Forsaken By The Gods [Complete]

Chapter Two

I blink several times. She wasn't supposed to be real. Maybe I should go back to sleep and wake back up.

Thinking back to what I remembered from the dream, I looked at my arms. They're still here...
A sigh of relief escapes me, and I look back at the nameless woman who's home I'm currently occupying. She really was beautiful. Of course, I decide to shake the thought, now was not really the time. I was in a strangers home, and most importantly a stranger that was only supposed to be a dream. I needed it all to be a dream.

"Who are you?"

"I am Emiya Sho. I was searching for someone, and that creature was supposed to tell me where he was. Who are you?"

I stare at Emiya with awe. Her hair is a crimson red, her eyes a golden yellow. Then, as if my life was some sort of anime, I noticed the blood red ears sitting atop her head. On instinct my hands draw toward them, but before I can reach, she smacks my hand away.

"Sorry. I'm Daichi Akemi. I happened to hear a scream, and after that..."

Stopping myself from speaking, I think back to yesterday. Apart of me isn't too sure about how much of yesterday is real. Mostly, I didn't want yesterday to be real, because if it was, that mean... I cut off my own thoughts.

"A demon tore off your arm, and broke your legs," she finished. I look up at her, bewildered.

This couldn't be real, there's just no way.

"What you remember is very much real, I can assure you yesterday was no dream."

"Wait, if that was real, then how are my arms still here? How are my legs not broken?!" I stare at her as a new wave of confusion, and a bit of nausea, washes over me. Demons were not real, can not be real!

Emiya smirks at me, as if she was anticipating these questions.

"If it was not real, how are you standing before someone with crimson wolf ears?"

"Those can be faked," I tell her with indignation.

This cannot be real. Demons, gods, none of it. The only thing that is real is that things that live also die. But as I look her over again, the spot where human ears would exist wasn't there. There were no surgical marks to indicate there ever were anything remotely human there to begin with.

"I can assure you my ears are very real. Much like all of yesterday, which you seem intent on either forgetting, or completely denying the truth of it all."

Without anything more to say she walks away from me, and out of the room.

Gingerly, I exit the bed and follow behind her. I'm walking normally, so clearly what she said is just some sick joke, or maybe she is right, and I am in complete denial of it all. Soon, however, I follow her into another room, and see a distraught Kana on the floor in tears.

My mind is instantly flooded with dread. Something is wrong, and Dan is not here comforting her. I've never known the twins to be separated longer than their school classes would have them apart. Again, my mind is taken back to yesterday, and the reality of it all came crashing down on me. Dan was really gone.

"Kana..." I whisper.

She throws herself at me, tears soaking my chest.

"It killed him!"

An unknown rage over takes me as the weight of Kana's words hits me. I had been compelled to believe it all was a dream, and that I would walk and see Dan and Kana waiting to celebrate my birthday. I hate how wrong my assumption is.

I don't know why they would do something so terrible, but I would make sure that thing dies. Images of me taking the creature and crushing it's head invade my imagination, and there is a sick gratification I get from it. This is not a feeling I am used to, and I silently hate myself for it. Too many emotions are bombarding me at once and I'm not too sure how to handle it all.

That anxious energy I had. Clearly it was meant for this reason, if I could only turn back time. Before I can ask any questions, a knock on the door captures our attention.

"Pardon me, milady, may I have a word."
I turn, and what I see is enough to temporarily stun me out of my rage.

Her butler is a panda..? At nearly seven feet tall, her butler stands with his head bowed, ready to take orders from his master.

Emiya stepped outside the room, her butler following dutifully behind her, and as they leave I look down at my destroyed friend. She had fallen asleep, her face still streaked with her tears. I can't imagine the pain she feels, the twin she was barely separated from now gone. They were practically joined at the hip, Dan her protector, and Kana the calm to his storm. They were polar opposites, and now Dan is gone because of my recklessness. I had to do my part to fix this, even if it killed me.

Stepping outside of the room, I see the panda talking to Emiya in a hushed tone, yet somehow I can still make out parts of their conversation.

"The demons seem to be gathering in the west district, just south of Westchester Avenue. There's quite a few of them, but I'm sure they will know."

Without waiting to hear anymore I run to the opposite side of the house, my feet as light as I can possibly make them. This house is almost like a maze with how big it is, but I somehow manage to move about it, as if I had lived here all my life. I ignore the familiarity of this place, and instead decide that I should focus on my current goal.

It's time to go kill some demons.

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