."

Akeno nodded. "I just wanted to make sure that they wouldn't try to hurt him or anything like that. Tali's...been having some memories flair up when he's in male form around me. I just don't want that getting worse for his sake," he said, moving towards the door. "Byakko? I'm not surprised. He's always had a hard time with people getting attached to him. I'm pretty sure that he's probably very close to his lands, keeping an eye on them to figure out a plan."

"I'm Yume, and that's my brother Yasuo," Yume said, pointing at herself and Yasuo. Yasuo was walking around, helping check the area. He came close to Yume and whispered something to her. "No kidding? Yasuo says that there's a cliff nearby where we could watch them moving the beasts without being seen ourselves."

Asphiel looked down, "Tali hasn't talked too much about what happened to him, what we know is usually what we think happened. So he just makes the memories circle in his head over and over. Don't worry, I'll talk to him when he gets back. I have a remedy for what he's doing." he tilted his head about the Byakko thing "Thais knew that really well. That's why she dressed as a boy, and pretty much acted like one. Hides him from any affection. He can admire him and he'll cry at nights. OKAY!" he knew he shouldn't be talking about that, "I'll send some spies to see the situation so you be a good papa bear and lead you men now move~!" he pushed the demon out,

Tali took out paper and ink, used his light energy to move the ink and started making a map of a building, with all the rooms and other details he saw about the place, even amount of people. After an hour Tali had three floors done. He removed his other hand from the floor and got up, talking to the demons, "These need to be seen by Akeno and Pidge," he started walking towards the cliff, closely followed by Amil. "Amil stay some feet away from me..." Tali said, leaving Amil confused, but he did as was told. The feeling of him close made him feel weird. "I want akeno.." he muttered as he looked at the map, hoping no one heard.

Akeno let himself be pushed out, smirking. He found Orn and explained to him the situation. "I want to stay near Tali, since he's in a lot of danger, so you get to look for Byakko," he explained to the lizard demon and motioned down one of the wind sprites. "Take a couple of them with you to help you look for Byakko, though he shouldn't be hard to find." Akeno walked to the gate and stepped through it, looking around for a moment to find Tali and the others. Spotting him, Akeno walked towards him, motioning at Amil to not say anything as he moved close to Tali. "So, were you waiting long?" he asked casually, hoping he didn't scare Tali.

"What type of dessert did you have in mind?" Kaen asked as she went to the pantry and opened it. The top shelf of the pantry was filled with various cans of fruit. "You had mentioned something about peach pie, but I don't think I have a pie crust ready." SHe dug around the pantry, eventually finding a box of cake mix. "What about a peach cake? If you don't mind waiting for a bit that is."

Tali jumped, wanting to run off, but he recognized the voice and turned around. He wanted to pounce but held back the urge to and smiled, "I was just thinking about you," his smile disappeared the second Amil did the crying act again, "I found a three floor building underground, the first floor being the place where they keep the dragons, the rest is what I think a place to raise things. I got a lot of signals or parasite monsters. They're probably raising things in there. Oh, and they're moving this way. Dragons, I mean." he touched a tree, "Oh, they're already on their way." Amil encouraged Tali to keep moving and made sure they weren't seen as they saw the men making the dragons run down the path, hitting them. Tali wanted to stop them but Amil kept him down, "You can't move." "I can stop them. Please let me help the dragons..."

"If you have a cookie, I can wait," he played with light on Kai's chains, making the chains loosen up. Kai sat up, but didn't move anywhere, just looking around, "Where am I..." he muttered. Toshigo just left him to ponder, "I like baking cakes. My dogs like cake a lot. Kaen, you alright? I really thought Asphiel told you about all this..."

Akeno looked at Tali's map and nodded. "If they've had many more underground buildings, that would explain why we've had trouble finding them." He looked at the dragons, eyes narrowed. "I can't believe they're using such creatures," he muttered as he watched the men. One dragon turned to snap at a man, his partner hitting the dragon directly over the eyes, making the dragon roar in pain and fury. Akeno grinned cruelly. "Perfect. Make the beast hate you and see what that'll do for you," he growled, then looked at Amil, the cruel smile lessened to not scare Tali. "I think it might do the men good for a dragon to come loose, but they may take the chance to grab Tali if he's the one to go." Yume, hearing the tone of Akeno's voice, practically starting bouncing up and down her hand in the air. "OO! Pick me! I'll do it! I'll do it!" she begged, bouncing from foot to foot.

