Chapter twenty

"Star?"

"shouldn't that be Ryoko?"

For the next five minutes the three stared at Starblaze now Ryoko who stood trying to figure out the wings on her back, they were leathery and looked like flames, they were a silvery mix of ruby red and white like here eyes originally meanwhile here eyes were now a ruby red colour

"Star, I mean Ryoko, I mean Star, I mean what?" Viper was at shock to say the least and so was everyone else

"Ryoko um are you feeling better?"

" oi don't do that thing where you think I overheard your conversation and now I'm gonna be hurt" she said finally retracting the wings and joining them

"so you didn't hear us?"

"were you trying to be quiet?" they sighed, looking at her

"either way I already knew about everything so don't worry"

"wait you know everything? How?" Haru asked

"when that demon took over me for a while"

"a while? More like a few years" Viper said

"I was watching some kind of movie but then I realised that was everything that had happened in my life, including all the lies and everything but there were some missing memories" she said

"like what?" Hazuki asked

"well for one I knew I wasn't raised by my parents but she didn't show me my parents or the place I was supposed to grow up, I expect that should be Blackmoor"

"well yes you are the princess of Blackmoor but you were supposed to be raised in the east, specifically Japan which is the origin of your family" Hazuki said

"I can see that even the demons dare not joke around with his name" Haru said

"whose name" Ryoko asked

"your fathers name" Haru replied

"why? Is he some kind of bad person?" she asked

"no actually he's just very um different is all" Hazuki said

"so where's Karla I mean is she still asleep?" Viper asked

"actually no she woke up sometime after me" Ryoko said looking at her back again, she had been glancing at her back almost throughout

"so why didn't you tell us?" Viper asked

"why didn't you ask?" Ryoko said before turning to see Karla coming into the living room

"I'm assuming you heard too?" Tatsuya asked

"I thought you guys were talking to us, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to hear it sorry" she joined them in the living room

"so when exactly was everyone planning to tell us all of this" Ryoko asked

"Actually"

Before Haru could finish the house was attacked, the windows were broken and destroyed by a purple mist that seemed to float around but was actually thick, too thick to float on its own

"out the back door everybody now!" they nodded at Hazuki before quickly crawling to the back door, they weren't very sure at first but Ryoko remembered where it was and led them to it, when they got there they saw a much brighter part of the crystal forest, they started to run getting away from the scene but Ryoko stopped and immediately ran back.

She got there to see her aunty battling a demon, this one wasn't like the one that took over her body, it was hidden in the mist but one could still make out its silhouette. By the looks of it, her aunty was very unprepared for battle and wasn't fighting as strong as she should have been so she did the next best thing.

"Ryoko what are you doing here" Hazuki asked dodging a few close calls before releasing some of her own

"to help you duh" Ryoko ran straight into the mist and didn't think twice before she started attacking with the speed of light, she controlled whatever hits she landed as she hadn't learnt how to fight with her powers yet, the demon was very shocked at the new fighter as her hits came stronger with each try making it very disorganised and confused.

"so you think you're so powerful huh?" it grabbed her arms before breaking one with no mercy and throwing her to the floor focusing again on Hazuki.

The fight became one sided as Hazuki had gotten tired and was then defeated easily

"now I'll snap you piece by piece"

"calm down"

"ah you're back, now you can watch me put an end to this one" it picked Hazuki up and proceeded to throwing her into one of the strongest crystal trees, one that was a different colour from the others, it was one of the poisonous ones in the forest, Hazuki could no longer fight and simply gave in bracing herself for whatever would happen next. She expected to collide with something but found herself on the forest floor.

"yare yare, I said calm down didn't I"

"what is this? What is this aura" the surrounding had changed to become darker than it already was, Ryoko seemed to have been pissed and was now holding the demon by its neck in one arm, she looked at it with her ruby eyes and watched it try to get free as it saw her soulless eyes

"wait, just wait a second, I-"

"ah don't worry I'm not going to do anything to you" she said smiling to reveal a set of fangs

"really"

"yes I'm sure your king would like to meet you know" she looked at him one more time with a smirk and with a flick of her wrist she flung him a far distance. Finally the others joined, they had already gone a long way before realising that Ryoko was not with them

"Ryoko!"