Without Control ((FULL))

[Dreaming_Drifter]

Corona Ryuu

Corona gasped at the feeling of someone shaking her, jolting awake and scrambling to sit up. She only calmed slightly when she saw the King and Queen of the Dragons, extremely confused. She'd expected to wake up in front of the Elders, ready to be judged. Corona took her own pulse and breathed in and out a few times before staring at the royalty, dumbfounded. "I... I'm alive?"

 

[Dreaming_Drifter]

Corona Ryuu

Corona smiled a bit reluctantly as the Queen burst out laughing at the antics of the King, then frowned, pulling her knees to her chest in a slightly defensive gesture. Having her Source yanked out hadn't felt pleasant in the slightest, and she wasn't eager to have it happen again. "Your Majesty... Why did you spare me? Better yet... How did you spare me? I thought I was dead..."

 

[Dreaming_Drifter]

Elizabeth Ariake

Lizzy bit her lip to try and keep from laughing at her husband's exhausted antics, smiling slightly in Corona's direction. "You should rest. In fact, we should all rest. Goodnight, Miss Corona." She scooped Harmony up in her arms and carried her to their bedroom, burrowing under the covers with her, not even bothering to remove their clothes. "Sleep. Right now, Mrs. Cheeseburger Ghost."

 

[Dreaming_Drifter]

Satoshi Tayashi

Finally, the army had made it into the Were stronghold. It had taken many days and the fall of the Dark Angelics, the rebel demons, and the hypnotized Dragons, but Satoshi had made it into the place where the rebel leader, Darrion Graham, waited, plotting. Satoshi was completely fed up with everything by this point. His family had been attacked, countless people had died, and now he was ninety nine point nine percent sure that his son-in-law was being held in this same place. Now, he was determined to end it.

 

[Dreaming_Drifter]

Satoshi Tayashi

Satoshi appeared like an angry ghost in front of Darrion, grasping the shaft of his spear and jerking it from his hands. "You will hurt no more of my family, swine! Now you DIE!" the demon roared, his eyes blood red and his features contorting in rage. With his last word, a huge whirlwind filled the chamber, tearing Darrion Graham slowly to pieces.

 

[Dreaming_Drifter]

Satoshi Tayashi

Satoshi allowed the atoms of the Were he'd just killed to fade into nothingness, looking forward to tormenting the evil creature in Hell. But for the moment, he turned to Kevin, gently moving the deceased Dragon aside. His son-in-law was horribly injured, but a few well-spoken incantations fixed that and kept Kevin in a restful sleep. "It's over," he sighed as he stood, heading toward his daughter's house with Kevin in his arms. 'It's finally over...'

 

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Dr. Sirrah Rawlings

Sirrah had been unwell for the past several days, worrying about her husband. There had been no word whatsoever from her father, or any of the demons sent out to look for him. Sirrah hadn't eaten or slept, but simply stood out on the porch, pacing with a frenzied expression in her green eyes. Her heart sank when she saw her father appear in front of her, holding a very pale and sick-looking Kevin. "Watashi no otto! Daijobu desu ka?!" she cried, switching to Japanese in her distress. She took her husband from her father, running inside and placing him on their bed, getting her medical supplies and closing the bedroom door.

She searched his body for wounds, surprised when she found none. Sirrah knew, intuitively, that her husband had been a prisoner of the rebels and tortured multiple times. She came to the conclusion that her father had healed him, and focused on getting him clean and dressed in clean nightclothes. That done, she covered her husband with several blankets and sat beside him, determined not to sleep until she'd had a chance to speak with him.

 

[Dreaming_Drifter]

Dr. Sirrah Rawlings

To her embarrassment, Sirrah couldn't stop herself from clinging to her obviously damaged husband and crying when he woke and talked to her. She'd been sitting by his side for a couple hours now, and Satoshi had told her everything. She'd heard how close the love of her life had come to death, and it didn't make her happy in the slightest. But still, he was alive, and here in her arms. "K-Kevin... Gomenasai... I'm so sorry... I should have realized something was wrong... I should h-have come for you... I'm sorry... I was so afraid I was going to lose you... I love you, Kevin..."

After a few minutes of just holding him gently and crying, the sleep and food-deprived half-demon managed to calm herself enough to draw away from Kevin, who still looked utterly exhausted. She debated if it was best to tell him what had happened to her friend, Franz's godmother, the woman who had saved Kevin's life by sacrificing herself. But of course, he'd be angry if he found out later that she had kept it from him. She couldn't keep a secret from him. "Kevin... Hannika's dead. Darrion killed her."

 

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Dr. Sirrah Rawlings

"You have nothing to apologize for, my love," she whispered, her own heart aching at the realization of how many brave people the war had taken from them. Hannika, reportedly, had been the last casualty on their side. She brushed the tears from Kevin's eyes and kissed his forehead, leaving his side to go eat, shower, and then fall asleep for the first time in days and days.