As Long as You Know[Cielle][finished]

[Mishiranu Arashi]

[this thread takes place in the time that Ranmyaku left Arashi in the "House of my Own" and before the "Collection" thread. It isn't meant to be very long]

Ranmyaku didn't have much time to spare, she was unused to being without Arashi and her abilities only got her so far. It took too much energy to slip from layer to layer in he corporeal form so she had instead taken her most simple appearance. As of yet Ranmyaku had kept herself in a humanoid appearance, but due to the limitations of her abilities without her host near she stayed in the bloody form of her beastly state. Her red eyes and flowing flesh glistened as she streaked toward the castle. Ranmyaku allowed her body to lose it's shape and instead streak off in a fluid line. The state of things as they were, she was not expecting an audience with Tomoyo, but Cielle would be likely to greet her instead.

The bloody sprite stopped just inside the gates, having streaked passed the guards by mistake. She formed her large liquid body and stepped back so that the guards saw her immediately. The bloody substance of her body glistened, but was a purple black instead of red. She wasn't in a chatty mood and she was worried about the idiot master she had left to control the formation of his blood chamber.



"I am Arashi Ranmyaku , the chaos sprite contracted to Mishiranu Arashi. I do not expect you to allow me passage as I am. But, would you mind calling for Cielle-chan?"

The unnatural sweet voice that came from the mouth-less creature seemed to be ethereal in itself. Though, she merely hoped that the girl would come quickly. It would take a bit of time for Ranmyaku to flash through each layer and then to the mortal Realm. Being unable to jump straight through was becoming a hindrance.

[Cielle Blanche]

[Avalon has a part in this but it's so small I'm just going to write him in, okay?]

Cielle was sitting in her mother's throne, trying to stay alert but unable to keep herself awake in the aftermath of Tai's threat. Tomoyo was in the Fifth Layer, taking care of the baby; she had cast Ren out of the castle, and thus the only way for him to see the child would be for Tomoyo to take it to her. The Yami-ou seemed to be very proud of Cielle, and very comfortable leaving the layer in her hands. Cielle was both flattered and worried by this. She did not have much magic on her own, and she was in doubt now, after Tai's forceful approach of how capable she was in watching over the seventh layer at the very least. It was the pinnacle of power in Hell, and she felt that her watching it alone was jeopardizing it.

She hadn't slept for three days, and after meeting Kirara, she had realized how fatigued she really was.

"Mistress Cielle!" she heard the crisp tone, and she knew that it was Avalon.

"Y-yes!" she said, jumping from her resting place on the throne.

"A guard has come to tell me that there is a gastly looking beast outside requesting for your presence. It has not tried to attack the castle or pass forcefully through, and they have not yet attacked it. They are waiting for you."

Avalon had been a large help the past few days, remaining near Cielle's side to ease her nervousness about governing the castle.

"Shall you meet them?"

Cielle pondered the question for only a moment. "Yes." While she was afraid of losing the kingdom due to her incompetence, she did not want that to change the attitude that she had toward the people, and visitors to the Realm in general who were not causing harm. She had treated Tai nicely even while he was preparing to attack, and so she would do the same with this creature.

Walking outside with Avalon trailing behind her, she led the way to the gates of the castle, not more than 70 paces from the throne room already. As she reached the outside, it was dusk, the sun beginning to set in the west like in the Mortal Realm.

The creature was dark, and seemed barely able to retain it's form. At first glance, Cielle thought that perhaps Symphony had been heavily wounded, but the red eyes revealed that it was not the same being.

"What is it that you've come here for?" Cielle said bravely, forcing herself to meet those red eyes, forcing herself to meet her fear of not being able to defend the Realm effectively.

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Seeing as things moved along so swiftly Ranmyaku was pleased. The guard was swift in his alerting the castle and the doors did not take long to open. The pulsing bloody beast awaited with patience she could not afford the words of a woman that seemed uncharacteristically nervous. The sprite smiled out of habit, though without a mouth there was no real change. Her ominous red eyes locked calmly on the girl that was at the moment at least a foot below her eye level. Ranmyaku was unsure how to most easily address the topic to be discussed. The feeling of dread that is felt by someone telling such a controversial truth is not so light.

Ranmyaku was all too sure that his relationship with both Tomo and Cielle would be highly changeable. The fact that the young Arashi had done entirely too much to be forgiven. The boy had lost a lot of the good points he had. His mind was lost to sorrow and grief at the moment along with desire. There was too much to fix with Arashi and little time to do it before he was gone. The sprite wanted Arashi to survive a bit longer, he wanted Arashi to be more useful, though as it is the boy would die soon.

"Cielle. I am Ranmyaku, please... I have to tell you what Arashi cannot. Arashi took the soul of the haruhi, the vampire king of heavens second layer. After this he destroyed her castle and the angels inside. He has been recognized as the killer by a group of uprights in an altercation in the sixth layer. That is all. Is there anything you would like me to tell him?"

[Cielle Blanche]

"Cielle. I am Ranmyaku, please... I have to tell you what Arashi cannot. Arashi took the soul of the Haruhi, the vampire king of Heaven's second layer. After this he destroyed her castle and the angels inside. He has been recognized as the killer by a group of uprights in an altercation in the sixth layer. That is all. Is there anything you would like me to tell him?"

Cielle's mind immediately swooned from all of the information pooling in her mind at the moment. Ranmyaku was speaking so quickly...why...why was Ranmyaku even in this form in the first place? Had something happened to Arashi?

But those questions about Arashi were washed away when her mind processed what Ranmyaku had said. He killed Haruhi? A King of Heaven?

Oh, no. She thought. That was horrible. If he had been allowed in Heaven to do something like that, it must have been before he had fallen and joined her and Maman. But, if he killed Haruhi as an upright, and he was a fallen now...the King of Heaven would use Arashi as a reason to dissolve the current treaty with Heaven and engage in War. Had had been recognized as an upright or fallen? Would it be safe to say that the King would assume that he had fallen if he had been an upright in the sixth layer?

Her breathing patterns quickened, and she was thinking, thinking of how she could tell her mother this. She had yet to actually tell Mama about Tai's visit...let alone this. Arashi had betrayed their nation; and as much as she had wanted to like him there had always been something secretive about him, fleeting, waiting to jump out at her, it seemed. Now she knew why her instincts had made her hesitant to grow close to him.

Her eyes filled with tears, because she felt betrayed, as a being who had invested time into Arashi.

"Is there anything that you would like to tell him?" Ranmyaku's last words echoed through her head, and she wasn't sure what she would say. What could she say to someone like that?

But that was it. There wasn't anything that she could say.

She sniffed, her eyes turning cold as they looked at Ranmyaku. "I see," she said. "No. I have nothing to say. Nothing to say at all."

And with that, she turned on her heel, heading back inside to castle.