Maestros y Esclavos (A story of DeAnn)

A Change of Heart

I stare at him wondering what they're going to ask of me. I shudder wondering what I may be accused of now. Blaze opens his mouth in a masculine tone, "presenting Himitsu, the Keeper of Secrets." 

All of the sudden a large almost glowing wolf with a burning blue locket round her neck strides in creating a feeling of serenity as she passes. I feel a tickle of whimsy thinking about how fanscinating she is. She sits at the head of the massive table, glowing. 

She speaks with a beautiful tongue, eyes to distant, I think she's blind, "It has come to my attention zat ve 'ave a new past viewer in our midst, Am I correct in saying so?"

"Yes Himitsu, this is DeAnn she looks almost identical to Rae." says the earth wolf.

"und  'as she been told of her seetuation?"

"No, we've just brought her here to speak about it."

"Sir, but I have no idea what yor talking about," I say with  enormous amounts of confusion.

"Quviet girl. A past viewer is an esclavo, like you, zat can see zee past ven she or he encounters a location of great tradgedy, great passion, or positive events. Eet eez a very zensative ability. und eez supposed to be handled carefully. Ve, here at the council of maestros, feel zat your skills could be very valuable to vinding out long lost leader, ze winged lover of mine, Ai. (meaning love in japanese) He haz been gone for zo long ve'de given up" She says looking downcast, "unteel you. You, DeAnn, vill find 'im. Your our only hope."

"I-I-I will? Can I ask you something Maestro Himitsu?"

"Yes?"

"What happened to Rae?"

"Vell..... she got herself into looking for 'im and ended up being killed by," she swallows hard, "Kira, zee killer."

An outbrake of nervous looks dart back and forth across the room for a moment before, BAM. A huge black swirl reveals a red-eyed midnight black, smoke-like wolf formation.

"Why hello Himitsu, long time no 'see' HA! ....... come on everyone? That was a funny one! .....LAUGH!!!!" 

The room breaks out with nervous giggles.

"Excuse me" I say walking up to the giant figure of smoke, "But who the hell are you?"

"Who the hell am I?  You.... idiot girl! I'm Kira for God's sake......." He says as the figure looks me in the eye his face jolts back in digust, "Are-are you a past viewer?"

"Yes she eez, Kira. Now go back to your own filthy hole."

"Silence! I shall kill you all, but why kill my love Himitsu? You know you can't resist all of this power. Heh heh. So  your going to try and send me her? You can't be serious, she's a child. Ai will be there for a while I guess,. Well, Himitsu," He says as he shakes his head, "you'll never defeat me. Good luck trying though." 

Himitsu gets up and walks over to the smoke figure that towers over her and says, "I vill never love you. I'd rather die zan love you while I know Ai is still alive."

"Well.... that can be arranged," he says deviously as he turns around. 

In a flash of light, Himitsu and I go flying along with the smoke figure of Kira.

In another flash we're on the floor of a dank cellar with a musty smell as Kira's smoke heaves back into a solid form.

"Crawl ovair here und keep quviet." Himitsu whispers as we crawl over to a blind corner.

"Well. Well. Well. Ai, how are we doing today?" Kira laughs as he looks down upon a large wolf, with stripes all along his underside and tremendous wings, being held down by large chains and looking ragged, beaten, starved, and half-dead.