UNMEI NO SHI WA OWARU/DESTINED DEATH WILL END.

Labored breathing is the least of my concerns.
My heart is thumping hard enough to make my chest feel like it may just implode but that is a little matter.

I need to know who is doing this....

"Please..show yourself?I am exhausted and I think that with every form of misery you have shown me for however long it has been..isn't it enough now?"

The cherry blossoms,the beauty that once encompassed me has become like a vast wasteland suddenly.
The ground is like black sand with some of it burned enough to become glass while there is no sun to speak of there is a moon overhead that is a deep red,the truest form of blood moon I have every seen or read any documentation of.

"Did you know that if you are born under a blood moon it means that you are cursed to a bloody life?I did not at first,nor did your grandmother who fought that fate so hard until you died.I on the other hand...I chose to embrace it."

The moon above me drips then pours over me such a crimson rain storm that it makes me feel repulsed by my own skin to feel it as the memories and the voices of whose original habitations who moan and hiss and cry and shout at me about her.

"You are one to judge her and I!I hear everything you did too,why did you do such things?"

I tear my throat in yelling my words out at her,she makes herself into her true form before my eyes as she stops the blood shower and walks before me,carefully only stepping in the glass parts of the ground and not the sand as I am now,it has little arms and hands trying to catch hold of her like something from a horror story and I realize far too soon it is her enemies.

I have only one set of grabby hands now,the other set of arms are trying to grab my waist and bring me to a bed of roses and crimson.

"Who is this!"

I moan,unable to scream or much else and I fight this familiar looking arms that have one long jagged scar.
The scar of a lightening bolt.

How do I know that?
Why is it throwing me on this bed?!

"The other one you must stop,that girl you must ensure that she is braindead in your return so that when you set things right she will have no recall of any life but her true one.Him?He has to be struck again by lightening as your grandmother did to him as punishment,she had no idea and still has none of what it would do to you when that happened to him."

I remember it,I remember it all.

Tennami had that scar in our second time I stayed with him.
He in the first time I wed him was not so awful as at others.I could not leave the home but he did not harm me in fact once he married me he only visited me three times to produce an heir which was fine by me I had no desire to him.
When our first child,a girl was born and born still was when he changed.

I at first took the punishment for that and my grandmother needing the energy but enraged by his treatment of me had him struck by one of her six guardian ravens that watch over me.
It was a strange sort of lightening.

He was much different after that.
He would seek me out more,far more vicious in his contact with me and would always make me cry so I that he would feel any interest towards me.

But the moments he would slay our children....

"Enough of this!"

I shout,blood going down my throat from the screaming that I am almost unable to do now and focus my mind only on the blood around me and try something out.

I envision a swarm of phoenixes,ravens,samurai and anything destructive and lovely I can think of but that woman.

The crimson woman.

She lands in front of me,gently swatting my swarms like they are nothing and she pulls off her bloody red kimono,the hood and veil that covers her face and I see her truly and completely.

This woman is almost entirely scar tissue,she wears only a band to cover her breasts and a cloth to cover her lower half but I can see her clearly now.
She has striking eyes like that of a hawk that has finally found its prey or has found its child.

Strange.

"You soon enough will be ready,not now."
"Let me out of here!I need to find my family,find..."
"Noroi,the warrior,Blade of withering shadow?"
"Don't...don't...."

She stands before me,puts her finger tip to my forehead and exhausted as I am.
Powerless as I feel I am assaulted with so much on him too.

"We child,we three.Are destined death if we do not stop this now.I created this but I am without the strength to have power outside of here.Your grandmother must be set to rights after you have finished everything else.Your strength is greater than most,You are willing to do what MUST be done this time.It took you almost too long but you are almost there now."

Now I am reminded of things.

like a storm that I have and haven't prepared for.

"I can't have it all can I?"
"The greatest sin we can do is think we can have it all.Only fools think that.We all played a part in this,mine was first and you the poor one caught up unwittingly but guilty nonetheless because you refused to do what was right instead you chose like she did and chose what you want.You have all the information now.What are you going to do?"

What am I going to do?