Kaen pulled a bag out of the pantry and handed Toshigo a cookie. "These never go bad," she said as she grabbed a can of peaches from the pantry and set it next to the cake mix on the counter. She poured the mix into a bowl and started making the cake. "Asphiel never told me about any of this. I mean, I knew about Darrien, but I didn't know about the personality thing. I was merely told that Darrien was Kai's given name at birth and he was renamed Kai in the Light Realm. Asphiel probably kept it secret in the hopes that we wouldn't be having this problem."

Tali smiled, "You go and get the men, I'll sneak to the back and make sure the dragons don't attack us," he moved back to go around the tree line to make sure he wasn't see. He leaned on a tree and closed his eyes. Amil was confused again, "I better go with him. Just to make sure they don't go his way," he followed Tali. The other two angels had their weapons at hand, "Go ahead, lady." Tali was using his energy to calm the dragons, it spread along the whole area, even the angels felt the energy.

"I bet you would've freaked out. Darrien was his real name, and Kai is the name he put on himself when he turned into a light being. It's something all of us do, just that affects people with personalities more," he ate the cookie fast, savoring it in his mouth, "I feel better now, but another cookie will make me feel much better," he looked back at Kai, "If you want I can help with what Kai has. I'll talk to my superiors. They'll protect Kai."

Yume looked at Akeno, who sighed and nodded. Yume grinned widely and ran off, outting an invisibility illusion over her. Yasuo walked up to Akeno and looked up at him. "I'll go. Make sure she don't get in too much trouble," he said, then ran off after his sister, putting a similar illusion on himself. Akeno watched Amil follow Tali, then looked at the other two. "The three of us will standby and go after who ever needs the extra help," he stated as he walked after Tali and Amil. He knew the kitsune twins would give out as much trouble as they received, so he wasn't all that worried about them.

Kaen handed Toshigo another cookie, then set the bag on the counter. "Still, it would have been better to know, at least to have a warning about what to do in this situation." She dumped the peaches into the cake batter and stirred it. She stopped at Toshigo's words. "What do you mean by help? I haven't had that good of a record with the angel superiors, in case you haven't heard."

The dragons, once they passed near Tali, they stopped and tried looking for Tali. The angel just looked at them with a smile and stretched a hand to the first dragon, which got so close Tali could give him a hug on his nose. The tamers were getting annoyed and then seeing the dragons stopped made them walk to the front to see what was wrong. The one in front moved back and seeing Tali he tried hitting Tali with the whip. The whip didn't get far since Amil cut right through it and grabbed the man's neck, "How dare you touch him..." the others tried to help his friend. Tali just stayed as calm as possible, but Tali whispered something and the dragons started getting mad again, but not at Tali, but for the tamers.

Toshigo laughed, "I don't work for the Light Realm, at least, not anymore. I'm a Major in the Alliance. They...have good men that can help Kai," he shrugged, "Besides, the leader in the Light Realm is Ukiel. I think you might get along with the King." he went for his gun when he saw Kai standing next to him. His eyes weren't lost anymore, but it was obvious that he was crying. He walked slowly to Kaen and looked at what she was doing, "I. Can. Help..." Kai was trying his best to stay conscious. "Did I. Hurt...you?" he asked Kaen, passing his hand through her hair, his voice sounding forced.

Akeno started forward when he saw the man try whipping Tali. He flicked his eyes in time to see the double shimmer that was Yume and Yasuo as they snuck up along side the dragons and began untying them. Akeno nodded when he saw the ropes pause and then the ropes were untied. He stepped up on the other side of Tali, shoving one of the other men to the ground as he attempted to grab Tali. "You will stay down there until we decide to release you," he said as he put his foot on the man's chest.

Kaen shrugged. "I've only ever gotten along well with one Alliance soldier before now. As for getting along with Ukiel...we've had our disagreements," she said, stopping when she saw Kai walking towards her. She tried to maintain a sense of calm, but couldn't help flinching when Kai touched her. "You didn't hurt me, but you came close," she said, suddenly remembering looking down the barrel of Darrien's gun and a small shiver went through her as she stepped away from Kai to turn the oven on. She didn't mean to run away, she was more nervous about which Kai this was. It sounded like her Kai, her angel, but...she couldn't help thinking about the things Darrien had said.

