Italy: The Outskirts of Naples

"Huh, huh!" The sound of urgency and the waves crashing into the coastal wall were the only things heard on this particular night.

The rushed breathed are coming from a young teenage girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, she is in a nightgown who is running fast, the reason being is that something is chasing her.

She has no idea why, only that the situation is horribly bad. She was just a normal teenage girl living in Naples, going to high school, hanging with friends, and even developing crushes on boys her age. She lived in an apartment with her parents happily, until that fateful event lead her to this situation now.


One day on her way home she saw some people at her door. To be exact they were priests from the way they were dressed, and from the way they spoke. She got to the door just as they had been yelled at by her mother for something or other. As she walked by them, she could swear a faint chill went up her spine, she thought it by be a sense of foreboding, but chose to ignore it.

She got to the door just as her mother was about to close it, then she walked in and greeted her mother, however a certain question was nagging at her.

"Mother, who were those men?" The girl asked as she made herself a snack.

Her mother sat at a kitchen table chair and huffed. "Priests from the church, they actually wanted to talk to me about you."

"Really?" The girl asked in complete shock, she was never devout in religion or an expert in it, so she could not understand in the slightest why they wanted to talk to her about anything.

"Yes, they said a wonderful opportunity had just popped up. They wanted to offer you a scholarship to a school they own in Rome."

"Sounds suspicious." The girl said as she sat down and began to eat her snack.

"My darling girl you're right, in the first place we aren't even that big on religion, and secondly. I never remember you applying for anything of the sort." Her mother said in a suspicious tone.

The girl had her mouth full, but she nodded in agreement.

"Then they tried to push the issue, saying that you need to attend this school for your own benefit. That was my one and only straw, I then told them to leave our house and never to return."

"Thanks mom." The girl said as she swallowed her food.

"No problem dear, me and your father will always protect you." Both mother and daughter then held hands to savor the moment.

Little did they know, it would be one of their last.


"I have to keep going, if I stop they'll catch me!" The girl thought in a panic, even if her feet were now bleeding from running barefoot and her gown got torn by branches, no matter the case she could not stop until she found help.

She was now following a coastal trail in the woods, a town was up ahead from the lights she saw, she was so close, and then…

Wosh. "Agh!" The girl screamed as she tripped from her fervent run, then she began to rumble and finally crashed face first into a tree. She was able to push herself up, even if her head hurt like someone hit her with a brick.

"Agh!" She screamed again as she was forcefully yanked up from behind by her golden hair.

"Tsk, tsk little lady, you made me actually have to use some energy to catch you." The voice came from behind the girl, it was the priest from before that came to her house the other day. He yanked her up again, and now he was face to face with her.

"Now, now you are a bad girl." The girl then spit in the priests face, and then he smashed her head into a tree, her face bleed more.

"Do that again, and I won't keep you in one piece." The priest said in an ice tone.

"Like you did my parents!" The girl spat venomously at the priests.

That was why she was in this situation. On this night the girl woke up to get a glass of water, and when she went downstairs she heard a noise, the television was on in the living room so she peeked around the corner into it. The sight she saw was a horrible one.

Somehow a group of people dressed like the priests from before had slipped into her house, they had slit the throat of her father, his blood still oozing from his neck wound where they had cut him a moment ago, his eyes lifeless.

"Search the house, and remember the orders. The girl is to be taken alive, and the mother killed as well." The lead priest said, as the rest started to move.

The girl did the only thing she could.

She ran. She bolted out the back door of her house and ran into the woods at full speed, crying tears of regret and shame for leaving her mother behind to face them, but also a tiny sense of relief that she would survive the night. It made her want to vomit, as she ran to live.

The priest stared at the raging girl with uncaring eyes. "Well it's all your mother's fault, really."

The girl then tried to slap the priest, but he caught her wrist, and then squeezed it so hard he almost broke it, this caused the girl to shriek, and he slapped her across the face.

"As I said, it's your parents fault. They couldn't just accept a nice deal, we get you and they send you to a nice school, but no, they had to ruin it!" The man screamed as he slammed the girls head into the tree again and again.

