Intoxia Warriors - Mizuka Blood (Book One)

by De'Karhi Philpot

  Charlie's provoking skills were as stellar as Black's are. He prolonged the ability to enrage the Amili Beast to the breaking point.

  "If that's the case," Charlie unsheathed this silver-bladed claws from with his hands. "Then we'll just have to go full throttle on you and make sure you never register as an Avarian Beast anymore."

  Without fearing of moving forward, a few guards of black panthers stood before all four of them. In Emerald's eyes, they're could easily decapitate them as if they're sliced butter.

  "Don't make us do this, Renusakuya," Emerald threatned, releasing his broad sword from behind his back. Charlie placed his hand on the Aruba member's right shoulder.

  "No. It's not going to be that easy for us to take down an Avarian Beast; even with our superior, intense training with Black and all of the above, we'll never get the chance to take this creature down that easily," Charlie suggested, not because it was the smartest move he's made, but because he knew that it was going to be a waste of his time.

  "Then I don't see the whole point of coming to Widow Forest," Emerald said with irritation.

  "Don't worry. We don't want to 'accidentally' revive Kuronina of the Aruba Bloodline, do we?" Charlie observed, hearing a series of murmuring coming from every direction. Renasakuya didn't know how to react to the terms; instead she stopped them in their tracks.

  "Wait a minute, goddamn it," The Amili Beast pondered in disbelief. "You mean to say... That you are the ones that killed her the same day that witch Diamond did?"

  "And if we did, there's nothing you'd be able to do to bring her back," Charlie mocked the Beast's emotions with nothing but the sickening vibe of his quote. "Let's not forget that she's the only Avarian Beast whose kindness and gentle spirit is easy to manipulate."

  "Then you two have made a terrible mistake in accomplishing that," Flute Mizuka, twenty-year leader of the Cyrius organization, "I'm more than certain that there could have been another way to spare Diamond's life instead of killing her indiscrimately. That kind of took me by surprise when my group and I found out, seeming that we weren't even there. That battle was broadcast nation-wide."

  "It never concerned you because you were not interested in preventing the whole Intoxian Army from North, East, West and South coasts," Charlie kept his sight focused on the Amili Beast, who breathed heavily. "Now as I said, since none of you have any intentions of witnessing the rebirth of Kuronina, I figured that it'd been best of you stayed hidden underneath the surface of the planet and never to be heard from again."

  "I'm an Avarian Beast of the Amili Bloodline, I will only be there to see Lisa and that is it. Nothing else will ever matter to me," Renusaya tasted nothing but the bitterness that begun to unfold within her voice. "Not even Kuronina matters to me. Since she decided to become a traitor to those that worshipped her the most."

  "Such harsh thoughts," Charlie protested. He didn't seem to displeased at the Amili Beast's request as he post-poned the mission. "We'll be on our way. But there is one thing that you must answer before leaving."

  Renasakuya sighed before saying something she doesn't necessarily do when it comes to those threatening her life or anyone else, "This'll be the only time I answer to you. Since you have a tendency of threatening lives."

  "What was your purpose of seeing Lisa Amili in the first place if you're going to see Black there as well next month?" Charlie seemed curious about Renasakuya's motives.

  "It's her and my business. Don't even bother trying to consult yourselves with the discussion we'll both be having."

  ***

  Chapter 19 - Exploiting Her Kindness

  ***

  Crystal had woken up after sleeping for nearly eight hours in a different room on the upper level of Leserado. What she had suspected was she'd be sleeping on a jail mattress, but instead it was like an ordinary Queen-sized bed.

  Before her mind drowned into her slumber, she had started dreaming the same dream of what had happened on her seventh birthday and why she felt as if she lost her pride to fight back; until now with Black training her.

  ***

  (Eight years ago - Seventh Birthday)

  Screaming desperately for Sonya and Alex to put down the Diary Book that's Crystal's most prized possession. Begging the two of them, helplessly tied up in a chair.

  "Please, stop it. That's most treasuring thing. If you burn that, I won't be able to learn anything the Diary Symbols I know so much about," Crystal screamed, bouncing up and down in the chair.

