Chapter 10

(Haru POV)

Akari and I are currently hugging each other in the middle of a field. She wasn’t sure of the radius of her tool that allows us to cross worlds. We decided to be safe as possible for the trip, so there’s no chance either of us getting separated.

“Haru are you ready?” Akari asked with a bit of nervousness in her tone.

“About as much as I can be. How was it for you the first time?” The idea of crossing worlds terrified me as I took a deep breath.

“There is a really bright light, then the next thing I knew I had already crossed into your world. “ She looked at me for ten seconds then said, “Alright, I’m going to activate the tool.”

I nodded my head to Akari. There was a bright light that came from the object instantly blinding my vision. The only thing that gave me comfort was I still felt Akari holding my mid-section. The feeling of weightlessness hit me lasting for about three seconds and then my feet touched back down on something hard.

The first thing I saw was Akari’s face, and she was giving a reaction I had never seen from her. There was utter horror in her eyes and my body started to feel intense shaking. Akari was trembling from seeing something and was extremely disturbed. I started to scan my surrounding’s and noticed the sky. It was completely covered in purple clouds with lightning flowing through them. Every few minutes you would hear the rumble of thunder followed by a lightning strike.

Those clouds don’t look like something natural and possibly created by an enemy. I studied where we’re currently standing, and it looks like the remains of a bedroom. The only thing I could think of with how Akari is reacting is this could possibly be her room. Everything was broken or completely shattered into pieces. Every wall was destroyed, and you could see the whole size of the structure. Debris for as far as you can see and whatever this used to be was massive.

Akari fell to her knees and started crying. I stood there looking around for another ten seconds, and then leaned down hugging the top of her body.

“How could this happen? Where is my family?” She said while trying hard to fight back tears in her eyes.

“Akari, please talk to me what’s going on?” I asked not understanding situation.

“This…” With all her emotions bubbling to the surface, she was having a hard time saying anything. So I just sat there with her in my embrace, until she was ready to talk. I noticed a portrait in the corner of the room knocked to the floor and saw Akari with two other people.

The male in the photo was most likely her father, who had Silver fur very reminiscent of what Akari currently looks like. With glowing red eyes that portray a feeling of dominance just from staring at him. He looks like a pretty intense guy, but from what I heard he was extremely soft with Akari.

The other one in the picture was female who I’m assuming is Akari’s mother. She had pink fur with those piercing blue eyes, I’m very familiar with. They both had ears and tails with crowns on each of the parent’s heads. Akari was sitting in between them with a very cute smile. I would assume this was when she was around ten years old. She looks pretty young in that portrait.

“Haru, where could they have all gone?” She asked looking up at me with tears still running down her face.

“Was this your home?” I asked.

“Yes, this was my room. My first trip to your world was taken from leaving here in hopes this is where I would return.

“I don’t really know what to say Akari. Besides whom or what could have done this much damage. Also, what’s up with the sky is that something normal?” I pointed at the sky.

“It’s the demon territory. That’s the sky when you enter their land. They don’t have any sunshine just those clouds as far as you can see. Did they invade, when I was gone? But how could all of this happen in the short amount of time I wasn’t here.” Akari got up and started looking around.

“Are you sure it’s only been a few weeks? This looks like it happened awhile back.” Everything looked really wore out. The weather must have had its way with it having no protection from the environment.

“You might be right Haru, but that doesn’t make any sense.” Akari took the thinking pose trying to understand what in the world happened.

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As we were looking around the room trying to find answers, there was a shrill deafening shriek from below our current location. Akari and I instantly both looked at each other with our eyes wide open as it sounded way more than just one. We both run to where we can look below of the once majestic castle. There looks to be thousands of weird creatures coming our way.

“What the fuck is that?” I yelled.

Akari looked at me in shock, “It’s the vanguard of the demon army.”

“Were in big trouble right?” We both looked at the thousands of weird creatures making their way to us.

“Yes Haru we should get out now. Let’s run to the other side.” She grabbed my arm and started to run pulling me along.

As we reached the other side, there was another thousand creatures making their way in our direction. We’re pretty much surrounded on all sides with nowhere to go. Well shit, don’t tell me my life with Akari won’t even last a week. My luck sure is shit and why the hell were all these things just standing here.

“I’m sorry Haru; I got you into something terrible.” Akari said as she was breaking down with everything that was happening.

“Don’t worry Akari, we will figure something out. There has to be a way out of this.” With the odds stacked so far against us, we’re going to need a miracle. I could always just pick up Akari and try to use my speed to run out of here.

I looked at Akari in pure panic not knowing what to do and feeling responsible for putting me in danger. The mentality of Akari should be my first priority before we figure out a way out of this. I go over taking her face with my hands and place my lips on hers. She suddenly comes to herself and starts licking back at my tongue that was currently massaging hers. The life in her eyes was starting to come back, and I could tell she didn’t want to give up just yet.

“Akari we have to find a way out of this, we just started our life together, and I refuse to end it this early.” That kiss and rubbing her back has seemed to kick her back into gear.

