Yes I know the title may not be the best but it is just what it is, so please bear with me. Anyway my acquaintance, Blue Bird of Paradise, has requested and /or persuaded me to write this, whatever you'd like to call it, I don't know what to call it. But I cannot take all the credit; B.B.P herself helped me with figuring out quite a few very important details of this story that make this fan-fiction what it is. So to B.B.P., Thank you for your assistance. Now on with the story, please enjoy, and R&R please!
Also I have borrowed pieces of dialogue from various chapters, such as CH. 202, and put them in different settings so it could go with the story, but that's all. I hope I don't offend anyone. 8( Rated M just to be sure.
Disclaimer: Noblesse is NOT mine; its story line belongs to Son Jae-Ho and its wondrous Manwha illustrations to Lee Gwang-Su.
Prologue: Main Character's POV
"Mama, where is my father?" I asked all those years ago in the house where we lived when I was still just a child… well that was my appearance to normal humans. My mother had then turned to me with a heartbroken smile, her chestnut brown hair that used to be so vibrant was now dull and had grey streaks running through it here and there. Her skin that once held her beautiful features of youth now folded and sagged in wrinkles, but the face of a gorgeous human nonetheless could still be seen even in her older age.
Her amberish-brown eyes showed the kindness and yet the frightened distance of her love for me as she sat me down on an old stool in our home so many centuries ago, yes my mother feared me, and she had good reason, but I never wanted her to think of me in such a way. She kneeled to my eye-level, still smiling her broken smile, and she explained to in detail of the man who created m existence. My long and exhaustingly painful existence…
She told me of how she once served for the late king of our country at the time, then one day a man with hair the color of the shining sun and eyes the deep, rich color of a robin's crimson feathers appeared to accomplish some business with the king and his noblemen. Mother said she never saw anyone Godlier than him, everything about him seemed human but at the same time it appeared hardly humane, and he, out of anyone else, chose her to hold a small but cozy place in his heart. Even though he was only by her side for five short weeks, she loved him and he her and both proved that to each other the night before he left to return to his home forever, wherever it was. My father…he never knew of my conceivement…
Yet still I could not find it in my heart to see or feel any of the love my mother felt towards him, he left her despite his claim of his alleged love for her, and the heart-breaking pain he made her feel every day since he vanished with only me as proof that he existed. My mother said she was so grateful to God that had his blood-red eyes, that way when I looked at her with happiness or sadness she see apart of him in me too, but I despised that. All I had of her was her chestnut hair and maybe some facial features but nothing more.
Three months later the influenza infected our village and took many lives with it that winter, my kind, selfless, and heartbroken mother being taken as well, and that left me alone with the frightened and confused human villagers that survived. A week later a man from the village arrived at the door of my empty home, he said he was the town attorney and in my mother's Will she left me the small cottage that we once comfortably shared together and a silver chain with a silver cross charm that had red gems embedded in it that had belonged to my wretched father. Yet, he was not only there to give me this information, he was there to warn me that the villager's were planning to exercise me because of my unnatural blood, and so he told me I should prepare to abandon this place where I was no longer tolerated.
I neither cared nor heeded his words but they were true, I knew they would try to chase me out since my beloved mother was no longer of the world to protect me, and I knew from the way they gawked at my barely changing form through the decades with the most profound sense of disgust towards me as if I were the hideous scene of death itself. So that night when they were readying there crosses, weapons, and torches, I set my own home ablaze, anything of importance that tied me to this structure of wood, hay, and mud was gone. The bitter bite of winter still clung to the air however, so I had taken any sheets and thread available in the house and sewn them to make clothing that I layered onto my person for warmth. When I was of younger age I had learned the skill from mother and I also knew to make them several sizes bigger considering I would still grow, despite it being a long ways away.
While the men of the village watched the house turn to gray snow I used my abilities, even though my mother requested me that I not use it around the village, and I had then snuck into the village library. Documents, books, and maps were scattered everywhere, but I was only there to find the most informative map I could and take it with me. It was actually fairly sized to fit in the bag I had created with my suturing skills and then I was off to anywhere but there…
Unfortunately, my mother and I were not the wealthiest of people, but who was in those days, so I began a life of thieving for my survival. I did not know why I was traveling or where/when I should stop, but before I even realized it I had gone from being forty or so years old when I left the village and looking like a five year old child, to being just passed a century of age and appearing to be eight years of age. Not only that, during all that time I had kept the necklace that belonged to the man who created me and could have sold it to use the money for food instead of stealing, I wanted to keep it to fuel my hatred of the man who abandoned one of the most beautiful treasures in my life.
