Title: Route666

Authors: Mizuki& Shizu

Archive: yes

Band: L’Arc~en~Ciel

Pairings: Tetsu x Hyde

Note: I really don’t mind you to correct my mistake if you find one.

Comment: Err…again…I don’t know what I was writing!!! And the part 6 I had posted back then is Part 7 actually…I was being careless again…and the whole thing just look so confusing…@_@

Dedication: winterfaLL and Saadiah…*hugs*^^

Here is this long, tiresome, confusing and almost abandoned Laruku AU fic…Route 666…enjoy!^_^

Part 8

Everything began as the voice came, calling upon her…in her memory, the beginning of all her life’s misery had began like this…

And eventually she would have to make an end of her mother’s mistake after the great price she had paid for *this*…

“Heather…my beloved Heather…wait…”

She could hear the low inhuman voice whispering to her ears again. But she decided not to care. She knew she have to carry on walking, quick, needed to be quick.

Need to reach to The Tomb before the snowstorm came…

She was a beautiful woman, with a gorgeous snow leopard-her “spirit” at her side, together they walked through the snow alone. There was no other living soul among this whiteness expected of her and the leopard, but still the voice came.

“Don’t leave me behind, Heather… Don’t ignore me.” the same sad voice wandering in the air around her, right above the back of her head. In her mind’s eyes he could see the blur figure of her demon, a spiritual presence hazing above the cold air.

“…Where are you going?”

“Go away…” unable to bear such voice anymore, the young woman murmured under her breath, hurried her way through the drifting snow, pulling her robe tighter as if her own words chilled her.

“No, Heather. I would not leave you. Why you don’t allow me to be near you anymore?”

“Go away demon! Leave me alone!” the poor woman cried out in depression.

“But you had promised me!”

~~oh God please don’t let him speak of it…the promise…I …how can I fulfill such crazy thing…?

Heather thought painfully to herself, her heart filled with regret, and her spirit---the leopard quivering in response to her uncomfortably.

Suddenly, at the end of the snow-covered road, she found her destination.

Finally, she reached to that place, the Stone Circle and The Tomb.

There were many legends and rumors about this landscape. Village folks said that the Stone Circle was the place where witches did Dark Trick and worshiped the evil spirits of natural in the ancient time. Moreover, beside all these there was the Tomb a huge white marble stone tomb that no one knew who had built it and the reason why they did so.

But all Heather cared was this place was so fell with power, power from the earth and the mountains surrounding the landscape, that made this place the ideal landscape to work out her plan.

A plan to get rid of the demon forever, she had made up her mind.

As she stood in front of the huge structure of the Tomb, her demon pled for her attention again. “Heater…if you don’t want me anymore…at least allow me to be with your child… I’ll protect it like I had always been to you and your mother!”

“How dare you speaking of her name now!” Heather screamed angrily, then fearfully thought to herself that he knew! He knew she was bearing a child…the next heir of the family…

“Because I had vowed to be your mother’s servant when she called upon me! ” the voice grew louder in her head.

” I’d also vowed to protect the heir of your family as long as the bloodline went on…

“So...please…Heather, please go back…I don’t want to be here, in that place…”The demon was not sure what she was here for, but he could tell that something was wrong.

“And you’d promised me to give me a physical form by using your magic and power! Flesh and blood like all the other *spirits* do!” the demon reminded her.

“But you’re not spirit, demon! You’re a demon! you’re never my spirit! You’re so different from us all! You can never live among us even you do possess a body!” Heather turned her head from the Tomb, facing the white emptiness. But her eyes fixed on the empty space before her, as if talking to a membranous person who was standing right in front of her.

 “And no way in Hell for me to give my child to you! You leave it alone!!!”

“But how?” it was the first time the demon spoke to his mistress in a mockery voice. “How could you keep your unborn to me ne?”

“Of course I can! I’ll protect my child from you!”

“Oh really?” the demon mocked childishly to Heather.

It was when a depressed cry broke out from the woman’s throat.

“God…how I hate you…” tear began to seep from the corners of her eyes.

“Heather, please don’t say that to me… ” The formless demon’s voice grew soft again, letting out a low sob. His presence wandered closely around her body as if trying to comfort her. “You didn’t hate me back then…but you do hate me now, right? Is that because of him? Your husband?”

“Stop mentioning him! He won’t leave if it wasn’t you!” she hissed in rage.

