The Clans discussion

Ultimate Restaurant lives up to its name. It's the best place for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the rich or poor, for an individual or group. Yes, it certainly is the best. It serves cheap dishes for the poor while the best are for high prices. Tables and seats of all different kinds for all different people also scatter the restaurant's interior and exterior neatly.

A two-story building that is located close to the town square, Ultimate Restaurant is opened from six in the morning to ten at night. Dotting the garden outside the front door are sheltered tables and seats for the guests while inside there's a mini bar, rows of tables and more.

Daika knew that by being Daikaku Kokujōji, he had to set up an example for the rest of the Clans but he couldn't resist. Getting drunk meant no pain. No pain was what he wanted.

Sitting at the dimly lit bar of Ultimate Restaurant, Daika emptied his second. He had no idea he was so immune to alcohol. It would have done good on other occasions, but he wanted to get drunk right now. He'd made a huge mistake regenerating that little girl's arm. Who was it...? Oh yes, Audrey Arctic of Frostbite. Now it felt like someone was slicing off his arm and stitching it back before slicing it off once again.

If Frost hadn't been there and if weren't Demi who had sliced the arm off, Daika would have refused... Or maybe he wouldn't have. Or maybe he would. Or not. Daika wasn't so sure what he would have done, especially since it didn't happen.

Ciel sits at the bar as he drinks. He was in his normal blue attire (seen in one of his pics) and looks like he was already drunk because he was slouched down and his head was down, his bangs covering an eyepatch on his right eye.

((again, sorry its not too descriptive..))

{{ Meow. }}

Doku had already been in the bar since god knows when, in his usual corner with Cubellios. He had crossed his legs and had one hand drumming the table in front of him as he thought. Catching sight of some others, he was just the tiniest bit surprised to see a kid drinking. Surely he was underage? Not that he cared.

The half blind boy glanced at his snake who hissed, causing a slight panic from the table beside them. "There, there." He reassured, patting the violet coloured scales.

((lol yes.. he is underage XD but he could care less about anything. in the anime he's 13 in love with an 18 or 21 year old demon who's really like.. 200 years old, maybe older XD))

Natsu wrote: "{{ Meow. }}

Doku had already been in the bar since god knows when, in his usual corner with Cubellios. He had crossed his legs and had one hand drumming the table in front of him as he thought. Ca..."

{Woof, back to you, Natsu. xD}

Daika, hearing the little fuss, glanced over to the corner of the bar. Great. There was Stellar's famous Strain, Doku no Hebi, was it? Sighing, and in no mode to argue, Daika turned away to glance at the half-blind boy. He's underage. Daika was a doctor, he knew that boy was underage. Too young to be getting drunk this late in the night, about two hours after Daika saw Frost and Audrey off. But then again... That boy was of Scepter 4. Who knew, maybe Reisi gave this boy some special permission.

Besides, Daika the King of the Gold Clan was in no state to tell a drunken boy off. He was a boy himself, and he wasn't technically permitted to drink.

Ciel lightly clenches his bottle before giving both the guys a cold, hard stare with his one good dark blue, soul less looking eye as if he sensed or felt they were staring at him. The stare was so cold that it would send shivers down anyones spine, and it looked like he wasnt scared to pick a fight. (the eye is what controls his lightning power, but it wont work unless he takes the eyepatch off)

Doku saw the boy give him a stare.. Glare, and rolled his eye, then heard someone from two tables away talk about him. Well.. Think about him.

He looks hostile! Like a terrorist!

And his reply was simply thinking into that person's mind, I can hear you.. Which earned him a panicked customer leaving the bar in a hurry. "They run too much.." He muttered to Cubellios who simply hissed in agreement.

Natsu wrote: "Doku saw the boy give him a stare.. Glare, and rolled his eye, then heard someone from two tables away talk about him. Well.. Think about him.

He looks hostile! Like a terrorist!

And his reply w..."

Daika sighed, turning away from the boy who shot him a glare in return. Yes, he should not be staring at strangers like that.

