19 Ouroboros Dragon
I don't like it.
I don't want to be Yasaka's enemy but she has a point, '... can't we work together with that Goddess?'
[There can't be two tigers in the same mountain. She's a matron Goddess while you're a demigod, the way they act selfishly is also not a good indication that they're going to be amicable, think about this properly, Ray].
"Please..."
As if to put me way more into a pinch, Yasaka lowered her head once more, giving her information meant closing the door with Khaos Brigade. I'm sorry Anubis, but I won't go back on my powerful beliefs. Not now, not as a god, not as a high god.
Beautiful and busty mothers must be protected and massaged.
"At this stage, I just want to keep myself and my daughter safe. I'm currently poisoned by a strange power, Ouroboros. The leylines are helping me resist this curse, otherwise I'd be dead already. I have improved but I can't deal with this on my own... Sanae, any information I could get-"
Yasaka turned to what I knew was her last bastion of hope.
"Yasaka-sama!" Sanae screamed all of a sudden.
Oh shit, it is coming.
"..."
"Yasaka-sama it is me who gave them the location of your wedding".
!!!
"S-Sanae?"
With tears and regrets, Sanae explained the situation to Yasaka who just stood rooted in her place. A monarch, a nine-tailed fox that holds the prestige of Japan, is down to her knees with everything taken away: her mate, her peace, and her loyal friend.
"Yasaka-sama, they had my daughter... we couldn't refuse-"
*WHOOSH!*
A golden, silky tail materialised and flickered like thunder, wrapping around Sanae's throat!
"How could you!?"
The situation degraded from bad to worse so quickly and I expected this... but we couldn't allow it to happen; Sanae is Anna's mom, and I can't bear to see that kid sad. I did an eye-sign and my mom flashed; stopping Yuki who had gone into his Youkai form to fight back, would only make things worse.
"Calm down, Yuki. You're not the right one on this matter".
"But!-"
Simultaneously, I moved fast and tackled Yasaka with a strength that she surely wasn't expecting, we both fell to the ground and I was on top of her, I pulled her tail and clenched it until she let go of Sanae whose throat was now blazing red; I don't doubt she was just about to die if I didn't intervene.
Yasaka kicked and twisted underneath me, also with a strength that I wasn't expecting.
"Get off me! I WILL KILL YOU, SANAE!"
With no choice, I put my hands on Yasaka's head and circulated my power.
!!!
Her reaction was immediate but the anger inside was so great that not even my powers could stop the outbursts, it only lowered her strength as blue flames began manifesting around the house, her power was circulating in many ways.
Tails began to manifest. One, two, three, five... seven...
"Please stop, let's all calm down alright?!" I tried to bring lucidity back to the room but for nothing.
"N-No! No! I HAVE TO KILL HER!" Yasaka was going to kill Sanae, her eyes turned into slits and her nails elongated even more... all of this still while my power is circulating. The thing is, for my powers to be effective the person has to be relaxed and vulnerable, that won't happen so long as Sanae and Yuki are still here.
"You two have to leave now, leave Anna here for tonight, quickly!"
"Y-Yasaka-sama! Please forgive me! If my life is enough-"
Even though she was one second from death, Sanae still craved forgiveness… Yuki and Mom had to technically drag her out of the house lest she truly get herself killed.
*BANG!*
The moment the door smashed shut and left Yasaka's sight, my powers kicked back in and a lot of the berserk rage in her mind diminished -the person she wanted to kill was no longer in the room after all.
When anger recedes, what comes next is sadness. Yasaka broke underneath me. She cried like a baby and shredded my heart. It was not a tear or two, it was a cascade.
I don't know her, I'm not her friend. But I know she's suffering and I know I have the cure... I have done this countless times.
I was away from her a tad bit but she didn't stand up, instead, she twisted and turned while crying on the floor in a heart-wrenching manner. I raised her torso and hugged her head against my chest with everything I had.
My powers kicked to the point where I felt energy being drained out of me, I wished she'd stop crying.
There was a period of quietness where her tears began to recede, she hugged me for a few minutes until the tears stopped and she fell unconscious but even then her hands were clawing onto me like I was the only thing left for her to support.
*RUMBLE!*
Unlike anything I have ever experienced, I felt resistance on her part. It was like a chilling cold that attacked my body, some foreign power inside her.
I realised this curse that was on her wasn't a simple one.
"I'm going to sleep with her tonight, Mom".
"…"
Either Mom or Anubis or both didn't like the idea.
"She needs it… I won't go overboard".
"Do what you must".
...
I effortlessly carried her to my room where Anna was already sleeping. My mom took Anna to sleep with her and I placed a shivering Yasaka on my bed.
I covered us with a quilt and hugged her to sleep, more accurately, I hugged her head. Rubbing the temples has always worked wonders for me when treating someone's mental trauma.
She hugged me back, so hard that I felt her nails piercing me but didn't complain. With this demigod body, it was difficult for things to pierce and she still managed.
She started muttering in her dreams, names and locations. 'Kunou-chan and Koutarou-kun' were the names she repeated the most. Hugging her like that against my body and thinking about the happenings of the day, my mind fell into a gradual slumber.
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I woke up not in my room, instead… it was a dark world with two massive purple eyes looking at me, giving a sense of unprecedented profoundness.
"What is this place? w-who are you?"
The darkness dimmed into a bit of light coming from my body and I finally saw what was in front of me.
It was a gigantic snake, or better said... an eastern dragon. Pitch black emitting a purple aura.
This snake or dragon was biting its tail.
A voice entered my mind the next second.
"I'm the one that represents infinity, Ouroboros Dragon"