Tali watched as the men were rounded up, and seeing two others come towards them, he smiled in a very innocent way, "The dragons are loose. It's between helping us, or I'll make the dragons eat you," some of them stayed in their place, weapons up. Tali looked at Yume and Yasuo, "Do what you want with them. Amil, take your angels and make sure the dragons get safely back to camp, and call Roddie. Akeno, do you want to find the other base.? I can make the dragon take us." "No," Amil objected, "We're here to protect you. You'll be goign with at least three of us." Tali rolled his eyes and jumped on the dragon's head, then rolled down the back, "I'm good, let's go. Dragon, take us to the base. I promise you will be safe with us." Amil watched Tali, "You're small." "No I'm not!"

Kai watched Kaen leave his side. Kaen didn't know how much strength he had to put to just bring himself back, to be able to be 'Kai' again. In his mind he lost her, and like an echo in the back of his head he could hear Darrien laughing. He looked at Toshigo and then back at Kaen. He leaned on the counter to look at her, "We should... split up, Kaen," he said, finally getting a steady tone in his voice. Toshigo gasped and walked to his brother, "You're not serious..." "I'm. sorry. I want Kaen to be...Happy," Kai knew better that it might take a while for things to go back to normal. He didn't want Kaen or Acher to pass through that, "Elder. Broke my brain. I need...to fix. It."

Yume and Yasuo became visible again and each tackled one of the men, effectively breaking their necks on the impact. Yume grinned at another man as she got up, sliding her punching dagger into place on her fist. "You wanna be next?" she asked walking towards the man slowly, twirling the dagger as she rotated her wrist. Yasuo followed his sister's actions, revealing his punching daggers and approaching another man, an equally maniacal grin on his face. Akeno turned to Amil. "I plan on going with him, so you and another angel can either come with us or catch up," he said as he climbed onto the dragon behind Tali. "Those two can take care of the men." He pointed a finger at Yume and Yasuo, both of whom were simply waiting for the men to make a wrong move.

Kaen turned slowly to face Kai, utter shock on her face. "Please don't mean that," she whispered as tears came to her eyes. She crossed back to Kai and reached out to him. "I-I'm sorry I turned away, I was just....scared." Her hands were trembling as she practically collapsed against Kai, crying against his shirt. "Please don't! I love you! If you make me leave..." She shook her head and pulled back to look into his face. "I wouldn't be able to stand it. When you were taken, I almost lost it just trying to find you. Please don't say we should split." She looked up into his eyes, though it was a little hard to focus with the tears in her eyes, making her eyes look like liquid gold.

"It'll be difficult to move the dragons, so we'll move the dragons, kill the guards and move. I'll fly to you guys later," he saw the men jumping off the dragons, but Amil made two axes appear and threw it at them, going into their skulls, making the corpses fall on the floor. With light he made the axes come back to him. "Tali, be careful now." Tali nodded, "Akeno will take care of me. No worried. Akeno, hold on," he pet the dragon and took to the skies. Tali's eyes widened, but of joy. He hasn't flown in a long time. He looked up front to see that they were heading to the mountain area. There he saw fire and bombs bursting, "They most be fighting again," he saw they were heading to a mountain with snow on top, and the air got colder, "Is it here, dragon?" the dragon circled, not wanting to get close.

Kai hugged her, "Kaen, I just don't want to hurt you, again. I know I can hold him down. I promise you'll be safe," he was crying as well, "I love you, Kaen. I won't hurt you. I won't." Toshigo felt like an intruder now, scratching his head, then playing with the purple earring on his ear. He got up anddid a hissing sound so Kai would look, "Kai, please, now you need to take this taken cared of. Kaen could've gotten hurt today, and what about your son? I suggest you go back to the base's hospital and be a good head of household." Kai looked at Toshigo a bit surprise, the tears stopping, and he laughed, "I'm not the head of the household. Kaen is. I won't leave you...I would never..."