Slouching his back and shifting his weight, Daika waited for his third serving. He hated sitting. His metal leg was always getting in the way. He'd rather stand or lie down on his back. But then again, his human leg would get tired. "Damn..." he murmured to himself. His metal leg wouldn't bend at the knee, so it was as stiff as a stick, and forced Daika in taking up two seats. One for himself and the other for propping up his right leg.

A horrified customer hurried out of the restaurant behind him and Daika didn't need to glance back to know the reason. The hospital had a handful of patients poisoned by the Strain. Annoying poison.... It was the reason why his leg would permanently stay as metal and why his father was never to be seen alive again.

Ciel then sighed and looked back at the beer in thought. it was often quiet around him, but it soothed him. Though.. he much enjoyed it outside.. even though the sun woke him, it always showed him he still had some human left in him. though he'd never admit it.. it was best he kept making people distance thereselfs from him.. love was a painful thing, and if they got close to him, he was scared he'd hurt them later on..

He then closes his eye, resting his forehead against the counter as he grunts lightly at a small headache he has.

Doku leaned back in his chair and closed his eye, putting a hand on Cubellios's scales as if trying to listen for his friend's voice. He could hear all the voices of others.. But not of his friend. He hadn't any clue what his friend was thinking.. What she was saying. He hated it. For all he knew, Cubellios could be planning his murder.. He shook that thought of his head in case she could hear.

Doku sighed and focused his hearing, but just heard complaints on wives cheating on husbands.. Work applications.. Grocery.. It all swam into his head so he shut it off, thinking about nothing. He did receive thoughts of hate from Daika though.

{Gotta go... :( }

Daika snatched up the bottle from the counter the second it touched the surface. He put it to his lips and gulped down the drink rapidly. It wasn't soothing his pain... Curse his immunity to alcohol.

Emptying the bottle in seconds, he put it down on the counter, swiping the back of his right hand across his mouth. The dull ache was resting heavily on him and he was expecting the sharp pang of pain that came a second later. He wondered if that was what the girl felt when she was separated from her own arm. Well, at least it didn't last as long as the jabs Daika was experiencing.

The thing about doctors: Among a squad, it was always the doctor that was injured the most. Why? Because the doctor's job is to heal others. Their selves can wait, they're trained to have much stamina anyway.

AℒℰSSⅈA wrote: "{Gotta go... :( }

Daika snatched up the bottle from the counter the second it touched the surface. He put it to his lips and gulped down the drink rapidly. It wasn't soothing his pain... Curse his..."

((aw, bye! i too gotta go too so can we pause this? ill probably get on late cuz its late right now so.. is it ok that you two wait till i say im on? if not its ok, it just makes me kinda stressed if i go then come back to see alot of replys that i gotta read threw..))

Ciel coughed lightly. He was much like Hamlet, constantly alone and without his parents.. they resembled each other well. He lightly bit his wrist at the pain in his head, lightly making his wrist bleed but didnt seem to care much about the pain.

{{ I gotta go too! }}

Doku got tired of all the activity in the bar and stood, and at the same time Cubellios rose up, slithering to join her friend. Without a glance at the Gold King and without any more glances at the kid, he was out the door with the purple snake coiled around his feet at every step.

{*Sighs* I'm still not sure you know...}

The handful of people still in the bar seemed to clam and a slithering noise could be heard. Good. The Strain was leaving. Honestly, Daika had been tensing up the whole time ever since he noticed Doku and his pet.

But he shot a glance over his shoulder at the pair, anyway, just to make sure they were really leaving. Why he would doubt their departure, he didn't know. Why he would even think so much about Doku, he didn't know neither. Maybe it was because Doku was a Strain, or his injured eye. Or, maybe it was that giant snake as his pet.

Ciel slowly opens his eye to stare at the ground. It had been awhile since he left his home, he wasnt sure what to really do, he knew the alcohol was giving him a headache, but he couldnt stop either.

Doku paused, turning around to look Daika in the eye, literally. He had heard the thoughts in the King's mind and rose an eyebrow, indicating he wanted to know what the doubt was about. Sensing him stop, Cubellios slithered to a stop and also turned, fixing her eyes on Daika.

Daika looked away quickly. Half because he heard a bottle being set on the table and the other half because he didn't want eye contact with a Strain. He wasn't in the mood to start any type of conversation with Doku.

