Kiba Yukiko C-B Rank

Kyll stood there. Her feet didn't move. She was supposed to follow through this with out magic, but prolonged periods of time when she was dealing with heights. Scared her to death. Mainly because with out her magic she would pretty much have no control over what would happen. She felt as if her feet had been nailed to the ground. Her legs were stiff like stone. "You know what?" Kyll said looking at the opposite direction. "How about we call this a pass..."

Suddenly a portal opened behind her and then a familiar fist came through and bashed her atop the head. "Damn it..." The portal disappeared. She had been hit on the head by Zeno. A way to tell her to keep going forward. She followed Kiba. She began to shiver a little and then she lost her footing. She began to fall. "CRAAAAAAAAP!!!"

Kiba heard Kyll scream and rushed to the edge, seeing her starting to fall, kiba jumps off the edge. As he falls Kiba uses his hand to keep track of the wall, almost free falling towards Kyll. he grabs the wall just as he comes with in reach of Kyll, grabbing on of her hands in the process, the wrenching of the sudden stop sends daggers of pain though his shoulder and arm.

"Why did you jump when there's a bridge right there?" Kiba nods his  head towards the iced up bridge. "and if you say you were following my example... well lets just say my father was not happy with me when i did it this way the first time." Kiba chuckles as he swings a little trying to get kyll to a small ledge that was nearby.

Immediately the cosmic mage grabbed the ledge and clambered to balance herself. She sighed a bit and Kyll smiled and looked over at Kiba. "I wish to do this just like you. Understand a little of what you have gone through to get to where you are today." Kyll followed Kiba exactly as he made his way. "You seem like someone who takes the tough route above anything. Which in our world we take a simpler route. A more direct approach." Kyll's grin grew. "Yet your approach is like a cat's... Direct, but tough." Kyll made her way following Kiba hoping that this part would end soon.

Kiba gets to the ledge and looks at Kyll. "I do take the tough route mainly because im the only one left to take it." Kiba Climbs pondering Kyll's words, upon reaching the top he turn around and offers his hand to help her up. "if you wish to know you can accompany me to what what left of the shrine someday, but that ups to you." Kiba wait until she is all the way up before continuing. "well there only a few steps left lets go." Kiba walks toward the staits and starts climbing. *she thinks im like a cat?* he thinks to himself as he starts climbing.

Kyll giggled and continued onward. "As always, those from shrines are stuck in their ways." Kyll smirked at the remark she made. Her family came from a long line of shrine maidens. Only healers. "Weird..." Kyll said aloud. "This place feels vaguely familiar." She continued until she felt the familiar sensation from a few months ago. She knew it was here, but something about this aura she felt made her heart beat. "So how much further til we get to the shrine."

Kiba stopped when Kyll giggled, giving here look, "I'm not stuck in our ways, hell my Cousins and sisters all used tools or team work to get across." He starts climbing steps again. "My father was mad as hell when i just jumped, Said that we have brains and that i should use mine." Kiba shakes his head, "Thing is i cleared all the trials in a fraction of the time it took anyone else. Aoi said she had not seen someone so foolish to do the things i did. I told her that sometime doing what is harder can give better rewards." Kiba stops again. "And you know Kyll you should smile more, i don't know what happened to you but your still here." Kiba turns and climbs the last 20 stairs, "And Welcome the the Yukiko Shrine is i remember it."  

Kyll's glowing green eyes opened wide as she looked around. It was a snowier version of the Wei Temple or even Eclipse Soul. However her feet seemed to be leading her inside to the shrine. She didn't know where she was going, yet at the same time she felt she did know as well. There is something wrong here... Finally she stopped in front of a set of katanas. She looked at the very bottom sword. There she fell to her knees out of a sort of sadness and anger put together. "Soul... Destroyer..." Kyll said aloud looking at the blade. It was in its past form. A blue and purple hilt with a blue tiger butterfly hanging off. The blade itself gave off an aura. "Why is it here? The hilt is in the vaults..." Kyll said. Her voice was shaken.

"Kyll?" Kiba asked as Kyll took off, he followed her as she entered the shrine and then the vault. she stopped at a rack of weapons, mostly katanas, and fell to her knees. "KYLL!" Kiba shouts as he say it happen. He heard her say something about a soul destroyer. "What?" Kiba looked at the blade she was so intent on. "Wow... I haven't seen Fuyu no Kitsune an almost a decade." he reached past Kyll to grab the blade as he spoke. "Its a blade my grand father made, i only ever saw drawing of it i guess i put the blade in when i brought this place into existence in the tower."