Yume and Yasuo grinned at each other and helped Amil clean up the rest of the guards. Akeno yelled something at them in the kitsune dialect of demonic and they both nodded, carrying out the rest of their killing a little quieter. Akeno smirked, then jolted as the dragon took off. He held onto Tali tightly and shuddered; he wasn't going to verbally admit that he was terrified of flying, so he did his best to hide it. He looked ahead of where they were flying. "That's got to be it," he said, eyes sweeping the ground below them until his head started spinning from dizziness. He shut his eyes and leaned his head against Tali. "Are we landing soon?" he asked quietly, refusing to open his eyes now for sure.

Kaen returned the hug, burying her face against his neck. "I love you too," she whispered. She jumped when she heard Toshigo hiss; she had forgotten he was there. "If he goes back to the base, I'm going with him, at least to find out what they're doing. Acher's with Asphiel, so he's alright there for a while," she said, lifting her head off Kai's shoulder so she could speak easier. "I just want to know what they are going to do to Kai. And besides, that was no where near the first time I've had a gun pointed at me."

Tali dropped his wings the second he felt Akeno hold on to him tight, "We'll land, but not in the mountain," the dragon sensed Tali and moved away from the mountain into the forest, staying as low as possible so not to be seen. Once they landed he made Akeno let go and looked at him, "Let me jump down first so I can let you down," he jumped off and stretched his arms, "Jump. Akeno, you'll be alright?" the bombs were heard louder and strange vibrations were felt through the ground, "Come on, I'm gonna make the maps. If you want we'll go back home through a gate," the dragon seemed to want to leave but he stayed still, for Tali. "We have to keep our eyes open. We're far enough from the area, but who knows..."

Toshigo looked away, "Let me leave to the base again. From what I saw it isn't that far away from here. I'm going to talk to my Superiors, then fix everything for Kai to be evaluated. From experience, you'll be diagnosed, then they'll give you meds, then you'll have to keep visiting the doctor until stable. So, I guess you'll be out of battle at least a week." "Experience?" "Did I say experience, no, I mean, it's in a handbook. I work with soem things like that sometimes. You know, mental illnesses and stuff. Anyway, I'll be on my way. Kaen, do you want me to stay?" Kai was very confused, but just concentrated on Kaen. Kaen wasn't confusing.

"Let me get down on my own and save my dignity that way," Akeno chuckled as he slid off the dragon's back. "Kaen's got the stomach for flying, not me. I'm too...earth-tied I guess." He smiled sheepishly at Tali. "Now you know something that scares me at least, just don't tell anyone." He looked through the trees, placing his hand on one near him. "Those bombs destroyed the outer portion of this forest. I guess the dragons were hiding in the trees and the bombs scared them out," he said, looking at Tali. "Yes, I think a gate would be better for the return trip."

Kaen arched an eyebrow at Toshigo, but didn't say a word. She had wondered, after their conversation, if the purple-haired man had had something similar happen with him, especially since he seemed different from the last time she had met him. "Actually Toshigo, could you check on Acher and let him know what's going on? He hasn't met you yet, but give him this and he'll know I sent you." She formed a silver rose bud on a short stem with her chains and handed it to Acher. "He should recognize my aura scent on that. I'll go with Kai to the base." She hugged him possessively and kissed his cheek. "I guess I get to take care of him again for a while."

Kai looked rather confused, then looking embarassed, not really knowing what to answer, "I don't...have a name. I think I have to put myself a name. I'll tell you when I find one I like," he took the glass and drank half of it, "Yes, Elder taught me about milk, and other things. He said that normal life is secondary to war, so we have to be ready for it," he looked at Kaen's eyes, not really sure of a detail, "Where's Elder? Last I remember we were fighting in some demon village, we were ambushed...then sparks of things came to my eyes, figures...what happened to Elder? Did he die?" he looked at her, but his eyes usually got lost looking at every detail of her, trying to make sure that he remembered her perfectly.

"Amil, let go," AKeno said quietly, walking over and looking straight at Amil. "Tali won't go anywhere. You need to check on Asphiel. I can't fly or move the way you angels can, otherwise I would go." He knew that wasn't exactly true, he could move quickly, but the angels had a flying advantage. Plus, he wanted to stick close to Tali until he could find out what happened with the hex. Yume and Yasuo had disappeared among the other demons to get the recent news and to explain what had happened.

