Intoxia Warriors - Mizuka Blood (Book One)

by De'Karhi Philpot

  "Doesn't sound like anything to do with the Symbols or why he's so obsessed with manipulating a child into joining his group through sheer darkness," Yumiko scrapped the arylide yellow wall with his right hand, trying his best to plot his next attempts to eradicate Black in cold blood.

  "I know what you're thinking, Yumiko. It's not going to work. My people and I have been fearing him since the time he's formed the Bloodlust Revelation. People scared out of their minds just thinking about his name and not wanting to utter those two words 'Bloodlust Revelation'," Mikeru quoted, trying to halt the warrior from confronting Black without a backup plan.

  "If you think that it's possible to be afraid of him, then you've no reason to even be the first born of your family," Yumiko bragged, patting his right shoulder and twirling his arm as well. "Now, my people and I are leaving because we don't have time to be wasting."

  Mikeru then made Yumiko make a vow, "Promise me that you'll make it out of Leserado alive. If so, then I want to be the one to face you in mortal combat."

  The Poison commander didn't think that it was appropriate for Mikeru to make a proposal like that, but what was exceptional was him trying to get the Amili commander keep the promise he made as well.

  Yumiko's eyes widened in horror. Mikeru saw a weapon pierced through the Poison commander's abdomen. He saw the dark image behind him and knew who was responsible for a silent assault.

  "One of the laws that you shouldn't have broken as a Poison member of your family is to conceal your intentions against your enemies," Black grimly laughed, but jerking his weapon vertically down between Yumiko's legs, disciminately eliminating him with a critical strike.

  Mikeru's heart constantly skipped several pounds, but a few beats later it begun motoring dramatically with his body erupting. He felt that his body was going to melt, drawing a frightening glare at the Reaper. He stared at the monster, praying that he wasn't next. Suddenly, he was forced to kneel down on his knees, his pain felt heated and bitten.

  "Do you understand the clear perspective of my intentions? Always remember this, Mikeru, but I expect to hear the same thing from your fellow warriors from when I'm through with you," Black watched the man falling down before him. He walked over passed him, swishing the blood off his platinum scythe. "There's one of the rules that you're going to learn about tyrannical plots; always say less and show more than necessary. Yumiko was the perfect example and I refuse to be crossed over by you fools. Which gives me a better excuse to grant you the same faith as this mother fucker on the ground. How sad."

  Mikeru grunted with his blood growing colder, Black's a ruthless being. If only there's someone that could stop him from accomplishing his goal. I don't even have the will to fight back. Like there's so much to this 'Man of fear'. The Amili commander slowly stood, trying to stop himself from shivering even more.

  "Now you're going to do what needs to be done. I brought you and Yumiko to serve as my guinea pigs and nothing more. You were never my comrade and it amazes me to admit this, but there are times where I thought I could trust you. But that's the most expensive thing to spiritually afford from the likes of others," Black pointed the sword down at the timid Amili.

  "I'll do whatever it takes to support you. I never had the full intentions of trying to abandon you in your time of need, sir. I swear it," Mikeru's voice broke as if it were made of glass. "Have mercy on my soul, blood and tears, Black. I swear I will not turn my back on you."

  Black didn't seem too convinced by the tone in his voice, no matter how he was begged for mercy. However the Reaper was drawn back to his original motives.

  "Very well. If you feel that leaving is the one thing you wish to do, don't think that the Bloodlust Revelation is going to hunt down Skyfall and kill her in cold-blood. Now you're in a very conflicted situation, distracted between devoting his time working with Black for the next month or leave the Tomb of Leserado with just a head and not a body."

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  The next day, Hitachi and Lola had both woken in the same room. Neither of them had anything to say, still bewildered by the scenario in the Training Room yesterday, they were going to have a huge conflict of exception from one another. They both had common thoughts and knew it'd be best to evade each other for until the day they commence their operation of rescuing Crystal and battling their way through Tomb of Leserado in order to reach the Leserado Balcony, located on nine stages ahead of the ground level.