Still after all this time I traveled the continent, part of another one, and the great sea trying to find a new purpose, my efforts being fruitless for another thirty years, myself barely changing a day still. My age, by my own acute observations, was slowing gradually. Then one day in my one hundredth and thirty-ninth year of life, one of a few children in a group, somewhere in some country I've long forgotten the name of, reached out his hand to me and asked, "Hey do you want to play with us? If you do then could I have your name if you don not mind my asking?" He said this with a cheery smile despite his ragged look and the curiously frightened look of his supposed friend a few yards away.
It was then I realized my new purpose, "My name is… Evelyn Sola. At least that is my first and middle name…" I said with a small finding its way onto my face. He smiled once again and introduced himself as he took my hand and led me to the other children. Yes, I had found my new purpose… learning from and protecting the humans that, despite my obvious differences from them, still approached me and showed me the light of their world. Even if was just a glance from the small crack of a creaked open door, it was something new for me… something life changing.
Standard/ Narrator's POV
Four hundred and sixty-one years later Evelyn Sola grew and matured to the form of a fine young adult of at least nineteen years of age. It was not to say her years went by in happy glee and naivety, it was actually quite far from that. She learned many things from the humans and grew to love them but at the same time be wary of them, when she had abandoned her old life in that village something sinister began a hunt for her and her special oddity of herself. Upon its first appearance to her she was cautious but still easily stopped whatever the group was planning to do to her that time and disappeared, but as far as she could tell, it was not that last she run into those peculiar human's. She learned that these people were a major but unseen influence on the world of every day, a type of cult that secretly did whatever acts it wanted to in able obtain power, most of its influence causing war amongst the humans or disease. Her purpose was still clear to her though; protect the humans, even from themselves if the situation calls for it, and accomplish it the best she could, whether or not she would lose her life in process.
End of Prologue~ Main story begins… Now
"Bwahaha! That was great! I beat Rai so hard at the PC Bang; actually I beat pretty much all of you!" Shin-Woo bellowed in laughter as he victoriously marched ahead of his friends in triumph of his latest accomplishments at the PC Bang for demolishing his friends Yuna, Suyi, Ik-Han, and Cadis Etrama Di Raizel in a computer game. "Rai I can't believe after all this time you've still barely improved on anything!" He mocked as he turned around to rub it in his crimson eyed friends face.
"Shin-Woo…" Yuna said tiredly, "Would you give it a rest? You're not making any of us feel any better." She finished as she dropped her head even lower than it already was, an agreeing nod or grunt from Suyi and Ik-Han brought Shin-Woo out of his boasting fit and into one of regret.
"Hey, alright I get it and I'm really sorry guys." He said as he placed and hand on Ik-Han's and Yuna's shoulders as he stared at not only them but Rai and Suyi as well, showing the true apology in eyes. With a sigh they forgave him and he instantly jumped in vigorous excitement at his forgiveness, a little too quick a reaction in his friend's eyes, but nevertheless they dropped the subject. "C'mon, we need to get to Principal Lee's house and quick! Seira must be done with preparing dinner by now, hurry up I'm starved!" He called out as he started walking faster in the direction of Ye-Ran High's Headmasters' house, the same house Rai and couple of other odd balls were living in, and they had only just come back from the ruckus that happened in Lukedonia no more than two days ago.
They arrived to the gates of the mansion, clicking the video button to request entry to the mansion behind the barrier. On the other end Frankenstein (A.K.A. Principal Lee) saw the cheery looks of the children as they waved and called out hello over the video play. With a heavy sigh the blonde devil man with an O.C.D. complex reluctantly clicked the button once he saw his master beside the children. 'So that was where he was.' Frankenstein thought to himself, he was beginning to worry if his master had gotten lost once more in the city, almost getting ready to depart in search of Rai he was until the children beeped in.
"Hey welcome guys!" Tao called out in joy, he was the techy guy that lived in the house, and his hair consisted of bowl cut black hair with a white streak on the bangs, making his head look like mushroom.