But, to be frank, he usually wasn't in the mood to do anything at all.

Today was just one of the rare occasions in which he wanted to do something. Sleep or drink, anything to make the sickening pain go away. He managed to fall asleep before, until Frost snapped him awake and the ache kept shaking him conscious moments before he could slip away.

Ciel had nothing else to do, except perhaps leaving. He had enough for one night and it was getting late anyways. with that he slowly stands up, rubbing his tired, sore eyes.

Doku sighed and then turned again, heading out the door at last. "Cubellios." He said, to see his snake had made her way towards the Gold King. He froze, then went over. "Come on." He muttered, waiting for her to come over. The snake hissed at him.. At him before approaching Daika at a fast pace.

Daika was gulping down his drink when he heard the snake hiss. There was something about that hiss that made Daika turn to check.

He turned just to see the giant reptile darting towards him. Daika would have flung the glass bottle at the animal's head (his aim was still considerably good, since the alcohol wasn't affecting him just yet) but because there were others in the bar and he was not very sure about its intentions, he didn't. But that didn't mean his guard was down and he was open to be attacked.

Ciel sighs, watching before heading out of the restaurant. He had no reason being here, and had no purpose to be either. With that he keeps walking towards the Town Square.

Cubellios stopped by his feet and rose up so she was eye to eye with the King. Then she hissed viciously, about to send a cloud of Poison Mist right into his face when..

"Enough, stop it." Doku ordered as firmly as he could, his eye fixed on Cubellios's scales. The snake turned her head to face him then suddenly spat poison at Doku himself. He caught it in his hand, looking confused with the snake's strange behaviour. Then Cubellios attacked Daika without warning.

Doku only managed to block his snake with a thin aura shield that made the snake bounce back. "What's wrong with you?" He hissed, but no reply came.

Natsu wrote: "Cubellios stopped by his feet and rose up so she was eye to eye with the King. Then she hissed viciously, about to send a cloud of Poison Mist right into his face when..

"Enough, stop it." Doku or..."

Screams came from the shocked audience as they scrambled for the exit hurriedly, tripping their own feet. Daika jerked back at the attack, but was saved by Doku's thin Aura shield. What is wrong with it? he thought, flinching ever so slightly at the snake's snarls from the other side of the semi-translucent barrier.

He didn't know if saying something would be wise. So he didn't, it would take too much energy anyway. (Now wasn't really the time to be lazy but someone said the Kings were weird people.)

Doku frowned. "Cubellios," He began to speak when the snake hissed it's words. "Erik... Eriiiik...." Cubellios hissed, making Doku step back, his eyes wide. Cubellios was.. Speaking?! The boy let the shield lower down in his surprise, to see Cubellios attack Daika again. The King didn't seem like he was going to move so Doku let his arm be the victim of the snake's fangs. Cubellios's fangs were in Doku's arm, biting deep in.

"What's wrong?!" Doku asked, wincing at the pressure on his arm. Cubellios tried injecting poison in but Doku was immune to it.

Fate seemed to hate him. Just when he needed to move, the affects of alcohol settled in and made itself comfortable, slowing Daika's movements. He would have had a direct hit in the neck if Doku hadn't leaped forward and shoved his arm in between the Gold King and snake--Cubellios, was it?--at the last second.

It seemed like even the Strain didn't understand his pet's actions. Which made Daika a little more uneasy about the current situation.

{AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. CAN'T HANDLE SUSPENSE. MUST KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH DEAR CUBE.}

Cubellios began to crush her fangs harder into Doku's arm. He winced and managed to push the snake away as his arm healed, using his other hand to form a sort of restraint on Cubellios. Doku went over the list of things he was suspicious of but none seemed to click in. "Erik.." Again the snake spoke, her voice eerie and emotionless.

{{ EVEN I DON'T KNOW! }}

{NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! YOU CAN'T NOT KNOW!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! THE SUSPENSE...

I have to go now... :( I'll be back from school earlier tomorrow, at least.}

{{ I understand.. I DON'T KNOW AT ALL!! NOOOOOOOOO!!! }}

{(My mom says I can stay on a little longer. YESSSS.)

