Nemution Jewel Contest Entry

Pairings: none
Rating: R for violence and language
Warning: Characters belong to Mika Yi Yushi.  Do not use the characters without Mika’s permission.



        Chucha drifted to sleep.  But it was not a restful slumber.  Chucha was plagued by the spirit of Nemution.  The blood red soul spoke to his kind, loving heart.  “Chucha! Let me take over.  You won’t feel any more pain.  You won’t have to deal with any of these demons or that phoenix who try to kill you anymore!”
        Chucha’s white soul cried.  He wanted to be without pain.  But he did not want to let Zatty down.  But how could he not?  He had already killed him!  He answered Nemution with tears in his eyes, “But Koto doesn’t hate me! And Zatty even told me he loved me!  But then I killed him! Oh God! How could I have done that to the man I love so deeply?!  I’ve already killed the man I love. I’m a horrible person!”  Chucha wept as Nemution comforted him.
        “It’s not your fault,” said Nemution.  “Zatucha never really loved you enough anyway.  If he did, he wouldn’t have left you.  But I can heal you.  I can let you be pain free if you just switch places with me.”
        Hesitantly, Chucha put his face in his hands and cried, “Let it be done…”

        Just then, Chu heard the shout of a familiar voice.  It was a soft, warm voice: kind.  “No!!” It shouted to him.  Chucha turned to see his beloved Zatucha standing behind him.  But it was too late.  Nemution had already started the transmission.  He was starting to take over Chucha’s frail body.  Chucha’s soul cowered back in fear.  He could not fight the power of Nemution, and he knew it.
        Nemution laughed.  “Thank you for the trade young one!”  Zatucha burned like fire.  His hair and his eyes were as flames.  Quickly, the half-breed shot a blast of fire at Nemution, barely injuring him.  
Chucha rushed toward Zatucha, crying.  “I thought I killed you!  What happened to you?”
        “You could never kill me.  Yes, I was dead, but it wasn’t your fault.  Koto healed me.  Why and how, I don’t know.  I just know I woke up with him standing over me telling me that we needed to save you.”
        Nemution’s soul was strong as ever.  He recovered quickly from Zatucha’s blast.  He shot at him beams of light.  Zatucha was fast.  He blocked the deadly rays.  With a flash of green lightening appeared Koto.  Before Chucha could even see what was going on, Koto and Zatucha started fighting Nemution together.  Koto’s arrows were swiftly flying from his bow, penetrating the evil soul.  Zatucha shot another blast of fire at Nemution.  He was finally beginning to be weakened, or so it seemed.

        Koto’s wings shone bright in the darkness. He shot one last arrow, straight through Nemution’s heart.  The red soul, angered and stunned, transformed into a beastly dragon: poisonous scales from head to tail.  He spewed his mouth a fiery beam of light that would pierce any and all in its path.
        Chucha ran up to Koto.  “I have to know!  We all might die.  I have to know if it is to happen.  How did you bring him back?  How did you save Zatucha?”  Koto looked at Chucha sympathetically.
        “I’m sorry, squeaker.  I really don’t think you want to know.”
        “Yes I do!”  Chucha screamed back at him, half crying.  Zatucha was, again, fighting for his life.
        “Well, you remember that potion, the Anorion Liquid, that you brought me?”  Chucha looked up, not wanting to remember.  “This was very similar.  It’s in the same family.  It’s called the Vitorion Liquid.  It shares many of the same ingredients.”
        Chucha shouted, “Oh God no! You didn’t kill Moncha did you?!  The main ingredient of the Anorion Liquid was the life blood of a spirit animal!”
        “Don’t get your panties in a twist!  I couldn’t kill Moncha!  You’d never forgive me if I did that.  No, I used a much less desirable spirit animal…”
        “Oh Koto you didn’t.  You couldn’t have,” Chucha looked at Koto with a fire burning in his eyes.  “Zatucha doesn’t know, does he?  He wouldn’t be very happy to hear this.”
        “Of course not Squeaker.  Now you just worry about yourself here!”  He turned away and began to transform into the most beautiful dragon Chucha had ever laid eyes on.  It glowed a hue of green.  Two sets of wings, one angelic, one demonic emerged from its back.

        Chucha ran up to Zatucha, tears beginning to show.  “You cry too much, you know that?  Why don’t you try and give us a hand?”  Zatty tossed to Chucha an item very familiar: a green, glowing sword.  Chucha instantly remembered his nightmare and the tower.  He began to cry more.  But he decided he had to help, and he took Zatucha’s emerald sword.  
        When Zatty was still turned away, Nemution sliced Zatucha’s neck with his poison tail.  He screamed in excruciating pain before dropping to the ground in a pool of blood.  “Nooooo!” Chucha screamed, having seen everything.  In an angry trance, Chucha chanted, “nex ut cruentus sempiterna nemution.”  Suddenly, Nemution changed back into human form.  Chucha charged at him with the emerald sword.  He stabbed him in his black heart.  Backing away, Nemution fell to the ground.  Koto turned back to his demonic.  “I’m feeling weak.  Why am I feeling so weak?” Chucha asked Koto.
        “Fool,” Nemution yelled back at him.  “You can’t live without me.  Once you have killed me, you have killed yourself as well!”
        “I don’t give a shit!  You killed him!  You killed Zatucha.  I had only just gotten him back and now he’s dead again.”
        “Whatever you say fool.  I’m sick of hearing it now.”  Nemution breathed his last breath, the emerald sword still in his chest.  With that, Chucha collapsed.  Koto ran to him.
        “No.  Don’t try to save me.  You can’t.  Just please, tell Moncha and Miatomo that I love them.  And Koto, I love you too.  I really do.  Please try to be hap…” with that, Chucha died.  Two small tears could be seen in Koto’s eyes.  He was suddenly back in reality.  Zatucha’s body was there.  He checked it.  Zatucha was dead.  Koto was left standing there by the mountainside all alone.
        He broke down to his knees and cried, “Oh Chucha, why did you have to leave me?  I loved you!”

The End