But the demon didn’t withdraw himself from her rage this time. He went on. “Why bother about mortal man like this, my dear Heather? They could never be as loyal to you as I do…”

“But I love him! I love him with all my heart! He left because he found out his wife is a witch with a demon wandering near her all the time! He left me and my child!”

She took a deep breath, holding back her bitter hatred and sadness, then turned to the Tomb once again.

“So now I’ll get rid of you, behold! Demon!” she then began to form a spell under her breath.

“Heather? What are you doing?” the voice from the air started to quiver, knowing that some unknown danger was on its way.

The demon’s mistress placed her palms on the cold surface of the Tomb, murmuring in a secret, magical voice, as the cold wind around her began to form a whirlwind, growing stronger and stronger, with faded leafs flying everywhere.

“Stop! What are you doing? NOOO!!!!”

The demon found himself being sucked toward the Tomb as his mistress continued to sing her spell. He tried to struggle, resisting this power, but his own power was no match with her spell and the supernatural power of the Tomb.

 “No! Don’t do that to me!!! Don’t seal me!” He cried out in horror for the last time before he was sealed into the Tomb together with his power.

“It’s all done…it’s over.” When everything went quiet again, Heather sighed to her leopard, her true companion, her “spirit”. When she was young and her mother still alive, Heather had once mistaken that both her leopard and her mother’s demon were her companion, but she finally realized she was wrong. The demon was a mistake from the very beginning, and the leopard was the only true “spirit” that belonging to her, her companion could never be that demon.

“You’d be safe now…my child…” Her hands went to caress her swollen belly gently. “Everything will be okay for you I promise…”

Then Heather walked away from the snow-covered stone circle and never laid her eyes on the snowed Tomb again for the rest of her short life…

----Heather….

---------Don’t leave me alone here!

***

Tetsu opened his eyes.

He blinked for a couple of seconds before he could be sure that he wasn’t entombed behind those ancient stones, trapping inside the total darkness of the Tomb.

Instead he was still under the shelter of the abandoned two-stored building he had found, sitting on a dusty worn armchair with plenty of candles placing on the bare wooden floor. The only thing he failed to recall was how and when he’d fell asleep so carelessly.

It was just a dream.

The snow-covered landscape, the wood, the aged structure of the stone circle, the woman and her snow leopard, they were not real.

He was just having a dream about the long gone past…

Still, he couldn’t help remembering the place in his dream as the very first landscape he’d even seen in the human world, whether he liked it or not. This frozen land of ice, snowstorm, dark woods and cold mountains…

To him everything began as he was called from his own demon world by the witch, into this strange, unfamiliar world of human kind.

Heather’s mother, a powerful witch, called him from the demon world by accident. Then he had been with this lady and her young daughter for long as he could recall. First he was happy then, even he knew he was different from the other creatures of this world and people called his kind “demon”. Still he believed his mistresses loved him and thought he loved them too. Therefore he had always been loyal to them...first to Heather’s mother, then Heather…before bad luck befell Heather and she turned her rage and sadness to him, claimed that it was all his fault…and became so depressed to be rid of him that she eventually sealed him into the Tomb…

And then after she passed away, her son Hyde came back and found him…bringing him back to the human world.

Tetsu closed his eyes again, trying to block this memory away.

One of the problems to have such kind of long life was that you’d have so many things to recall.

Once he longed to have a physical form then.

Once he was foolish and ignored then. So blind to confuse this feeling as “love”. Love, love…what was it actually? What good did this thing do for him, expected of bringing him more misery then he’d already been having?

He still haven’t found an answer to these questions.

Back then at the very beginning of his life in human’s world, he was just too foolish and blind to see that demon such as he should never have any love for mortal.

This was a cruel world…that human’s world. Mortals feared creatures that wasn’t from their own kind, and would do anything to destroy these strange others. If he wanted to survive, the first thing he should have learned was to close himself to the outside world. To be cruel, hateful and cunning in response to the mortals who would hate him and want to destroy him simply for what he was.

And never give his heart to anyone.

Tetsu looked down to his hands, now he had a physical form now…He always wanted a body…wanted to be flesh and blood, to have a physical form that could join with his power and wise. Eventually he had had what he want…a body that matched his power so perfectly, with an innocent harmless appearance that could easily trick ordinary mortals into thinking he was one of their kind, but why was he still not satisfied? 

Was it because every time he looked to himself, he would have to remember who had given him this form?

Was it because this person had also taught him his first real lesson of betraying, making him ached and bled so badly, then sealed him again and eventually abandoned him into the insanity, pain and hatred that might last for an eternity?