  Her son was the first to head out into the restroom in his own room, right across the hallway from Lola's without saying "Good morning."

  Lola seemed OK with it, mind-pounded at what she was told before she went to bed last night.

  Tornado's wisdom had binded her, an avalanche of guilt had drained the woman, Lola. Perhaps, telling him the truth of why you're always so angry. Bottling up all your negative experiences will only turn you into a negative person. Costing you relationships, trust, love and respect from the likes of others. Do you want that or are you determined to show your son that you birthed him out of the love of your husband, whose been missing for years.

  Pressing her hands together and lacking the ability to erase those terms from her mentality and dashed through to the lavatory to shower training.

  I can't concentrate. It's like I'm so scared of my anger and no one wants to help me except Tornado and Crystal. It's so impossible to find someone that can relate to what the fuck you're experiencing or experienced in the past. I feel like a damn prisoner of my own life, the General took off her towel off her robe and heading into the room.

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  Chapter 31 - Three Days Left

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  Crystal and Black had been in Dragon Fortress for the last several days, both discussing how Crystal could easily manipulate the outcome of combat.

  "Crystal, certain aspects of the Diary Symbols are often use in different patterns. Sometimes, the symbols have a tendency of switching places in your body. There are approximately five symbols, meaning five animals, that are located in separate parts of your body," Black explained after he unsheathed Crystal sword from her side. Each of them start by trailing across this very weapon. The symbol of the Snake, Dragon, Monkey, Eagle and Lioness.

  "So what you're saying is that it all depends on the which Symbols represents offense, defense and/or counter attacks, and quick-attacks, correct?" Crystal seemed to have been more understanding of powers she's never used before.

  "I see you're getting better at understanding powers, Crystal," Black acknowledged. "But also, the symbols contain more than offense and defense. You also need to rely on speed, strength and intellects. All five of these marks have their own unique abilities."

  Crystal kept her eyes opened, wanting to obtain the weapon, but never thought of it because she saw her hand and realized that there was a Lioness symbol her right palm.

  "I must know something. If these were symbols have the sense of adatability to be used in combat, then what happens once it's been triggered?" Crystal glanced at the Reaper.

  "Apparently, that's the art of transmutation. Both your arms begin to establish to lion paws, increasing your strength. This is where the critical part of your powers come in. I'll give you a prime example of how the potential of the Symbols are used," Black stood before the Aruba disciple, having her do the same thing. "Say that the Snake Diary Symbol were to be placed on the wrong end of your sword, it's powes weave thoroughly inside your weapon. Your blade becomes a snake's take that you can use. Thinking of as if you were to use a whip and attacking a mule."

  The example seemed as solid and clear, but could be explained a lot better if it were to be trained thoroughly in training.

  "Take this sword and try to hit me with it as well," Black unsheathed his sword and wanted his apprentice to make the first move. "The symbols only activate through five speeches for each of the species. The people who obtained the symbols before you couldn't even decipher the speeches that were needed in order for them to work. But it all appears that you co
uld be the only one that can achieve this goal."

  "You have told me before that the Symbols were placed inside. What about some of the people around the world," Crystal said, which slightly confused Black.

  "LIke what, exactly," Black asked, motioning himself into a sword stance.

  "I was having this other thought as well. Is there a war going on right now in every corner of the world, or is something that people are making false accusations to endanger everyone else's concerns about this group?" Crystal rose her sword up with both hands on the wrong end of the blade.

  "That, Crystal, shouldn't be your concern. Wars are the only best ways to catch the worlds attention and to frighten it with its' furocious potential for destruction. Let's make this training very simplistic. We'll start off with the Eagle Symbol. The Symbol will be active, but you won't have any usage of its' power unless in you're very sensitve, crucial situations," Black said pridelessly.

