Love and War

Chapter 30~ Nightmare

10 days later~

In the field...

Chobyo: Look at him....I should have sent him with them had I known he would be like this....

Kaname: haha....Its really a rare sight...seeing a grown man like this..

Haruki: I think its very sweet...

Samara: He is too weak!!!

Kakashi ....huh? What happened...

The past 10 days, Kakashi had been miserable, he had big dark circles under his eyes with bags...if people saw him they would have thought he was about 60 years old...he aged and lost too much weight...he couldn't teach properly nor could he trained them...he looked like he was dragging his body everywhere....he was obviously love sick ...

Chobyo: Kakashi Sensei....go to bed....you are ruining everyone's day with that face of yours...they will reach here by evening...do you want your wife to see you in this condition?

Kakashi: No..no...he smiled a little hearing ...they were coming back.

Just then they heard the guards at the getting shouting ..open the gates...

Everyone looked towards the gate....4 horses came inside...only one person seemed to be awake dragging all the other horses inside...the persons face was covered in blood...nobody could make out who it was....7 bodies were mounted up on top one of one another on those horse...bloods were dripping off them...

The teachers and the students...ran towards the horses....the person who was awake ran towards the teachers...Chobyo holded onto him before he thought he would collapsed....the person looked at Kakashi and said......"Brother...the mountain......save her...she is ...she is dying....." and fell unconcious...

It was Reo Sensei.....

Chobyo and Samara felt their heart sank...they knew it had to be Nanami....but they have to take care of the students here..they couldn't just leave them to save her.....

Kakashi...felt his legs gave out as he heard this.... he felt....his Nightmare had come true....
He got up......took one of the horses and rode off......nobody could stop him...he just ride the horse faster and faster.....the only thing in his mind...was to save her....to save his woman....to save the girl he loves.... to save the girl he wanted to spent the rest of his life with.....

Chobyo and Samara watched him leave....then with the help of few of the  students they carried them to the medicine room....Kaname felt all their pulses were very weak...they were all bleeding out....no one had died...they were just injured....injured badly enough to be dead....all of them were unconcious....the teachers wiped their faces and saw their students lying on the bed....Nanami wasn't there....

Chobyo: Haruki..inform the Priest and Penewich at once...

(The Priest and Penewich had came back to the castle 2 days ago....Penewich couldn't bear to look at Kakashi so he didn't stay at the Castle...both of them stayed at the guest house of the castle ..which was a bit far away from the castle)

Samara started taking off the dresses of the girls drenched in blood, they separated the guys and the girls....few of the female students students helped her ....

Kaname and Chobyo did the same for the boys...

Chobyo: This....this....

Kaname: Its done by a spirit animal...they were injured by an evil spirit animal!!!!!

Haruki ran to the guest house and knocked on the door.....Penewich opened it and Haruki quickly told him what had happened....the three of them then hurried inside the castle...

Chobyo looked at the priest and said Priest Akihiro....they were attacked and injured by an evil spirit animal....how do we save them? Medicine can't help them...

The Priest and Penewich looked at the students wounds.....there were cuts all over their body....

Priests in the Kingdom often captured spirit animals for the cassivas...there many strong wild spirit animals and dangerous ones too. Only strong priests could capture them, their souls were pure and the spirit tend to listen to whatever they say. But only spirits who had been tainted by their master souls or who had been damed by other spirits and turned evil cannot be captured or tamed by the priest....because their spirit had been tainted far beyond that no matterr how pure a priest was.....they would just not care.

Priest Akihiro had came across many of this tainted spirit animals. If they harmed a human, it would be impossible for them to cure the human unless they killed the evil spirit but killing any spirit meant they would taint their own souls, they subdued them no matter what to send them to Lake of luck....it would take many priest to control such evil spirit and to send them their...the Lake of luck was where once Buddha took bath. When evil spirits were send there...they couldn't harm the people anymore...and just stay in the lake tainted forever.

Priest Akihiro had seen such spirits in Helli's kingdom and what he feared was Neo, King Helli's spirit animal..which was never found after the attack...Neo was a dragon and the priests asummed it had been tainted and damed beyond anyone could ever imagined....it had killed so many people.....but when the King was captured...the spirit animal fled.....many cassivas and armies along with priests searched for it for days and days...but could never find it and King Severus called off for its search at once thinking it might habe died on its own...it had been 13 years and nobody had seen or heard about it again.....

Neo had ability to injure people from the inside and the wounds would ge darker and darker when it curses the people.....and when Priest Akihiro looked at the students  wounds he knew it could only be Neo but somebody sacrificed themself to take away the curse from their body...but who???

The Priest turned to look at Reo...he quickly opened his clothes too...but his cuts were just like the rests...

Priest Akihiro: Is anybody missing from among the students???????

Chobyo: Nanama....she is missing... Reo sensei said she is dying before he collapsed.... Kakshi sensei...went looking for her....

Priest: That girl..... Kaname...treat them for normal wounds right now....

Kaname: but...isn't it an evil spirits...

Priest: Yes....it is ...it has to be Neo..King Helli's spirit animal...the cuts...they are from inside...but somebody...I am not sure if its Nanami or somebody else....has sacrificed themselve to save them...the cuts are without curse....so treat them with medicine this instant.....

Chobyi and Samara were scared for Nanami...hoping and praying Kakashi saves her...

The Priest told Penewich that to have to gather around 10 priests from the temple and cassivas and they have to leave for the mountains at once. That evil spirit had been hiding in the mountain all these years.

The teachers had started their treament....and checked the students pulse every half an hour.

Meanwhile, Kakashi was riding the horse faster than ever...to reach the mountain....