"Why. couldn't, they, just, agree?!" The priest said in anger, for during each word he slammed the girls head into the tree again and again. He then stopped and the girl hung her head lifelessly.

The priest then heard a rustling in the bushes, he turned and saw his comrades. "Sir, what are you doing?" One of the priests asked.

"Just "discipling" our new recruit." The lead priest said, all the other just nodded.

The priest then turned to the girl, she had mumbled something low and he leaned his head in low to hear the girl better. "I'm sorry, say that louder. Agh! You little bitch!" The girl had bitten his ear hard, and now chunk of it fell to the ground.

"That was for my parents, I'll never work with you fucking murders, so all of you can go to hell!" The girl yelled with vigor.

"I see." The priest said holding his ear with his free hand, he then got an evil smirk on his face.

"Boys keep a lookout will you, this girl need a "special" discipling lesson."

The priests all nodded and then turned and spread out into the woods around the site.

"What, you gonna-" The girl was cut off as she was tossed on the ground, then she noticed where the priests hands were moving and her veins turned to ice.

"N-NO!" The girl shouted, she then tried to crawl away, but felt something push her down in the ground her hard, she looked back to see the priests foot on her back.

"Aw, that's not nice, I just want to give you a "special" gift." He said in a sinister tone, as he finally finished undoing his pants.

"Father, mother, I love you both." The girl then closed her eyes, and sobbed as she prayed to whatever god would listen, that this would be over quickly.

"Good girl. Now- AGH!" The girl eyes shot open, she saw that the priest was no longer in her field of vision at all.

"Looks like we made it just in time."

"Indeed we did."

The girl heard footsteps in the brush of the forest, they belonged to a man and a woman. When they came out of the trees she could see them better in the moonlight. First was the boy, he was dressed in black pants a dark blue shirt, black combat boots, and a jacket of red and white. The jacket was worn by both, and had a strange symbol over the breast pocket, to the girl it looked like a thin red cross with strange symbols around it in a circle. She turned her attention back to the boy though, he looked to be about 18 with deep blue eyes, standing tall at close to 6'1 if the girl was a good judge of height. She noticed his most defining feature was his hair, it fell in bangs around his head, but it was two different colors intermixed, one was of the blackest night, and the other a light blonde. He seemed relaxed, but with some sort of tension to him as the girl felt.

She then quickly glanced at the girl, she was in one word, stunning. She was dressed in the same attire as the boy, but her voluptuous figure showed more as it strained against the clothings fabric. She hair was one of the lightest shades of blonde the girl had ever seen, as her hair was in a single ponytail that was tied with a black ribbon and short, that had to do with some of her hair falling in two piles down the side of her head, and bangs in the front. Her light blue eyes had a rage seen in them, that sacred the girl a bit.

They walked right up to her and the male knelt close to her, she flinched back, he didn't make a single move, but to raise his hand, out of nowhere came a floating circle spinning on the outskirts of the boys palm, a glow of energy then spilled all over the girls body, she suddenly felt lights as air, and once it was over she checked herself, her eyes went wide as she was all her injuries had been removed in the blink of an eye.

"There we go, oh and put this on for now." The male then stood up and took off his jacket to reveal his shirt was a long sleeve one, he then placed it around the girls shoulders, she pulled it close since it felt to warm

"You fucking cunts!" The priest shouted in anger, he was back op closing his pants, also he now had a bleeding head wound trailing down his red enraged face. "Boys come back, it's time for some lessons to be taught.!"

Just like that all the priests from the perimeter came back to the clearing, they all then drew from their coats and pulled out swords of light, and white pistols, the leader with the head wound did the same.

He then eyed the new arrivals, mainly he focused on the girl though and then licked his lips. "Man it's my lucky night, after we kill the boy it's two for the price of one." The priest then licked his gun and pointed it at the two arrivals, along with this his men did the same thing.

"Hey Lily." The boy murmured to the girl, hands on his hips in a relaxed manner.

"Yes, Christopher?" The girl named Lily inquired, her eyes filled with ice and murderous rage.

"Let me handle these guys." Lily was about to protest, when Christopher silenced her with a kiss on the lips.