DON'T TELL ME SOMEBODY POSSESSED HER!!! THAT CAN'T HAPPEN!

(Now that I thought about it... It makes sense and perfectly fits....)

BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. CAN'T HAPPEN!!!}

{{ YES. CUBELLIOS WAS POSSESSED.. By... Demi.. Please? }}

{{ I'll stay on for a while too~ }}

{PLOT COMPLETED!!! xD

(Savannah and I were discussing about the activities of the Colorless Clan. It's on the Chat if you want to see. She suggested that the Colorless Clan take over the Gold Clan since the Gold Clan can heal the others. But because the Gold Clan is highly immune to possession due to their previous alliance with the White Clan, it isn't possible. So thissssssssssss...)}

{{ NOW I GO.. BAIII! }}

{{ I.. I LOVE THE PLOT. So it first goes to Cube.. then Daika.. }}

{THEN I'LL HAVE TO, TOO. SEE YOU, NATSU. ;D}

{YES. IT'S GLORIOUS ISN'T IT? XD WE ARE MASTERMINDS. I'LL TELL SAVANNAH WHEN I NEXT MEET HER.}

{{ YEAH!!! }}

{I'M BACK. TIME FOR COLORLESS CLAN PLAN IN ACTION.}

Natsu wrote: "Cubellios began to crush her fangs harder into Doku's arm. He winced and managed to push the snake away as his arm healed, using his other hand to form a sort of restraint on Cubellios. Doku went over the list of things he was suspicious of but none seemed to click in. "Erik.." Again the snake spoke, her voice eerie and emotionless."

Daika couldn't do anything but watch. What could he do? He didn't even know the snake's name until a minute ago. All he did was stare with a wide and confused eyes as Gold Aura wrapped around Doku's arm. It was already healing slowly, but Daika's healing Aura healed it completely within two seconds. He wasn't the best doctor in the Land and of all Japan for nothing. Maybe he could heal a whole army with that amount of Gold Aura he had. {Ting ting!}

Doku then paused, speaking in a cold and angry tone. "You aren't Cubellios." He narrowed his eye and focused his hearing as best as he could and could only sense a few angry whispers... In a snake's real voice. No doubt Cubellios had been possessed. By who? Surely... Demi wouldn't do such a thing?

{{ OHOH. DEMI SHOULD KILL CUBELLIOS AND THEN FIGHT DOKU WHO GOT MAD AND SINCE HE ALREADY POSSESSED DAIKA THEN IF HE GETS AN INJURY IT WILL BE HEALED... }}

{HOLY WHAT? CUBE...DEAD? O.O NOOOOOOOOOOO.... BUT THEN IT DOES ADD IN TO THE TRAGIC...}

Daika's eyes darted from Doku to his snake, then back again. What in the world did he mean by "You aren't Cubellios"? That was- The realization hit Daika when his mind linked to the Colorless Clan. Possession. It had to be possession, what else?

But then... Who and why? Why Doku's pet? Was someone targeting Doku? The only person Doku had a bad encounter with, as far as Daika knew, was Demi. Orchestra Demi who blinded the Strain's eye.

Demi. Demi, Demi, Demi.
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The Colorless King was in the dark shadows of town with his eyes closed and hands folded. He was leaning against the wall of Ultimate Restaurant, facing into an alley where everyone was too afraid to walk through. "Kill him, kill him," he chanted under his breath, seeing the world through Cubellious's eyes. "Kill him, kill him, make him mine, Cubellious. Make him mine."

{Okay, Daika now thinks Demi wants to kill Doku. So when Cube attacks Doku, Daika will jump out, get hit and bingo Demi gets what he wants. Then he'll step into the restaurant and the ultimate battle begins!}

Cubellios found herself lunging towards her good friend, about to sink her fangs into his neck and end his life, hissing viciously. The voice in her head was telling her... To kill.

Doku had been tripped by the snake's tail and now was on the floor, as the snake attacked. He never thought he'd be killed by his friend.. It seemed like a nightmare. He was practically already blaming Demi for everything. But he knew if he died but Cubellios lived, it would make him feel better.

