MTTA: Resurrection

A Frustrating Interrogation.

"Seiya, please tread lightly, there is something very wrong with this town," Shiro warned me approaching after not being present when the initial fighting started.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked, but she returned only a shrug as she effortlessly kept up next to myself and Haiiro as we raced across the backside of the town trying to get any hints as we oversaw the others going around and wreaking havoc across the town.

"Mikayla!" Doctor Cidelle came running behind us on his headless horse, and I stopped, which prompted Haiiro to stop as well and wait for him to catch up, and as he came he revealed that tied up on the horse behind him there was someone being carried, and then behind them on what looked like a bird made entirely of bones flying low Gregory who was in his care was being carried, and above c Tori followed silently in the air a ways off scanning the land below with what I imagined was a keen eye as her head snapped in every which-way and direction...

"Mikayla!" He shouted again when he was almost right before me, coming to a hasty stop and turning to grab the woman behind himself by her arm as the gorse vanished and both of them fell, with the captive barely managing to stand after suddenly falling.

"What's going on?" I asked staring at the woman who despite the pasty and cold weather was barely clothed, wearing tropical wear as she sneered staring at me.

"Go ahead, tell her what you said to e a while ago." Cidelle shook her to speak, but she looked at him defiantly and sneered at him as well.

"Is it important?" I looked at him, and he nodded excitedly at my question and then looked at the woman again dropping his hand on her back suddenly and leaving a bright red mark through her transparent blouse that caused her to scream out as electricity suddenly erupted from her mouth and nose as she was fried from the inside.

"That's too cruel isn't it," Gregory reached to touch her but Cidelle smacked his hand away before I could and shook his head at him.

"It is not enough that she cannot speak, but if this does not get her to fess up then I will use a more direct and painful method, an alchemist who would willingly work for the bureau is no friend of mine… I am willing to become the most cruel being on the face of this earth to get her to speak." He admitted, placing his hand on her back as the zapping sounds faded and she started gasping and convulsing again. "She knows where the shrine is; and like the one before, it is somewhere underground, right?" He looked at her as soon as she looked up from the painful experience twitching as phantom shocks raced across her body.

"You tricked m-"

"Answer the question, or you'll have me to answer to," I took charge of the conversation since it was clear she was not going to fess up if it was just the doctor and her. "Where is the shrine?"

"I would rather die than tell you that." She answered spitting a mouthful of saliva at me, but thankfully it fell short, because disgusting things like that deserved death, I would never stand for it.

"So, you do know then?" I asked again and she sneered and looked away from me when My eyes turned golden and my ears and tail grew out.

"You're her, the one who destroyed an entire city murdering millions, and then killed an entire prison of guards and freed another one like yourself," She looked at Haiiro who stood boldly next to me scornfully. "Do you think your status or species can scare me, why would I willingly let you cause any more harm?" She asked forcing herself to her feet and swallowing, I could see it in her eyes, she intended to do something to herself, but before she got the chance to act on her intentions I grabbed her by her face and channelled electricity through her body causing her to convulse and fall on her knees again as steam started rising from her body.

I can't say I am a fan of stubborn people, because I am a stubborn person myself, if you know where the shrine is then that alone is enough to get keep you alive, all you have to do is tell me and you get to walk away." I spoke to her as I watched her eyes slowly roll over before she lost consciousness.

"Seiya, if you keep that up she will die before you get anything from her. "Haiiro grabbed my hand, regretting it instantly as the electricity was redirected through her to him and he jumped back with a yelp of shock.

"Sorry, don't do that again." I let the woman go and she fell to her face and shook. "If I wanted to kill her I would have used fire instead," I took her by her hair and started dragging her toward the nearest building, which just happened to be an antique store for the tourists that came to see the volcano and would pass by Vík.

"Haiiro, Shiro told me once that we are able to heal others, but I haven't learned anything of the sort yet…" I looked around at him and he nodded, understanding what I was suggesting.

"I can do it." He stepped closer to me as I ran my hand across a table before kicking in the two legs closest to me breaking them and causing everything on the table to fall off as it fell diagonally.

"What are you planning to do?" Tori came walking in, as did Justin and then a few seconds later, Jason arrived as well.

"What happened to everyone that was outside?" I asked; nobody reeked of blood, nobody had killed anyone, and the number of people that were there before had not changed.