Kaen bit her lip, not sure how to answer that question. "Elder...no he's not dead. He, ah, the last I heard, he was hiding out somewhere, coming up with some plan or another," she said. She washed out her milk glass and set it in the sink, then sat at the dining table again. "We should probably leave for the base soon. When we go there, let me do the talking, alright? If anyone calls you Kai, it's because you look like someone from the town called Kai." In her mind, she hoped to Inari and any other god that would listen that Elder didn't find them. She wouldn't be able to take him alone, especially with Kai literally not in the right mind.

The angels were moving around, moving injured bodies, burned, missing limbs, in shock. They talked about how they made progress in getting that land back, but they were using magic resistant missiles, and the angels had been working as shields more than fighting. It was getting bad and needed all the help they could get, so they were looking for more men from anywhere. Amil let go of Tali and watched as the angel moved to Akeno’s side. “If I go help Asphiel, I’ll be more of an obstacle than help. He’s too fats an I’m not fast enough for teleporters. I’m going to move to the front lines. They need us more there than Asphiel needs us up here. If you want to stay with Tali, stay,” he moved to the others and started barking orders to the guards there and to the new soldiers that were arriving. He called for light bombers. Tali leaned towards Akeno, to play with his shirt, “I’m going to get gauntlets and I can go to battle. If we beat them down and get to the mountain we can at least keep this area safe, right?” he didn’t want to be thrown to the side. He hated that feeling, even though going might put his health at risk. The doctor saw the couple while finishing a patient and walked towards them, “Talidzfer, I want you inside of the house. You go to fight and your health will get worst and I won’t allow it!” “I have fought in this condition! I can do this!”

Asphiel and the man could be seen as dots in the sky that were only visible in random seconds. They moved from the forest to the battle area, Asphiel trying to slice the shooter, the man throwing shots, very critical shots that almost hit the angel. In one moment the man grabbed Asphiel’s lance and the both fell from the sky, “You really are Swiftwind!” the man was over forty, short white hair and red eyes, “The speed that defies the wind! I truly found my match!” Asphiel was facing back from the ground, giving a smile, “They also say I play dirty!” he spat the man and when the man let go Asphiel disappeared again, the man trying to shoot the angel.

“I like the name Kai. I would love to have it as my name, but it would be confusing,” he got up and fixed his clothes, not really remembering wearing those clothes, not light being clothes. It wasn’t important. He gently stretched a hand towards her, “We should go then. Take my hand. We’ll walk together,” he looked around, “The coat must be around here somewhere.”

Akeno smiled softly. "You really should take it easy, Tali," he said, knowing the angel would not like that answer. "At least for a short time. I want to get something to eat before we head out again anyways. I haven't had anything since this morning, and it'll make me less dizzy after that...dragon problem." He looked down at Tali and put a hand on the angel's shoulder to steer him into the house. He looked at the doctor for a moment. "I'll keep an eye on him. If you could check on the red fox male, I think he got a little shaken up earlier." Akeno started walking towards the house, taking Tali along with him.

Hane was flying along next to Asphiel as well as she could; his random teleporting made it difficult for her to find him until he reappeared. Thankfully, there was a slight air displacement before Asphiel and the other man would reappear, so Hane was at least able to visibly track them. When they fell, she dove after to at least try to catch Asphiel if he went unconscious. "He really is fast," she breathed, watching him disappear once again.

"How about....Kaito? It's similar to Kai, so you could still be called Kai as a nickname," Kaen suggested, getting up from the chair. She took Kai's hand, still familiarly warm, and smiled at him. "The walk to the base isn't long, but we do have to go through town." She paused when she saw him looking around. "What coat are you looking for?"

Tali was led to the house, a bit mad, but he didn't want to push the kitsune away. No, that would be rude. The doctor waved them off, "Make him change to a girl form and hide the guy clothes so he won't go into fighting! Bye!" he moved to Yume and Yasuo, "Hello, are you two alright?" Tali walked inside, seeing that the part of the house was with a protection charm that kept the war outside and not inside the house. The kids were watching Narnia on the tv with a big spider demon. Tali moved to the kitchen, "You can't keep me out of battle, so if you wanna eat fine. Eat, but I'm going to get those gauntlets from the pantry and going to the mountain again," he took an apple and sat down, hearing all his words echo back to him, "The hex is wearing off, I can see you like yourself again, so I can fight. No problem."