  Hitachi, age ten, felt a bit comflicted about the situation. He, for a typical kid, felt pure jealousy because his mother was giving Crystal far more attention than he's been able to get for the first decade of his life. But on the other hand, he wouldn't be as innocent as her because of his involvement with threatening to burn the Diary Book that's dangling over a boiling pot.

  "Aww, this is how you really treasure it. If that was the case, you'd put it where no one would be able to find it. Even though you did, it'd still make no difference and we'd stop at nothing to get Lola's attention," Sonya, age nine, bellowed. "It's like you were just handed all these things. And what do we get from her? Nothing!"

  "What was I suppose to do about it?" Crystal whimpered calmly with her head down. "How am I suppose to earn your respect if you keep treating me like dirt?"

  "Nothing. Except just stop trying to get Lola's attention all time and let us shine for once. But since we tried to get some credit from her, it's as if we never got a single percent of appreciation from that woman," Alex stated, lowering the book down into the boiling pot.

  "Now, stop it. Please sto-ho-ho-hop!" Crystal rose her head up after her ears caught the sizzling sound. "If you burn that, you'll regret this day."

  A sudden burst of anger started to slowly within the Aruba gal's heart. It consumed her mind when she saw Alex's finger slipping because his hands were a bit sweaty from the steam that erupted from the pot.

  Outside of the Facility building, Black Hinura remained floating in the air and watched the entire scene. He had a variety of White Cells crammed up in Crystal's room.

  I hate to admit it, but I highly doubt that Crystal's never been aware of the Diary Symbols for as long as she's been born, Black thought, slowly disappearing into a pillar of gray and purple mist. I'll wait for another eight years; maybe less before I get the chance to embrace her with the dark truth. You don't have much time before you're under my wing, young Crystal.

  ***

  The training room had erupted with nothing but battle cried, various nature element sounds and three of the four Generals were in the upper level, awaiting for Lola to signal everyone to go into choosing a different adversary.

  "Now that you mentioned it," Lola said with Tornado listening in as they gawked down at the arena. "You would have think that Isabella could master the Gurasa Wolf Spirit at such a young age. Don't you think that after the alternation, she not only goes back into her normal stage, but it drains her stamina very easily?"

  Tornado, as a fellow Gurasa Wolf Spirit user, knew of what the ramifcation would be after transforming, "It only depends if you've been able to mature yourself long enough to use it longer. But as far as Isabella's attitiude and mentality goes, it doesn't qualify."

  "Then how does it work, exactly? My theories, ever since I trained Ivana Poison, showed me what her Gurasa Wolf Spirit was all about. I've been training with her recently and she was giving me some knowledge about the Wolf Spirit," Lola speculated. "I was thinking a while back, when you and I talked, it must've had something to do with an Avarian Beast that represented her family."

  "The Gurasa Wolf Spirit you're referring to isn't mediocre," Tornado corrected, looking down as he saw one of his warrior defeated, but was offered a lending hand by Alex Amili. "If you think about it for a second, four of the six Avarian Beasts of this world weren't aware of the battle that took place for Diamond's life during the Leserado War. No, I'm mistaken, only the Aruba Beast was present, the other five were nowhere to be see
n or expected."

  "What do you mean by that?" Lola placed the whistle toward her lips, but got an answer before she blew it.

  "If I recalled around that time, Black and his groups were trying to get as much warriors as he could. However, he only managed to get to Kuronina because Diamond was her hostess right before she died. Black needed the other five Avarians to fight against us, but as ruthlessly racist they are against humans, it surprised me that they didn't even get involved." Tornado's knowledge aren't that surprising to Lola.

  Lola blew the whistle, signaling everyone to go and switch sparring partners. Hiba had grown tired of training with the two women who'd disliked her to the core. So she switched over toward Kathleen Erisa, one-year and two months of being apart of the Western Army.

  "Hiba's skills as a Hinura clearly does run through her blood, huh?" Brook asked with a grin. "You sure have trained her well, Mizuka."