"Ah, Ms. Suyi, Ms. Yuna, and everyone welcome back." Takeo, the tall guy with long purple hair tied back in a pony-tail and a slightly feminem figure, smiled calmly from the sink area where he was waiting for dishes to pile up and clean alongside M-21. M-21 was the guy with gray hair and eyes and was wearing a pink apron and yellow gloves matching Takeo as he merely greeted the kids with a nod of acknowledgement.
"Welcome back." Said Seira and Regis in unison, their silver hair glistening in even the fluorescent light in the living room. Seira already had tray's of food in her hands, Regis the same, and was already placing them on the coffee table while Tao slid a board game on the opposite side. As the kids sat in their regular seats, Rai took his place at the single chair at the head of the table and waited as Frankenstein poured him some tea.
The evening went on as always, the kids played games with Tao, Regis, and Rai, and they ate a surplus of snacks even after they ate a large dinner. Frankenstein was fighting with himself to not either mutilate the children or burst out sobbing in the corner as his immaculate living room became a gruesome war-zone filled with crumbs and various other dropped food items. Everything was going as normal until Yuna brought up a subject that expectantly made its way into the conversation. "Oh hey, did any of you hear about the girl who was rescued by the 'Crimson Ace' on the news?" She questioned as she put her hands together in anticipation.
"Huh?! He rescued another person? What was it this time?" Shin-Woo asked, also answering to Yuna that he and no one knew of what happened. The people of the house stared at her as she began her explanation.
"Well this girl was being followed by a bad guy and he cornered her in an alleyway,"
"Was she okay when she was saved?" Suyi interrupted out of concern.
"Yes. So anyway out of nowhere this pair of glowing crimson eyes appeared and beat the man up, the Ace even tied his wrists and ankles with zip ties so he wouldn't get away when the cops came. And the Ace even escorted her to her home but not in the normal walking way, they carried her and jumped from building to building at speeds humans can't travel!" She finished sounding out of breath with her excitement.
"Hmm… the buildings thing is impossible, are you sure she wasn't just lying?" Ik-Han asked as he perched his glasses back up to his eyes as he went skeptical to everyone who was listening. As the kids went into harmless bickering Tao and Regis glanced at Frankenstein who was as well staring back at them with caution, this needed investigating.
"Yuna, I don't believe I had heard of this before we all left on our trip. You would please explain?" Frankenstein asked grasping the young students' attention. She turned towards him, making sure to show him she had her full attention, and explained that the 'Crimson Ace' appeared the night they left and had saved a couple of kids who got lost late that night and escorted them home. That was not the only good-deed the person seemed to have done, the next night three different people ad reported being saved and they all lived in different parts of the city. No one knew the gender of the Ace because he/she was always underneath a cloak, leaving the only thing to be seen was their crimson shade of eyes when they looked at someone.
"Ah ha… I see…" Frankenstein looked at the clock above the T.V. behind the children, finally it was time for them leave! "Well then I believe it is time for you four to head home yes? Be careful and thank you for helping me catch pup on some local news Yuna." He said as he started to hurry them out the door, Seira and Tao gathering around the door as well to escort them home safely. Once they were gone Frankenstein turned to Rai, "Master, I will investigate this matter thoroughly, in the meantime please excuse my absence." He explained as he bowed before the man.
"I trust you will succeed, Frankenstein." Was all Rai said before he sipped at his tea with little interest as his servant began to leave the room, but not without turning his sight to the eavesdropping men who had turned their attention away from their job at the sink. One glare later M-21 and Takeo were vigorously scrubbing and wiping the dishes till they could see their reflections. Later Tao and Seira returned to a slightly heavy aura in the house as Regis, Takeo, M-21, and Rai sat in the living room.
Catching sight of their return Takeo stood from his seat by M-21 on the couch and walked over to Tao; Seira merely minded her own business as she passed him and left to the balcony upstairs. "Tao, Frankenstein has taken it upon himself to start investigating this 'Crimson Ace' person, I believe as well as he might that this could be something Union related, and I think you should see when he will need your hacking abilities." He explained and his teammate merely nodded before taking off out of the living room and down the hall to the elevator that led to the labs.
The next evening after the children had left for home everyone on of the house residents were gathered in the living room to discuss the data collected. Frankenstein had gathered as many favors as he could and collected any data he could find but, much to everyone's surprise, he barely had a thing on the subject of this matter. Tao stood next in his explanation of data.