The group of priest's and girl had no words to say, they were just shocked by the braziness and calmness the two of them showed in their current situation. It was like this was nothing to them at all.

When the kiss was over, Lily sighed. "Fine Chris, go ahead and take them down, but leave the rapists for me to kill." Lily murmured, her eyes never leaving his disgusting face.

"Of course my dear." Chris then did a playful bow and turned to face the enemy. "Well, let's get started then." Chris murmured, he then began to leisurely walk toward the head priest.

"Haha! Are you fucking stupid?" The priest asked aiming his gun right at Chris. "We outnumber you two to one, and what? You're just waltzing right up to me without a care in the world?" Chris just ignored the taunts and continued forward. "Fine if that's how you want it. Boys!" All of them then aimed their guns right at Chris. "Oh and don't worry about the girl and your hot piece of ass girlfriend, we'll make sure to take "real" good care of them." The priest then got a disgusting smile on his face again.

"You know, that face needs to be beaten in." Chris murmured, still on his path forward to the priest.

"Fire!" The priest yelled, then in the blink of an eye it happened.

Everyone saw their breath, this made no sense to them at all and everyone but Chris and Lily were confused, they were in Italy in the fall, it was still warm, so no one had any idea how this was possible, then ice raced and exploded all across the forest floor as Chris took a step. The light bullets never reached his person as all except him, Lily, and the girl became encased in the purest blue ice.

"Agh, it hurts!" The head priest was also a little different, in his case everything was frozen but his head, the ice was burning his skin as you could see mist rising from his neckline. He then looked right at Chris. "How the fuck are you- AGH!" The priest screamed again, a flash occurred in another instant and took out his left eye. Out of his only good eye left he could see sparks dissipating on Chris's hand.

"Will you just shut the fuck up already!" Chris yelled in an annoyed tone, he stopped right in front of the encased priest and looked right at him with dead eyes. "Normally I would make you suffer unimaginable pain for what you just did and said but I promised Lily she could have you this time, your friends are dead by the way, and of course." Chris then pointed behind him and a distorted surface appeared for a brief moment, and then vanished. "We made a barrier, so we have all the time in the world."

The priest would have shitted on himself if he could, these two kids had taken down his men and immobilized him in an instant, he also felt something vaguely familiar about the boy, that's when it hit him.

"Y-You have a holy sword?!"

Chris then gave a cheeky smile. "Oh, so you're not just a rapist after all, you have at least some knowledge."

"W-Who the fuck are you?!" The priest shreaked, he was now down right terrified, he may not wield one himself, but he knew of the power of holy swords just like any other exorcist, they had incredible abilities and holy auras to them to kill one of the church's sworn mortal enemies, the devils. The catch was that to use such a weapon a person's body either had to undergo artificial gene therapy, or be one of the rare naturals able to wield holy swords. Even then, only the top ranking exorcist's within the church even had a slim chance at accomplishing this feat. It made the priest with even more answers.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Chris murmured in a smug tone, he then walked back to the girl, as he did he gave Lily a high five exchange was he took her place in front of the priest.

The girl was looking right at Chris. "Chris was it?" He nodded to her. "Th-Thank sniff… Th sniff, sniff… Wah!" Chris then leaned down and wrapped the girl in an embrace as she began to cry her eyes out, she was letting out all the pain, anger, and fear she had felt in the last few hours of her life, that she had not done once in her entire lifetime.

It actually worked in the girls favor, since her own cries kept her from seeing Lily, she had a red and silver broadsword now in hand, it crackled with red electricity as she plunged it in the ice and into the head priests body. He was begging for her to stop as he coughed up blood, a few drops got on Lily's face, but she just wiped them away and continued to stab the priest with no remorse whatsoever in her eyes.

"W-Why sniff… did th-this sniff, sniff… happen to us?" The girl finally choked out after having cried her eyes out completely.

Chris looked her rights in the eyes. "You see, the priests wanted something you have, it's only in a chosen few and they wanted it by an means necessary, so they did the only thing left when your parents refused to cooperate." Chris murmured, his eyes filled with more sadness and rage.

"What could I possible have that would be so important?!" The girl screamed in fury.