  Crystal had insisted on prolonging her curiosity with a few more questions, but decided to do what Black's told her. Before she could make a movement, she didn't have time to react to his quickness as Black stormed behind her, swinging his sword. What she didn't realize was that her body ducked of it's own occur. She figured that it may have something to do with the Symbols.

  Crystal felt her hand on its' own as she reversed her endings and motioned her arms in the opposing direction. Black side stepped to the right. He saw the apprentice standing up fiercely as she moved her right arm at him with a fist coming in quickly. She noticed an opening, but didn't move fast enough to punture a hole through the anti-mentor's chest. Black had triggered Eturusu Stareyes (Stage nine) to shield his body to the point where it could snap the gal's blade in two. However, Crystal's sword had merged with the Snake symbol as it's form shifted weaponary positions with the sword, giving Crystal the chance to use her sword as if it were a whip.

  Black's excitement increased dramatically with each passing second. He stormed intensively toward the opponent after deactivating his ninth stage and twirling vertically at the trainee. The Snake Symbol engaged the reaper, fastly coiling it's body around him. The radical assault had embroiled Crystal and Black as they begun to exchange blows. But in the process, Black had sense a aura from his apprentice to asking him questions. The Snake's tenacity wasn't strong enough to draw the break out of him, due to the Eturusu Stareye stage. To an obvious degree, he'd break out of it's grasp without much effort.

  As Crystal engaged the reaper, she asked more questions, "Black. I must know something important. Why were the Diary Symbols created in the first place if Kuronina was already that powerful enough to fend for herself?"

  "Because there was a bad blood between her family and the Avarian Beast of the Amili line. She feared that she was losing faith in herself and then realized that there were other species of the pack, in the earliest years before humanity was even a thought. Five animals that's been with her since childhood had came to her rescue and had thought of forming a much more interesting unite to try and bringing an end to the Avarian Tribe battles that's been corrupting world-wide," Black's detailed answer was more than enough to make Crystal's theory a solid belief in Black's eyes.

  "Was there a way in how she did it or was there a price she had to pay in order for the Symbols to be created?" Crystal grunted as she spoke, but managed to keep up.

  "There was a price, but no one knows what that price was," Black stretched his arm out, twirling around as he flew at one-hundred full speed. The effort he's putting into his sparring battle had nearly driven Crystal to her limits. "Even I, myself still have no knowledge of Kuronina's history and how they were able to be passed on from generation to generation."

  Crystal felt her body being unable to keep up with the Serpent's stamina and speed. She still had yet to control it. But in less than seventy-two hours to go before the ultimate battle for her rescue, the ressurection of Kuronina and the truth of Lola's gruesome past, many people will be stunned by the unbearable, airless twists that have yet to be unraveled.

  Black moved in at the Aruba teenager with his leg armored, tripping Crystal onto her back, nearly driving the air out of her. He moved his body instantly with the scythe prepared to go across the child's neck. But in an instant, another Animal Symbols had been triggered automatically.

  ***

  In the process of Crystal and Black training, nine individuals of the Amili breed had arrived at Dragon's Fortress for the extra addition of the meeting they were scheduled for once they were freed from the Asylum.

  He stopped the training for the time being and extended his plot even further, not what he's gained what he needed, due to the efforts of the Three Vile Vixens' hard work.

  Akihiro had quoted first as he and the others knelt down in respect to the monster, "Black L. Hinura, we're greatly honored and priviledged to work underneath you for the first time since Leserado War at this very place."

  Black remained quiet, but had responded, anyway, "I do expect that you will not fail me again, Akihiro. There was a massive portion of ramification for you if you were sent to prison in the first place. Now do not fuck me up this time, have I made myself heard?"

  "Yes, sir," they've all uttered in unison.

  "Get out of my sight, I have someone to train for this fight in a few days," Black turned his attention back at Crystal.

  "Forgive our unfortunate mishap, we will not fail you this time," Akihiro claimed, but with aspiration growing in his tone. "Be aware that we've had a plan of our own that we would like weaved along with yours."