Daika never knew he was a sacrificial one. He never would have described himself as selfless. It was hard to when everyone teased you for being lazy. Laziness equals to selfishness, and by far, only selfless ones sacrificed themselves, right?

But Daika was shoving himself off the stools and taking a firm stand between the lunging snake and her master. He didn't even have time to wonder what death would feel like, fangs were already sinking into the flesh close to his collarbone, sending waves of pain flooding through him from the wound. Daika had a lot of Aura, sure, but that didn't mean he was resistant to pain.

Crying out a little and stumbling backwards, only to fall against an empty table due to his uncooperative metal limb, Daika could already feel a poison settling in. But through the haze in his mind as Cubellious fell to the floor, Daika knew this warm but chilling feeling wasn't poison.

It was a spreading possession.
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Demi's eyes snapped open when Cubellious's vision went into eternal darkness. He had just performed a trick only he could do: Transferring possession from one being to another. The only cost was the first being's life. Cubellious wasn't going to see light again.

Now Daika was under his control. Even his old friend couldn't fend against the possession when not expecting it to come in this form. And what's worse, he was under pain and alcohol. Foolish of the Gold King to get drunk at this time. Though, he couldn't be blamed, the pain must have been a lot to endure.

But Demi didn't care about Daika as long as Daika was under his possession. He pushed himself off the wall, strolling into the moonlit street and heading towards Ultimate Restaurant's front door. A small bit of his heart yelled out at the memories this place contained, but it was easy to ignore.

With a shove on the doors, Demi entered. This place wasn't going to make it to see morning neither.

As his snake's body hit the ground and didn't move, Doku widened his eye and went over to the snake, cradling her head in his arms. "Cubellios... Wake up.." He whispered. Sensing no life, he began thinking the impossible. She had died. She had left him... The first reaction he did was to let out a yell that sounded more of a snake devil than a human as he gently set the lifeless body of his friend down. Orchestra Demi was to blame.

The door opened and the very person who had murdered his friend entered. Doku was still trying to recover from the fact that his snake was gone. "I... I only wanted to hear your voice.." He whispered very softly, placing a hand on the reptile's scaly head that wouldn't move ever again. Doku glanced up at saw Demi. He slowly got up. "You... Killed... Her..." He hissed like a snake.

{{ I may have cried. I cried. NOOOOOOOO!! CUBE!!! }}

{AAAAAAH ZE PAIN!!!! I CAN'T SPELL RIGHT ANYZMORE!!!}

"It was about time," the Colorless King replied, standing at the doorway watching Doku get to his feet at Cubellious's limp body with a faint smirk on his face. "I'm astonished, Strain. I thought you would notice the moment we took different ways moments ago. It seems like you really can't read her thoughts at all." 'Moments ago' referring to that afternoon, when Demi and Doku fell unwittingly into each other's company for a short period of time. Demi wasn't interested in leaving without a mark.

Raising a hand and flicking his wrist, Demi gestured at Daika, who was starting to groan and stir. Speaking unlike his usual voice, this time eerie and echoic, Demi ordered, "On your feet." A faint image of the Gold King's blurry vision flickered at the back of Demi's mind as Daika slowly pulled himself up from the fallen table.
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His body didn't feel like his body anymore. All Daika could do was watch. A watching ghost was what he was rendered into. It felt awful.

He was moving very slowly, his vision only starting to clear bit by bit. Though, he could sense an unwanted presence in the room. Chilly with not the actual coldness, but the murderous and evil intentions. They were spreading around the Colorless King's blurry silhouette like black fire licking at the hazy air.

Daika tried forcing his body to halt, to fall over, remain still, but he began stumbling towards Demi, his right leg dragging across the floor. In moments, he was standing behind the Colorless King, once a good friend of his. His only friend, actually. Over Demi's shoulder, Daika could make out a furious and hissing Doku. Was Cubellious dead? She had to be, why else would the Strain be so full of anger and despair?

Piercing through the limbo-like atmosphere the possession conjured, Demi's voice said, "Why are you mourning? It is only right that a servant dies for her master. You should be proud of yourself for training her ever so perfectly. Don't make excuses, she was never your friend. But believe that if you will, it's your time to join her in death anyway."