"I've looked into the security camera's that were in possession of the city police, these are the area's where the 'Ace's heroic acts had been reported," He clicked on a small remote and the T.V. screen lighted with a map of the city and certain area's circled in red. "But the only footage I've found though was the girl who was recently rescued and the children Yuna mentioned. This is the clip with the children." He clicked on the remote once more and the T.V. shifted to a servalence camera recording springing onto the screen.
"These kids were reported to be home at nearly midnight to their parents who had earlier reported them missing when they did not return home from school at their regular time nor received word they were with friends. They should be coming onto the screen now." Tao finished just in time for three children, who appeared to be walking warily and cautiously, to make their way into the film and stop on a corner. The oldest of the three, who looked to be about twelve, pulled out a cell phone and held it to the air above his head; he must have been trying to get a signal. "They stood here for a while so I'll just fast forward." Tao explained and sped the tape a bit before stopping and letting it play again at its own pace.
Soon one the younger children started to pull at the older boy's school uniform and pointed in the direction the child was just staring at, Tao clicked a button on the remote once more and showed the scene at a different angle, revealing a figure walking towards the children. The children visibly stiffened even as the older boy pushed the younglings behind him in a defensive position, ready to take anything the stranger might throw at him, and then the cloaked figure stopped in front of them and knelt to their eye levels. They seemed to be talking and eventually one of the younger children stepped out from behind the older boy and walked up to the stranger. After some more conversing the figure stood and outstretched their hand to the child, the child taking it and walking off with the person, the last two kids following suite.
"They were then reported found and home safe and sound." Tao once again clicked the buttons on the electronic rectangle, making the two video screen's minimize and another pop up. "This is the surveillance video for the girl who was nearly attacked." The clip showed much less than the first with it only showing a girl in a frantic haste as she sped walked ahead of a man in all black pursuing right behind her, then she turned into the dark alleyway that could only be seen at the angle given, and three minutes later the man was dragged out by what seemed to be the same cloaked figure, his wrists and ankles bound just like Yuna had said. The girl never coming out of the alley though is what made everyone a little curious after Tao ended the film and turned on the lights.
"There was nothing else of importance after that, unless you want to see cops swarming the area, which is rather boring considering they do nothing except the usual." He bluntly stated as he sat down to listen what everyone was thinking.
"Whoever they are they know their way with kids and young adults, I could see how easily the children relaxed with the jus the simple movement of the Ace kneeling to their eye-level." Takeo explained. "Was there anything in the Union about anyone being stationed here?" He asked the most important question that was on everyone's mind, also translating to, 'Are they an enemy?'
"Believe it or not, no. I searched every available data bank I could and find nothing on this guy. It's almost as if he's a ghost." Tao admitted disdainfully. Like Frankenstein, he could not find anything on anyone of topic, and this made everyone feel on edge, if someone like this was in the city, and nothing important could be found on them, they might all be in danger.
Then the sound of porcelain clinking onto porcelain reverberated throughout the room, catching everyone's attention, and they all turned their heads to a singular point in the room. "With what is happening here, all of you be cautious and trust one another." Rai informed as he once again took his tea back to his lips and tuned out his surroundings.
The Next Day~
"Y'know there was a huge fuss after you guys left the studio yesterday." Suyi told her friends who were gathered around the window with her in their classroom during break. At the sound of her explanation Ik-Han, Yuna, and Shin-Woo broke into a small barrage of 'why's and 'what happened'. "It was because they saw Seira, Regis, and Rai." She answered.
"Aha…" The three of them sighed in realization and relief that they were not in trouble for anything. Suyi merely giggled and continued on.
"The people there were getting really excited, asking who they were, and if they had a contract with any celeb company. They wanted their contact details and everything!" She smiled.
"Haha, I can imagine." Yuna stated as she giggled a bit, the boys following her motion.
"It would have been fun for you guys to stay and watch. Seriously, they were making such a fuss." She kept on; making her friends laugh for good while longer before the bell rang signaling class was to start. Regis, who had overheard the topic from his not so far away, thought to himself irritably how he had used mind-control to influence the humans not stare so much. Yet no one could deny the superior elegance of the Noblesse that was sitting two seats to his left, the great Cadis Etrama Di Raizel!
