BONUS CONTENT:EXTRA CHAPTER NOROI.FUSHIGI/STRANGE

 SET DURING THE CHAPTER NAKI SAKEBU/TO SCREAM.CHAPTER 7

NOROI

I dare not even let myself look back,if I do I only will want to take her away again and that is a mistake I can not undo if I attempt to try.
It is just as hard each time to get to the estate faster and I never seem to make it in time to stop all those young men from losing there minds.Just like much else this time around it is different.

The estate never became ablaze,nor did Kiko's father actually get here in time without the snake just behind him.The mania is intense as the fire threatening all of us,encircling us.I rush past the stables and around the house entry way to find the twenty five poor souls writhing in pain as there bodies became mangled by whatever or whoever did this to them.
Their eyes bulge out,their arms and feet become like beasts and they act as such but the eyes are of tortured men just trying to survive.
To escape.

"Forgive me....I can only offer one escape to you now."

From the rooftop vantage, I have from experience realized is my best place to leap on them from,I land down on one man who fights me viciously with his clawed arm that merged with his sword so his swings are much more deadly,faster this time too.
I end up with more tatters for armor as more of them near me,the men fight hard as though they can not think of anything else and unlike before they are almost acting as though goaded.
I even note one of the only men that had not gone mad standing beside Lord Takahira-San has caught sight of something and tries to point me towards it.

I evade.ducking and twisting the further increasing rage of the maddened men to follow the sight-line of the samurai.
My sword deftly finds home slicing corners of the hands then decapitating to end the misery,only moments later to arise again but burning up and howling towards me which I reply with a leg sweep and a five slice combination known and only taught by my father.
"Just GO!"

Takahira-San shouts to me,he fires arrow after arrow at the mad men the other warrior calls and distracts them away from me.I find the item that the warrior noticed.

A golden and red tiger with a sakura tree burning behind it on an amulet.
I even hear a voice soft but I can not tell if it is young or old male or female.
It is simply soft and whispers.
"Go mad,burn.Go mad,burn....."

I try vainly to smash it,throw it in the fire but nothing works and it keeps whispering leading to more of them coming back at a faster speed.Takahira-San calls me over to him and with no lacking of slicing,evading and blocking and falling to I reach him.

"Give it to me...."
The warrior looks at me,to Takahira-San and he refuses.
"GIVE.IT.TO.ME."

"You can not bear this..th-this thing on you,nor will I give you this evil thing."

Moments pass on as we continue to make the best work we can of stopping this maddened me but they will not stay down.
"What is happening this time!"I think to myself,baffled.

"It is a priceless artifact...you must give it to me lad..now DO IT!"

The youthful warrior looks on at his master and I as well,I have never known Takahira-San to be so reckless or so lacking of care towards his maddened men that he called sons,everyone of them.

"I know who this belongs to master and I can not do such a thing to you!Master it must be taken from here and this will cease."

"NO!"

Takahira-San shouts at the warriors,slicing his arm nearly off,it hangs limply and the warrior just stares at the amulet in my hand which I flying hard anywhere other than here and the warrior seems to become relieved by the sight.

"Someone her..the lady.She found it yesterday morning...."
The warriors words barely were spoken before Takahira-San lunges at him,I pull him off as quickly as I can but for a man in his older age he is agile.

"BRING ME THE TIGER AMULET!NOW!IT IS OUR ANCESTRAL WEAPON AND YOU DID NOT SAY IT HAD BEEN FOUND?!OUR FAMILY LINE IS STRONG BECAUSE IT HOLDS ALL THE WILL OF OUR LINE AND YOU TOSSED IT AWAY!!!"

A moment passes and like a sound of a brief heavy wind I hear words softly spoken as before with the amulet.

"End"

Takahira-San falls down flat,.bring down on him the warrior he clutched in his hands so hard he nearly pulled the remainder of is arm off,the Warrior slides off of him and I kneel to try to tend him but I see he has little time remaining.

"You have done honorably,you wished to save a master going mad.GOD remembers such honor."

The warrior begins to weep,he pulls me close to him and speaks in to my ear voice fading as his life force was leaving him.

"Beware the....well....beware the....miss.....hiss...history...it will not cease....."

It seems to take too long to hear her voice,Itoshi- Hito arrived faster than ever this time but I no longer see....
No.

He never passed this early before.
Farewell my friend.
Farewell warrior.
Farewell Takahira-San.
Hopefully you get to undo your mistake,I have to figure what is wrong here in this time.