24. Breaking Bonds (1/2)
title: of the darkness||chapter:
eaking bondscharacters: ryou, shou, camulachapters: 24-25||words: 1,127||total: 26,916genre: family, supernatural||rated: pg-13challenge: diversity writing challenge, ygo gx, j6, multi-chapter with 15-25 chaptersnotes: it's an au. it involves vampires.summary: shou invites his
other in after ryou returns from a long trip away. that is his first mistake. it only gets worse from there.
very seldom in his life had ryou been so grateful that yuusuke's magic was as strong as it was. only a powerful mage could've kept him ensnared this long and that was what kept all of those who were alive at the moment still alive.
chaos hunter could not last much longer, he thought, not with how hard he'd thrown her into the wall. that wasn't stopping her from standing against camula, though.
moments after manjoume ran out of there as if all the hounds of hell were after him, camula leaped for chaos hunter, claws digging into her neck. kenzan tackled her from the side, his own claws slicing into the vampire. he wouldn't be able to do much damage, but it distracted her from doing anything else.
a vampire's hearing was far more acute than a human's. ryou knew what yuusuke had told manjoume, which meant manjoume needed a guide out of there. the mansion's corridors could be far too complex to get through in only a few minutes unless someone knew them the way that he did.
or the way that shou did.
he could see where darkness stood near shou, keeping an eye on him so his
other couldn't interfere in the fight if camula ordered him to. he would have to do this carefully to tread his way through the web of commands camula had laid on him, and he could only hope that shou could do what he needed him to do.
"shou," he murmured softly, "follow manjoume to the side door." that was the closest one; it led to a small courtyard and was frequently used to get to the stables. "make sure he gets there." that was all he dared to say.
shou was his thrall. he obeyed camula because ryou had to obey camula, but in the heat of battle, the vampire queen wasn't paying any attention to issue any contrary commands.
ryou lifted his gaze to meet darkness's. he and the demon had never gotten along well at all; mostly because one of the first times he'd used fubuki's body, it had been ryou who defeated him in combat to seal him away. darkness and fubuki had become more of a balanced team in the fullness of time, but that didn't make darkness a friend to any of them. he was a useful ally, nothing more, and one that wasn't always tamed.
but now a small, amazingly amused smile touched on darkness's lips and he stepped back to let shou go, fleeing the room nearly as quickly as manjoume himself had gone. shou clearly had recovered much more than ryou initially thought, and that was all to the good.
camula slammed chaos hunter into the wall, burying her fangs in the hunter's neck, and drank quickly. it wasn't enough to satisfy her thirst, but it quenched her rage to a small extent, enough that she could realize what had happened. it did not make her any happier, by any means.
"do you truly think that one little storm mage can defeat me?" she hissed as she turned to where ryou stood ensnared in dark magic. with a stretch and a twist of her hands, the web of shadows shattered. "kill this shadow mage, my pet. and make it hurt. make him regret ever raising a hand against us."
ryou didn't know if she'd even noticed shou wasn't there anymore and now he had something else occupying his mind. he barely noticed her darting down the way manjoume and shou had disappeared, all of his focus now on yuusuke.
yuusuke didn't make any feeble attempts to stop ryou. he knew as well as ryou did it wouldn't do any good. unless camula's own hold over ryou ended, yuusuke would die at his hands. it might take time, depending on how well yuusuke could defend himself, but it would happen.