"For now rest, since that conversation will take much longer to explain." Before the girl could protest, Chris called forth another glowing circle and the girl fell right asleep in his arms.

He cradled her gently, then he picked her up princess style. "Lily are you done?" Chris asked without even turning around.

He heard footsteps, then Lily was standing right beside him, he peeked at her for a moment and saw smudges of leftover blood on her face. "I'm done, let's go meet up with the others."

Chris nodded as he lowered the barrier, the two of them walking out with the girl in the night.

The only sound again, the crashing of the waves on the coast.


"Where is that shit stain?" The bishop thought, he was waiting at the private airfield with a pissed off look on his face.

"The mission was a simple one, kill the parents and make it look it a home invasion, bring the girl to the plane alive and intact, then take her back to the vatican for reprogramming and make her a new exorcist." The bishop was ready to blow a fucking gasket, the jet was costing him money every moment is sat on the runway.

A thought then crossed the bishops mind. "That shit stain, probably doing something he shouldn't again." The bishop murmured to himself.

"I'm sorry sir?" The priest asked next to him, both of them were standing outside the plane in the night air, it was surrounded by a troop of exorcists for protection against any unwanted guests.

"Nothing at all young one." The bishop murmured, still with a furious look on his face.

He was pissed, the priest was over 30 minutes late, he was about to blow a gasket, and then he saw figures in the distance walking from the hangar. "Finally," The bishop thought.

"You're finally here, I hope you didn't damage the young lady to much. Wait, who are you people?" The bishop saw three people in front of him now, a girl and two boys in their late teens.

The girl had blue eyes, and blonde hair in a single twisted braid behind her head with a nice body to boot, the first boy had red eyes and shaggy blonde hair, and the final one had brown hair cut to medium length on his head with a cowlick in front of it. All of them were wearing the same uniforms that Lily and Chris sported.

"Oh, don't mind us at all, we heard some garbage was on the air strip and came to clean it up." The blonde boy said in a nonchalant tone.

"What garbage?" The priest asked.

"You should know, defiling the name of God like this." Said the girl, her tone was forceful and held a faint french accent was well, she took a step forward, when the brown haired boy placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Jeanne be calm, we're about to take them down right now." The brown haired boy said to her.

"Alright Alex." Jeanne then took a deep breath and composed herself.

"Yeah, let's end this quickly, so Jeanne can go make kissy face with- ugh." The blonde boy stopped talking at that moment, Jeanne now had a blush on her face as she had just punched him right in the gut, he keeled over but still laughed even in pain.

"Eric be nice." Alex said as he helped Eric back to his feet.

"Come on Alex, I was just messing with her is all, unlike Lily she gets easily flustered."

"I-I do not." Jeanne said with a deniful tone.

Eric then got a grin on his face. "Oh really now? Well it's just Chris told me how you and he do certain "things" sometimes."

Jeanne then went as red as a beat. "N-no. Chris would never do that, all that stuff is personal." Jeanne said in a high pitched voice filled with embarrassment.

"It's true, and my I must say, for someone with the soul of a saint, you aren't that pure at all." Eric sang in a playful voice.

Jeanne now had her hands over her face, steam was coming out of her tomato head and Eric was laughing with a hand over his mouth.

"Jeanne, he's messing with you." Alex said in a neutral tone.

"R-really?"

"Yeah, he most definitely is."

Jeanne then swiftly kicked Eric in the nether regions, he killed over in pain but the smile never left his face.

"Hey! Stop fucking ignoring me kids, I asked why you are here!" The bishop was screaming, he did not care for the antics in front of him and wanted to know what was happening at the moment.

He then felt a change in the air, he involuntarily took a step back from the three arrivals, when he realized this he knew that these three were not normal at all.

"It's like I said-" Eric stood back up, this time his voice was deathly cold and serious. "We're here to clean up garbage, you know, the kind that ruins a young girls life by killing her parents, and then was going to brainwash her to fight a battle you would shit your pants at."

The bishop then backed up further, these three knew of his plan to take the girl with the sacred gear, so now he had no choice at all. "My servants of God, these heretics are attempting to stop his will, so smite them down and I shall reward you." All the priests then quickly went on the offensive. Some shot light bullets at the group, and others charged with light swords.