"We knocked them out," Jason replied first causing his brother to grunt.

"Then, what about the people that went outside if Vík?" I asked again and he shrugged, it was weird how a few of them had left and simply seemed to vanish from our perceptions completely; as if they weren't even there to begin with, but I put that as well as Shiro's warning aside since we were so close to a breakthrough after a month of nothing aside from the very vague hint that there was a Kitsune here in Iceland, though now that we were aware of the current status of this town we were sure that Gregory's indication was a hundred percent accurate.

"What are you doing with her?" Justin asked gesturing to the unconscious woman whom I still had hanging by her hair in my grasp, and that question knocked me back on course as I raised her and dropped her into a metal chair that was conveniently placed precisely in the centre of the store and slugged her across her face waking her up again.

"Awesome that you aren't dead, look; I am in no rush to get them free, they are unfeeling and stagnant, I can take as much time as you want this to take, it doesn't matter to me, but what does matter greatly is the fact that you have what I want and you're not letting up, so I am going to try this again-"

You'll never get a word out of me, so you might as well kill me now, I will never betray the secrets of the Bureau." The woman shook her head with a laugh, but that was a short-lived victory for her after I reached for her leg and slowly began sinking my fingers through the thin fabric of her flesh, drawing blood as her laugh turned into a screech.

"I never asked you if you would betray the bureau, I am saying that you will," I answered her with a growing undertone, selling the intimidation act and only stopping my hand when my finger was obstructed by her bone and I almost broke it. "Tell me what I want to know woman, that is all you need to do and this will all stop, my kin will be free and we will leave this forsaken land peacefully." I pulled out my fingers and wiped them on her blouse as Haiiro quickly followed up behind me and healed her leg to stop the bleeding, particles of white spread around the wound and physically forced the flesh back together whilst also erasing the blood itself from around it.

It was more amazing than I had expected, and I felt the mystical powers he used as if they were a part of me when those particles scattered before my eyes into the atmosphere.

"Where is the shrine?" I asked her again, but the woman refused to speak and even went as far as attempting to bite her tongue off, but Haiiro was there next to her healing her as she painfully chewed her tongue but to no avail.

She stopped when she realised her futile attempt at killing herself and stared at me as her self-inflicted injuries healed and the boy sighed at her stubbornness. "Just tell us human, there is nobody coming to your aid, your allies are all fled or have been knocked unconscious." Haiiro tried reasoning with her despite the very evident bloodlust I could sense coming from his person, he was trying so hard to not do any more damage than I was doing for the sake of information, it was commendable; how clever he was for his age.

"Do you think you have a chance against the bureau?" The woman asked staring at Haiiro and then looking at me. "Do you think that the little power you monsters have is enough to do anything, that freeing the rest of your kind will stop what is to come?" She stared intently, almost to the point of discomfort as I felt a disgusting feeling from her.

"What's coming?" Justin asked and she looked around at us all snickering.

"Complete annihilation of the entire lot of you, monsters, Yokai, Imugi, whatever it is you call yourselves; your time is coming-"

"Okay, since you have such faith in this surefire method and it doesn't have an effect anyway if we are all freed or locked up, then why don't you just tell me where the shrine is?" I leaned my head at her and she went silent.

"You mons-"

"Enough." I grabbed her by her shoulder and crushed her bones into bits and pieces. "I have had enough of you trying to buy time, just because I said we were in no hurry does not mean that we have nothing else to do, we still have more shrines to visit, and I hope for their sakes that whoever is guarding doesn't behave like you do, because you have left a bitter taste in my mouth interacting with you," I spoke above her screams grabbing her by her knees and squeezing them until I heard several snaps and my fingers almost went right through her leg.

"Sister if you damage her too severely I will not be able to heal her!" Haiiro reached out for me but I shook him off and grabbed her other shoulder twisting her until it splintered out of the socket and then crushing it with a squeeze.

"If she wants to ay tough ten I will treat her as is," I answered looking around at Haiiro who grabbed my hand a second time. "So what if she doesn't heal, have they allowed us to heal over all these years of their ceaseless hunting, am I supposed to play nice and listen to her yelling that we are all gonna die?" I stared at him until he released me and then looked back at the woman again. "I have time, not patience if you insist on treating me like a monster then I will act like one and tear you apart as many times as it takes for you to break!" I snapped at her while Haiiro rushed to heal her before she passed out or died on me.