GrimReaperoftheHiddenLeaf
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Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 1
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Volume 3
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Prologue
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 48
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Chapter 53
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Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
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Chapter 85
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Chapter 86: "Parents"
Kalin: How long have you known your father was still alive?
Tamo: I haven't. I thought he died, but after seeing him again, I realize how much I missed him.
Kalin: I see. I bet you're happy seeing your father again.
Tamo: Yeah.
Belial keeps smashing Apollo into the ground. Apollo looked very bloody. Kalin stepped back and turned away from everyone.
Ravi: Kalin?
Belial: Why aren't your bones broken?
Kalin didn't answer, but took the hummingbird off her choker.
Kalin(to herself): Why me of all people?
She went over to the water, and just stood there. Ravi comes over.
Ravi: What's wrong?
Apollo throws more black knifes.
Dante: Tamo, he said his bones should be broken but they aren't. What does he mean?
Tamo: Dad has a special Hierro, unlike Ravi's diamond hard skin, you can cut and tear Dad's skin but you can't break his bones. No matter how much you shred him up, the skin will only regenerate.
Dante: I've never heard of someone like that other than Wolverine from X-Men.
Kalin: It's nothing of importance.
Her voice was shaky, but stern.
Ravi: It must be important if you're this shaky.
Kalin: I guess it's envy...how happy you and Tamo are to see your father again.
Ravi: When you saw me fall down screaming, I had flashbacks of when "IT" killed Mother and Father.
Kalin: But your father is still alive, and he loves you...that is something I can never feel again.
Ravi looked up at the skies of the deserted hell.
Ravi: Maybe your parents are still alive...who knows?
Kalin looks into the water.
Kalin: I can never feel the love from a parent...
A tear fell and made ripples in the water.
Kalin: My mother died giving birth to me and Linka, and my father was murdered by a Vasto Lorde. One thing I do remember was when I wasn't yet able to walk. The light I saw was brighter than any light I'd ever seen, and the woman in the light more beautiful than any woman in Soul Society. And the words she told me that I will never forget...
Apollo teleports at Belial and punches him back with a strong force.
Ravi: I also saw a light just like that when Mother and Father died. It was a woman too, and she gave me something I can never forget.
Kalin: She told me "Never forget the light I have given you; bright and warm as the summer sun" and then she was gone in ashes. And next thing I knew there was blood on my neck, and clothes.
She took off the choker and revealed the scar on her neck. Ravi lifts his hair up above the left temple revealing the scarred kanji for love.
Ravi: Father, in his last moments until I met him again, carved the kanji for Accept/Recieve, and the woman carved "heart" in the middle making it the kanji of love.
Kalin: Is it possible that the woman who scarred me, and you could be the same woman?
Ravi: No. When I got the report about you and your sister, it said you were 250 years younger than Tamo and I. Right around the time I was 2 and a half centuries old, it happened.
Kalin: I see...I know for a fact that it couldn't have been my mother.
Ravi: Let's get back to watching Father.
Kalin: I won't.
Ravi: Why not?
Kalin: I can't stand it...seeing you and Tamo happy to see your father, and mine is dead, gone forever...even if my father hated me, and told me I wasn't supposed to be born...
Her knees gave in, and she fell to the ground.
Kalin: My sister got everything she wanted, and all I got were scraps...old clothes. I was the one who would work day in, and day out for my family, only to be told that I meant nothing to them. My sister, when Father died, took the better of the swords, and left me with basically nothing.
Ravi: Even though I possess the ability to turn back time, I can't do that to revive someone. I tried, so I could get Mother and Father back. It didn't work...earlier I realized it's because Father was still alive. And I tried on other people who died right in front of me, it didn't work either. Those people I wanted back were some of the kindest people, and they really understood me. Now it's only Grandmother, Father and Tamo that do, maybe you.
Kalin: Would you like to see the reason why I shouldn't have been born?
Ravi: Why?
Kalin stood up, and showed Ravi her back. It looked like a Satanic star.
Kalin: The children who are born with this are put to death if not killed before birth.
Ravi's eyes widen.
Ravi: That's the same symbol Tamo has right now.
Kalin: But the thing is I was also born with another symbol.
Ravi: I'm almost afraid to ask where...
Kalin: I'm surprised you didn't notice it before.
Ravi: What?
Kalin pointed to her chest close to her neck. It was two squares set at odd angles with a trinity symbol.
Ravi(breathing a sigh of relief): I was hoping it wouldn't be any lower, or even any lower.
Kalin completely ignored what he just said.
Kalin: I don't know what will be in store for me...my fate is undetermined...was I supposed to be born, or killed like the other kids.
Ravi turned his head to her.
Ravi: What other kids?
Kalin: Well, my family weren't the only ones living in forest of Menos. There were other kids...4 to be exact. My father housed the kids, but they died a few days before my father died.
Tears rolled down her cheeks, but she didn't sound like she was crying. Apollo teleports backwards past them, and Belial follows teleporting above them. Belial hits Apollo again, this time into one of the lakes. Kalin changed the subject.
Kalin: Can we end this fight a little more quickly?
Apollo gets up and stands on the water. A huge wave of spiritual pressure blasts away from him.
Apollo: I'm getting bored.
Belial: Are you going to do Mancupium?
Apollo puts a clawed finger to his lips.
Apollo(smiling): Nevermore, Dijo el Cuervo.(Quoth the Raven)
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Crimson red spiritual pressure heave the water up like a cascade, then the water showers on everyone. Kalin didn't bother with the water, and looked back at X.
Kalin: I wonder...