The First Sin - A Short

The First Sin - A Short

Naomi stood before Nankuya, the two staring deeply into each others eyes in the silence. His right arm drawn up, straight out holding the crossbow. Its aim perefectly level with her heart.

"Sister, join Rion. Don't you see? The Human race is vial! Destroying them would give us the perfect world. We could bring our people here, Naomi. We could gain power again!" He spoke unblinking, eyes wide with an insane grin. His finger shaking over the trigger, a sign of weakness in his abiltiy to actually pull it.

"Nankuya, Rion has clouded your mind. He wishes for one thing. Ultimate power. He would kill you! He will kill our brother, Hibiki. He will kill his brother, Erath. He will kill me, Nankuya. He will detroy our pure blood, and take our weapons. He will feed from our blood and take in the powers of our family. Then he will destroy everything, until each race and realm bends to him. So that he becoems ruler of all." She stood still, emotionless eyes swirling silver. A shimemr running over her golden hair as clouds parted from the moonbeams path, then again hid them.

"You mean only good for our people, and your weak heart wants to believe we have a chance to come back to the pwoer we once had. Yet you do not see..." She was silenced as her eyes caught a figure. Rion, standing well off to the side of Nankuya and slighty behind.

"Do it Nankuya, she speaks lies. She speaks of the things she wishes to do. Kill her. Take your fathers sword for yourself. You are the oldest, the powers should have been yours. Not some little girls." He smirked, a fang showing past his lips. His long black hair fallen in such a way it shadowed his face. There was only the dim red, eerie glow of his eyes.

"Rion - She...Naomi is the only one of us who could hold the Key. The only one able to open the portal to our world...If we destroy her, we would destroy our people." Nankuya began to lower his arm, turning to look to Rion.

"Silence, Nankuya. You know what I told you. The holder of the Sword may hold the Key, as well. Take the Sword, we will restore the power of our people without her." Rion gave a nod, ah and motioning in Naomi's direction.

"Nankuya he's lying! Don't let him control you like this!" Naomi put one foot ahead, but stopped as Nankuya began to shake. Dropping the crossbow, his hands clenched his head. Tears streaming down his face, teeth clenching tightly together.

"Stop! I don't know! I don't know!" He cried out, his body shifting in a few soft sways before falling. Naomi rushed ahead with such speed it was almost unseen. Her arms catching him under his, holding him up.

"Nankuya, brother please. Don't let Rion do this to you..." She spoke softly, to keep him calm.

"KILL HER! Do not waste this chance! We will begin the search for the Key if only you take the Sword now!" Rion growled, hands clenching into fists as he snapped the words.

Nankuya slowly wrapped his arms around his little sisters waist. Holding her in a hug for a moment...A dagger slipped from his sleeve into his grip. Quickly drawing his arm back, he slammed the blade into her. Forcing her body to arch forward against him, her head falling back as she cried out. Eyes shutting tight to the pain that surged thru her. Droplets of tears catching in her lashes, as her arms came away from him. Staggering back.

She slowly opened her ice blue eyes to him. Glassy from the even worse pain of her brother betraying her. Nankuya was rasing up from his knees with the crossbow in his hand once more. Arm slowly coming up to take aim again.

Rions lips turned in a grin, as Naomi stopped moving. Standing as best she could, unwilling to let herself fall.

"Naomi! Just go with them, you don't have to prove your strength! We know it. We know your heart!" Called a new voice, a young man walking into view slightly behind her. Looking much like her, though a bit older. He stood shaking, hands clenched as his eyes set to Rion.

"Hibiki, stay out of this. We will get to you later. Nankuya, finish her!" Rion began to shift, unsure of this all, and ready to charge in to finish things himself.

His body jumped as he pulled the trigger. His eyes went wide and his mouth began to open to cry out: "NO!"

Her body jolted back, begining it's fall. Tripping off the top step of the stairs she stood atop.

Hibiki began to run forward, jsut as her little body hitt the stone stairway hard. Bouncing once and down it a bit more. Then laying limp...He dropped to her side, after dashing up the steps.

"Naomi! Naomi, don't Naomi! Don't shut your eyes...If you die now, you wil become the demon they want you to become. You will be clean of humanity, and your blood will be drinkable to him." Hibiki took hold of one of her small hands, gripping it tight as he stared into her ice blue eyes.

"Hibiki..." She smiled softly up to her other brother. Her figners tried to wrap his hand, but they didn't manage. "Nankuya will run...without him Rion will ont fight. I see this much. Take my body to the temple, they will not find it. Do not wait for me...run, please run. Find Erath, and hide." She began to turn her head away.

"Naomi..." Hibiki mumbled, as he watched her eyes shut away. Her hand fully fell away from his...

As she had said, Nankuya turned and began to run. Rion calling afetr him in curses, and threats...

Nankuya was lost in the darkness of the forest, beyond Rion's reach now. Rion growled, turning a moment to smile at Hibiki.

"You loved her once, Rion. What happened to that?" Hibiki's angry eyes raised into Rions. His grin falling to a frown, Rion turned to leave. Running away into the forest after Nankuya.

Hibiki would lay for hours more with Naomi, until her jem would loss all it's light and her human life was ended...