"Futile, and for shame on you for using our lord's name in such a manner." Jeanne said as she went to the front of the group, she held up her hand and a white glow appeared and then took shape in it, a moment later she was holding an ornate blue and silver flag pole.

The holy power coming off it was evident to all present, and when Jeanne held it high in the air, a blue barrier materialized around the three of them, when the bullets and swords struck it all their own light was stolen, then a shockwave forced the attacking priests back.

"My word, you're the holy maiden, Jeanne D'Arc!" The bishop exclaimed, this caused all the priests to also be awed at the young girl standing in front of them.

"For you to appear before us as any enemy, this must be his will, I ask of you, stop protecting those heathens and join his most sanctified church, we'll give you all the love and worship you could ever need."

Jeanne then smiled as the barrier lowered, the bishop grinned, but then felt something hit him in the stomach, he looked down as sword had come up from the ground and pierced his abdomen.

"I would never work with scum like you!" Jeanne yelled in anger. "I may have her spirit, but unlike my namesake I will purge evil from this world, that includes those in the church that misuse their power for selfish gain."

"Well said Jeanne, let me take it from here." Eric then stepped forward, he called forth a magic circle, out from is came a golden spear with a brown tip. Eric then stuck it in the ground and a magic circle appeared, spikes of the earth then shout out and skewered all the priest in the vicinity in an instant, however a few were fast enough to dodge fatal blows and only received minor flesh wounds.

"Oh, I see some of you have at least some skill." Eric said, he then pulled his spear out of the ground and placed it on his shoulder.

"Retreat!" The bishop yelled, he clutched his gut wound and ran to the plane, the priests then ran in all directions to avoid death.

All of them only got so far, from out of nowhere came slashes that moved to fast for their eyes to see, all of them were cut down except the bishop, his legs were cut off, but no bleeding was occuring, since he wounds were singed closed.

"Agh!" The bishop screamed in agony, he then looked behind him to see what had taken his legs, it was a beast of metal that looked like a wolf with griffin wings. "What the hell is that?!"

"That's just one of my familiars, a skywolf, with a little extra metal protection on him." Alex said, as he wolf came up to him, then he scratched its head.

"You fucking heretical monsters!" The bishop then tried to cling to life, he began to crawl toward the plane boarding stairs.

"This is just sad." Eric then moved at high speed, he stabbed the bishop right through the heart, he was now dead and things had finally settled down.


Lily, Chris, and the girl had finally made it to the airstrip, the girl was still asleep in Chris's arms as they walked up to the others waiting right outside the plane.

"I see you guys took care of things." Chris murmured, his eyes looking around at the blood stains, yet he saw no bodies at all, only moved patches of dirt.

"We sure did, and we even got a new plane." Eric then did a showing with his hands of the plane, it was a gulfstream luxury jet. "I guess some crime does pay."

"Is the girl ok?" Alex murmured, he was reading a book on his tablet from who knows where.

"She is, although she'll need therapy, a place to live, protection, and most of all time." Lily said as she stepped up.

All of them nodded in agreement of a mission well done.

"Jeanne isn't this great, now the three of you can play kissy- ugh!" Eric was hit in the gut again, this time by both Jeanne with another blush, and Lily with a blank look in her eyes. He keeled over still laughing again.

"Dude, stop pushing it." Chris murmured, he was walking up the plane stairs to place the girl in a seat.

"Indeed, you might want to stop, unless you want to be considered an M." Everyone then stopped, they looked at Alex who had a smirk on his face, he then entered the plane.

"We all heard that right?" Eric asked, standing up again.

"Yes we did, most uncommon for Alex to make a joke like that, or one at all." Jeanne murmured as she too began to board the plane.

"It just goes to show you that people can change." Lily said as she too boarded the plane.

"For once, both you ladies are right." Eric then boarded the plane as the stairs lifted up and the door began to close, once that was done the plane began takeoff procedures, it jetted into the night sky over the sea and the crashing coastal waves.

Thus, another mission had gone well for the Argonauts.