Kyll grabbed Kiba's wrist before he placed his hands on the blade. "Don't touch it..." Kyll hissed. Kyll glared at Kiba. "You're telling me, that your family forged this sword..." Kyll turned her face back to the sword. Her eyes began to soften. Tears began forming, but they would flow down her cheeks. Her yellow aura began to flash in and out as she fought off the emotion to punch Kiba in the throat for making this weapon appear in her sights again. "This blade...." She kept a glare on it. "It was the weapon used to murder my mother..." Kyll had forgotten that her mother actually possessed the blade purifying it and changing it to a sword of healing to help Kyll out. However she had switched to her one tracked mind. Kyll gripped her fist and clenched her small jaw. She had no clue how to react. "The Wei's and The Yukiko's..." Kyll whispered to herself. She shook her head. Worked together with the Cike's... Only to send this off to have someone do their dirty work... Who though... Kyll turned her face to Kiba finally.

"what..." Kiba watched her start to fall to pieces. "Yeah it was made as a gift for a member of some far of clan that had been visiting, they were returning home." Kiba watched as Kyll started crying, she told him of her mother. "No... I..." Kiba had no words for her at first. "Grandfather said the blade was created to help stop some evil." Kiba did not know what to believe. "what did you call the blade again." He wanted to comfort her but if his family was responsible for her mothers death what would she think of him, would she hold it against him.

"My mother called it the Soul Destroyer in her journals. My mother's family was concerned about her departure to Era when she was to marry my father. So she mentioned how my grandfather warned my mother of the Soul Destroyer. A sword only meant to react to our healing magic." Kyll glared at it. "Holy Butterfly makes multitudes of butterflies surround our friends and foes alike. Binds demons. Heals injuries. Exorcise spirits. The Wei family was known for their priestesses with glowing eyes. My mother left for Era. She wanted to heal rune knights. Then my father, a noble who loved his research, experimented on my mother with an imp. The Wish Faerie. Long story short, the creature reacted with my mother's magic." Kyll gripped her fist as she flashed back to seeing the creature that she asked to survive with. "The creature feeds on human souls through granting three wishes. Mainly because the greediest souls are the sweetest... So the demons say. Wish Faeries are the lowest on the totem pole. They are delicacies that demons feed on. Each wish the imp grows. My mother made two wishes..." Kyll looked over at Kiba and kept a serious look on her face.

"First, she wanted me to never understand love again. So for a while after I had left my ex husband, I had an illness where I would have nosebleeds when I came in contact with anything like that feeling." Kyll clenched her mouth shut. She paused and started to unravel her sleeveless kimono top. She folded each piece of cloth and placed it to the side. "Second, she wanted me to have a magic as strong as the man she truly loved, while she was married to my father." She reached behind her neck. "Her last wish was to have me destroy her, but she was interrupted by someone. However, my Heavenly Body Magic was reacting with my body. Rejecting me. I was about to spontaneously combust. Before my mother died and all the imps with her, one of them came to me. I wished to be saved. I disappeared for a while. When I awoke, it was weeks, maybe months, when Einrich found me. I don't know. All I knew was I was fine. However, I wasn't..." She placed her fingers on the zipper behind her neck.

"I was a carrier. The imp was reacting to my Holy Butterfly magic. Sealing it away. Word got out that I was a host, so Frederick of Sabertooth now, captured me. Tortured me. Unsealed the wish faerie, bringing out the queen once again. My mother, Master Zeno, Zenshin, Akryn, Geno, and Jay all came to rescue me. Marick was there too. I don't know who pieced my mother back together, but it was possible. She purified the blade changing it to a method for barbaric spiritual healing. I was saved. I only had two scars." She unzipped the back of her body suit to reveal a black sports bra underneath. On her shoulder blades were two scars vertical. "The wish queen's wings are that of a skeleton. Bone sharp like swords and spears. I almost impaled my own guild master when the queen took over. In the end, the blade dissipated only leaving the hilt."

Kiba listen to Kyll as she recounted what had happened, his face clearly showing horror at what was being told. He looked at the sword as she told of what it had done, wondering what  the truth was, *Have i been lied to my entire life?* He turns to back to Kyll as she shows her back. Kiba reaches out and touches the marks, Forgetting himself, mind lost in a swirl of doubt and Sorrow. It was to much to handle for him. "I... Don't know what to believe... I was told that the blade was a blade meant to help others." he looked at the blade again. "The chosen..." Kiba knew that is was a chosen yukiko who had made the blade. "We need to go to my shrine." Kiba Faces another door in the vault on with a mark on it. "That door... If what you say is true we need... I NEED... to find out my family's involvement." He turn back to Kyll, he moves her suit back over her back and zips it up. "I need to know why a blade of such evil came from my family..." Kiba's faces shows great pain, He felt responsible for what had happened, but also show a desire to get to the bottom of what his family had created.

Kyll stood up and held her cloth as the room faded out and formed into the entrance that Kiba was originally standing at with Zeno. She looked around and smiled. "Looks like... You passed." Kyll said as she let the story she said go. "I don't know why, but the exam is completed." She stood up from her knees. "I need to go to my room. I need to rest." Kyll closed her eyes. "In the end the blade helped someone... Remember that." Kyll said. She turned around and walked away.