  "You don't say," Lola asked in sarcasm. "I know eventually who the hell I trained and raised at the same time. But that's nothing. You should've seen how feisty she was when she was starting her teenage years. No telling, whatsoever."

  "Well, hey, at least she can use that to her advantage, huh?" Tornado praised. "I do think that I see why Isabella and Daniela are trying so hard to get up to her level."

  "Hiba's a workaholic and I don't think that she has any intentions of taking a break for as long as she's breathing," Lola quoted. She sat down in the chair and took a cup of coffee to her lips and started sipping. "Should we go check on Shizuka by the time we're done training for this section?"

  "I really don't see the point. I'm sure she's doing fine," Brook answered quickly. "What's the worst that can happen to that woman?"

  "Charlie Mizuka, anyone?" Tornado responded.

  ***

  Shizuka didn't seem to have said much. She started sweating badly to where she went into the restroom to shower. Her room was boiling hot for an odd reason and didn't seem to realize what had happened while attempting to sleep for the night.

  I shoudn't be feeling this hot. Like, my body is melting off into a swamp of lava, Shizuka. The inside of her skin felt sizzling. She didn't know rather or not to use cold water to wear off the heat. She'd been no better off using hot water. She begun to have some theories of what's bothering her.

  Maybe it might have had something to do with the battle I had with Charlie. No, maybe it was the Zerukin Blitz I used a while ago on my last mission with the group. Dammit. My body was doing just fine around both those periods. Unless, Shizuka stopped, slowly slipping down onto her knees, grasping the sink with her right hand. No, it's--

  ***

  "Black," Crystal yelled from down the hallway. She heard a loud noise coming from the other end of the wenge-dark colored halls. Her heart was on the verge of disintegrating. The intimidation within her mind was conquering her. The flesh felt thicker than she realized, not wanting to venture down even further, but she felt desperate to talk with him; getting the Reaper to notice her." Black are you down here?"

  "Down here," The reaper called out.

  Black was located in the room of Tishila Labortory. An area colored in wine-red. Several boilers in different corners of the room. The ominous-dark colors that's exposed to Crystal's eyes. She noticed that Black was injecting a virus like weapon within the corpse of the Avarian Beast of the Siya family.

  The ultimate cause of Shizuka's current predicament and situation back at the Western Facility.

  "I have a lot more to show you in how to destroy the competition, my dear," Black required without gawking down at the Aruba teenager. "There's the one thing that I want you to do, Crystal, since you were lied to all your life by the one woman that you devoted your trust to."

  "Whatever it'll take to get all the answers that I need, I'll do it," Crystal replied with a clear face, not bothering to glance at the Reaper.

  He took his time, giving out a visage, imhuman request.

  ***

  Chapter 20 - The Government's Involvement

  ***

  (An hour before they the Intoxia Warriors begun their training at the Western Coast.)

  The warm black room of the Admission Room of the Globe Government, people who doesn't assocaiate with the Intoxian Army had made contact with Lola. They contacted her about the incident that occured at the Widow's Forest. Informing her that two members of the Bloodlust Revelation had attacked the Avarian Beast of the Amili family.

  "Despite all the time and effort that you're putting into your army, you should be more aware, Mizuka. Have we made ourselves clear?"

  "Let me explain something to you people, as long as you can keep your jobs, you will not be calling shots. I never expected for Bloodlust to be on point. We're doing the best that we can and--"

  "No, no, no," an anonymous bellowed. "We could care less who the Bloodlust Revelation kidnapped. Crystal isn't relevant right now. We don't work for you and we run the Northern Coast."

  "I don't know who the you're trying to pester with your motive of doing things, but as long as I'm Core General, I play by my own rules. Good day to you people," Lola hung up in sheer anger.

  "That woman--" The anonymous figure said in anger. "She always gets the last laugh. This is something that we cannot allow to happen. Mizuka knows that fighting the Bloodlust Revelation is far too perilous for her and her so-called warriors to deal with."