"Kaito...sounds like kitty in angelic," he laughed. Kai didn't know how ironic that was, since he was a neko. He grabbed Kaen's hand with both hands, feeling her soft skin, "When I was created...around three days from then, this Angel General gave me a red coat. I love my red coat. I guess I lost it," and it explained why Kai liked his red coat so much. He lead her to the door, "It might not be cold today. If you get cold just stay close to me." he walked out and saw dragons flying above and towards the forest, "Look, dragons. Elder taught me about those. They're ferocious and love gold."

Akeno glanced behind him, then leaned over Tali, putting his hands on his shoulders. "Look, I won't make you go into female form. I won't keep you from getting your gauntlets; I honestly want to go fight myself. I will, however, request that you take it easy," he said forcefully, his eyes full of concern. He put a hand under Tali's chin and lifted the angel's face so he could look in his eyes. "I don't want you getting hurt because of exhaustion. That's the last thing I want." Akeno leaned down to kiss Tali's forehead. "Please promise that we'll rest for a short time before we head out, okay?"

Kaen shook her head. "I haven't seen a red coat, but it hasn't been all that cold recently, so we should be fine," she said, closing the door behind her. When Kai mentioned the dragons, Kaen froze out of fear, then noticed that they were missing their collars. "The Society has been using those dragons to attack angels and demons while the Society members try to grab specimens from both angels and demons," Kaen explained, controlling her sudden shaking.

Tali closed his eyes at the kiss, and smiled, "Fine, you win. Just let me get the gaunlets before I rest, alright?" he got up and walked to the huge pantry in Asphiel's house to get the weapons. Of course, the sequence of looking at the ceiling, pulling the cord, getting to the secret armory, coming back down, securing the door, but instead of walking back to the kitchen with his big metal gauntlets, he stopped to tie his hair and walked to the backdoor that lead to the outside, and spoke in a normal tone, knowing Akeno could hear him, "We rested enough back home Akeno. Right now my friends are in danger, and if we don't stop them now even you will get hurt. I'm sorry," he opened the door and ran out, putting his gauntlets on. He was seen by some angels but none of them stopped him, except Amil, but he was too late when Tali disappeared through a gate, heading back to the mountain. Clouds of rain were visible.

"That is a bit cowardly. Making innocent animals fight your battles. It's inhumane," he felt her hand shaking and held it tight, "Dont' worry. I'm a swordmaster. I've been taught how to kill without mercy, so you will be safe with me, promise," he laughed, "But you'll have to protect me from this town...New towns are overwhelming. Is this a angelic town? Is it cotrolled by the Angel regime?" he waved at people, like if eh knew them. Kai always did that in the past. Stopped doing it when he met kaen. He had to mature.

Akeno took Tali's seat, and his apple, when the angel went to get the gauntlets. At Tali's words, Akeno had started nodding, silently agreeing that they had rested enough. Hearing the door close, Akeno froze, then replayed what Tali has said. "Damn it!!" Akeno jumped up and ran outside in time to see Tali disappear. "That little....," he hissed under his breath throwing the unfinished apple, nearly hitting a snake demon, who swore at Akeno, commander or no. "He headed back! I'm following!" he shouted to Amil as he formed a portal to the mountains and practically dove through it before it had completely formed. Akeno's gold eyes were a fiery red.

Kaen laughed dryly. "That makes two of us," she whispered, then squeezed Kai's hand to show him she was alright. "The town is actually neutral. It'd primarily human inhabited, but there are a number of demons, angels, and half-breeds of each in town. The base helps keep things safe for the different races." She led Kai through town, not minding him waving at everyone. She tended to wave at the shop keepers when she went by on her way to the jewelry shop, so she didn't mind that much. Plus, it reminded her a lot of the Kai she had met, what felt like a long time ago.

Tali ran down the forest, and knew he was in enemy territory the second he felt the relic again, then seeing the missiles arriving. He stopped int he forest and hid, using the trees to move closer until he got to the path. Then he looked at the mountain, "I just have to knock it down, right? Right," he felt the rain fall on him, "Great." He saw the tanks arriving. He moved to an open area and cracked his knuckles, "I moved a mountain once, I can do it again," He stretched his fists back and in a second, like a bullet shot, the ground broke and headed towards the mountain. Then tank shots were heard. Amil made a gate for himself and ran to the mountain. The missiles sounded heavier now.