“I’m ok now Haru thanks.” She said with as big of a smile as she could put on her face.

“Our best strategy is for you to blow up an opening in their formation for us to run through. I will carry you as I push my lightning as fast as we can go to bypass the horde. What do you think?” I said with optimism.

“Sounds good to me” Akari started to power up by going into her full nine tails mode, “Alright Haru you ready?”

“Yes, let’s do this!” I gave a reassuring smile and she nodded back.

Akari’s whole body started to glow a bright red as she created a huge sphere of fire above her head. I could feel the intense heat coming off the spell and couldn’t help but sigh at what the aftermath is going to look like. After about ten seconds of building it up, she looked at me, and threw the massive blast into the creatures. She jumped at me and I caught here in a princess carry.

She put her arm’s tightly around my neck, and also used all her tails to fasten herself to my body. As we were ready to move, I saw the massive blast penetrate the horde, and destroy thousands of those freaky looking creatures. At this time, I pushed all my lightning I could control into my legs, and got ready to run the second the blast is done exploding.

Honestly speaking with how much firepower Akari has, we could probably put up a pretty decent fight against these guys. But the numbers is a bit scary to put that into practice. I also haven’t had enough experience using my element to want to try it in a life and death scenario. She’s also mentally distressed at the likelihood of losing both her parents.

*BOOM*

I waited for the explosion to dissipate before moving. Feeling the intense pressure of the vibration of the blast hit me; I couldn’t help but get a little excited. Having to face a horde of demonic creature’s only seconds after entering this world. The future is sure going to be one hell of a ride. As long as I have Akari with me everything should be fine, I hope.

As I saw a gap in the smoke, I took that as my cue to run with all I have. The ground erupted as I pushed my feet into it and accelerated in the direction of freedom. It only took a matter of a few seconds to blast through the remains of the horde from Akari’s explosion. After about thirty seconds of running, we’re easily miles away from our previous location. My footing was starting to get difficult to keep because of the marsh like terrain that was around us.

Slowing down my speed a bit to come to a stop my foot had entered a deep puddle of water and I lost my balance. I felt my body flip over, and I realized I’m going in for a crash landing. Shifting my body so Akari is on top of me, I used my back to land violently on the ground. We slid a good twenty to thirty feet before coming to a complete stop.

Feeling the burning sensation on my back was an extremely painful experience. I could only imagine how bad my back looked from the speed I was traveling. Looking at Akari as she was panicking over me, I couldn’t help but smile, and happy she was alright.

“Haru are you alright?” She asked in a panic voice.

“If you minus the extreme pain my body is in right now, I’m alright.” I said with a light chuckle.

“Since you have the ability to laugh right now, I guess you’re fine.” She said with a sigh.

“I’m just happy we both got out of there in one piece.” I took Akari’s hand in mine and kissed it.

Akari opened up space from her ring and pulled out a blanket to lie on. She put it next to us and pulled me on top of it. I felt her head be placed on my chest as she snuggled into me.

“We should be alright for a little while staying here. Your healing should kick in soon and get you back to a hundred percent in about an hour. One of the perks of having as much mana as we do is our self healing gets multiplied.” Akari said as she was rubbing my chest.

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(Akari POV)

I looked up at Haru’s face that is now sleeping after taking a hard fall. We have been here for about thirty minutes and I don’t see any threats in the area. Even after putting Haru in such a bad position, he still gave up his body just to protect mine. My feelings grow stronger every day for you Haru. Now with the possibility of my family no longer living, you’re all I have. Why did this have to happen? Couldn’t I just find my mate and have a happily ever after end to our story?

What in the world can we do now? It looks like my whole kingdom was taken over by the demon army. I didn’t hear anything about them possibly attacking us from father or mother. We always thought the biggest threat would come from Humans or Elves. But the demons were the ones to make the first move? Usually the demons are more at odds with the humans, then the Beast Kingdom. The first step is trying to find someone to explain to me, what happened.

While I was contemplating future actions, I heard a loud screeching sound above me. I looked up. There was a big flying object coming straight at us. Looking at it more closely it had orange and yellow feathers all over. It gave off the effect of the body being on fire. I couldn’t help but put a huge smile on my face. The big bird currently flying in my direction was a phoenix and the one who sent me to Haru’s world.

As I watched her land, she transformed into a half bird half human form. She had orange and yellow hair with feathers along her arms. With a cute little tail and big towering orange wings on her back. She had a one piece orange and yellow dress to complete her human like appearance.

“I’m happy to see you back Akari.” She gave a warm smile.

“Aurora, what in the world happened to the Beast Kingdom?” I said with a solemn expression.

“Calm down Akari, there is a lot of stuff I must explain to you, and it would be better if Haru was also awake to hear it.”

“So you already knew the identity of my mate?” Wondering if she foresaw this event and knew we were coming.

“That’s right Akari everything is happening as I saw it and must happen this way. “

“But, where are my parents?”

“Before I tell you that, I want to share one important detail.” She paused for a few seconds looking me straight in the eyes, “It’s been fifteen years, since you left to find Haru.”