Later that evening the kids were walking to the principals cherished, normally mess free home, with Rai following behind at his own pace as he listened to their conversations but never really communicating as always. Regis and Seira were back at the school talking with Frankenstein about some business and the modified humans were still patrolling the school one last time before they called it quits for the day. "Oh yeah," Shin-Woo started as he lowered his head from its upward position of staring at the sky. "Suyi, was everything okay with Young-In? I don't think she liked us being there…" He said as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Yeah, and she was yelling at you because of us." Ik-Han admitted as his face twisted to that of regret.
"Ah, don't worry. You had permission from the photographer remember? And Ik-Han fixed the problem with the computer. If you guys hadn't been there, things would have been a lot worse." Suyi reassured.
"I was still worried, though." Said Shin-Woo as he let out a small sigh of relief.
"Yeah, it was freaky. We've only seen Lee Young-In on T.V. Who knew she'd be so scary?" Ik-Han questioned, getting a nod from Shin-Woo, and a chuckle from Suyi.
"You really don't have to worry guys—"
"Um… guys," Yuna interrupted. "Where is Rai?" She asked warily as everyone else looked around and noticed their friend was nowhere in sight.
"Oh no, not again. This would normally be okay, but with all the stuff that's been happening lately I'm worried he might get into something bad." Ik-Han said in a concerned voice as he turned to his friends who were nodding and saying things in agreement.
"Okay, how about we do this?" Shin-Woo began, "Ik-Han and Yuna, you guys go and search the parks, he might be their looking at the ramen in the vending machines again. Suyi, you and I will search some of the streets around here in case he got curious by looking at something. If we can't find him in two hours we call the principal." He suggested to which everyone gave out an 'okay' before splitting in opposite directions.
The time was late as Yuna and Ik-Han had ventured into a park that was relatively close to where they noticed Rai's disappearance. The park was empty and the sun was nearly done setting, if they did not find Rai there they would have to meet up with Shin-Woo and Suyi to call the principal. Then Yuna's phone began to ring, she quickly answered it, and Ik-Han shifted closer to her to listen in. "Shin-Woo? Yeah, were at the last park in the area, and we just got here. Alright, we'll search for a bit longer but we'll see you in thirty minutes." She stated.
"I don't think it's a good idea if it's just you two at that park alone. Stay put until Suyi and I get there okay?" He asked from across the line and Yuna reluctantly answered yes, then she hung up. The next thing she knew Ik-Han was pulling at her uniform jacket and stuttering like he was being electrocuted.
"Y-Y-YUNA!" He finally managed to shriek out in time for her turn around completely and see four big men walking their way with a bad gleam in their eyes. She froze, this was not expected, and incidents of muggings and such had been known in the area but usually not this early. Yuna noticed that an object in one of the lengthier man's belt line gleamed an eerie grayish-black color, something with a trigger. Apparently Ik-Han had noticed as well, but instead of freezing more in place like Yuna, ha did the next best thing, "Yuna, run!" He exclaimed as he took her sleeve and pulled her with him in attempt to run away from the pursuing danger.
They ran as hard as they could, turning corners in the park and ending up anywhere but their starting point, but the footsteps of the men reverberating very close behind them suggested they were catching up, and fast. Ik-Han never once looked back but once he turned the next corner and saw two men from the group of four in front of him he wished he had to see if the men had split up. They were trapped in what looked like an outdoor hallway with four foot-tall concrete walls, much too high to climb without a boost, and forested parts of the park up on top, two men on each side of their front and behind them blocking any escape route.
"Hee-hee… you two are pretty fast for spoiled YeRan students but sadly we were faster. What should one expect when prey tries to outrun their predators?" The man who they believed was the one with the firearm boasted. The two of them were back-to-back and the thugs were riding closer.
"I-Ik-Han… how do they have f-firearms… a-aren't they i-illegal to civilians?" Yuna questioned in a frightened whispered hush. Seriously? They were about to be pummeled and she was worried how they had firearms? She should be worried if they were going to use it on them afterwards! He was not sure how to answer nor was he going to let himself chew her out when he needed to protect her. "Ik-Han, what should we-!"
"SHUT UP, BITCH!" Cried one of the guys as he swung at her shoulder and sent her flying into the concrete wall, she slammed into it hard and with a yelp of pain as she slid down with just as much grace and began to sob. Ik-Han ran right to her side and helped her up to a sitting position. "Yuna, are you okay?!" He worriedly asked as she tried collecting herself from the dizziness that was swirling through her head.