Kai was more confused, "Angels and demons cannot live together. Yes, we can be friends, but together might cause conflict," he looked at her, "And you people live in peace?" his eyes got distracted by the large base in front of him. He stopped and let go of Kaen, "I dunno, but is this a good thing to go in there without a gift of peace?"

Akeno's sharp senses lead him to where Tali had gone, but he knew better to call for the angel. Instead, he followed the scent. When the ground shook under him, Akeno's legs slid out from under him and he hit the ground. "He's definitely in this direction," he said as he struggled back to his feet. He saw the angel hiding in the bushes not far from him and ran towards him. "What are you doing?" he demanded in a hiss as he knelt next to Tali, his eyes no longer as angry a red.

"I beg your pardon, but the light realm's view of demons is horribly skewed. A good portion don't want to fight all that much really, but are forced to based on situations around them," Kaen said, her eyes shadowed as they approached the base. "It's fine, as long as we don't cause a problem." She led Kai through the security gate, nodding at the guards as she led him to the medical building.

"Get out of here, Akeno. I'm going to destroy the base and stop all of this," he saw the tank coming their way. they knew they were there, and running Tali over was the best way. "Get out now, please," he moved towards the tank and grabbed the tank by the middle and lifted it up, "Gonna shoot me? It's too late!" he threw the tank at some missiles, making an explosion that shook the ground, "Now," he slammed his fists on the ground, making a canyon like hole appear next to the mountain. The relic started messing with his memories, and his eyes filled with tears, "I'm sorry!" he slammed his fists at another tank that tried to run him over, "I'm sorry for all you've suffered!"

Kai followed quietly, but did notice that the guards didn't waste time to get their comms out and called the officials. "I think we're not welcome," he looked at the new building, seeing white and red, "Hey, those are my two favorite colors." he saw some guards move towards the hospital, weapons at hand, "Miss Kaen? I think they want to fight..." he was scared. He didn't have a sword, "We need weapons, Miss kaen."


"TALI!!" Akeno cried out, getting to his feet and trying to catch Tali, but the angel was too fast. His eyes became red again and he slammed his hand, palm down, onto the ground, vines immediately shooting out of the ground and tangling up another tank. The vines strangled the treads and crept up, wrapping around the gun, making it backfire. "I'm not leaving without you!!" More vines shot along the mountainside, searching for anything with an evil intent.

"Stay calm. And I'll take care of the weapons," she whispered, then lifted her head high as she continued walking to the medical building. "Excuse me, I was told to come here to speak with Doctor Sou," she said to the nearest guard, holding her other hand up to show she was not armed. "If you have a problem with what happened earlier, by preventing us from seeing the doctor, you run the risk of another such occurrence happening."

"I said leave! I'm blowing the place up!!" he slammed his fists again and one of thepieces of the mountain fell off, exposing rooms. He was going to slam his fists again when he was showered not just with rain, but missiles. he disappeared in the fire and smoke, appeared, but covered in a light shield that shone golden, "I won't lose you, Akeno!!" he made the shield go into the ground, making a crater in front of him, hoping it'll be dificult for the tanks. Amil got into the fighting the second a squad full of tanks appeared and started shooting. He stopped the shots and attacked, followed by other soldiers that tried helping , even though more missiles appeared. Tali slammed his fists the second he could but stopped when he saw a cloaked man enchanting the relic he was sensing,"This'll make you stop." Tali's eyes widened when hte form of a white kitsune beastlike demon appeared with an ax at hand. He wanted to scream at Akeno when he saw the kitsune walk towards him, "No...you're dead...you died...so long ago..."

One of the guards moved forward, weapon at the ready, "We were ordered not to fire just because you're friends of Mr. Turonin, but he did order that we escort you through the area, just in case," he moved to the side to let them pass, but they would always be a step behind. Kai looked at the man, then whispered at the kitsune, close to her ears, almost tickling it, "Is Mr. Turonin a good guy? We should say thanks."

Akeno paused at Tali's words, almost losing grip on his plants, then he remembered where he was. His vines swarmed over another tank as Akeno smirked. He turned to took at Tali, not hearing any fighting coming from his area. "Tali!" he cried out, trying to snap him back to focus. "What's going on?" he muttered to himself as he ran towards Tali from the angel's side, not seeing what captured Tali's attention. There was too much dust in the air.