  "Eh, you got to keep in mind. The Mizuka family never gave a damn about any of the decisions that they make or what they stood for," Another image in darkness said. "If there was one thing that I've learned is to never expose yourself to Lola's dark side."

  "I'll keep that in mind," Shiver stated radically. "That bitch sure has a lot of nerve talking down to us. Acting as if we can't do the things that she's capable of doing."

  "Well, we'll just have to go with the flow or speak with her in person. After all, she's just as concerned about stopping Kuronina from being awakened after fifteen years," Saua Aruba, two year secret agent for the Global Government. "Despite the fact that my younger cousin was abducted is bad enough as it is."

  "Perhaps I'm being too hard on myself that I'm taking it out on other people," Shiver undoubtedly admitted to the extent. "Black's always been ahead of the game because we can't seem to get along with each other sometime. I know that Lola's had her grudge with the Global Government; which I can't blame her because of their screw-ups."

  "I do believe that there's a list of things the Reaper must accomlish in order for the Beast to be reanimated to help cause nothing but chaos," Saua confirmed as she stood up with Sergeant Paulana Aruba, her blood sister that's four years younger.

  "Ladies, we must get going. Black's going to be on the verge of exchanging a deal with Gurasa Knights and Akuma Beasts. They have a tendency of trying to go after all four Coasts of the Army and soon they'll be attenpting to annihilate the Global Government," Shiver informed with her eyes focused on the board with the plastic-like screen is showing images of the Sheruga DNA and what its purpose is for.

  "That's understood. We'll be on the move. But we need to be sure that the Black Widows have no part of it, since they normally have their connection with the Bloodlust Revelation," Paulana stated.

  ***

  "Shizuka," Alexander shouted, trying to wake the woman up, but was heard by other medicaid assistance rushing into the scene. They saw an exhausted and unconscious Western General on the floor, breathing as much as she possible can as sweat slithered down toward her naked chest. Shizuka was losing her breath, feeling as if a virus had enforced her body to betray her control. "Guys, go hurry up and get the Generals. Hurry up."

  Doing as he said, Ross, his longtime friend, rushed over toward the intercom to report the situation at hand. He dialed the number to the Training Arena to contact. Unfortunately, the intercoms from all over the building had been disconnected, due to the master wires that's able to have someone's voice surge throughout the entire building.

  "Alexander, I can't get thro
ugh to them," Ross stated in anger.

  "Try again, hurry up," Alexander hoisted Shizuka with his right arm underneath her legs and head under the back of her neck. "Are you getting in contact with them, Ross?"

  "I'm trying to. But it's like the static is intercepting with our communication system," Ross applied, ramming his right fist into the intercom. "I got a bad feeling about this. I'll hurry to the upper levels and let them know what's going on."

  "Good idea. We'll take care of Shizuka, I'm more than certain that this isn't just an ordinary illness. You three, head over to the other room and find an antidote that can reverse the burning that's occuring inside Shizuka," Alexander commanded.

  ***

  It's been almost two hours since the warriors begun their training and it was the last section that they were going to do. But they had one more opponent from one of the other three Coasts to challenge.

  "I hadn't been able to see you in action for quite a while, my dear," Tornado implied.

  "You didn't really bother trying to consult your support for me," Lola complained.

  "Hey, at least you had your own aspiration and stood by it. That's what I respect. Like I said, you can't always expect me to help you with every single obstacle, especially when you said it yourself a long time ago," Tornado recalled. "You said that you didn't need any help with things going the right way."

  "I don't need you to--" Before Lola could make a comeback, She never thought of comprehending her general ideals for a sustain period of time.

  She heard someone coming into the room and Ross didn't know how to explain to the General.

  Ross took a deep breath, trying to get rid of his fear of telling them what had happened with General Shizuka. His blood was boiling and his throat became frozen.

  "What, you goin' sit there looking stupid or something?" Lola asked, standing up.

  Sonya peered up at the scene with Ross and Lola talking. She felt a nervous vibe choking her spine, struggling to keep herself up. But before she could make a move to choose another antagonist, the Amili gal witnessed her General rushing out of the upper level.