"You too, shut it if you know what's good for ya!" The same man hollered as he pounded his foot into the ground.
"J-just leave us alone! We don't have anything of real worth on us!" Ik-Han tried to convince. They did have their cellphone's and he had his laptop but he might as well try. There was after all important police documents on his computer.
"You little twerp! Didn't he just say you should 'shut it'?!" One other man shouted as he lifted his fist to strike, Ik-Han took a defensive position in front of Yuna and lifted his arms around himself for his own protection. But the blasting pain of a fist slamming on his body never came, instead the surprised cries of pain echoed into his ears as two of the thugs were slammed into the guy who was readying to strike and the guy a few steps behind him.
When Ik-Han looked up from his hands he saw the men stacked on one another and groaning to his right a few yards away but then he caught a figure in his peripheral vision and shot his head to the left, where he saw a figure standing above him hidden under a black cloak with its hood up. The only visible trait of the person towering over him was their intimidating, glowing crimson/scarlet eyes peering down at him and Yuna, who had fallen unconscious. 'T-THE ACE?!' Ik-Han shouted in his mind as his eyes widened in disbelief at the realization.
The Ace's eyes leered down at Yuna and him for a moment more before taking the step needed to be beside his kneeling person and crouch down to Yuna. Gently the Ace brought a hand that was wrapped snuggly in a black glove to cup Yuna's face and turn it towards them for a quick once-over to make sure she was alright, Ik-Han could see the caution from just the way the Ace touched her. Yet then the sound of the men stirring and climbing off one another as they threw swears to each other was heard not a few moments later, sparking his adrenaline again, and he thought the worst was going to happen now. Until he heard shuffling behind him and a hand tapping his shoulder, he looked up and saw the Ace throwing Yuna over his, or her he could not tell, shoulder and offering their hand to help him stand.
Gratefully but cautiously he took it and felt himself be easily pulled upwards as if he was the lightest object ever. "Hey! Where do you think you're going?!" The guy with the firearm called out as his 'friends' all managed to finally bring themselves sluggishly onto their feet. Once more Ik-Han felt the adrenaline in his blood spike but he remained frozen in place, until he was pulled forward by the Ace who still had a grip on the hand he had forgotten about momentarily.
They were running as fast as Ik-Han could keep up before the men had a chance to make a move, but Ik-Han could only keep up because the Ace was holding his hand with a firm grip. Even at how fast they were running he heard the thugs calling out to them a few yards away but they did sound as if they were lagging behind more and more. The moment Ik-Han believed they had lost the men, he attempted to look back but he was tugged to another direction, nearly making him trip, and turned a corner to the center of the park. The fountain spewed a wondrous show of water that seemed to intensify the elegance of the fountains architecture. His hand was released, leaving him to take a few steps forward and look around for an escape, and then his eyes caught a familiar silhouette about eight meters ahead, across the square by the vending machines, Rai.
"RAI!" Ik-Han yelled across the way as he sprinted for his friend, catching the man's attention, and all the while unaware the Ace was following suite on his heels. "This is where you've been for past few hours?!" He questioned as he panted roughly and received a nod as his answer. The next question was predictable but he wanted to ask it anyway to humor himself a bit. "Ramen?" He asked still panting vigorously and once again a nod confirming his query. He was almost done catching his breath when he noticed his friend's attention left him and followed to the figure behind him that was laying Yuna against the soda machine beside the snack distributor.
"Oh, this is the person who helped us get away from some thugs that are hunting us down as we speak, but I'm pretty sure we've lost them. Rai, I'd like you to meet the Crimson Ace!" He proudly cheered as he threw his arms up in the way someone would when presenting a valuable object just as the person stood and turned their way to give a slight bow to Rai. Rai's eyes glowered a bit towards the Ace that looked like a mix between curiosity and a glare. "R-Rai? What's with the lo-?" Ik-Han started but then a whimper was heard from behind them as Yuna began to stir.
"Yuna!" He yelped as he trotted to her and knelt beside her as her eyes slowly fluttered open.
"I-Ik-Han is that you? Where are we?!" She called out as she snapped to attention and then her gaze shot up to a cloaked figure and… "Rai?" She said aloud as she looked from one person to another.
"I'll explain later." Ik-Han simply stated as he carefully helped Yuna to her feet.