"You.... You're lying!" Doku growled. "I can hear your thoughts." He bit his lip, wishing he could feel the familiar chill from Cubellios's cold scales. The grief stricken boy barely listened to Demi's words. Using the sound waves he could see from the words Demi had spoken as a weapon, he made the waves amplify and attack Demi. "She... She isn't my servant!" He clenched his fists, purple-pink poisonous aura building up around him at a dangerous rate. "SHE ISN'T A SACRIFICE!" He yelled, sending more attacks towards Demi at all directions. "CUBELLIOS IS MY FRIEND!"

{{ I cried... }}

{I'll...*Sniffle* I'll try to give her death some justice...}

"Excuses," Demi repeated calmly, a shield of Gold Aura forming in front of him. It was created by the possessed Daika behind him, and Daika, who wasn't grieving as much as Doku, could concentrate on his Aura better, deflecting all of the Strain's attacks. "Is that truly what you think? A friend? There's no such thing as a friend. No matter what, everybody comes first to themselves. It's just because she had no choice. It's just because you're her master. It's because of that, did she take the possession rather than you.

Do you know what she said last, before she took it in your stead? She said she didn't have a choice. She said she'd give her life for you because of everything you gave her. She said she wanted you to live on, because there are other things you could do. It all sums up. She was indebted to you. Friends owe each other nothing. But as your servant, Cubellious gained meaning from you. She owed you her life. And she died paying it," Demi paused to let the words sink into the mind of the Strain before him. It was true. He was not lying about Cubellious's last words before she fell into his powers. He only missed out one thing.

Cubellious gave her life not because she was in debt. Cubellious gave her life because she loved Doku. She loved him for giving her meaning and purpose. Giving her a friend, as many would say. Not many serpents had wonderful friends. Many serpents like Cubellious died still wishing for their meaning to come by. So in the end, Cubellious didn't give Doku a chance to live because she had no choice but to do so. Cubellious gave Doku a chance to live because he gave her her life and she was grateful for it.

That was a friend.

That was Cubellious's final act of glory.

{{ you... YOU MADE ME CRY!!! }}

Doku froze, the words sinking into him. The effect was perhaps going to make him seem pathetic in front of the Colourless King. Doku dropped to his knees next to Cubellios's body and out of his functioning eye.. He began to cry for the first time in years. His aura flickered shut completely as he rested his hand on Cubellios's head like he had done so many times before. The only thing missing was the hiss the snake had always let out whenever he rubbed her scales.

{I'm sorry! I just had to do justice! *sobs*}

Daika, despite hating poisonous people (Strains, especially), wanted to help Doku. He wanted to try comforting him, but his body refused. It was owned by Demi now, who was controlling it to do as he pleased. Pull yourself together, Strain! Cube- Cubellious- Get revenge for her! Daika willed, words weren't forming in his mouth, and his will was already being wrestled down by the Colorless King's possession.

Watching utterly helpless, Daika grew frantic when Demi unsheathed his poisoned katana. The poison might not be able to harm Doku, but the strike would do the job before his flesh could heal. "If you miss her so much, you might as well join her, hm?" Demi said, pointing the sword's tip towards Doku's head. "You can't stand a world without her, can you? Your servant is gone. You are nothing but a pathetic master who failed to even hear her thoughts. It's such a shame, don't you think? Even Cubellious had better potential to become someone useful than you. I wonder what she meant by you achieving greater heights. You are just nothing but an all-time low."

Doku didn't understand how Demi did not know the difference between a servant and a friend. He didn't want to repeat himself.. Hearing the blade being unsheathed. He glanced up, the blade almost in front of his eye. The worst that Demi could do was take his other eye out but he wouldn't let that happen. Doku... Erik.... Heard a familiar hiss and turned his head back in surprise. C-Cubellios.. Was... MOVING?! Yet the movement was brief. After the five seconds of movement, she was still once more. Doku was puzzled. He was certain that once a living bro died they didn't move. Could it be possible Cubellios was alive?

{I got to go...

AND CUBELLIOUS HAS TO BE ALIVE. SHE HAS TO BE. IF NOT, I'LL FORCE DAIKA TO HEAL HER!!!!}