  Before Black could resume his practice, he trailed toward the Amili Beast as he placed his right skeletal hand on his Akihiro's shoulder, "Very well, I'm highly interested in what you idea is. This is fifteen years in the making and I don't want any of it going the wrong way."

  "Yes, of course," Deigo Amili, one the surbordance that was a former member of the radical Black Widows group for a short time then tranfered over to the Cyrius group, uttered as he rose, exposing the Black Crystal to Black's presents. "Lisa Amili, my younger cousin, had informed that I'd give this to you, since she utterly said she wasn't in the mood to talk with anyone."

  "Very well," Black felt Crystal's presence behind him and had no idea what to expect. "Crystal, we'll continue your training later on tonight. For right now, you head back up to the Balcony and get some rest. I won't be expecting much from you once you've risen from your slumber."

  "It's understandable," Crystal replied, sheathing her sword and bending backwards to relieve the strain on her frame after nearly twelve hours of training, a newly high record of her training.

  "You may leave, now," Black gawked at the nine Beasts, using his Energy Signal to contact Lisa, whose presently on the upper levels of Leserado. Lisa, I need you, now.

  There was no answer from the member of his group. He tried again, only this time, it was out of frustration. The Reaper wasn't too pleased with the response he got.

  Asshole, I'm trying to sleep. We just came back from the mission and yet you still want to talk, Lisa's voice had shattered through agitation. Black, can you please let me have a break?

  Negative. I did promise you that once you get the Black Crystal, you'd be able to have all the information you need in order to achieve the Renugarasaka ascendent. That was only a half blood power that you have, not the full portion.

  She couldn't argue with Black's cold logic, but knew deep down that it was based off his ideologies of what he wanted, not Lisa. Despite his selfishness, Black had insisted on prolonging Lisa's membership for as long as she wished to keep her head.

  Lisa, the laws of the Amili are as vile and cold-blooded as the Mizuka. There's no doubt that your line has some of the same motives as Lola's do. Now, are you going to cooperate and understand the reality of the Black Crystal and the Renugarasaka, or are you going to let the Intoxian Army get the best of us?

  The predatory Succubus knew what the Reaper was talking about and didn't resist his command. There's a
chance that he may be lying, but from Black's perspective, she didn't realize what he's been doing behind her back.

  I guess you could say that, but how do I know you won't screw me over like you did all those years ago? Lisa applied, rubbing the sleep from her eyes after nearly and hour. Alright fine. I'm on my way. Give me some time, please. I really want this break and it isn't fair the other two gets the opportunity to rest their asses off after an intense mission.

  Black sighed, loweing his skull and had no choice but to go to extreme measures, I refuse to keep my word to those that expect too much from me. So I'll make this very clear and this will be said only one time, Amili.

  His tone was a vile and crucial as most people's ears bled from hearing. Instead, he took it into consideration and realized that there's always a price to pay for something he want.

  That's fine by me. But need I remind you, the Avarian Beast of the Amili family will only be there to see you, Black informed, continuously gawking at the nine entities. The choice is yours.

  Suddenly Lisa had emerged out of her slumber and knew what the plot was if the Amili Beast were to show up.

  I will consider it. After all, I did manage to get some of my relatives out of there in one piece, so it wouldn't so much as hurt me to get this out the way and use that Black Crystal for a change, Lisa gave into temptation.

  Good, Black thought backward. Come down to Dragon Fortress in an hour and we'll talk business.

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  Chapter 32 - Black Crystal

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  After being exhausted and unconscious for a few days, Hiba's vision had surged through immense blurriness. She felt her right shoulder numbing miraculously. The mission was a nonfulfillment success, but Lola knew that it wasn't wise enough for Hiba to solo a mission without an alliance. Her dark torquoise eyes opened slightly. The first thing to tower her weakened body was the Core General herself.