"There they are!" Came on of the voices of the unwanted robbers from across the square where Ik-Han and the Ace once stood, making all of them swiftly shoot their heads in the direction the shouting came, and their sight was filled with the rest of the thugs skidding to a stop behind the first man. Ik-Han and Yuna both flinched and scooted closer to one another from the strike of fear entering their hearts, the men were starting to jog towards them and were already a third of the way to where they were standing, and then a gloved hand glided in front of them and tenderly nudged them backwards towards Rai. There was a snapping sound as a type of rod appeared in the other hand of the Ace, it was a Stun Gun Rod as Ik-Han noticed, otherwise known as a Lightning Rod.
Then the Ace charged into the action, the park's lamplights illuminating the middle of the park like a stadium, and the thugs and Ace were the opposing teams. One of the bigger of the four men, of height and muscle, was ahead of the rest and threw his fist right for the Ace's head but slammed into air as the Ace disappeared. He only had a moment to wonder what happened as he stood baffled before he felt the intense stinging wave of electricity coursing through his body from his neck. His fellow thugs watched him as he twitched and shook when he fell to the ground, the Ace still holding the end of the rod to the base of his neck as he/she landed perfectly on their feet.
Once he stopped moments later, the Ace turned to them and took a stance, egging them on to make a move. The thugs, being the insolent ignoramus's they were, charged to the person in front of them, thinking that a group effort would work since three against one is always a fair advantage. Right? Their logic apparently was just about as right as putting a toaster into a bathtub. The biggest man of all of them striked first with a punch just like his buddy from before, and of course like his buddy, the Ace dodged but this time they ducked and gave several blows to the weak points in his arms, ribs, and abdomen. This sent him going down like a sinking boulder as the last two went at the Ace.
Ik-Han and Yuna could not believe their eyes, they could barely keep up with the Ace's movements, and it looked almost like a dance. The way the Ace would effortlessly glide out of the way of an attack and would deal their own blows swiftly and effectively, it was like how—"Ik-Han! Yuna!" Shin-Woo called from behind, Suyi jogging behind him.
"Shin-Woo!" The two of them called as they were glomped with hugs, Yuna cringed a bit because of her shoulder, and Shin-Woo noticed.
"Are you okay?" He asked worriedly and Yuna nodded her head but decided to explain so he would not be worried. Afterwards his expression turned sour and he nearly began a charge into the action until Ik-Han placed a hand in front of him, they needed to stay out of way. So with a reluctant nod everyone watched the display of combat a few meters away.
The guy with the gun spurred to the right and another man shot the left of the Ace as he tried to give a swift kick from the side. Yet once more the Ace ducked and punched the weak points of the limb right above him/her and as the thug lost his balance the Ace brought out the Lightning Rod once more and prodded the man in the stomach, making him fall alongside one of the big guys. The Ace stood and swiftly turned to the last man, the firearm guy who had seemed to forgotten the weapon, and coaxed him to try anything with a wave of their finger. Likewise, he took the bait and charged, jumped, and attempted to deliver a heel-kick to the top of the Ace's head, but they blocked it by crossing their arms above the targeted area and grabbed his ankle.
As gravity took over with the mans' weight the Ace pivoted on his/her heel and spun around in circle twice before letting go of the man and sending him flying onto the two men who were strewn next to each other. The fight was over, the kids cheered, and they ran to Ace, Rai calmly walking behind them and halting few feet away. As the children bellowed with questions and praise of gratitude to the person they surrounded they did not notice the man with the fire stir and flop over onto his stomach, the only one still conscious even after being taught a lesson. His vision was blurry and uneven as his head bobbed and swayed, but then he remembered the arsenal at his waist, and began to feel round for it as he cursed himself out in his mind for not using it earlier.
It was already loaded with ammo and cocked; all he had to do was aim, and shoot. Unbeknownst to the children's ears the Ace's head shot up when something metallic like sounded and something glimmered from behind Rai as it pointed to his back and at the children who were practically a shield where the Ace was standing. Rai, sensing the atmosphere behind him, began to turn as the man finally steadied himself enough with his blurry vision and held onto the trigger.
"GET DOWN!" A voice that never broke out until then called out as its owner ran passed the children and over to Rai. The sound of gunshots reverberated and any birds in the trees surrounding the area squawked with calls of surprise and fear as they flew off.
Man, I'm evil! :P Do not fret people the next chapter will be up sometime soon, so no angriness! XD
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-Bunny