Kaen nodded and strode past the guards, holding tightly to Kai's hand. "Yes, Mr. Turonin, Jad, is a good guy. He's one of my close friends, and my husband's best friend," she whispered back, smiling slightly at the ear tickling. She tried hard not to flick her ear as she normally would if her ear tickled. "Doctor Sou was suggested to me by a friend. Probably the name was passed along from Jad," she said as they approached the office with Doctor Sou's name on the plague next to it.

"It's Seiko, the kitsune who killed me milleniums ago. Hold on to me," he grabbed Akeno's arms and placed them around his hips, "Keep up with me or you'll fall and get hurt!" he adjusted his pose and lifted bith hands together, clenched fists, "DIE!" he slammed his fists on the grounds, making the ground explode and make boulders go up in the air, the ground shook and broke not only there but also in the battlefield and everywhere around. Tali adjusted himself and saw kitsune in the air, ax in hand, throwing it towards the angel. He made a shield, not having another choice since Akeno was there, "Go back to darkness! Why don't you go back to darkness!! Akeno, are you alright?" the shield broke and Tali fell to the ground when the kitsune slammed the back of the ax on his face. Seiko had a blank stare, of a dead person. It looked at Akeno and stretched a hand towards him. Akeno would be a good body for him. Alive.

Asphiel saw as the ground broke but kept moving to make sure he wasn't caught. Then a bullet hit him in the arm and made him spiral, giving the man enough time to hit him, making sure the angel would disappear again. Asphiel slammed in the ground. He wasn't injured bad, the bullet just cutting his arm only slightly. When he heard the bullets the only thing he could do was to make a pure light shield. Then the bullet's effects took over him and the shield started disappearing, "Dammit!" he ran inside the forest and tried teleporting again, now slower since he couldn't use light energy. He still heard the bullets, and it made him nervous, especially now that there were huge craters in the ground.

The doctor was comming out with some papers, looking for a box of cigarettes in his pockets. He was a tall, strong looking man, his hair now grey from all the years and all the nuties he ahd to treat every day. He saw Kaen and Kai and smiled, really not knowing what was going on, "Are you my new secretary?" he watched Kai, not really trusting blue eyes blondes. His ex-wife was like that. "Or...you're a new patient...I'm Dr. Sou, I'm the head psychologist here." Kai heard the word psychologist and went into his mind, his thoughts, "Psychologist, a person that studies the mind of others. Isn't that a bad thing. Elder taught me that the mind was of one person only." The doctor hearing the name 'Elder' made his eyes go wide, "Oh no, another Elder child? How violent are his personalities?" "What personalities?" Kai asked, looking from the doctor to Kaen to the guards behind him.

Kaen arched an eyebrow at the suggestion that she was a secretary. She held up her hand to stop both men from speaking. "My name is Kaen Kitabe, and yes, he is one of Elder's children. His name, currently, is Kaito," she explained. "Kaito is one of three personalities, far as I know, that inhabit the body of my husband. Only one personality is extremely violent. The other two are very caring and sweet. The shift has only started recently with Elder trying to turn Kai into a personal weapon." She felt very bad about having to say all of this in front of Kaito. He was so much the innocent and sweet Kai Kaen had first fallen for. One of Kaen's ears flicked out of nervousness.

Hane saw Asphiel fall, and she cried out, diving down after him. She went completely intangible as she zoomed past the man Asphiel had been fighting. She landed near Asphiel and went slightly tangible. "Lord Asphiel!" she whispered harshly, completely reappearing to not frighten him. "Are you alright? Did you get hurt badly?" She knelt beside him, looking him over.

That explains a lot of things, Akeno thought as he put his arms around Tali, holding tightly. "Tali!" Akeno cried out as they fell to the ground. He put his hand on the side of Tali's head, shaking him lightly. "Wake up! Please! Come one," he whispered, anger beginning to build. He turned to look at Seiko, eyes narrowed. He recognized the look of a lingering kitsune spirit, the blank eyes that come from the soul being removed, but the basic spirit remaining with the body. He also recognized the hunger in Seiko's dead eyes. "You are not getting my body, you dead son of a b***h!" he growled at Seiko, the very earth shaking as thousands of vines and roots burst forth from under Seiko, all ready to rip his body apart.