It must be the reason why even the Seal had nearly broken his entire memory apart, sometime it went so bad that he didn’t even know who himself was, still some pieces of memories about *him* clung strongly to his mind, urging him to keep reaching no matter how painful and hopeless his condition had become.

Hatred, it was hatred that had driven him that far. Keeping him sane and also gave him a reason to exist…

Finally so many years had passed, he had encountered *him* again…he saw this boy walking pass the street and immediately he knew who he was.

It was Hyde, his owner and the person who held the key to his lost memory, self and power…and this time he was ready to take everything back from Hyde, this reincarnation of his pervious owner…

It was blissful that in this life, Hyde possessed no power against him. He was just a helpless; frighten little kid that couldn’t save himself from his onslaught…it made everything became even easily for him…

And now everything was over…he had ended Hyde’s life, the only person who held his secrets. The madden bond between them was undone as well. Now he was free again, finally.

Free to do whatever he wanted, free to go anywhere, even go back to the demon world, his homeland…

“Go back? Really?” a mockery voice came closer behind his back. “You sure that it’s really what you want  afterall?”

Tetsu turn his back, to find a thin figure standing a few steps behind him. An unknown person had found his way to slip inside this room, stood so closely behind him without being sensed. Tetsu frowned slightly, noticed that he’d been so deep in his thought that he clearly had let his guard down.

He stood up from his seat, facing the stranger, studying him silently, and the latter continued to eye him back in some odd fashion. It was a slim tall young man with deep brown long hair, wearing a black jacket and a worn jean. It was nothing out of ordinary of this man…but…Tetsu wouldn’t be tricked so easily by an ordinary appearance.

He could sense a special sense on the stranger…a clear, cold yet familiar presence of a demon…

“You’re not human…”

“You are not either.” The longhaired one curled his lips for a small smile, but the smile didn’t touch his icy cold eyes.

“Demon, is this what you are?” Tetsu smiled back also as coldly to the latter.

“And it’s what you are too, am I right?” The stranger added on.  The invisible, chilly presence that had been seeping out from his body was now getting even more noticeable.

“And I know who you are, is that interesting?” He said, changeling the blonde.

“Interesting? Oh yeah it is…because I know what you are too…” Tetsu replied unhurriedly. “…Am I right? Snow Demon?”

The latter grinned. “Well, it is good that you still remember me ne, Ice Demon…or should I now call you by the name you used in human world? The name which the mortal had given you …Tetsu?”

“Stop speaking like we were close friends together. I don’t remember having anything to do with you back then, even in our would, Snow Demon.” Tetsu hissed as his *name* being mentioned in that mockery way.

“Don’t be mean to your old folk!” The latter sighed. “You’re still taking things too serious!”

But the frown between Tetsu’s eyelashes deepened. “Well, let just make thing straight forward then, Snow Demon. What do you want from me?”

“Oh, I am here to share you my idea ne. *Tetsu-san*.”

“Idea? What is your idea to me?”

“To make things more clear…it’s a plan actually…” the longhaired one said.

“A plan? Sorry I can’t follow…you still haven’t had me yet, Snow Demon.” Tetsu replied, obviously growing agitated.

“Let me show you…” in reply the latter reach out his arms, his palms blocking Tetsu’s sight, strangely enough, Tetsu didn’t reject his touch and he didn’t know the reason why. A wave of icy blue light was spreading inside his palms, and Tetsu wasn’t able to take his eyes off it now…

Then the Snow Demon showed Tetsu his Vision.

It was so overwhelming that the blonde almost collapsed as the visions shocking through his brain.  And he was speechless for quite a while even after the longhaired withdrew his hands.

“So…what do you think about my plan?” The Snow Demon giggled to Tetsu’s reaction.

“Cool…”The blonde replied playfully, slowed his own heartbeat. He had to admit that the Version that the latter demon had showed him was quite…stunning. “Is it really what you want to do, Snow Demon?”

“Of course.” The other demon nodded. “But could you stop calling me Demon all the time? I have a human name too…you know.”

 The Snow Demon gave him another smile.” now you should called me Yukihiro.”

But Tetsu ignored this. “Then I think it suits my mood to help you out ne, to do something that no one had never done before, right?”

“You’re right….something that no one has ever tried before…and we’ll do it together…”

With that, together the two figures disappeared into the darkness…

To be continued…

 I guess you all could easily figure out that my plots here is all stolen from Anne Rice’s novels….(you can tell which novel is it right?)

I’m such a shameless plot stealer…+_+

Part 9