Disclaimer: SNKPlaymore owns KOF and it's characters. Epsilon belongs to this author, who, by the way, is horrifyingly poor, so don't bother pressing speed dial button for your lawyers, SNKP, cause I don't have shit.

Shikkoku: This story will be rated M for violence. Some sexual content too, but mostly violence. When you read the story, you'll understand what I mean.

Kurai Tenshi: Keppaku

by Shikkoku Kiyoshi

Malin was dead tired.

Summer was here, but she was too bored to go anywhere. She had a rough day, and she wanted to go to a club or something, but it was too dark, she was too young, and she was too tired to dance right now. Dragging her small body in the house, up the stairs and to her room, she fell on her bed like a rock. Thump. Running a hand through her hair to let her ponytail loose, she pulled up the cover to her bed and relaxed. Slowly, her eyes started to get drowsy...

"Damn it all..."

Somewhere else, a man with dark grey hair, limped through an alleyway, in the street. His body was covered with bullet wounds, and though most of them were not mortal, the blood was starting to soak through his shirt, leaving red stains all over it. He ran to the back of a convenience store after hearing footsteps.

"I'm up against a wall," he thought. "I'd wonder how I get myself into these things, but I already know why."

He needed to get to his safe house, and extract these bullets out of his body. But he needed some bandages first, so he zipped up his jacket to hide the blood-stained shirt that adorned his body, and prayed he didn't get caught.

The young man walked in the store, trying not to seem suspicious. Since this was a convenience store, and it was Friday, however, the clerk wouldn't notice him if he was on fire, brandishing a shotgun, and screaming profanities in Swedish.

He got the bandages, some food, and a bottle of water (he was going to be really hungry after he got done with his self-imposed surgery.) He went to pay for the food, but hadn't taken two steps, he was ambushed by a sea of ammunition. He hid behind a wall and managed to avoid getting shot again. 5 seconds later, it was all quiet. Knowing it was over, he decided to show himself. What he saw, was a line of gun-toting thugs. The whole store was wrecked, the cashier had vanished, and he was trapped. One of the thugs stepped forward.

"You're time is up." he said.

Epsilon just sighed. "Fool..."

"You've been running rampant all over our group. It's too much of a risk to let you live, even if there is a bounty on you head."

"Whatever..."

The man grew frustrated by Epsilon's somewhat uncaring state. "Don't you understand? The game is over! You lost!"

"Don't worry," He grinned, "I'll reimburse you."

Black energy started to form in his hand. The adrenaline numbed the pain in his wounds, but he was too far gone to notice..

"Now..." Epsilon said, voice taking on a more confident tone. "I'll show you how a real assassin takes a life..."

Malin woke up a couple of hours later. She got up, took her skirt and shirt off, and wrapped herself up into a blanket. She went downstairs to the living room, and turned on the TV. She flipped thru the channels, till she found something that caught her eye.

"Reports say that 3 hours ago, gunshots were heard, and a man ran out, being followed by several other men. The man ran to safety, but 5 others were killed. Police has not figured out a motivation, but some say it was gang violence. But others say that the victim was shot a number of times before he got away."

"Poor guy," Malin thought, snuggling into her blanket, "I hope he'll be okay."

Epsilon threw the last man down. The battle lasted for about 10 minuets, at which, he beat the crap out of everyone. He couldn't tell the dead from the comatose in the pile on the floor. The clerk had come out of the door and sat back down, not noticing or not caring about anything that just happened. All he could do was sigh.

"It looks like another one of those nights..." Epsilon said, leaving the store after paying. "I hope this ends soon. I'm tired of getting shot at."

Shikkoku: (Sighs.) Finally, I have this thing uploaded. Now, I've been working on this thing since about 2004, and I am hell-bent on getting this thing finished. This is probably the story I work the hardest on, or at least at the same rate with KOF:NB. Please let me know what you think. I'm not going to beg for reviews, but you could try to tell me how I'm doing at the very least. (Looks at empty review box.)

Speaking of which: Remember when I said that chapter 3 of that story would be bigger than the first 2 chapters combined? That's why it's taking such a long time. I learned my lesson about trying to put timetables on updates, but I will tell you that It's almost done.

As for this story, Next Chapter: Epsilon goes to the mall, where he runs into Malin, and they fight against a giant beetle shaped robot with a laser cannon. Just kidding.

Until next time.